Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 December 1898 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1898.

ADMIRAL SAJirsox, who has just returned from Havana, where he has been on duty as a member of the evacuation committee, says that while many Cubans are anxious to set up an independent government, the better classeB on the island, including most of the men of wealth and prestige in business affairs, are practically unanimously in favor of the United States taking the island for keeps, instead of only temporarily. The admiral's own opinion is that the Cubans are in no condition, at this time, to successfully establish and maintain a government of their own, and, while he doesn't say as much, the impression one gathers from talking with him is that he doubts whether they ever will be.

PRESIDENT MCKINI.EY stopped a lot of crooked business when he ordered that new franchises given by the local authorities in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines should be revoked by our military authorities, whenever they were unfair to their terms or likely to be against the best interest of the islanders. A lot of unscrupulous speculators have been engaged in the purchase of railroad, electric and other* franchises from impecunious members of local governments in the towns on all of the islands, with the expectation that the United States would recognize them. It is thej President's intention to prevent any robbery of the islanders that can be prevented by watchfulness on the part of the authorities.

THE Spanish peace commissioners will realize what a mistake they made when they refused to sell us a small island in the Carolines for a cable station, as soon as they learn that we have taken possession of an island— Wake Island—that will answer every purpose and will cost nothing. This island is about two thousand miles from the Hawaiian islands and about thirteen hundred miles from Guam, being almost on a direct line between those possessions. As far back as 1851 Admiral Wilkes surveyed this island and asserted title, but the island being merely a coral reef three miles long, haB never been occupied. But it is all right for a cable station and President

McKinley has sent orders to Comman der Taussig, of the gunboat Bennington to proceed to the island and take formal possession.

SOME of the writers for foreign newspapers who are in Cuba are getting at the correct conditions in that island. One of these is the Havana correspondent of the London Times, "President McKinley will have an unfettered hand here," that correspondent declares. "A majority of the Cubans are preparing to accept unreservedly any regime treating them justly and insuring the tranquillity of the island. The Spanish residents also are contented to accept the inevitable, believing that their interests will be protected and themselves fairly treated. Therefore the way is clear to establish any system of government which the Washington authorities may see flt to impose." Other newspaper representatives on the ground, American and foreign, have expressed the same idea, and so have men engaged in business in the island, as well as visitors to it since the end of the war.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY gave the American peace commissioners, who brought the oilicial copy of the treaty of peace to Washington, a cordial personal welcome and heartfelt congratulations on their successful work, and assured them that the Christmas gift they brought to the American people was thoroughly appreciated. As a further mark of his appreciation, he will give, in honor of the commissioners, a state dinner at the White House. In addition to the treaty, the commissioners brought to the President a full and detailed report of their work. The commissioners were pleased to learn that the opposition to the ratification of the treaty by the senate had practically all died out, and that the treaty was likely to be promptly ratified. Senators who have been quoted as intending to oppose the treaty have assured President McKinley that, while opposed to our retention of the Philippines permanently, they would vote to ratify the treaty as soon as it was reported to the senate from the committee on foreign relations, to which it will be sent as soon as it goeB to the Benate, which will be immediately upon the reassembling of congress.

CHAIRMAN HULL has filed with the clerk of the house, the report of the committee on military affairs in favor of bis bill for the reorganization and increase of the regular army, which was not ready when the bill was reported to the house just before its Christmas adjournment. The report is very full, giving reasons, in detail why the bill should be passed. The following extract from the report fully explains the nature of the bill: "The bill fixes no maximum strength for the whole army. Assuming that the government will require about 100,000 men for defense of the frontier, for coast defense and to maintain our authority in the islands for whose good order and government this nation is now responsible, together with a reasonable reserve force. The bill provides for the requirements of cavalry and infantry, the number required for each arm of the service, and a corps of artillery for our sea-coast batteries with two regiments of artillery for field batteries. The committee believe the organization as provided for in this bill will make the most efficient military organization, at the lowest cost to the tax-payers of any organization proposed by any bill before congress." The estimated cost, if this bill becomes a law, as there is every reason to believe it will, in spite of Democratic opposition,is 890,000,000 a year. The Democrats acknowledge the present neces sfty for all the troops the Hull bill provides for, but in their bill, they try to whip the devil around the stump by limiting the regular army to 30,000 and providing for the enlistment for two years of 50,000 volunteers.

POPULIST ASSEMBLYMAN WALLACE, of Labette county, Kan., wants to have the ten commandments passed by the legislature, and the authority of Moses confirmed by a modern board of law givers, even a Populist Kansas assembly,reeking with grasshoppers and bewildered with all sorts of political hallucinations like those which in flamed the vision of the chosen people in their forty years in the wilderness. Most of his fellow-Populists regard the idea as absurd, and tell him so but he has the courage of his absurdities, and will put the matter to test during the ensuing session. There is no popu lar objection to the Mosaic code, but a feeling seems to prevail that

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cal declaration and enforcement are sufficient, and that it is hardly up to date in point of style. But it is evident that Wallace will push for its in corporation into the body of Kansas law with all the energy he possesses.

