The Columbian. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, October 27, 1898, Page 6, Image 6
6 THE RECORD STEAL. low the Publication of the Legisla tive Proceedings In Made to Do Duty for Machine Proteges—The Frlght- Ihl Padding, Enormous Indices and the Costly, Confusing and Exaspera ting Results—When the Contract Price Thills the Cost to the Tnxpayers Increases What An Honest and More Intelligent and Useful Per formance of the Work Would Save. The printing and distribution of the Legislative Record Involves a shame fully reckless waste of the public money, and, If It does not Include a straight steal, the facts which the fig ures divulge show a mighty close ap proach to it. Its distribution, by issues, during the sessions, which was intended to keep the people apprised of what their servants at Harrisburg are doing with their time and opportunities, was tor years a scandal, owing to the dlla borlness on the part of the publishers, but even more specifically of the pas ters' and folders' departments of the senate and house. The men appointed to service In these departments are the working politicians In the districts of those senators and members who have the strongest pull during the sessions. They receive close to $l,OOO per session as salary, but a large proportion of them never do any of the work. They are content to pocket the pay and per quisites and to appear upon the rec ords as pasters and folders, but either bscause they regard It as demeaning, or because they have something else to employ their time, or because they are adverse to toil of any kind, they refuse to perform the Incident labor and employ substitutes to perform it, At from one-fourth to one-half what they receive from the state. These Substitutes are generally very cheap and Incompetent men, often boys, and aa a result It Is happening constantly that even when the printing has been roasonably prompt, the distribution Is unconscionably delayed, the pasting and folding rooms being gorged with stacks of the stuff which should long hatore have been In the malls. How aver, as has been stated, there has re ritly been some little Improvement this regard, because of the perslst snt and long continued protests of citl asns against being served with printed copies of proceedings a month or two old and long after, as news, they had Inst all interest and value. The total cost of the printing and flatributlng of the Legislative Record, aa set forth In the various auditor gen eral's reports, was, In the years sever ally named, as follows; I&$E $22,820 MM 28,675 32,091 MSG 36,161 1* 97 43,580 The llgure for 1897 Is made up by ad ding the $8,600 paid on account In 1897 and the state treasurer's estimate of the sum required to complete the pay ment 111 1898. 'A i eftnvent In this steal Bi the Index. The reporting of the pro ceedings and the printing of the Rec *a la paid for, under contract, at so dfpeh wr page. Rlfls are received and the award mde to the lowest bidder. A maximum price of $lO Is fixed and the competitors bid so much percentage oft that price. The president of the senate and speaker of the house make the award and get, by the way, $lOO each for the few hours spent In doing It. while their clerk gets $5O. The contract price for 1895 and 1897 was $3.96 per page. This, be It under stood, is for both reporting and print ing, $3OO additional being always al lowed for the compilation of the Index. Now, the ponderous tomes that con tain the proceedings of the legisla tive session of 1897 cover a total of *;T?2 pages, distributed as follows: Proceedings 3,733 pages Report aliens' committee ... 565 pages Report penitentiary Investi gating committee 231 pages Index 2,237 pages Blank pages 7 £ a £ eB 6,772 pages Here are almost two-thirds as many pages of Index as there are In the re port proper. Add to these the 803 pages of reports and blank pages, and we have a total of 3,040 pages, or not far from half of the whole number which the state paid for as having been stenographic-ally reported, as well is printed, whereas not a line in any if them was reported. Whatever is the difference between the cost of re sorting and printing and that of the printing alone Is, as to these 3,040 pages, . sheer robbery. The volumes are pad ted by reports. Index, etc.. to the ex tent of over 80 per cent of the total ayment, and this Is exclusive of the -onstant repetitions and not only use ess, but confusing superfluities In the proceedings themselves, and which, it i safe to say, constitute fully two thirds of the total bulk. What this padding costs at $3.96 per page, Inde pendently of that In the proceedings ,iroper, Is as follows: 58,868.52 Miens' report 2,237.40 Penitentiary report 914.76 Blank pages 27.72 Total f $12,038.40 An Infinitely more Intellgent and sat isfactory record pf the sessions' pro ceedings could have been compressed into about 1,000 to 1,200 pages without xacrlflclng a word of the "eloquence" of the senators and members which, It Is needless to Bay, Is, as a rule, far more jffuslve than edifying. An Index that would be really useful for