| Show governors message the youngest stale of the union has reason to be proud of her son governor wells it is a masterly maa terly message which he sent to the legislature and the people e utah made no when they placed him at the helm he handles hie affairs of the state in a statesmanlike manner hia views on the finances are broad and not pessimistic bonding is suggested and he believes bonds f the new state can readily be floated at lour per cant there is no question but utah ranks bieh among the states in financial credit and we are inclined to the belief that bonding will be tha most expedient way of placing the machinery of state on a fair footing generally the hoople of utah are opposed to bonds for the word sounds somewhat like bondage and has a similar meaning if indulged in too freely but the expenses of state government will be larger at the beginning than later on it always takes more to start machinery in motion than to keep it running when it has overcome ita mertia the same rule applies to the machinery of state then the people of the state have left them as a legacy from the pernicious territorial government over which a governor with an absolute veto power presided a deficit in most departments arising from the fact that gov west vetoed the revenue bill which provided a half mill more for territorial purposes these deficits will need to be wiped out and taxation for that purpose with the additional hardens which statehood imposes will be more than the people could endure the governors megga throughout shows aa economical tendency la hia treatment of the asylum for example for which the retiring board believed an appropriation would be necessary necea sary of the governor thinks with close economy the institution can be run for but with all his economical tendency the governor still has forethought enough to suggest an inter mountain mounta tn fair for the new state 1897 being the year of settlement tl it is a very worthy suggestion for it would be profitable to the now state to hold anch a fair governor wells thinks it would be to the financial advantage of the state and we agree with him to remove the reform school from tha present commodious buildings at ogden and place therein the school for the daab and dumb mutes the last territorial legislature criticized quite severely the expenditure of the peoples money for each a palace as the present building might be called for the care of only a score or BO of naughty boys and girls they had batter have absan placed on a farm with a guardian or two to take care of them W are not in favor of the abolition of the school which is intimated by his excellency but we think a more economical reform school for tho state than the territory had will si borve public interests the care of our state schools is of c imperative the university aid agricultural college must b kept up bew buildings for the un U n hersity on its new bite will be out of the question in fact if the university and agricultural college aie n t to be combined aa it seems set td they are not to be the university is wall provided with room for the pre ent fhe penitentiary 10 now charge oi the people of utah uncle sam built it and maintained it under territorial rit orial government at his own expanse now the people must attend to its management it ought to bo made self supporting so far as food is concerned concer nod with the largo farm in connection with and the men in it the prisoners at least ought to provide their own food the provo woolen mills can weave their stripes and the prisoners can make their suits there la no reason why the gentry of that institution should live ou the sweat of honest mena brows after dealing with the state institutions tut ions governor wells takes occasion to recommend the fostering of infant industries by bounty he saya repeated declarations on the part of the people of utah has placed that policy be the bounds of argument it is nov a fixed economic principle in the naw state we will take occasion to bia however by way of ala a bounty sp entas one or the establishment of the bugar thia conaty is money profitable spent the people reaped many times more than they bowed sowed the bounty question is the only partisan feature to the governors message the rest ie simply expressed in simple straightforward manner |
