The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-11-09

cal purpose in which the state had no
concern, or to assume obligations not
within the ordinary obligations Of a
municipal government but the court
held the contrary, and it. among other
things, said the following: Since the
securities authorized to be donated in
the case at bar were securities issued
by the county; and since the proposed
taxes in payment of the same are to
be county taxes, the precise question
presented is whether the purpose for
which such securities We're donatedx
and for which such taxes We're to
raised. is such as to justify the prt
ViOus enactment in question. ThiA
court has sustained the validity Of the
acts of the Legislature authorizing mu-
inequalities to raise money by taxa
ton and to pay bounties to volunteers
in the United States army Getting
case). In this case it was, among other
things, held that while the Legislature
can agree to pay a debt, or levy tax,
or authorize a municipal corporation
to do so in order to raise funds for
mere private purpose, and while the
object for which the money is raised
by taxation, must be public and such
as will subserve the common interest
and Wellbeing of the community re-
Quired to contribute, yet to justify the
court in declaring the tax void and ar
resting proceedings for it's collection
the absence of all possible public inter-
est in the purpose for which the funds
are raised must be so clear and pal
pable as to be Immediately perceptibe
to every mind; that claims founded IN
equity or justice in the largest sense
of these terms, or in gratitude or char
ltE VIII support a tax; that the legIS-
latlre may authorize a town or other
a public purpose not strictly %
chara cter but from which
the public have received or will re-
celve some direct advantage, or where
the tax is to be expended in defraF-
ing the expenses of the government
or in promoting the peace and goor
order and welfare of society; or in
paying claims founded upon natural
justice and equity or upon gratitude
for a public service or expenditure or
in the discharge of obligations of chfr-
ity and humanity"
The board of county commissioners,
if it gives for the purpose of establish
ing this home, they are certainly, IN
the language of this court discharging
an obligation of charity and humanity.
The court further stated in this case:
I'm the case at bar it must be con-
ceeded that the establishment and
building of the Wisconsin home was
and is a public purpose. 1t must also
be conceded that there is a peculiar
and special benefit which will natural
~ spring from such location;
The right of convenient visitation Oh
friends of the unfortunate inmates IS
itself a valuable right" Without tur-
Their discussion or specifications we
must hold the provisions Of the act III
question to be valid"
In the case Of Orphan society u
Lexington VS.. Fayette county b.
413, it is expressly held that the
-hority given the county boards 10 pun
chase lands and establish poor hou'e
IS not exclusive and cannot collsu
lively abolish the power to PROVIDE lux
he poor in other modes. 1t IS 'hei
held that Fayette county hao 'he
light to contribute the sum or hl'eeh
hundred dollars to the Orphan asylum