The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-19
Paragraphs on Leading Topics.

Paragraphs on caoln topics.
Following are striking paragraphs from
the inaugural address on leading topics
of State interest:
These (State) institutions have been
placed upon q plane far above partisan
politics, and there this administration
means to keep them. There shall be no
backward step.
The policy of the administration In re-
gard to the Institutions of the State shall
involve strict but sane economy. .
t. refuse actual needs Is not economy, but
extravaganza.
In behalf Of the ego neglected ones On
sane) who sit In mental darkness amid IN
sanitary conditions and unwholesome sur
roundings, without medical or humane
treatment, and without hope in the hearts
Of the friends who love them, I appeal to
you.
The nature of the malady epilepsy is
must be denied the usual privileges Of
schools, entertainments, society and en-
ployment, and are compelled to grow up
Into adult life ignorant, Idle, Isolated and
neglected
The insane and the epileptics In the poor
houses and jails of the several counties are
already public charges. aud unless cared
for by the State are destined to remain so
indefinitely, There they are costing 40 to
% cents n day for maintenance. They can
be maintained in a State Institution at g
cost of from IL to 20 cents a day.
/ am persuaded tbat the time has come
In Indiana when we ought to take these
worthy and dependent children of the State
out or tie p~oorhouSes, the jailS and asy-
INNS WIArQ fhnu z q hn~1ap - .ho anl
lie and a horror to themselves, and care for
them In a State institution, as becomes our
wealth and a among great States Of the
Union.
Debt-paying is colImendable, but the
present financial embarrassment Of the
State could have been saved by conserving
the general fund aud applying only the
sinking fund to the payment Of the debt,
especially so as such tGnd would have been
ample to meet the entire bonded foreign
debt long before IL would have become
due. The revenues for the present year
have been anticipated to the extent Of
While we have been debt paying at an
unprecedented rate, the needs of the States
Institutions have been multiplying and can
rot longer be deferred. 1t will be better to
meet these needs now, frankly and boldly,
than to shirk our responsibility by refusing
to recognize them, and lea wing the help
less and unfortunate wards of the State In
poorheuses aud In jails. charges upon the
ressrectlye counties In which they live. A
rich and prosperous people viii respond
| generously to the one policy, but / am per-
suaded they would be slow to forgive the
! adoption OF the other.
The people, whose earnings have been
embezzled and squandered. together with
every man engaged In honest private bank
Inc n Dvltnn fhnra - man In 49,. C4.A@
rightly demand relief at the hands Of their
representatives.
The employment Of prison labor . . .
In the production Of articles to be sold BY
the State or used by the State In It's va
rious institutions, or by the political di.
visions thereof, has been demonstrated to
be practical, aud Of all methods least oh.
jec,lonable to free labor and production aud
most satisfactory to all the people.
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Having the power to make freight rates,
and freight rates being the controlling fac
tor In determining where and by whom
business shall be done. the carrier becomes
the master and the people 1t was created
to serve Its servants.
The same considerations that led to the
creation o. the Interstate Commerce Com
mission by the Federal Congress and tc
the establishment of commissions In other
States, now make 1t imperative that Z
State railroad commission be created BY
this General Assembly.
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There are no more practical business meu
In the world than the managers Of the great
railway, telegraph and express corporations
of the country, and these men would moi
annually give away to public officials In In
diana thousan ds Of dollars In value Of such
favors free passes) If the net aggregate 70
suits Of such custom were not beneficial e
them.
Yon can end the reign or the lobbyist In
Indiana If you will. and l venture to hope
that you will do so.
The right (of remonstrance against issu,
Ing LIQUOR ~license) is limited in its appll
cation to the individual seeking the license
To the perple within such terri
tory the prohibition of the business Is ey
erything and the Individual applying for Il
cense Is nothing.
II q new remonstrance Is filed and ths
second applicant for q liquor ~license) Is de
feated, the same performance Is enacted
by some one else, and so on, month afteI
month, and year afetr year, until worn out
and discouraged by constant litigation that
respite, the people are defeated and the will
of the majority Is overcome and trample6
upon by the agents Of the traffic, the un
holmes of which all men. save those en-
gagged In it, confess This condition Is In
tolerable and ought not to continue be
yond the day of your adjournment and thu
] publication of your e~nactments-
,Twae Ever Thus.