, 1902-07-24

Wv VII ihht ltem ana we ShOuld
continue to pay off these bonds
rather than refund them as they
mature, until the state owes moth
ing, and our interest charges cease
entirely. We can do this and
reduce our taxes.
Our necessary permanent i'm
prove ments will be small for some
time in the future, and if elected.
| promise the people of Wyoming
that the expenses of our govern
ment shall he kept down to the
minimum. that the revenues shall
be faithfully collected and honest
ly expended, that the dignity and
the good name of the state shall
be maintained, and yet be able to
reduce the tax levy, and thus re-
lieve the public burden from the
shoulders of our people. Wyo-
ming has the most perfect and
best executed system of keeping
and checking the public accounts
of any state in the union, and
Massachusetts, Ohio and South
Caralina, besides other states, are
coming to us to learn our methods.
Our irrigation laws, the methods
of executing them are. acknowl-
edged to be the best in the land.
A state, like an individual. has it's
character good or bad. A well
managed state attracts the notice
and encourages the settlement
among us of the most careful and
best people who r seeking new
homes, or locations, and l do not
hesitate to say that the best peo-
pie who have investigated us and
our methods look with favor upon
our state. Wyoming. if she had
to do SO, a place bonds upou
the market today at 81 per cent.
interest, which is lower than some
of our neighbors could be able to
dispose of their bonds at, and any
Wyoming county bond can quick
ly be sold today at 4 percent or a
little above that tiguIe.
Ii elected we promise also to
maintain the high credit of our
state at home and abroad, and will
leave nothing undone in our DOW.
er to attract people within our
borders, who will assist in devel-
oping u vast sources of wealth.
Every assistance will be given
the general government in its
efforts to conserve water and re-
claim land under the new irriga-
ton law for which our able sena-
tors and Congressman Mondell
have done such splendid work.
and who have been largely instru-
mental in securing its passage by
congress. You have acted wisely
and well in nominating Mr.. Mon
dell for reelection. He is of
great service to our state and
country in our national councils,
and Wyoming may we'll be proud
of him, as he is the peer of any
man on the floor Of congress, and
he will be returned by the people
of Wyoming by the largest major
ity that he has ever received at
our hands.
My fellow citizens, if we shall
maintain a high character, and
encourage our W people and the
best of those who want 10 become
citizens, in the development of
that which God has SO bountifully
given us, we will see our noun
tain sides open, and copper, gold,
iron, and other metals will flow
out in streams of untold wealth;
our coal mines will largely in
crease their output, our oil wells
will bring riches to their promot-
ers. our Waste and desert nlacas
will produce such harvests as only
irrigated land can produce, and
people will swarm inside our Dor
ders, until in wealth, in popula-
tian, and in every other attribute
of an exalted civilization we shall
take the high stand among our
sister states that nature ami OPP
p~ortrnitiy entities us to do.