The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-09-15

method, because there has been ,
greater increase In the cnsumptio,
OF oils. but do claim that a create
number OF inspectors working on ;
percentage basis will produce NOR,
revenue than a few inspectors work
ing on the same basis; IL will appeal
by the collections in this department
since II was established the Repubii
cans had control of this Office fol
eight years and the net amount turn
ed into the State treasury was 1910.
642.62. We have had charge of Il for
five years, and have turned into the
State treasury $402,s41.40. Although
the use OF oils has been increasing an
nually for more than ten (10) years, II
is noticeable that in 1908, the Republi.
can oil inspectors returned less 10
the State than they did in 1907. The
| scheme of Mr.. Goodrich to put this
work in the Pure Food and Drug
Department Is not practicable, be-
cause that Is one OF the. departments
of the State Board of Health and the
work OF that Board ought not 10 be
hampered by the work of a depart
ment, the purposes of which are en-
treiy foreign to the object of that
Board. But IL II was placed there,
IL would have % be administered, and
inspectors would have to be provided
and paid. The department produces
sufficient revenue to justify it's con-
tinuance as an independent depart
ment, and its work ought not 10 be
hampered by turning IL over to anoth-
er department; to do so would be to
lessen the revenue to the disadvant-
age of the State, to lessen its effective
ness to the disadvantage of the con-
sumers Of oil, and to the advantage
OF the great producers of oil.
FISH AND GAME DEPARTMENT.
Mr.. Goodrich contrasts the man
agement OF the Fish and Game De-
partment during the last year with
the last year of Governor Hanly's ad-
minlstration. There can be no COM
parison made in this department be-
cause prior to 1908 the deputies in
that department were paid in part by
docket fees taxed in prosecutions of
offenders which do not show in the re-
ports in the Auditor of States office,
while under the present law, the depu-
ties are paid straight salary Then
In 1908 nothing was done toward the
propagation of either fish or game in
the State. Under the Democratic adj
ininistration, lands have been bought
and fish hatcheries are being estab-
lished all out of the fund, and the
streams Of the State are being re-
stocked. The department with this
nnI f.
sustaining. 1t has been honestly adj
ministered and every dollar has been
accounted for. Will Mr.. Goodrich say
as much of their last administration?
Has he forgotten that the last chief
deputy under a Republican admins
tration embezzled over $4,000 of the
funds OF the Office and one of the fe-
male stenographers of the department
and after destroying all the records
of the Office he fed from the State
and is still fugitive frcm justice?
NEW PLACES.
Mr.. Goodrich intimates that today
there are employed in the institutions
OF the State 216 additional places,
which have been given to deserving
Democrats. Mr.. Goodrich arrives at
his conclusion by the rule of aver
ages based on the per capita of in
mates in the institutions. 1t has al |
ready been shown that such a COM
parison is not reliable, But Mr.. Good |
rich is right in his conclusion that |
here are now more persons employed |
N the institutions of the State than |
Inder Governor Hanlys administra- |
ions. These new institutions when |
opened, to be Of any value, had to be |
,fiicered, and manned with the neces- |
AIRY employees. In 1916 the four new |
required 321 employees to |
operate and manage them, or else |
hey must have been permitted to
stand idle. Surely Mr.. Goodrich does
lot complain of this. Whether these
'laces were filled with deserving"
Democrats or not, | do not know.
vii say, however, if deserving Demo
rats applied for them, and they
we're qualified to fill them, / sincerely
iope they got the places. but | dare
ay that the non-partisan Boards in
ontrol of these institutions have
iven places to some deserving" Re-
ublieans. Will Mr.. Goodrich say if
lected Governor he will not appoint
eserving Republicans to office? To Il
ay so would brand himself as a hypo-
rite.
Since making his speech at Green
astle, Mr.. Goodrich has said that he I
oes not complain of the additional
Employees at the new institutions but |
hat he does complain of is the in
reased number of employees at the |
Id institutions. He, however, does
OF cite single instance where there s
As been an unjustifable increase but {
himself with the general {
atement, unsupported only by aver. [
ges which are neither reliable nor
ccurate. If he will examine the re- {
ort which he has he will see that {
the institutions which were in ex- I
tence during Governor Hanly's adj q
Illustration, there has in fact been T
4 increase, only when demanded by I
lie increase in population, excepting |
the Soldiers Home, the State Pris-
4, the Girls School and the BOYS Il
chool, in which institutions there has e
zen, since 1908, an increase in en- [
oyees over the increase in popula- I
on, which is accounted for by these V
The Boys School at | O
ainfield as conducted under Repub- d
can administration was a school In r
ime only. No il was a school, but e
IL was conducted, IL was a school of S
line from which many of its pupils F
'aduated in the Reformatory. It's il
iildlngs were out of repair. The q
,ys were lily clothed. They were il
srded into the dormitories like sheep Il
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