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

getting both old and feeble. Former
ly they could Dr., some work about tn
institution Now they are unable t
90 It. The hospital has been crowded
To properly take care of this institu
ton additional help has been necessi
lated. Does Mr.. Goodrich complain
n this? At the State Prison Their,
mas been established since 1908 tn,
criminal hospital for the insane IL
which there are two hundred inmates
VINO require greater attention thar
The ordinary inmates of that institu
tion. The enlargement of the binder
ewine plant and the establishment o
trade schools have required additional
instructors and outside help, but the
Institution with these additions has
been made self-sustaining. Is Mr.
Goodrich prepared TO say that If elect
cd ne Will change the policy of these
institutions?
The State institutions, the Board
OF State Charities, the Board oil
Health, the State Library have all
been taken out OF politics. Mr.. Good
rich in his ambition to be elected is
doing his level best to bring them
back into politics. The people should
hesitate before electing a man Gov.
ernor who Is willing TO assail our in.
situations without an investigation of
their needs and the work they are do
ing; one who is willing to bring our
state institutions back into politics in
the effort to elect himself to that high
Office.
CONDITION OF THE STATE.
/ have not specifically taken up
each and every one OF the things men
toned by Mr.. Goodrich. Some of
them are too trivial TO ee noticed. In
other instances his statements are alb
solutely false. Our State is growing.
its needs are increasing, its people
are awake to the needs of the hour.
All this means increase of expendi-
lures, increase of cost of administra-
ton. The Democratic party has re-
sponded whenever called upon to an
swer the demands of the people II
In doing SO, the increased expenditure
of money has become necessary 4 has
fearlessly provided the means; to
have refused to do so would not only
have arrested the progress of the
State, but it would have been in viola
ton OF the demands of the people.
The question is not, has more been ex-
pended, but, has it been foolishly,
or needlessly expended No
such charge can be successfully made
or substantiated. Compared with the
tot Of
Michigan and Wisconsin, Indiana is
spending less, many million dollars
less, annually than any one of these
States and is one of the few States in
the Union which in 1915 lived within
its income. Does Mr. Goodrich know
that since 1915 the average increase
in expenditures in all the States over
1908 was over 6S per cent, while in In
diana it is about &c per cent
STATE DEBT.
Mr.. Goodrich has but little to say
Of the payment of the State Debt, but
the fact remains every dollar of the
State debt is paid, and Indiana, for
he first time in eighty-two (S2) years,
S out OF debt, and is the only State
informed, which has no State debt.
This debt was received as a heritage
rom past Republican administrations
md ought to have been discharged by
hem. Since Mr.. Mount came into Of
ice on January 1st, 1899, down to
when we gained control of all
branches of the State Government
ate in 1910, there was collected by
he sinking fund tax the enormous
um of $2,7SS,30563. This tax was
evied for debt paying purposes and
he people had the right to expect that
be used for that purpose. Instead it |
vas regularly transferred into the |
'ther funds and used to make up
eficits there. and the debt went I'M
aid. A Democratic legislature in |
913 reduced the sinking fund levy |
rom 3 cents TO az cents and said by |
IS enactment this fund must be used |
o pay off the State debt and for no |
Their purpose. Since then not q dol |
ar has been transferred and the debt |
,as paid out~of this fund and today |
re have the cancelled bonds in the |
tate Treasury.
All! but Mr.. Goodrich says we still
We Purdue University $4,000 Mr..
GOODRICH has again been deceived. Let
lie tell you about this fund In 1862.
he Congress of the United States do
ated TO the State certain government
lnds, which were to be sold. aud un-
er the provisions of the Act, the pro-
eeds of the sale were to belong to
lie State TO be held in trust by il in
lolate. The fund was TO be invested
Y the State and the interest thereof
as to be paid 10 sorle educational in
.itution teaching agriculture The
tate appointed the Trustees of the
III Indiana Agricultural College,
lie predecessor of Purdue University
as the agents of the State to receive
lis grant on behalf of the State, to
spose of the land and to hold the
roceeds for the State and this was
)ne. I'm all 1925, 100000 was derived ,
ON these sales, and the Trustees of
is College and its successor, Purdue ,
University, held this fund for the
ate until 1881. In 1881 a Republican ,
gislature, under Republican Gov ,
nor, took this money from Purdue !
University and turned II into the State
reasuiy, with s15.O0O00 of the Uni :
'rsity money, and then in violation {
the trust this money was paid into !
e General Fund and used up by this :
epublican administration for gen. i,
al purposes, since which time the :
ate has been paying annually to
lrdue University five Go per cent
terest on the amount Thus we have
e spectacle of a trustee, using for l
! individual purposes, the sacred
lst fund of which II was the Gus c