The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-05-16

alone, for example, there is chance
for three men in every township, all OF
whom will be required to earn the fa-
vor bestowed upon them. The State
| Police could achieve wonders, morrow
er, if "things were as they used to be-"
during the present session of the Leg
| islature to double this force and though
at this writing it seems to have failed
irretrieveably, there is nothing abso-
lutely certain in this world but "death
and taxes" | notice, however, that
there is suspicious item in the Gener-
al Appropriation bill under the head of
the Forestry Department. Among the
appropriations for the department. is
one "for the payment of the Forest
Rangers, two years, the sum of S75,-
000.n Webster's Dictionary defines
Ranger as Zone of a body of mounted
troops, formerly armed with short mus
kets, who range over the country and
often fight on foot
Possibly the machine is to be consol-
ed for its disappointment i'm not getting
the State Police force doubled by this
eXpedient. OF course the amount of
money expressed in the clause of the
appropriation bill quoted would not
maintain very large force. But $75.-
600 .iudiciously expended will achieve
important results in politics and it is
economical for party managers to make
the public pay the wages of their cam
paign workers That has always been
a favorite eXpedient of the machine of
this State. AS Dave Lane, of Phila-
delphia, once said in speech instruct
ing the ofliceholders of that city with
respect to their duty on election day,
each beneficiary of the machine must
poll five votes besides his own. In the
city that meant ballot box stuffing to
that extent. In the country it simply
means that each man shall prevail on
Democratic friends or relatives to vote
the ticket of the machine in order that
he may continue on the pay roll.
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.
The Forestry Department is an ex-
pensive luxury in other directions.
There is an item of 600 for Forest
ers and $4,000 for laborers besides Sl0,-
600 for surveys, $1,000 for draugbts-
men, $4,000 for special examinations
"to promote the development of fores-
try" and $500 for travelling expenses
of the commissioners. There are lot |
of other items of various proportions |
from one to ten thousand sufficient to !
put the aggregate up to $lSl 600. But |
it is possible that the department will |
produce good results. In fact the only |
against it is that it is profit
gately conducted and that fault will |
endure until there is a complete change
in the politics of the State administra-
ton.
| might go on with this subject to
the full limit of my space but what's
the use. OF course everything is ex-
pensive and during the last half dozen
years of the unrestrained machine con-
5rol the paramount purpose of legisla-
ion was to create new offices. Penny
packer took delight beyond measure in
spending other peoples money and be-
ng absolutely without moral sense or
understanding he found infinite pleas
IRE in obeying the orders of Durham
and Martin to supply offices for the
Boys who toiled not, neither did they
spin but paraded the streets in fine
raiment. Every movement for new
offices had his cordial support and en-
1t pleased the bosses
and they tlattered him.
1t is worth while, however, in dis
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