Show tiie tile THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE THE message of governor emery to the leg legislature dalure da ture taken ta kenin in its entirety is a fair and passable document considering ills his point of view he makes a number of good suggestions and recommendations which the legislature will be likely to take into deliberate eori cori consideration sidera and will ael act upon BO so far as in its Us judgment action will bo beneficial to the community dood doo d and buff bunn sufficient lelent legislation for the encouragement 0 of f all useful heme name industries and for the proper protect protection i f orl of if investments therein is of coarse course desirable A geological survey is a good thing but as the federal government in at has the original ow ownership of the 0 land and receives the money for the bame same when bold sold to the people it seems right that congress should provide for a competent geological alog cical as well as a topographical survey of the territory the centennial year is naturally a time of rejoicing for all americans b and if the legislature were to make a reasonable iea lea appropriation for this purpose we do not think the people would complain too to much cannot be said in favor of education If of the right sort forit for it cannot be denied that the more thoroughly and symmetrically I 1 y the various powers of men and women are cultivated and developed th the more intelligent will the community be and the more effective it ought to be for good considering si the situation of the territory we believe utah has done creditably in the matter of education in comparison with other territories and states there Is no doubt that there could still be an Im improvement made here aa as there bouldin could in every other region but that the imposition of a heavy territorial rit orial tax to establish free schools would be advisable is a thing of which many people are by no means meana well assured if the school fund and school teacher appoint ments merits were to be made a political bone of contention and the school law a political engine for hungry politicians to quarrel over and struggle to control perhaps the territory would be better belter without any such lawi laws law and with ith edu education bation left to local enterprise we must take exception to the statement concerning the illiteracy of the people of the territory the governor must have been grossly misinformed upon this subject if he will take the trouble to procure correct information we vre are assured that he will find that there is scar scarcely celya a youth who has grown up in the Territory who cannot read handwrite and write it has been the custom for political purposes to depreciate and misrepresent at wholesale the educational progress of this territory and it is about time this kind of business came to an end good roads are desirable there is no doubt of that and within certain limits they pay the roads in this territory bry ury are natural roads road 8 almost exclusively and very good roads of the kind though in places they are bad enough so far I 1 ar as either the territory or the counties are concerned what they can reasonably appropriate to road making ana mending bridges included would be well spent in that direction Turn and gravell graveling ng in places is about the extent to which publio publia moneys is can cn reach but when one talks I 1 of macadamizing macada mizing one talks of a thing a long way in the future we do not i suppose u ap pp 68 that there is a rod of macadamized macadamize road in the territory the expense is too great in a thinly populated country As to summers summer bummer dust and winters mud we are afraid that the utah people will be afflicted with tham for lor ever thia this is an arid climate and pradit practically mily there is not enough water t to keep down aown the dust the governor appears to have fallen into the notion that a free bal bai ballot bailot lotas as it is 19 called wo would td cure every election evil the erroneous neba nesa ne orthis notion is nowhere more u ully 1 hytry demonstrated than in this co country u they have a free ballot in new york and in philadelphia yet the election frauds them thum are infamous it is 13 yet a discussed point V whether ogenor open or secret ballot most moat conduces to the integrity of the ballot both systems are practiced in diffie different rent portions of the country there la Is certainly greater irresponsibility lity and in all probability greater fraud connected with secret than with open voting we presume the tha system of compensating sating local off omm meers officers by post appen was adopted by the legislature to check careless and induce careful expenditure of the public means we have not heard of appropriations for reasonable compensation to local officers being refused by bv the legislature ifa ita if a reorganization niza tion of the judicial districts ia is really desirable it is 18 likely that the legislature upon due deliberation deliberations will make the nece necessary mary wary changes an asylum for the insane under proper regulation may be desirable if not u upon on too large a scale seale because most or of the insane people of this territory are avo too shrewd to be beim boim in aured in an asylum A proper distribution of the eskite decedents dece dents is a very important matterand tte raud rand should not be lightly y log leg legislated slated upon the provision t thal that batall all ali the fhe children of aman and t heir their mothers shall have part in h his Is estace estate after his decease we wp coni con sider aider very just lust the tho practice in christendom generally of ostracism ing and cutting outram pecuniary interest those which are considered ff illegitimate legitimate children is a premium upon illegitimacy if a man will be the father fattier of children let himo shim be responsible for them all and let them all have a right to proper care while lie he lives and to a fair nair share of his property when he dies whether he recognizes them or not provided it be satisfactorily established that he is their father we consider this demanded by justice under existing social conditions t 10 ns au an equitable irrigation law would undoubtedly be lie a good thing irrigation is necessary in this terri tory and probably always will be we have a recently passed civil code and if a new criminal codell code is desirable the legislature will probably adopt one if there is lq time enough this session of course the got Gol governor vernor must enter his illi protest against plurality of wives especially as he considers it not in harmony with m modern dern christianity civilization and n but thoe those e institutions as they exist certainly need som something ething strong to bring them up to a desirable condition of humanity and equity plurality of rivest under judicious clous elous regg regulation lation is oneff the th things g needed to make christianity and civilization an undoubted success this the utah people opio and their representatives bieve believe belleve hence their actions in this direction moreover they further believe that under the Constitution of the united states neither congress nor the utah legislature has the right to prohibit religious plurality of wives hence it is rather absurd of the governor to ask tho the legislators of this Teni Taril tory to 0 do it twofold absurd in that by following out his recommendation on this point they would violate firstly firsty y their own consciences I 1 and secondly the glo gio glorious rious constitution n of the united states and for what simply to toia toja pander ander auder to popular prejudice finally all the bugge suggestions scions bj nv the Governo by anybody else for the matter of that which the legislature shall find to be worthy of adoption it is i s to be hoped it will adopt always remember remembering ipg the safe policy of keeping public expenditure within a reasonable pub publia 1 income there is far foo too 00 mu much ch I p public debt already in the world |