The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-10
GOVERNORS
MESSAGE
Treats at Length ON Matters of
State Importance.
Says That Kansas Should Not
Treat Railroads UnjustIy.
UPON PROHIBITION
The Governor Says ssAIl Laws
Should Be Enforced"
Glad the Metropolitan Law Has
Been Abolished.
is WILLING TO LEAVE
enforcement of the Law With
the Local Officers.
Desires That the Board of Par
dons Be Abolished.
The Governor Says "All Laws
Should Be Enforced"
Glad the Metropolitan Law Has
Been Abolished.
is WILLING TO LEAVE
Enforcement of the Law With
the Local Officers.
Desires That the Board of Par
dons Be Abolished.

Governor Stanley's message to the
legislature is as follows:
To the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives.
Kansas enters upon the twenty-eighth
year of it's existence under most favor
able auspices. The recent achieve
ments of the nation are a cause for
general rejoicing, and the people of TINS
state by voice and act have given gen
erous support both to the administra-
ton and to it's policy.
No state ever realized in its expert
ence that sentiment contained in its
motto more fully thon our own. We are
reaching the highlands of prosperity,
but we have surely come up out of the
lowlands of adversely. The period OF
speculation from 1888 to 1888 caused the
inflow of large sums of foreign capital,
which were largely swallowed up or
forced to leave the state by the reac-
ton and depression which followed;
and as a. consequence we were for the
first time in our history, compelled to
rely upon our own resources. During
the speculative period, eastern capital
sought investment in the state-largely
in the way of loans on real estate-and
when the reaction came, nearly all of
our farms and much of our city proper
ty was mortgaged, in many cases for
more than the actual value, and most
of the money obtained was invested and
lost in speculation. Tt seems strange
that so intelligent a people as our own
would Incur such a large Indebtedness
1890. and largely for speculative pur-
poses.
The voting of bonds by the residents
of counties, townships and cities, the
giving of large donations to private
enterprises and the mortgaging of pri-
vate property seemed more like a pas
sion than the exercise of reason; but
for the time being it influenced the peo-
pie. and when the craze subsidized the
indebtedness was therein most cases.
for money or benefits actually received,
and we all realized that there was but
one honest way to meet it. and that was
by payment where payment was posi-
bic.
GOOD TIMES COME AGAIN.
The condition which confronted the
people Of Kansas in 1890 was discourage
ing, and would have deferred a people
less courageous, industrious and frugal
than our own; but with the readiness
and willingness which have always
characterized them, they proceeded to
the work of discharging their indebted
ness and building up the waste places
without the aid of outside capitaI-no
longer Northumberland to the devel-
Opment of our natural resources, and in
a larger degree than ever, engaged in
the tillage of our fields, the stocking of
our pastures and the working of our
mines. AS a result the herds have been
increasing, the cribs and granaries OF
the farmer are well filed, labor is in
great demand and finds ready reward,
the statesman who piled politics as a
trade is more in evidence than in de-
mand, and the wall of calamity has
few auditors and no response. The in
curing of Indebtedness both public and
private has largely ceased, and during
the last few years large sums of private
Indebtedness have been paid; public in
debtedness had been, and is being
largely reduced, and it can be safely
said that the end of the long night of
our own folly is at hand. and when the
morning comes we will all greet it the
more cordially, because even in the
night misfortune
yield to the c1amor to compromise our
individual honesty or the honor of the
state
The report of the secretary of agrl-
culture shows that for the past year
the value of our farm products was
$151, 1923, 1923; live stock $113, 227, 1913, max
ing a total OF $685., Isl, 756. Agriculture
and stock raising being our great indus
tries, this showing is very fiattering. We
may get better idea of this enormous
value when we consider that it's equal
distribution throughout the state would
give more than $3.50 to every person, or,
estimating five members to a family,
more than $500 to every family in the
state.
But while farming and stock raising
are our great industries. they are not
our only ones The reports of other in
dustries furnish valuable information.
They show that we have the largest
zinc mining camp in the world, and that
our COAL oil, lead, salt, clay, stone, gyp-
sum and gas interests have been max
a0S very Satisfactory advances. Inc
output of lead and zinc ores in the Ca
lena and Empire City districts exceeded
$1,000, 900 in value for the first time in
1895, but during last year the output
was largely in excess Of $4,000, 900. The
value of the other products above men,
toned, last year, was approximately as
follows:
Coal -............s ..............$ 81 900 00t
On ana gas ..................... $50 DOC
Building stone ...............s IT'S 00C
SaA1 ..--...... ""-'-......-...-..~ 10000
gypsum -. -..'-'s' '''.'..'.".S zoOOOt
Clay products .................. 275, 00C
$3.50, 0OC
To this add the value of the zinc an6
lead products and we have more thar
81, 000, 600 as the value of the annual pro-
Guction of industries, nearly all of which
are Of recent development. A state Of
such resources and the wonderful pos
sibilities they afford should be oul
pride, and it's further development gu
greatest desire.
OUR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The condition of our public Enstitu
tiOns Is not entirely satisfactory.
The management of many of then
has been characterized by too mucl
politics and too little business.
The people Of the state, at large Elk
pense, have made provision for the car
eff those who become public charges
aao nearly one-half of the taxes are ex
pended Am making provision for the1