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THURSDAY. AUG. 4, 1921.
What a humiliating spectacle is
presented to the people of Illinois,
and the balance of the country,
by the governor of that State,
I.en Small, dodging around from
place to place to prevent the
sheriff of Sangamon county, the
county in which the capitol of
the State is located, from serving
upon him a warrant in which he
is charged with stealing something
like a million dollars of
public funds while lie was State
treasurer a few years ago. If the
hi: lory of American politics furnishes
another such case the
leaves arc pasted together and it
iimitiell iroiu view. Hill in an
age in which many men put tin*
posst'ssion of money first in the
things of worldly importanee it
is not surprising to find that now
and then a man of questionable
probity slips into exalted publie
oftice. And especially is this likely
to happen in the more populous
States, which are filled to
the hriiu with foreigners, tens of
thousands of whom vote as the
bosses tell them to vote, regardless
of the fituoss of the candidate
for the office he seeks. Ity
and large. Small owes his election
to the governorship of llli
nois to the vote of the city of Chicago.
notorious for its corrupt
polities. There the mayor. Thomp
son. who was accused of disloyalty
during the World war. runs
things with a high hand. He was
Small's friend and is responsible
for his election. The fact that
Thompson, was considered proUernian
during the war does not
seem to have cost him anything
in the esteem of most of the Chicago
voters, made up of a eonglomerate
mass of humanity the
like of which is to he found no
where else upon the faee of the
earth. In the ruee for governor
of Illinois last year the Democrats
put up a man against whom
no charge of dishonesty could he
brought. I lad he been elected,
as he should have been, the State
and nation would have been saved
this disgraceful spectacle; but lie
went down to defeat as did hundreds
of other better men than
their successful opponents because
he did not wear the Republican
tag. Due thinir in conttec
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! wrongfully accused of crime are
seldom convicted iu Illinois or
| elsewhere in this country, for
that matter, and at most the cost
jto the governor, if his skirts are
clean, would be a little temporary
inconvenience, out of which he
(would emerge more popular than
lever. Small does not want to j
face his accusers iu court. li'O'.vi
ever. Perhaps " there's a reason." j
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Ill the opinion. oT '1 he I imcs. I
the York correspondent who at-i
.tributes the lack of enthusiasm
laud the decreased attendance at
the Filbert nienie last Thursdav
I to a satisfactory state of public i
affairs is wide of the mark. The I
people may not be quite so generous
with applause for public |
speakers as they were a few years j
| ago and they may find less time
to attend public gatherings than
they formerly did. but in York
county as in the other counties of
the State dissatisfaction with political
conditions is rampant, if
reports are to be believed, and
(unless there is a decided change'
i in public sentiment before the!
Democratic primary rolls round j
I in August. maiiv men now'i
.
prominent in the conduct of the i
Slate government will then wake i
up to find that then* day of pub- |
lie service is at an end. Whether
the Legislature in conjunction'
with the State officials is respon- j
sihle lor the high rate of taxa- |
tion. at which thousands arc complaining.
is beside I he .quest ion.
the people hold the men they
send to t'olumhia to make the
laws ami the men they elect to
till tin* executive offices to account
for public expenditures,
and that closes argument on the
question. This or that eommmu |
uitv may tax itself however much I
it will for school and road purposes
and the amount neeess.n v l
operate tin- Slate government
may lie a minor pari ??1' the total,
hut the fact remains that the
: 1;iii(r to which the average citizen
objects most is the State tax.
As was pointed out jit Filbert,
there has been a marked increase
in tile cost of the State govern
menl in the last six years. Much
of the money spent for this pur
poM? did not bring in the sort of
returns the people were led to
believe it would. l'raetieall\ everybody
believes there are too
many office holders in Columbiii
ami elsewhere on the payrolls of
the State whose positions could
be abolished without impairing
the efficiency of the government.
I lie Legislature itself evidently
takes this view of the mat let*,
otherwise it would not have created
a committee last winter to
investigate the work and expenditures
of the various depart
incuts, with the view of feeoin
no tiding that a place here and
there be abolished along with
certain unproduct ivc activities.
Kre long we shall see whether
the report of this committee justifies
its creation, ami a tilth- la
tcr we shall see whether the Leg
islaturc takes the report seriously.
lint meanwhile more tax
ation is to be placed upon Unpeople
if the State tax eolninis j
sion is able t?i eonvinee the State j
contingent fund eoinmittee of tin- 1
|""emergeney ' that lias arisen in*- i
| eessitat in<r the printing ??!' a new
form on w It it* li tin* taxpayer is t<>
I return his property to the eowiii.\
i auditor. This foriu. we are told, j
, v ill plaee upon the tax hooks
iiiueh property whieli is now es- j
| eapiu<; taxation altogether and
will otherwise have the efl'eet of
1 etpiali/ino the rate at whieli
pioperty of etpial value in the
various seetions of the State is j
'returned for taxation. All of
whieli sounds eouimendahle. hut
the observation inijjht he made
that the man who refuses to reI
j turn his property for taxation
on tin* blanks now in use hy the ;
auditors is not apt to he seared
into doino so when he eonies in
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form of making liis returns. In
tl.r opinion of many people
enough money, with some to
spire, already is collected to run
tlie State government etlieiently.
If more eare were exercised by
the Legislature in making appropriations.
the amount of tax
money needed in Columbia eonld
be reduced rut her than increased
iroiu year to year.
Hon with tin* eliarges against
Small that would he surprising
in some sections of the country
hut not so in Illinois is that his
ehuiupions apparently do not consiiler
his guilt or innocense a
matter of first iinportauee. Nowhere
ilo these friends of the
governor, so far as we have seen,
sit iiji unqualifiedly the claim of
irnoei use for him. instead they
1111'n upon certain Chicago newspapers
and other public officials
with the charge that they are atteuipting
to ruin him because he
refused to do their bidding, eonviiiiently
overlooking the fact
thai the thing of most interest to
the respectahlu part of the country
is to know whether lie stole
the money. Meanwhile Small
says he is going back to Sangamon
county within the next day
or two and claims that by virtue
of his office he is immune from
arrest. The sheriff takes another
view of the matter and says he
will arrest the governor the minute
he sets foot in the county.
Wt shall see what happens. If
Small is innocent, the wonder is
that he so strenuously objects to
facing his accusers in court. Men
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