Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1903 — INTELLIGENT CONSERVATISM [ARTICLE]

INTELLIGENT CONSERVATISM

Will Guide the Legislature in the Matter of Appropriations. (Indianapolis Journal.) Indiana’s charities will doubtless be provided (or by the legislature in the spirit of intelligent conservatism. The purpose of the rigid investigation which has been instituted by the governor and the committee of the legislature is not -to ascertain - where the process of pinching can be applied, but to learn the actual needs of all the institutions and to make as full provision to meet those needs as is possible. Fortunately, those officials who are making the investigation are practical business men with progressive ideas. At the same time they are not enthusiasts, and will not be carried away by that class. They will" not act upon the declaration of one of the speakers at the Charity Organization meeting Sunday night, that “the question of money is absolutely not to be considered,” and that “the tax rate should not be taken into consideration.” If this advice should be taken by the legislature the appropriations to carry out the projects of those who are the champions of new institutions and the broadening of those now existing would exceed 12,000,000. Those who make such statements are not acquainted with the semi-annual calls of county treasurers as are the tens of thousands of farmers aad householders la cities. While it Is probable that the legislature will be intelligently liberal, H will taka the tax rats Into consideration. Furthermore, when an appropriation la paade for one purpose, the ambitious superintendent will not ha allowed to convert it to some fad of his own conception entirely foreign to that for which the legislature voted tka money. Officials who arrogate to themselves the functions of the legislature and harrow moaey to carry out extravagant plans of their own wIU find many difficulties. The question of money will ho considered by. the legislature and the expenditure of the money voted will ha confined to the strict rending of (he net sf approprlnThe editor of “I Ihmtos." an aat> A “«ricon paper published at Manila, has been oenvloted of libol on his own eonfeeslon that ha spoke falsely when ha stated In his Journal that General °* rt< * daria. TVs si roll ms of thin charaetar are whattho antHmperlallsts 4aslea es the freedoms* the