Show THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE tim tile message of ills his excellency 1 governor woods published iu in the NL aws news ws yesterday had the merit or demerit of or len ien length mess it also seemed to indicate that ills his excellency considered that the tile past legislatures gisla tures of the territory including the tile former governors knew very little and consequently that most of the legislation effected by them during the tile last thirteen ye years sears ars was ym to me uio ui uso o tile tiie mildest term something thin of a blunder and that nearly dearly all of it required remodelling remo delling at least and fashioning to suit his ills ideas the members of or the legislature may or may not see eye to eye with his ills excellency in this tills particular most likely not altogether it is the governors d duty u ty to make to tho the legislature such suggestions as lie may consider appropriate to tile the times and there is no doubt that the tile members of both houses are glad to receive those suggestions when wilen made but the fact all that they are the suggestions an and 0 opinions p u ions lons of one man and lie he a citizen il ln here simply because of appointment not of election by the people the hundred thousand people of tile tilo territory as well weil as the governor have havo opinions many of them probably just as wise as those eman emanating atin from front him the various suggestions offered ered by his ills excellency therefore will be likely to be taken oil on their intrinsic nl merits erlis by bv the tile member members s of the legislature ald and aid considered by them simply at what they ar arg worth it is tile the welfare of the people generally gener genei ally aily the whole people if it possible and if not the gre greatest aest good to the greatest number that the tile legislature should meet to promote notwithstanding the tile governors unconcealed special affection for the minority Excellency His can call hardly object seriously to this view of the case but if he be should sli sll ouid the plain and positive duty of the members of the tiie legislature is just the same ame notwithstanding |