Show GOV RECEPTION Contin continued Ved from first page to do because it wont be long until we will make our own doctors doctor I 1 lawyers and other professional men and keep that amount of money at home that is now being spent in the east here so many ot of our utah boys are going to get their education I 1 am for the state university because it results in giving to the state a superior class of young men and women just as la Is the case at the state agricultural college the school tor for the deaf and blind and industrial du school we aim to carry education to the houses of the people and thereby accomplish the purpose of an education by building up the home for without that sort of thing it would be more or less ot of a failure without this condition what would we be if alir young men had commenced to build homes upon the land of the state and then commenced to put children into the homes utah has made a success of the latter proposition tor for out of a population approximating people we have enrolled upon our school register nearly one third of the entire population and this in addition to what are going to the state university and the many that go to the agricultural college the school tor for deaf and blind the industrial du school also the state normal in the southern part of the state we are spending over per day for i deduc nd VS have our ill high I 1 h schools that are supported by direct taxation of the people I 1 want to say to every man and women who is 21 years of age or over that they should see to it that they are registered before the next election and cast their vote in favor favo of the measure regarding the high school work that is being done the people did vote upon it before tile the last legislature in order to make an appropriation tor for high school purposes they asked them to vote to change the constitution of the state in order that it might be done but when they came to vote upon it they voted no when the proposition came up at the legislature senator miller of washington county came to me and said they were going I 1 g to pass a bill tor for state aid to high schools and I 1 asked him how they could do it lie he said they were going to do it regardless of the people I 1 told him it was unconstitutional even if it should be done and I 1 said of course provided you do it the governor will be forced to veto it ile he said that they were going to do it anyway I 1 told him all right to go ahead and it would be vetoed after they had bad passed the bill they came to me and said I 1 must sign it I 1 reused refused to sign it and I 1 said there are four more days in which I 1 am to consider this before it has to be signed or sent back and if you can get out among the local attorneys orneys of salt lake city or 01 any other part of the state and get a sufficient amount of evidence that will authorize me to sign that bill I 1 will willingly D ay iy sign it because I 1 want it just as badly as you do they were unable to do it and I 1 was forced to veto the bill and in their appropriation bill that was passed it called for more than was due for the coming two years they had for aid to the high schools and this I 1 was forced to veto gut but we lid did allow a number of the bills to go through allowing more than that estimated in passing let me say this the proposed am en dment if it passes as it should do will not cost tho the people ot of this state one additional dime tor for this reason T there here is eight mills levied for state and school purposes on the estimated valuation of the entire state three bills mills goes to the public school system which helps pay that per day the other five mills goes to state purposes which includes the proportion to our university our col lege our mental hospital and state I 1 prison and the improvement of our roads and building of bridges these five mills are arc used for that purpose we are asling asking that one half mill be taken from this and be divided tor for high school purposes which will leave us 41 43 2 1 mills to help us meet the other ex expenses pences I 1 it t seems that the people should see brough it very readily we need high schools and many a boy and girl that cannot afford a college education can attend the high school and the boy or girl who has gone through the four years of high school 1 is pretty well equipped for the c conditions ond lt ions of life you can make any blessed thing ot of them you want v ant and they have the qualifications you may not be able to make engineers doctors or lawyers of them or men or women ot of the advanced professions but it fills the bill bil and I 1 hope to see the day come when there will be a high school in every county of the state for I 1 bellave in carrying the education to the children and not force them thein to go away to get the education I 1 tried I 1 it t once and lost money by it ily little sirl girl graduated from the eighth grade and there being no high school laclai ties she ei either ther had to quit or go away emong among comparative strangers and she was only thirteen years of age I 1 believe her place is near her mother and father and the only proposition for us was to leave our home and go to where our children could get an education above the eighth grade it right the education must be taken to the children they are entitled to it and ought to have it we are malting making a good class of children here our boys and girls dont have to take off their hats to any state in the union they are just jus t as loyal and patriotic and just