reference purposes could be put Into 200 pages, and this Is making a liberal allow ance. The 2,237 page Index to the 1897 volumes Is, In fact, no Index at all. It Is full of errors. It has countless repetltlona And these are so embar rassing that on the rare occasions when the Record must be referred to, the seeker after information la likely to be driven half frantic by the difficul ties he will encounter In obtaining it. :S"or Instance. "An act to regulate suits brought by and against foreign cor porations doing bußlness In this com monwealth, to which certificates have been or may be Issued, etc.," Is in- S"' .lexed under the word "Issued." Was -•-liere ever a padding for robbery so bold or a method of Indexing more com pletely imbecile? And this Is but a sample of hundreds of similar In ; stances of the fraud. What Is referred to above as the aliens' report la the report of a committee appointed by au thority of the legislature of 1896 to ascertain the number of aliens quarter ed upon the commonwealth In the var ious public Institutions thereof. As a printed public document It Is of no more value than would be a second tail to a cat. The 565 pages covered by It contain nothing but the names, sex, nativity, etc., of the Individual aliens found to be In the various prisons, hos pitals, almshouses and other like in stitutions of the state, each case being made to consume eight lines, or about one Inch In the length of a column, as follows: John Smith. Sex—male. Nativity—Kamschatka. Number of days treated—Thirteen. Cost per day—One dollar and thirty one cents. Total cost—Sixty-one dollars and flf ty-one cents. Any sane private individual having such a thing to print would put It In this way: Jno. Smith, Kamschatka; treated 13 days at $1.31 per day; total, $61.51. But that would have consumed only two lines, and would have lessened the grab of the Legislative Record con tractor $3 out of every $4. It Is safe to say that a far more In telligible record of the proceedings of the legislature could be reported and printed, with a comprehensive Index to the book, for about $lO,OOO, or less than a third of the cost of the present publication, which Is most exasperating to all those who have to consult It be cause of Its cumbersomeness and other described faults, and that the sum named would Include a fair compensa tion for both the reporter and the printer. But suppose only half the present ex penditure could be cut off, the saving would still be close to $20,000, and that Bum would materially help In caring for the Indigent insane and other wards of the state, now In large part neglect ed by reason of this and other machine corruption and waste In the handling of the state's moneys. Regularly every fourth year the con tract price for reporting and printing the Record has fallen, owing to the Introduction of Improved facilities for printing, such as machine type setting, etc. In 1883-85 the price was $6.56 per page; In 1887-89 It was $5.72; In 1891-93 It was $4.90, and In 1895-97 It was $3.96. The contract for the ensuing four years, 1899-1901, has been awarded to the same parties who have had It for sev eral years past, at $3.41. And the Wilkesbarre Record, a Republican pa per, has this to say regarding It: "The contract for printing the Legis lative Record for the next two sessions has been awarded to the same party who had It the last four years. As the price will be lower than before the work Is likely to be also worse, pro vided that be possible, which Is doubt ed. Parties who have had this con tract heretofore and failed to comply with its requirements should have been ruled out of the competition. But the officials who award state contracts are not In the habit of doing business that way." Passing by this Wilkesbarre editor's criticism of the character of the work done on the Legislative Record, though It is even more than justified, It Is worthy of remark that, though from 1885 to 1891 the contract price fell from $6.56 to $4.90 per page, the cost of the reporting and printing kept constantly Increasing. The lower the price the higher the cost. In 1893 and 1896 there was a small drop In the cost, but not at all In proportion to the drop In the contract price, but in 1897, by force of the successful padding already de tailed, it went up again. If there is an office In connection with the state government which, under Republican machine rule, does not In volve a theft or criminal profligacy, the fact hajS not yet been made apparent. A MACHINE INFAMY. Exploiting the Schools, Prisons, Hos pitals and Charities, Etc., for Ilase Partisan Purposes—Full Details as to the Methods of Achieving This Great Outrage—Senator Penrose's Attempt to Deceive the State as to the School and Charity Appropria tions Fully Refhted From the Rec ords. At the late Republican convention that met In Harrlsburg to express Its contempt for honesty and economy In the state government the boss sent the Junior senator to represent him and sing a siren song Into the ears of the people which, If It did not deceive them, might still be used by the heelers