Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-10-24
EXPENDITURES OF THE STATE
THE OLD AND THE NEW SYSTEMS

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THE OLD AND THE NEW SYSTEMS
There can be no hard and just rule
governing the proper proportionate in
crease of population and expense of run
ming the state. The reflection is pro-
vokel by the recent assertion Of the
only stslwsrt running for governor this
year, the estimsble and smisble Mr..
Awkward. that the ordinary running ex-
penses" of the state government have
increased in a certain ratio, while the
population has increased in another,
and smaller, ratio
The expenses of growing state, that
is becoming rich and great st the rate
Wisconsin is, are like the expenses OF a
family. They grow faster than the fam
lily grows. They grow after the family
has ceased to grow.
The reasons are manifest. The state,
while it was poor, did not have the
money to expend that it has now, that
it Is rich; and had to economize to a
degree that it would not consent to do
today.
There are many items of ordinary
expenses" that the state did not pay
back in the halcyon days when the peo-
pie had to dig down in their pockets for
mnney to pay their state taxes-some-
thing they have not had to do for three
years last past; in the days of good Gov.
Peck of humorous and comical memory
For instance
We used s7,54175 for agricultural
schools in 1904, and none in 1894. Does
Mr.. Ay!Tard object to that2 And
would he cut it out from now on?
We gave the northern Wisconsin state
fair 81, 970 81, and to the Interstate fair
at La Crosse g., 900 in 1894, and none in
1894. Does he object to that increase
There was an expenditure Of 81, 600 for
manual training in high schools; $780,
2S6.05 for graded schools maintaining
two and three or more departments
Does the candidate intend to stop the
regular appropriation If he becomes
governor. Ii all represents an increase
of over 1894
The Wisconsin workshops for the blind
received an increase of 81, 672 "a in 1874
The Wisconsin Dairymen's association
received an increase of 81, 672 80 in 1904
over 1894
Inc Sale Hur icuitural s"cietf's sp-
plopri tlou "as a. cir act u 81 S05 81
Inc Stale AsrIcuiGural socIeGy .pprI-
priation was increased BIC, 073 II.
Day schoosl for deaf were given s17.
$50 10 more.
County agricultural societies were In.
creased SIS. 66272
The cost of maintaining chronic in
sane in county asylums ~a> 1898 AIT y
more
The cost of msintainiI ,he state
charitable and penal insti utl Us nad In
creased 1854, $40 81.
The fish commission was spending
fl3,57364 more than it wac ten years
before
county training schools for teachers
had been established, entailing al an
nual expense of 81, 76S 50.
The geological ana natural history So
eiety, undertaken since 1894 for the pur-
poses of determining the natural re-
sources of the state, was costing s11,-
S3e SO.
The free library commission cost $40. =
O76 33 in 1904 Shere was no such COM
mission in 1894
The expense of the state forestry COM
mission was increased 800, 600.
Free high schools were costing $50,
035, on more
1t took s5,77s 40 to pay for disease d
animals slaughtered by authority of the
state
The cost Of maintaining the Wiscon'
sin Veterans home was CSC, 1858 So more
than under Peck.
The cost of caring for the acute and
chronic insane was s51, 1873 rs more.
And the state bank department, es