Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-10-27
AT THEIR OLD TRICKS
OARBLING THE PUBLIC RECORDS
TO CATCH THE UNWARY.
the Financial History OF the State
Since 1894 Showing OF wbicI,
We May Justly be Proud.

re- crat state central committee is either
v w0efully ignorant of the subject h,
y is endeayoring TO inform the peopl,
4. about. or foolish enough to believe thai
:. anything lie sees fit to state In this
= connection will be accepted by the i'm.
,r telligent voters OF Michigan as the
n gospel truth. We rather suspect the
q latter TO be the case, for having neces-
J. saflly mad access 10 the reports of the
state, Treasurer in order TO procure the
i statistics he Is sending out for publ
cation, he must know the idea he Is
. SO diligently seeking 10 impress upon
4 the public mind Is wholly erroneous
q and misleading.
o Inc burden Of the "figgerer's" song
@ - that the cost OF maintaining the
/ state government was greater for the
| year ending June 30, 1898, than il was
Tor the year ending June 30, 1892.
+ When the first purely Democratic gov
! ernor of Michigan for thirty-seyen
, years occupied the executive chair.
In view of the fact that the world
mas moved trifie, and the State has
grown materially since Governor Wi
mans administration, the Republicans
or Michigan have no hesitancy in ac-
khowledging the entire truthfulness of
tnis general charge. but when n de-
signing statlStician, whose sole aim is
10 deceive the public. undertakes TO
make IL appear that this increase in
expenses amounted to nearly $1,000
ooo, III Is proper that his duplicty be
exposed. Just TO show how readily
more than one-third of this entire al
leSed Increase could have been ac
counted for had the popocratic press
man been DESTROYS of informing rather
IMAM deceiying the people it NAV be
SAID one item which entered into the
total disbursements for the last fiscal
year OF $1,000, J34.79, represents de- |
Inquent county. township, city and |
village taxes collected by the State and /
! PAID back TO the counties. This item
amounted to $JOI. 741.11. As fast rs
| these delinquent taxes were collected
the sulns were deposited in the State
treasury ny the Auditor-General. la
/ order TO pay the counties the amount
uue each IL was necessary TO withdraw
lllls money from the State treasury.
1his fact was well known to the mono
cratic press man, yet he deliberately
sought to make the people believe that
TINS item Of $J01, which the
State collected for and returned To The
several counties, represented dis
Dursement or an item OF expense uf
carrying on the State government tor
that year
IRVING thus exposed the absolute
fottenness OF the statistics which are
peihS sent out over the State i'm thp
nope OF working up a sentiment IN
Opposition TO the present State admins
tratlon. IL would seem unnecessary n ,
make further reference thereto. but ,
the administration invites the closes {
inspection of all its acts, and i'm order {
mat the exact truth may be known '
an analysis of the cost of maintaining, 4
the state government for the two !
years mentioned has been made. and t
attention is invited to ii. Every figure |
gwen below is absolutely correct. and Il
can he verified from the same reports
winch have been so wilfully and fright j
'uIly distorted 10y the opposition. :
III 1917 the cost of maintaining the D
isylulilS or the State amounted To =
this total including the ex =
lenses or the Soldiers Home, State fC
'chooi Tor Dependent Children. trans II
'ortatlon OF children TO and from the re
dt'er INSTITUTION. etc. For the fiscal re
ear lSJS. this item amounted to 500 tn
1880. This is an increase far tho Iot. ii,
er year of $249.394.61. but it shonld NJ
Womans annex to the Soldiers Pc
Tome, the Newberry Hospital for the in
insane, and the State Home for the tn
eeble Minded and Epileptic. none of re-
men were in existence during Cover
OF mans boaSted administrator. po
slde from this. IL is n fact well known ST
me citizens of Michigan thar the sta
lillper or Insane i'm the State has con. The
ahtiy increased during The past few we
Ears, ana that now. even with The iii
creased accommodations for thnir thi
ire III proper aSylumS the county the
lis throughout Michigan are full Of of
Is unfortunate class Of citizens who ita
g Dclng held 10 await an opening in for
asylum so they may be placed ital
mere they properly belong. These cea
ms, which had no place in the OK lati
nse OF the WinanS Administrations ciel
ily account for the increase uoted ties
owe. eve
NOW To show what was accomplished sho
the Democratic and Republican mn
when the conditions nor
re anywhere near similar. attention slbl
invited to the cost of maintainino evel
penal ana reformatory institutions eaci
Michigan during the years under that
lsideration In 1872 this total cost adm
ounted to $3O5. 10. while in 1905 boy,
vas but SID HIP. or a decrease OF stra
,9Zi34. Although there were no and
penal or reformatory institutions and
IoJS, the population of the State had In
reased 221.000 since 1892, and there tatiC
been more than proportionatp by o
rease In the population of the nri.. pare
. yet they were maintained nj a their
lller cost, Notwithstanding the no Whe
Gus fact that tho Democratic OFF tics.
$ turned them over to their Repuh- may
n successors with scarcely enough less
visions 10 feed the convicts n day. selve
without sufficient clothing to az all Il
the latter change of shirts.
1872 1t cost $30S. 69392 TO main A
'ne eaucalionai institutions Of the Repu
g. In 1896 this item was S42s.- ovar
II, an increase of SID S935J In vow
,,ai cai .nete was the central tenin
''"i Ssnoui' Which ulu not exist In terest
. whEe the appropriation FOR the us ON
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