South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-21
WILL THE REPUBLICANS AND
PRJGRESSIVES PLEASE ANSWER.

WILL THE REPUBLICANS AND
PRDGRESSIVES PLEASE ANSWER.
The insincerity of the republican
and progressive campaigners in their
pronunciation of the last Indiana legis-
latur, has nowhere been more ably
exposed than in the address by
Thomas Duncan, chairman OF the
state public service commission, at
the democratic rally at Mishawaka
Tuesday night.
His challenge to their candidates
for election to the next legislature.
ting them 10 come out in the open
and say that they intend TO repeal
ans of the beneficent laws passed by
the last assembly puts them in bad
light if they do not accept it. and
will put them in a worse light If they
do. but il is "a safe wager that the
campaign will 90 on as it has pro-
ceeded TO date without anv progress
sive or republican action along these
lines. other than to continue their de-
nunciation, and 10 take chances on
the light in which they are placed,
not being seen.
The laws creating the public ser
vice commission, providing for vOca-
tional education. and for an efficient
financial support for these institu-
tions. and the penal. correctional. be-
Eevolent and educational institutions
of the state. are particularly in point,
and are the measures against which
the oppositions are doing the most of
their raiIing,-though, as the Indian
apolis News puts i'm. with "a painful
lack of specification.
When penned down 10 the fine point
il develops that about the only objec-
ton that they have To these measures,
and the expense involved is. that the
laws were enacted by the democrats.
and the republicans and progress
sivcs would like to get into power.
So vociferouSly do they lament
what is in effect that they were not on
the job.-and So anXiously do they
try to prove their superiority by COM
PARSONS. that one is almost led to
wonder why they do not go back to
the days when Indiana first became a
state for their figures. and present
s. netting that is really startling.
For example. why not compare the
cost of the very first republican ad-
n stratiou with the Ralston first
year?
10 could not have taken great sum
OF money To conduct the affairs of the
state at that early period of the state 5
history Indiana then boosted of not
a single one OF the great institutions
which today, give her rank amOns
the most progressive states in the
country. for her truly progressive
work in educational and benevolent
work
Nor was her population Go be com
pared with the Indiana of today.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
population of the state is constantly
increasing; that the number OF de-
state institutions Is augmented every
year. i'm spite OF the higher cost Of
living. the campaign speakers of
these parties THEORETICALLY pretend
10 be shocked that Il costs more 90
finance the state administration than
was required. say, hfteen or twenty
years ago.
Republicans and progresslves know
that the expenses Of the state govern
ment are greater Their pretended
horror and the plus manner In which
they raise their eyes and hands To
heaven IN protest at what they term
'4mocratic extravaganza is pure cant
nothing more
They know they are not telling the
truth-but their hope is that all of
tie people viii not find il out until
after the election.
Sow here is one little fact-and
ponder IL carefully.
within the past seven years I'VE
new state institutions have been
opened as Mr. Duncan points out.
They are.
I. The Southeastern Hospital
for the Insane, costing $l52V,-
1917.
The Village for Epileptics.
New Castle. S425.lT6.19.
- The Indiana Girls school.
ClcrmOut costing, SS3Sf,0l5.31
T. The tuberculosis Hospital
Rockville. costing S159.9@7.fN.
The State School for the