for such clamor as should confuse and drown the cries of the reformers. Mr. Penrose made a very valiant, but manifestly very laborious effort to ful fill his task. He, of course, Ignored the detailed, specific and widely published evidences of the Republican ma chine's theft and waste of the public moneys, because it Is Impossible tor him or anybody else to fairly meet and successfully refute them. But sweeping them aside, as with a wave of the hand, he undertook to account for the con stantly Increasing cost of machine rule by ascribing it to a greater liber ality to the schools, the hospitals and elemosynary Institutions of the state, leaving it to be Inferred that Mr. Quay and the machine were being criticised and abused, not for any real wrongdoing, but for their enlarged liberality In caring for the helpless wards of the state. Even if It were true that the differ ences In the gross annual outlay of the state were accounted for solely by the larger appropriations to the schools, the hospitals, etc., these appropriations are themselves made to dishonestly and unlawfully contribute to the main tenance of the machine, whose astute chief and ever watchful lieutenants would consider themselves grossly derelict In permitting such large sums to pass through their hands without gathering on it some profit on the way. But the'excess of the cost of main taining the Btate government as be tween 1883 and 1897 was almoHt three nnd three-quarter millions of dollars greater, leaving wholly out of the con sideration the cost of the schools, the penitentiaries, the insane and the charities, as the following figures will show: r ' THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. Payments 1897, lesi interest, etc. (sec. Rep. treas., p. 23).. 812,768,615 Payments 1883, less loans re deemed, Interest, premiums and U. 8. bonds purchased (see aud. gen. rep., p. 151 .. 4,336,997 Excess of current payments for 1897 8 8,431,538 Cost of schools, charities, in sane, penitentiaries, etc., '97 8 7,172,316 Same, 1883 2,440,840 Excess for 1897 8 4,731.475 Excess of total payments In 1897 8 8,431,538 Excess for schoools, etc., In 1897 8 4,731,475 Excess for ordinary expenses in 1897 $ 3,700,963 And this says nothing of the fact that the state treasurer In making up his estimates of expenses for the year ending Nov. 30, 1898 (which reach a total of 817,346,823, as against an an ticipated revenue of 811.561,000), In cludes, among others, the following Items: State tax due counties 81,505,255 School app'n 1897 due 3,439,998 Due TJ. of P. on app'n 1895.... 75,000 Due W. U. on app'n 1895 46,000 Appropriation for new capttol expected to have been paid In 1897 and appropriated for that year 275,000 . 5,340,253 The account, fully made up, there fore, stands about as follows: Excess payments of 1897 over 1883, exclusive of charities, schools, penitentiaries, In sane, Interest, loans, etc 83,700,063 Moneys that were appropriated to schools, charities, etc., and should have been paid In 1897, but remained unpaid at end 85.340,253 Total 89,040,316 This Is a long, long way from veri fying Mr. Penrose's contentkm that the only reason why It costs more to run the state than It used to Is that we now give so much more to the cause of education and In benlfleences to the helpless and suffering. Going to the official records for the facts com pletely upsets his slyly conceived dec larations and Insinuations, as It will be found to upset every plea made by the machine apologists In explanation and extenuation of its crimes. And the' appropriations for the schools and the charities, the poor, prisoners and the Insane, nre all and in numerous ways made to do duty for the machine. Of the 15,340,253 due Nov. 30, 1897, on appropriations made that year and before, and not paid at that time. $3,439,998 was, as will be no ticed, owing to the schools and $120,000 to the charities (see treasurer's report, page 14,) at the same time that a bal ance of $5,136,700 was In the treasury. Here Is confession over the official sig nature of a leading beneltclary of the machine that moneys are wrongfully withheld, and no sane man for a mo ment dcubts that the purpose of the withholding Is to accommodate the fhvaclte banks and Insure the ma chine Kberal contributions for Its cam paign funds. There are oemparativrfy few other moneys that could be with held In the same way, so that, were It not for the large appropriations to the schools and the charities the banks would have to surrender their deposits and the machine go to some other source for means to deceive and cor rupt the voters. Then the myrald of officials that ad minister the affairs of the institutions under consideration are practically all expected to shout the praises of the machine about election time and do what they can to confound Its enemies. At the beginning of each legislative session the governor has 700 or 800 ap pointments of various kinds to sub mit to the senate for confirmation. A large proportion of these are connected with the educational, charitable, penal and reformatory Institutions of the state. All