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Show on SHALL UTAH HAVE A SQUARE DEAL? What policies shall control in the organisation of the next state legislature' legis-lature' and in the now state administration adminis-tration that will bo in control of tho affairs of tho Commonwealth for the next four years? One general demand has been made tax' reduction, reduc-tion, better service and greater efficiency ef-ficiency in government. Tho people do not want an old-fashioned old-fashioned legislative session starting with fifty thousand dollars wasted on fivo and ten dollar a day useless clerks and experts and ending with an orgio of log-rolling and midnight sessions for big appropriations without with-out formality of rollcalls. Tho people do not want four or five hundred n.ew Jaws passed creating creat-ing new jobs and commissions, creat-jrig creat-jrig now places for pets, and imposing impos-ing new taxes, fees, licenses and permanent burdens on tho taxpayers, All candidates havo run on economy ,plntforms and tho rfeopfo demand action. In California, a Governor has been elected who as stato treasurer has resisted expansion policies, salary raising and padding payrolls, and his platform is business policies in stnto affairs, death to parasites, but retaining all useful and necessary stato employees. In Washington a new stato administrative ad-ministrative system has abolished 71 boards and commissions and 284 stato employes in administrative sex-vice, sex-vice, making a direct saving of 1,-734,710 1,-734,710 in the rmBt ten months, and a yearly reduction in stato payrolls of 133,062. A commission of prominent men was named early in the year in Ore gon to report on tho Washington aty ministrativo system. Will they submit sub-mit a. report of any kind favorable to reform on new lines, or will they unhold tho nresent system which has resulted in checking stato development? develop-ment? Tho peoplo demand a cut in the total of tax rates, without weakening tho efficiency of our state govern ment, without abandoning a progressive progres-sive highway system or impairing our educational system.. Washington has increased tlio efficiency of stale government by an entirely new sys-tern. sys-tern. - t -.i i i .'' Millions of dollars taxes aro delinquent de-linquent in western states. Singlo counties havo had to bid in fifty thousand dollars of taxes on lands, and continuing old methods will turn this stata over to tho tender mercies of socialism and communistic radicalism. radic-alism. , Confiscatory taxes aro eating up tho prosperity of tho producers and the property of tho people. Continuation Contin-uation of such policies by an old fashioned legislature will meet with stern rebuke by tho people. An inefficient machine-ridden legislature, leg-islature, organized on tho old lines, pursuing old methods, with reckless, careless, extravagant incompetent leadership will not relieve the plight of tho people, nor promote th development de-velopment of industries or bring settlers set-tlers to Utah. Great promises were made during the campaign as to what could bo cut jfrom tho overhead of state expenses, and there is a strong spirit of retrenchment re-trenchment in many counties and cities and budgets aro reduced from estimates of '921, and sttaes estimates esti-mates will bo reduced. One stato authority estimates that $250,000 a year can bo cut from the administrative charges of state departments de-partments without lowering tho efficiency ef-ficiency of tho service. It would bo possiblo before the legislature meets for tho Governor or any stato official to go over every function of stato administra-i tion and find just what it costs, what money it earns and turns into tho stato treasury, how many are cm-ployed cm-ployed and at what pay. With theso facts in tho possession .of tho Governor's office, that officer could decido what might bo nbolish-'ed nbolish-'ed or reduced or consolidated with somo other function, what salaries might be reduced or increased, and of tor receiving suggestions from tho peoplo, publish tho same. I Tho facts of each department should bo given to nil tho nowspa-j nowspa-j pors of tho stato, not just (ho Salt Lao Newspapers, with tho vecom-' vecom-' mondation of tho Governor in each ' case, and tho legislature would not daro ignoro the recommendation to apply business principles to the situation, sit-uation, Tho buck can no longer b0 passed on administrative reform. Commissions Commis-sions have been created in the past, and may have a report to lay before the legislature. No corporation or private business would hesitate to put its affairs in order, and white dealing fairly with all the faithful employes and necessary nec-essary services, wduld not fail to .adjust .ad-just its affairs to the ability of the people to pay, and make every department de-partment prove value received for money invested. |