| Show GOVERNOR PUTS HIS FOOT ON A JOB RECENTLY as we learn from thi the pres 18 colt courier the arizona Legis legislature liture which adjourned on march ufa sent to governor zulick for his approval a bill entitled er titled an AB act acis to provide for in increasing cressin the revenue ot ol the territory of f arizona and increasing the public school fund 11 in brief the measure legalized a lottery blotted or gaming corpora tiou a portion of the profits arising from which was to be applied to the public school fund and the balance to go to the Lu individual holders of stock in the concern cou ceru those who projected and favored the act based their position upon a r rotten 0 aten pl platform atford they reasoned thai as t the he gam camine gamine ing assign jarge largely existed iti in the Teril territory tory an asse assertion forcibly discredited by the governor the people would indulge it by speculations in schemes abroad and thus deprive arizona of a large carife amount of means hould be retained at home governor bullek in signifying his disapproval of the measure shivers this shallow pretext into spi splinters luters his reasoning exhibits so much true states manship mans bip and such a sound understanding stAn dlug of genuine political principles and p private r 1 v ate and pub public ic morality that it is wl worthy r t h y of ef more than passing notice for this reason we extract somewhat copiously from his bis message which ac companies companied compa compau nied led the bill when he be returned it to the legislative council in which it originated the strength and only safe foundation upon which to build good government is public mor morality allty the homes of our eur land the symmetrical beauty of the family relations and the purity of society all irest upon the solid basis of personal personal onal morality equally necessary Fers is it that there should be do as elevated a moral standard in the state as la in the home the family and society all alike conduce to the public weal better fur far better that the public schools of the territory be closed and each mother in her home sparing time from her domestic cares and labors gather her children around her knee and educate them as best she can than we should engraft engraf t into our laws a system of gambling out of the proceeds of which to build up a f und fund to educate the youth of our land no such aeterna tive however to is necessary necea aary lic ila school system is good in our cities and towns and in every valler valley and on every mesa WIIL within U the limits of ef our territory school houses bouses are dotted and the benefits of a public school education are open to all why then should we resort to such an unnecessary and questionable expedient the children of today to day the men and women of the future soon oon to take our places and be the intelligent factors to carry on our system of goad government and assume the cares and aties of american citizenship can more safely and intelligently V acquire knowledge through a 9 system of free public schools supported by the honest contributions of a willing people eople than out of a fund lathered from the profits of a game of chance the evil effects of tuch inch a pernicious system must mast of necessity be early instilled into the minds of our youths 0 aye p seven even in the very schoolroom where taught as they must be if taught truthfully that their own education was procured by and through the agency of aud and profits from a gambling corporation authorized 1 d D by law the public school system tt W 0 01 ariz arizona oia is now no w our pride lam 1 am unell unwilling ing by any official act of mine to 0 mar its strength to destroy its moral efficiency or cloud ito it fair name by surrounding it with such immoral agencies of on support p port after awe dwelling ag to some extent upon evils that have resulted in different nations from the lottery system and pointing out that the act was in the nature of special legislation and therefore unconstitutional besides being in conflict with an existing prohibitory U S statute he be concludes as fol follows laws being unwilling to aid in the legalization of a gambling scheme by which the earnings of men women and even children can be seduced to investment in lottery tickets to build up the fortunes or ot a few interested stockholders at the expense ot of public morals under the prete jet of replenishing the public school fund preferring that our pul lic schools in the future as in the past should be rosinta ined by the tree free honest offerings of the people rather than out our children should be educated from the tae overflowing profits of a system of legalized g hambling nambling nam ambli bling pg which in ry my judgment is subversive ot of every sense of political morality I 1 cannot but decline to sign this act it it becomes a law it must be by force of that majority vote in the legislative assembly provided by law aw as nece necessary to overcome refusal of executive sanction 11 the posIt position loA of the chief executive officer of 0 arizona is invulnerable thus lar far in his management mana gemeni of the public affairs of our sister territory he has shown a fearlessness and sagacity fagael lf combined with a regard for the aubi public weal th that at places him high on the roll of sta statesmanship tea manship white while mr zulick occue occupies es the gubernatorial gubernatorial chair arizo arizona will awill no not t be e afflicted to any ex tent with legal and political jobbery long may he flourish |
