Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-16

elevators and public stockyards.
The governor is opposed to any
elaborate experiments in irrigation
or in irrigation surveys. The appro-
priation should be small, and the
plans should provide for no more than
the location of the underflow and ex-
perimenratio with it. There is no
necessity for new board or for
large appropriation. The work in
augurated by the board of regents of
the agricultural college is sufficient,
and it proposes the employment of
facilities already possessed by the
state under the supervision of trained
scientists and specialists already in
the states service.
The creation of a court of appeals
is favored, but no plan is outlined.
Discussing the subject of Federal
Relations" the governor takes a shot
at the United States courts and
deputy marshals and the share they
took in the railroad strike last sum
mer.
IN DEFENSE OF THE 'TRAMPs."
On the topic ''Tramps," the gov
ernor says:
knowledge of social conditions
has greatly increased within a decade,
and it is now no longer debatable
that large number of men are out
of employment through no fault of
their own. Yet our statutes in re-
gard to vagrants, enacted in our days
of almost universal ignorance of what
is now well known, savagely treat the
merely unemployed poor as criminals
for being penniless and out of
work. In the condition of in
dustry at present prevailing, if
never before, these provisions
seem almost diabolical. For this
reason the governor some months ago
issued circular to police boards di-
recting them not to imprison men for
poverty alone; to imprison them only
for the commission of some actual
crime when guilty of it. The design
was to BILE men to travel in search
of work without being arrested for
not having found it. The supreme
court, or a majority of the bench, has
since decided that these outrageous
statutes are constitutional; but might
is not always right, and for the very
reason that these statutes have been
held valid they should at once be re-
pealed or amended. 1t is too true of
the unfortunate poor that the world
is not their friend, not the worlds
law"
THE LEGISLATIVE WAR OF 1893
The governor next takes up the leg
islative struggle of 1898, declares that
the Peoples party elected it's state
ticket and majority of both houses,
but the state canvassing board by
frauds, which provoked even Republi-
can rebuke, gave the house to the Re-
publicans. He narrates the alleged
frauds in various sections of the
state. He declares that he investi-
gated carefully the facts in re-
gard to the two houses organ
lied and recognized Mr.. Duns-
more as speaker. Then he charges
that when the arrest of the clerk of
the Dunsmore house was attempted,
the Douglas house organized mill
tary body GAO men contrary to the
constitution and the law. The call
ing out of the militia followed. The
breaking in of the doors of the house
by Douglas with sledgehammer is
described as the act of a body of in
surgents. The governor says that he
tried to eject the unlawful deputies
and others, but partisan national
guard and partisan sheriff thwarted
him, and scores the supreme court
legal house.
THE retiring executive" the gov
ernor closes, ''has not changed his
opinion as to the merits of the con-
troversy or of the propriety of his
own acts, nor of the character of the
supreme court decision. The episode
will become historic as the Bunker
Hill of the new conflict between man
and mammon. BY history the ex-
ecutive is willing to be judged.
When, as CORVALLIS approach
ing to surrender his sword, the
victorious Continental army broke
into cheer, Washington, checking
them said: Let posterity cheer for
YOU the retiring executive will let
posterity Judge his administration.
with the earnest hope, gentle
men, that your acts at the present
session may prove beneficial to the
whole people and with charity
toward all and malice toward none,'
bid you adieu