EX-SECRETARY OLNEY does not share the sentiments of his late chief in regard to expansion. He thinks the country has the right to grow and is empowered to assume new duties and obligations of rule whenever and wherever it may see fit. That is the opinion of an overwhelming majority of its citizens, but the contrary idea affords the Democratic party an excellent issue to get beaten on, as usual. It grasps the tail of flying opportunity with its habitual clutch of desperation, and will be whirled head-over-heelB into the ditch of defeat when the time comes through the customary parabola of projection.

WE are doing very well in the Pacific. San Francisco is about 7,000 miles from Manila, but between San Francisco and Manila we have Hone lulu, 2,000 miles from San Francisco, and!Guam, about 3,000 miles from Honolulu. With a navy yard on our own Pacific coast, with a naval station at Honolulu and another at Guam, another at Manila, and with a coaling station in Pango-Pango, Samoa, about half way between Honolulu and Australia, we shall be in pretty good condition to look after the commercial affairs of the Pacific.

Will Slug in Chicago.

Miss Bess Nicholson will go to Chicago the first of the year and will continue her musical studies. She will sing in the choir in Dr. Henson's church.

Soldiers'Widows' units. WILMINGTON, 111., Dec. 13, 1897.

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MARGARET R. WICKINB, Matron. DEAR SIRS.—I take great pleasure in adding my testimony to the efficiency of Syrup Pepsin, as

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WHAT SECRETARY WILSON SAYS

Claims to Have a Cure For Hog Cholera and Cattle Ticks—Work In Our New Islands.

We re-print below from the Breeders' Gazette a very interesting interview with Secretary Wilson, of the department of agriculture, who is one of the most valuable men in President McKinley's cabinet: "We have demonstrated beyond question that we have a dip that will free southern cattle of ticks," the Secretary recently stated," and the railroad managers have signified a willingness to build dipping vats at their own expense to facilitate the shipment of cattle. The department will need more men to supervise the dipping operation. The department has also demonstrated that hog cholera can be controlled and cured, and while we will not be able to make all the serum that will be wanted in the United States for some time we are going ahead and will increase our output of serum and send it to the people. We will enlarge the experimentations and carry them into different states, but will need more men to doit. The department has extended the weather bureau service around the Caribbean Sea, and we have asked congress to continue the service in the interest of our merchant marine as well as our navy. It will take more men to do that. The fruit industries of the United States are calling more and more for help to enable them to fight bacteria pests and insect pests and we are growing to meet those require ments. The department is growing in other directions. We have four explorers in different parts of the world establishing markets for American agricultural products. They are sending us seeds, plants and trees suitable for the climate and soil of the different sections of the United States. It costs something to do this. "One or two things congress should do with regard to the department itself," continued the secretary. "Our men carrying along these scientific investigations bccome famous and outside institutions want them. Congress, however, hesitated to put the salaries high enough to hold these men in the department service and as a result the department's work some times suffers through the loss of its ablest men. We ask the encouragement of congress in the way of more liberal appropriations to retain our scientists and further to be able to train others to take their place. I would suggest that the department be permitted to take the brightest boys that graduate at agricultural colleges, getting them through civil service examinations that will assure the selection of the best, and to put them in those divisions where we have the greatest difficulty in getting competent assistants. Under such a plan, when the department loses the services of the scientist at the head of the division, either through death or having them voluntarily leave to accept more lucrative employment, the vacancy can be filled by promotion from a competent corps. We can feed the department in that way just as well if not better than by raising salaries higher. What we want is to be prepared to fill any vacancy that may occur without detriment to the public service. We can readily prepare our men in time. They gradually get into the work, but the studies of the department in many instances are of such an exact, abstract character that it is difficult to find men anywhere in private life ready to step in and assume charge without training. Take our division of pathology, for example. No country in the world has the thoroughly competent scientists in that liDe of investigation we have. "We have plenty of interesting and valuable material for the farmers and want more money to put it in bulletin form. These are the lines along which we are importuning congress. "The new islands that are coming in under the llag of the United States have had very little science applied to production. Our pathologists will materially assist in developing them. They will take the coffee tree that grows the finest berries and cross it with the tree that produces the largest crop, and the result will be a decided improvement, in which the people of this country as well aB the coffeeplanters will share. "It takes men to do all the work the department has in hand, and more will be required if the department is to have its natural prowtb. All the money appropriated for the support of the department would not pav for the hogs that die in a Bingle county in Iowa of hog cholera. The value to the southern cattle-breeder of the dip which enables him to get his cattle north at all seasons of the year is so great that the money used to sustain the department does not begin to compare with it. The value of the agricnltural products of this country, the amount of money invested in farms and farm improvements occupies a place in our national prosperity that entitles the agricultural interests to first consideration, and congress should be very liberal in appropriating for the support of the department that has those interests in charge, and do all in its power to encourage progress along the lines of research now engrossing the attention of our scientific bureaus."

COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

Some Figures Showing: a Startling Variation in the Various Counties of Indiana.

The public mind is thoroughly impressed with the belief that the state and business methods generally have wholly outgrown the lawB organizing and providing for the administration of county and township business. The public demands, evidenced by the agitation on the subject in all parts of the state, have put many to inquiring into the needs of a reorganization of the forms of procedure in local administration. This is true not only in Indiana, but in most other states. The basis of these demands is found in the unequal taxation and expenditure in the various counties of Indiana, so far as this 6tate is concerned. The forthcoming report of the bureau of statistics shows some startling inequalities.

Take the matter of county poor expenditure, for intance, and it is found that a county with 33,000 population spends more than four times that of another county for this purpose with 70,000 population, while another county with a little over 32.000 inhabitants expends five times the amount for this purpose of another with over 70,000 population. These are not isolated instances of discrepancy of expenditure to population, but there are scores of facts much like these in various parts of the state, when county expenditure for this purpose and population are compared.

Take the matter of county administration as a whole and it is found th&t the expense of elections, printing, etc., repairs and all other miscellaneous expenditures in obe county is 31 cents per capita, in another it is $S 22 per capita, in another it is $1.13 per capita and in another $6.46. Indeed, in these items of expenditure alone the amount runs from 11 cents in one county all the way up to88.33, llcents being the lowest amount per capita for such expenditures,

Taking the item of expenditure, the cost in the various counties cents up to 29 cents. reasons, and are local differences in these expenditure, but the variation is so great and so frequent when counties are compared as to impress one that these local causes do not occur as frequently as shown in these items of expenditure. The total cost of county administration in the matter of county officers is found to vary from 25 cents per capita up to 81.10. A county with over 31,000 population has an expenditure for this purpose of 2G cents, while another with a population of a little over 17,000 expends 81.10 per capita. The variations are so great and so frequent in comparison of one county with another that one is impressed that there must be something wrong either with the administration of affairs of the is con-

total criminal per inhabitant varies from 3 There may be ones, for the

basis upon which the business ducted. Under the head of total extraordinary expenses, for which, of course, there may be special reasons, such as public buildings, etc., it is found that while one county, with something over 70,000 inhabitants, expends 1 per cent per capita, another county with 24,000 inhabitants expenda $1.32 per capita, and another with 31,000 inhabitants expends 82.63 per capita, another with 24,000 inhabitants expends $1 per capita, another with 17,000 inhabitants expends $1.39 per capita, another with over 21,000 inhabitants spends $1.64 per capita, another with a little over 23,000 inhabitants Bpends 84.82 per capita, another with 28,000 inhabitants spends $1.50 per capita, another with a little over 16,000 inhabitants spends $3.05 per capita, another with 25,000 inhabitants spends $5.36 per capita, and so it goes through a great number of counties, varying, as stated, from 1 cent up to the largest amount already mentioned.

As stated before, some of these counties are building court houses and some are making other public improvements, but it is known from the various sources through which this information is obtained that a considerable number of the counties which are indulging in large expenditures under this head are not engaged in such public improvements, and therefore the discrepancies, as shown in the comparisons between counties, will have to be accounted for on some other ground. This fact, it may be said, is the very heart of the well-nigh universal complaint at the large expenditures which are being made in some of the counties of tbe state, and, furthermore, it is this fact in regard to expenditures on all accounts that is causing the clamor among the'taxpayers generally for reform in local administration.

Again, viewing this matter from the standpoint of total expenditures in the various counties of the state, the following condition is found, viz: A county having a population of a little over 23,000 had a total expenditure for county administration of 79 cents per capita, another with a little over 22,500 population had an expenditure of $2.20 per capita, another with 83,800 population had an expenditure of $10 32 per capita, another with a little over

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23,000 had an expenditure of $15.16 per capita, another with 43,000inhabitants had a per capita expenditure of $8.08, another with a little over 31,000 had a per capita expenditure of $8.14, and it is found that sixty-one counties of tbe state exceeded

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expenditure on account of general county administration, while twentynine other counties expen-ied from $1.17 to $1.97. Thus it is seen that while the lowest expenditure on general county administration was 79 cents, the highest was $15.16, and all the other counties ranging between this minimum and maximum expenditure.

From these facts it will be seen why there is so much inquiry in the public mind in regard to local administration, and it is a subject that will not down until there is a thorough reform both in the law and the methods of these expenditures.

In a future review of local administration the matter of receipts and expenditures by the township trustees of the state will be taken up and presented to the public.

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