of them must sooner or later pony up In some way to the machine, either by money contribution, lip ser vice or repressing what they know and feel and would like to tell. Refusal to do this In any direction is regarded as threatening the appropriations for that direction next due. For many of these places, even where neither sal ary or perquisites attach, there is al ways warm competition, and In such cases the machine steps In and, regard less of the local situation or the equities, determines the contest In fa vor of those who are likelv to prove most subservient to Its behests. There are 117 homes, hospitals, asy lums, aid societies, missions, etc., or ganized and controlled by the state, or managed by private corporations and receiving state aid, to which ap propriations were made by the last legislature. These are exclusive of the deaf and dumb and blind schools, the Institutions for the training of feeble minded, etc. In many localities these Institutions are looked upon as of such Importance that the men chosen to rep resent such localities are expected to make sure of the appropriations for them at whatever sacrifice. Urged by their two or three thousand officers, managers, directors and employes and depending upon the machine aB the sole arbiter In the appropriation com mittees, these poor legislators are often forced to choose between voting con scientiously and losing the appropria tions or voting with the machine and getting them. Thus even the chari ties of the state, the sick and the crip pled are made, unconsciously, to con tribute to the maintenance of a ras cally gang at the head of the state's affairs and their conscienceless robbery of the taxpayers. Mr. Wanamaker said In his speech at Phoenlxvllle, May 27: "Politics con trols the appointment of trustees of state Institutions; politics controls the management of state Institutions.,, The needs of overcrowded asylums anS un healthy hospitals count as naught against the request of the man with the political pull and who can deliver state delegates." And he might have added that the controllers and officers of the Institutions not under control of the state, but receiving state aid, for the most part are but in a degress less the servitors of the machine. The appropriations are notoriously Inadequate for the support of the state Institutions, notably the Insane asy lums. The payments for the Insane were $738,390 In 1896 and $587,544 In 1897. The appropriations were $920,320 foe-1897 and $717,700 for 1898, but of the former (200,000 was for a deficiency In the ap propriations for; 1896, and 683,900 In 1897, and a like amount In 1898 was for an extension of the reservoir and new buildings for the Harrlsburg Institu tion. The committee on lunacy of the board of public charities has been for several years Insisting that a new asylum for the Indigent Insane be built for management under homeo pathic auspices, that a hospital speci ally devoted to the treatment of epilepsy be erected and that the chron ics "who do not require active medi cal treatment, nursing and special care" should be taken from the hos pitals and put In an asylum by them selves. They further recommend that legislation be enacted to Induce and encourage counties, municipalities, etc., to build Institutions for the care of their own Insane by the ofTer of a fixed sum, say 81 per week, paid out of the state treasury, for each patient supported therein. Wisconsin has pursued this plan with highly satis factory results for 16 years, the per capita cost per patient being 81.75 per week, or less than it costs In Penn sylvania. Notwithsatndlng the fact that all the Insane hospitals are seri ously and even dangerously overcrowd ed, hundreds of beds having to be made up at nights In the corridors and taken down In the morning, the legislature has persistently ignored all these rec ommendations, excepting when In 1896 they passed an act looking to county care for patients, which was so loaded down with provisos and Impossible re quirements as to be wholly Inoperative. It was owing to the extravagant ap propriations for party and factional purposes that, as Mr. Wanamaker said In his Phoenixville speech: "At the last session of the legislature the appro priations committee was obliged to re fuse actual maintenance for many of the most deserving hospitals of the state. Yet this same committee, under orders, passed for Senator Coyle, of Schuylkill, a Quay lieutenant, an ap propriation of 810,000 for the main tenance of the American Hospital as sociation, of Mahanoy township, which was an Imaginary Institution of Sena tor Coyle's, without capital, without a building, or without even a site upon which to build one. This fraud was fortunately discovered by Governor Hastings, who vetoed the nefarious scheme." And yet as showing how even the state beard of charities Itself Is com pelled to pose as apologists for the machine, the secretary cf the board said In his report Jan. 1, 1897 (see report, page 8): "At the session of the legis lature gf 1895 we earnestly urged that provision be made for both the