| Show THE christiam FOOLERY HOME the annual exhibit of the angie F kewman concern in the senate brings up a subject of more than ordinary gravity it is very fortunate that a clause inserted in the congress christian chian tt ropy bill requiring the institution to dig itself out of the sediment once a year else those polygamous wives with no place on the face of the earth to go to bat this asylum for the deluded would have poor means of k arnene the news from their own institution by the grace of government and the christian finan ciering of angle al of the nations funds have been expended for a building for furniture and 1441 in sundry expenses up to november 1889 fur the exclusive benefit of the polygamous wives aforesaid these items are interesting te as far as they go but their interest would have been greatly augmented by a brief resume of arrivals departures births deaths and other personal statistics of the institution the absence of this information points us to the necessity of making a few running calculations calu lations on the figures given and if vie err it will be a fault of the head and a niggardly report rather than of the heart for we should deem it an impolito action to wanton ly a concern go bously female as is the one in question the faie appropriation was emde nearly four years ago the organization waa affect bat over three years ago and boon after the machinery of christian reform got action along time ago we dont just remember the date tarco inmates ft ere reported one had a quarrel with the spinster matron and left in a dudgeon allowing the two remaining a six months competition tor the of the matron then the loser in the play one month to work herself up to the leaving tern pyatte and another month to make settlement and deducting fifteen days for payments withheld to insure good service we have the time of the third inmate ai alie unknown quantity from the foregoing statement and divers oilier general information in the report wa adduce as follows earnings of inmate no 1 f 25 2 money appropriated as per report 1111 total lew earnings of inmate no 8 1341 salary ot matron f 2000 carriage acu ecu and 81 total expense income above Jim nines 0 inmate so 3 tor a balance balance 2091 no 3 according to the amount allott ed tor the other two would earn her in two years and BIX months leaving six months earnings unac counted alfr irence it is fair to presume that she likewise gave the institution I 1 lie cold cut six months ago which presumption explains the omission from alie report to the senate of inmate statistics and justifies under fair construction the want of any reference on the part of the commission to the probable future of the concern it ia plain from our findings that for six months alie government being deprived of the assistance ot the inmates has been paying cold salary to the maron for keeping an empty bouse As woman suffrage has been abro faed in the territory her political influence is no object hence it follow a that the ultimate success of the home is a problem with the big figures in the tt rong column |
