The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-06-02
FUSION AND ITS RESULTS.


the four wears preceding January, 1896,
and duving the sixteen months which
have elapsed since the administration
changed hands. In other words COM
parison Of four wears Of republican mall
administration of the business aud
finances Of this commonwealth with that
which has followed the accession of the
fusioui-ts to control OF the state govern
Rent,
1t will he found that the legislature OF
1897, in nine principal items, appropri-
ated sliS 1913 ~ ess than did it's p'ede.
cessor in 1885, that it's own expenses
were 10000 less; that for every public
institution, insane asylum, penitentiarv,
university. reform school school for de-
fective youth, the appropriations made IN
1897 were less by many thousands of dol
lars than those of two years previous;
that the land commission has used bnt
little more than half that used hv ts pre-
decessol during the term preceding, and
best Of all, that in none Of these institu-
tions is there likely TO be but very
small. if any, deficiency. They are he
ing Condurted within the means provid-
ell. But It IL in the aggregate saving
made that the figures become most i'm
pres-ise and should emphasize the les
son intended bv their publication. These
figures show and prove TO demonstra-
ton that under republican administra-
tons the public debt increased steadily
and at an appalling ratio. They show
that during the first two years of state.
hood-from 1890 to lS92-the increase of
this debt was 1915, 473 So, or at the rate
of S432 per day, Sundays included that
FROM 1892 to 1894 it grew more rapidly,
adding 1881 ,7O6 81 to it's stature, or al
average of S72S every - hours. Then
came the at 'wo years of this enormous
ard ptotligate waste and misuse oi the
peUE e r money, wruug from them in
take at IL tlme when distress Was ieit in
aimoe, every home in the whole state.
During these two wears from 1894 to 1896
there VAS piled upon this already huge
mountain Of debt the enormous sum OF
*'o"4-'''i' daily addition tor - con
secu'lVe months uI over flu'o. Is 1t any
wonder that the people of this plpndered
commemorative IN the depths OF tue
financial misery then enCOmpassng the
whole halion' reVoIted ana turned the
rascaIs out III united and vehement pro-
test
The fusionists, those who united to
stop this waste, to rescue the state from
the misrule, extravaganza and profligacv
which we're not alone sJrelv depressing
the people but wreckinL the credit of the
state by debt 80 rapiIly increasing and
an enormous annual interest charge, were
successful in the elections of 1896. and
their selected officers assumed ndmIni.-
tration Of public afr,irs nj the beginning
Of 1897 The anarchists" The "crauks.'
the ",iIlrr mnatlc-" were in power.
From every lair wherein Snvlock iurked.
weaving his web for further public plum.
der, came a wall Of sore dismav. The
commonwealth was in the hands of pub
liz enemies; the credit OF the stae was
therefore Imperfect and about to be des-
royed. such were the lamentations and
prophecies with which the republican
press and the very air was laden. Now,
mark the result. The fusion adminislra'
ton on April 80, 1888, had been in power
Just fourteen months. During that peri