Insane and criminal classes. Bills for these purposes were presented to the legis lature, but unfortunately, owing to the financial depression of the treasury, failed to become laws." And vet it Is notorious that In multlplylng j useless ofllces and expenses the legislature of 1895 outdid all Its predecessors and was not a whit less culpable than that of 1897. Following up this subject Mr. Wan amaker says (again the Phoenlxvllle speech Is quoted from): "I am Informed by an ex-member of Hie appropriations committee that du ring a recent session of the legislature the appropriations oommlttee, after months of work and the unmerciful slashing of meritorious bills; had suc ceeded 0 making the total amount of appropriations fall within the estimated revenues. Upon the last night that bills could be reported from the com mittee and be passed before adjourn ment orders came from Senator Quay that more than *500,000 of bills for pow erful and rlcß Institutions must s(e passed. These bills had all been con sidered by the committee on their mer its and negatived. Upon orders from the 'old man' they were reconsidered and reported favorably within an hour. A prominent Philadelphia business man dared not contribute to the Business Men's League, because he was a di rector In the Philadelphia Museum, and he WSB notified that he must not oppose Quay or his institution would lose an appropriation that upon Its merits alone It Is entitled to receive." It Is not generally understood, but should be, that the state does not sup port the penitentiaries and reformato ries. The state provides the buildings and pays the salaries, but the counties pay for maintenance. Of the state ap propriations to the penitentiaries for 1896, $50,000 of the $52,000 went for sala ries In the Eastern and $60,000 of the $65,000 In the Western. These well paid officials are, of course, another contin gent of the machine's active election eering forces. More than half of the cost of main taining the Indigent Inßane patient is paid by the counties, and from a third tc a half of the total Income of the in sane hospitals from all sources goes for salaries. Here, again, the machine finds profit and support. In the fur nishing of supplies It is the same thing, and It Is notorious that the cost of feed ing the patients Is much In excess of what It should and would be under honest management. In his Philadel phia speech, June 27, Dr. Swallow said: "Though the average charity In mate of our asylums gets service, clothing and food that epsts less than 50 cents a day, the expense to the state is greater than though they were board ed at a first-class hotel." This, like nearly all of the reverend doctor's alle gations. Is a haphazard statement, demonstrating the Impractical charac ter of the man and the unwisdom of depending upon his "statistics," and yet It Is approximately true. The weekly per capita cost for main tenance of patients In the five state hospitals for insane for 1896 Is set down In the official report of the committee on lunacy of the board of charities (see report 1896, page 24) as follows: Harrlsburg $3.75 Danville 3.60 Norrlstown 3.15 3-5 Warren 3.61 Dlxmont 3.89 Average $3.60 3-5 It has already been stated that the rost of the Insane to the state of Wis tonsin, where they are cared for In the founties, etc., Is $1.76, and "the quality Df care is excellent," says our board of public charities, and the board further says (See report 1896, page 5): "In Pennsylvania there now Is some excel lent county and municipal care of the msane, at far less per capita cost than that charged In the state hospitals."* A board of charities, whose officials tvould give less of their time to moving about the state doing the work of the machine ana the party which It con V _ "A PERFECT FOOD —as Wholesome aa ft la Dellcioaa." 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The education*!, penal, correctional and charitable Institutions of the state, whether supported In whole or only In part by the state, are, as will fully ap pear from the foregoing revelations, vir tually all Industriously exploited for the support of the Republican machine. Ev tmg daUar of maAeg voted to them in one way Ik as Other, directly or Indirect ly, pays tribute to it. A great liber ality Is Ihdshently and deflantly util ised to assist the basest of political as pirations. The mere money outgo Is not nearly BO large as Senator Pen rose tried to make the people believe, and Is far from covering the difference between the cost of honest government and the cost of Republican machine government, but it Is a great sum nevertheless, fully suffl 'ent to Inspire successful revolution a. -Inst the ma chine and the men who are responsible for Its cruel and wicked maladminis tration. ROBBERY By IPHtIOWIT. A Gross Injnstloe Perpetrated by.' the Republican Party Upon the Demo cratic Citizens of Pennsylvania. How One Republican Has a Greater Representation Than Five Demo crats--Ignoring the Constitution to Serve Party Knds—CandidateGobln's Share In the Crime and the Spoil. The present constitution of Pennsyl