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Show GOVERNOR TALKS TO IDAHO ASSESSORS BOISE, Ida.. Jan 20. Governor " YV. Iia-.ls, speaking b. fore the county ass ssors of Idaho assembled for their annual conference in lhe senate ehani-bei ehani-bei of the state capitol cesterdav. declared de-clared that while times arc at present dark and discouraging, they are far from hop. W ss The governor predicted that within three ybare 0 new and sound prosperity pros-perity will have returned to the na-tlon na-tlon and to Idaho. 'It can safely be. expected." he added, 'thai this will not be merely another period of inflation in-flation BB We had during tho Wi i. but that times will be genuinely good i and tliat price-; for products of ill kinds will be at a level from to By per cent higher than during the ' -riod Just betore the world war " The governor closed with the state-1 meht: ' The bonded Indebtedness' of Maiol ns a state is 5 S00.Q00, and I will oppose Increasing this as long as t live in Idaho. The old argument always al-ways has been that We should let posterity pos-terity pay for the capital Improvements Improve-ments we hand down. But we havei been fooling OUTSOlVeS. We pay much more in interest und ."inking funds each year than our expenditures would be for Improvements in 'ne same period. 1 hope the time will come when the bonded debt is wiped out and the state will pay as she goes." |