The Globe-republican., 1897-01-21
FIRST DOCUMENT OF: THE
NEW EXECUTIVE.
.DEFENDS STATES CREDIT.
4Auf1Anturo Urged to Pass . Maximum
Freight Rate Biu-No Mention Of
MISUNDERSTANDING OF All
Branches of the Government
Reviewed-Strict Econ
omy Urged


sentious sisters of the East, I congratulate
the state of Kansas upon the many simple
blessings that have fallen to us in these
adverse times While those who clamor
for aims in the streets of the crowded cities
are many, those who seek assistance from
our ready public bounty are few. While
the failure of great commercial institutions
brings sad calamity TO the chief capitals
where fortunes accumulate, the less i'm
posing but quite as useful repositories of
Kansas savings are giving gratifying evil
dences Of stability. While, according to the
press OF the nations most populous metro
polls, her children linger in the streets I'M
taughtexcept in the lore of the pavement
unfed except at the hands of charity, un-
housed except in the kennels they dispute
with creatures scarcely less miserable the
commonwealth of Kansas, rejoicing in a
public school system which Is the most
grateful heritage we receive from our faith
ers. and the best legacy We can leave to our
children, finds ample house room and
school room for every Kansas child and for
such struggling waits as come to Us from
wnere penury and parSinony stalk side by
0oe- There are no tramps in Kansas ex-
cept those birds of passage that fit by US,
grim reminders of conditions in older COM
munities
with cheerful audacity that almost chal-
lenges admiration, Grub street scribblers
on venai press. which panders to the
most vicious instincts of Semi-civiliZed for
eign colonies like New York city and Chi
cago, with semi ba Ibaric splendor at the
apex, and semi arbaric squalor at the base
OF their social life. have offered their puny
and presumptuous criticism Of those whose
shoestrings they are not worthy to IN
loose The dogs of Egypt have barked at
the Pyramids unanswered for fifty GEN.
turtles When the accused doge stood before
the Venetian council, he said: Ny defense
Is your accusation Let Grub street rail
on They well know that Kansas was q
pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by
night before an oppressed people In the
nations darkest hour. We shall keep those
dreS alight in our camps and that smoke
ascending from our hiiltops till this is in
deed government of the people and for the
people and by the people
For she failed you not in the .ly day
and she failed you not in the late.
Nor forgot you how the balance was
poised on our youngest state
And how with the fate of Kansas was
linked the nations fate.
Financial Conditions.
I'm full and exhaustive report the state
treasurer sets forth our financial condition,
which shows that at the beginning Of the
Asczl year. July L. 1894. there were sS42,
1262 % on hand, and that the receipts dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80, 1895, and
1896. were a. S9S, 09l.S3, making total Of
g, 4O.410.06. The disbursements for the
Two years named above were %, 13o. $50 SO.
leaving balance in the treasury June SO.
1885. of s6Ot 500. 10 The report for the
year ending December 81, 1896, shows that
the balance on hand was 1868 SO. and
that the permanent SC ool fund amounts 20
H.O16. 993 10
January l. 1895. our state bonded indebt-
e0Deao was 1888, 800. On March Is, 1895
SIS $50 was pad and on July l. 1895, So
200. which leaves at present a bynded in
debtedness of s6s2, 600: $4,000 of these
bonds are owned by the permanent school
fund. $4,000 by the permanent university
fund and the balance, 1924, 600, by individu-
ais and corporations On July l, 1897, and
July /. 1898. $4,000 in per cent bonds be-
come due.
The state treasurer in his report recon-
mends that the whole amount be refunded
in per cent bonds and sold to the perma-
nent school fund. The suggestion meets my
approval for the reason that any increase
of our state levy at this time to meet these
bonds would work a hardship on our tax
payers. and the further fact that in these
days when many unsafe and uuQuestiona6le
bonds are being hawked around, an invest
ment of this kind will protect this fund that
has beens side for the educational pur-
poses of our state.
Charitable Institutions.
pity of their fellow men more than the In
mates of our charitable institutions Many
of them have been reared in luxury. some
Of them are waits of the street and the har-
vest of our present economic conditions. yet
all of them are human and born in the like
ness Of their Maker. Their care and COM
fort are sacred duty imposed upon US by
humanity and all the better elements OF our
nature Some of these institutions are
filled with those to whom the sunlight of
MONDAY and the darkness of midnight are
the same. Others are unable to enjoy con-
yersation with their fellow beings, and
nothing takes the place of the senses.
which are most gratifying to humanity.
Some Of them are bereft of reason and
struggle through Authorizations against i'm
1gtnary evils Some are born into the
world bereft of reason or sense and are
tArown upon our pity and charity from the
1egincing. I consider 1t one of the most
GENITAL duties of the executive and the
eo-ordinate branches of the legislature to
- that the best of treatment be accorded
3nnn. that those who care for them should
- bird. attentive and take An interest in
1nGr work. that their food should be clean.
Unn1esome and plentiful. that the sanitary
eonn1tions of the buildings where they are
oon1ned are conducive to their health, that
- professional duties be administered by
aeGDod talent as the state possesses: in
aAa91 that the gravest duty that we have
oDnfnrharge is in the care of those who are
naAae Is care for themselves and are placed
n sAe Institutions Of our state as wards OF
tne state.
-Avisidng board for all the charitable,
educational and penal institutions of the
state, with power to come and go and report
abuses to the governor would be q good
thing.
The Asylum 1t Osawatomia
AT the last session of the legislature, ap-
Preparations were made for the rebuilding
of the central building at this institution,
erection of boilor house. electric light plant
and several minor Improvements. These
improvements have all been made. yet from
1Ae reports of the superintendent of this
tnstitution md that there are several mat
sers that need your consideration. The
principal one Is. that the property has sus-
fained serious damage which demands re-
pairs. and unless these are accomplished At
: TIE earliest possible moment great injury
ain be done the Institution. Not having
h1a IN opportunity TO visit ana make per-
xaanal ex1mination of this matter. would
m01 tie attention. of your committees who
IT The af1erent institutions to this report
lnsaDo Asyla0 as fopeaA.