as full of the gray matter and just as intelligent as any boys and girls but as a rule they are stronger physically than are the boys and girls living in the crowded pai ts of the country I 1 dont like to see men and women who are forced to depend upon others for a livelihood I 1 should like to see every man go out and struggle lor for himself and locate in some of these vallies and so make a livelihood for himself and family you can go down in jual juab county I 1 could refer you to a clr smith who has located on forty acres of dry land and lie he is producing from CO 60 to bushels of potatoes to the acre ile he Is raising all of his early vegetables lie he showed me peaches that were taken from lour four year old trees that had never received a drop of water except from the clouds ile he is supporting his family of a wife and three or four children on forty acres of dry land and is is prospering it if lie he can do it any man can call do the same thing and rather than submit to the things the hired help has to submit to he should go out and make something for himself and contil bute his might to the development of the state and tile the establishment of himself upon ti the land you can go further south into the dixie of utah and you can find propositions that are not presented in any other of the western states you can call I 1 find climate equal to los Angele sand yet we are spending our money to go lover over there tor for our health Nhe whereas reas II if we ie go down there we have ju just t 1 as 1 good summer and winter clini climate ate and 1 d dont have to submit to the effects or of wet cl weather they have fine soil there and they can produce the best grade of sweet potatoes if they had a rall railroad road down there they could supply the entire west with sweet potatoes they could supply the state of utah with butter and eggs they have one of the best dairy climates in the state from the fact that they cau can cut lucerne six times a year tile the climate is such that the cows do not suffer from cold they produce walnuts in abundance that Is supplying all their needs locally but it is not practical lor for them to raise them and haul them to tile railroad and compete with other shippers one gentleman told me that he picked folly dollars dolth of off one tree I 1 asked him where the other trees were vere ile he said there were no other trees as there was avas no market barlic A tor them suppose there was n S a railroad ra down there see tile the money mon he could make they are raising a superior kind of raisin there I 1 want ant to call attention to thomas judd wiio who has dono dona so much in building up that palt lait of the state lie ile is a great grape grower and cures his hi ower own raisins at tho the st louis fair he distributed a number of packages of his raisins they took so well that when he got homo home he received au an order tor for three carloads of those raisins lie he supply them the same story was repeated at omaha when he got home lie he received orders for two carloads all they need is railroad facilities and they would produce these commodities in abundance they have everything that the heart could desire in the month of november their american beauty roses and chrysanthemums that we raise up here in green houses were in full bloom in their yards cotton it if handled right can be raised to such an extent as to S supply u 1 P 1 y the intermountain inter mountain region T these 1 i e s e p people e 0 p I 1 e are pegging away hoping against hope that the time will come when they will be delivered from the inconveniences they have suffered and that they will be aoe abe to produce those things that will malte make it a delight and pleasure to live down in that country I 1 spoken at all of the growing industries of the state I 1 was looking up a question the other day and I 1 discovered that our metal output alone was over twenty eight milli million oll dollars last year our coal and kindred outputs were over six millions dollars for the year there Is no occasion for the boy or girl to look outside of utah for a home if every man does his work every woman contributes her mite elite to establish firmly that there is a living to be made liere here at al home we can make of ourselves a happy prosperous and contented people with the resources our lord has blessed us with but as it is we are trying lien bien have been afraid to put their money in n utah they have been afraid to immigrate to utah because of the fact that they want to live in a continual low who of you would want to go to live in a neighbor neighborhood bood where there was continual strife they wanted to come to utah because they find peace in utah there has been altogether too much misrepresentation going on it we would bear and forbear even with a nother another put up tip with each others weaknesses each man taking the other by the hand and the citizens ot of utah to a man interested in the development elop ment of utah in making utah what she ought to be and what she can be one of the greatest states in all the union then we would have haie a happy and prosperous people god speed the day when that condition may mav be found and join hands in utah and show to the united states that we are to the fore socially mentally and physically etc I 1 hope that day will come and i will come and to that end and with that purpose in view your governor proposes to give his best efforts and asks the support of the people in order that lie he may be able to carry out his bis purpose |