vania was enacted In 1873, and went Into operation on Jan. 1, 1874. Section 18 of Article 2 Is as follows: "The gen eral assembly, at Is first session after the adoption of this constitution, and Immediately after each United States decennial census, shall apportion the state Into senatorial and representative districts," etc., etc. A like provision Is made with refer ence to the Judiciary of the state, and common fairness suggests that the con gressional districts should be apportion ed Just as frequently and at the same times. How the Republican party In Pensyl vanla has treated the mandatory pro visions of the constitution above quoted Is shown in the fact that the last apportionments were enacted as follows: Senatorial, 1874; representative, 1887; congressional, 1887. For 24 years, therfore. they have been perslstenly refusing to do, with reference to tjie senatorial apportion ment. what the fundamental law com mands: for ten years they have been similarly derelict with reference to the representative apportionment, and for a like number of years they have al lowed a congressional apportionment o stand, which, by a fair rendering of people's will, should at that time have been set aside. The reason Is plain. They derive a large advantage In representation from their remissness. Not only do they shut out the Democrats from their fair share of senators and members, but they also checkmate that element of their own party that chafes at "boss- Ism" and the Innumerable evils that always attach to It. To Illustrate the gross Injustice of these procedures to the Democratic party: In the senate of 1897 there were 44 Republicans and 6 Democrats. In 1896 the Republicans reached their high water mark as to majorities In the vote for president. In that year there were cast for MclCinley 728,300 votes, and for Bryan 433,228 votes. By dividing the number of senators for each party Into the party vote It will be found that oastorxa; Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought there are: One Republican senator for each 16,- 653 Republican votes. One Democratic senator for each 73,- 204 Democratic votes. Make a like calculation as to the members of the lower house of the state legislature, which had 171 Re publicans to 33 Democrats, and the fol lowing will be the result: One Republican member for every 4,259 Republican votes. One Democratic member for every 15.12S Democratic votes. The American system makes every cltlsen politically equal, and the lawa are supposed, and In fact, are consti tutionally ordered to be made to en force that rule: yet here we have a method of electing senators In Pennsyl vania that makes one Republican as good as four and a half Democrats— that Is, that gives one Republican as large a voice In this matter as four and a half Democrats. As to the congressional representation, the Injustice Is even greater. Including the two elected at large, Pennsylvania has 30 members of the national honse of representatives. Of these 27 were elected as Republicans and hut three as Democrats. Here we have: One Republican member for every 26,933 Republican votes. One Democrat for every 144,409 votes. Which makes every Republican vote count. In this regard, as much as Ave and a half Democratic votes. As showing the gross Injustice of the present senatorial apportionment, many speclAc Instances might be cited. Let one suffice. According to the census of 1890 Luzerne had a population of 201,203, and Lackawana a population of 142,108, making a total of 343,291. The senatorial districts In these two coun ties, under the act of 1874, which Is still operative, overlap, part of the Lu zerne district extending Into Lacka wanna. Together, they have two sen ators, or one senator for 171,646 of pop ulation. The county of Lebanon has but 48,131 population, yet she has a senator by herself. That senator for the last 12 years wo# General Gobln, now the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor on the machine ticket; and General Gobln is one of the men who have exercised the most potent InAuence In perpetuat ing this great wrong by openly oppos ing or secretly conniving against any new apportionment. Every legislator who has done this, or been in any way an obstructor of apportionment legislation has been guilty of perjury, for all take oath to obey the constitution which perempt orily demands It. Are the Democrats not JustlAed in ar raigning the Republican party for this among Its myriad of other great wrongs and persistent Ignoring of the plain letter of tho constitution? You Should Know What Hood's Sarsaparilla has power to do for those who have impure and impoverished blood. It makes the blood rich and pure, and cures scrofula, salt rheum, dyspepsia, catarrh, rheu matism, nervousness. If you are troubled with any ailment caused or promoted by impure blood, take Hcod's Sarsaparilla at once. Hood's Pills are prompt and effi cient, easy to take, easy to operate. If the small boy doesn't give liis mother the slip, it may be that she gives him the slipper. CASTOHIA. Bears the /> Tto Kind You Haw Always Boogfk