The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-01-12

After quoting the constitution pro-
hibiting state officers from receiving
perquisites and the legislature from
granting any, Governor Crawford says
Calls Them Transparent Subterfuqes.
II consider it my duty to call your
attention to what am convinced has
been an unconstitutional attempt of
prior legislatures to circumvent the
plain and emphatic inhibitions of the
constitution" He adds that IL the leg
islature can give the governors this
money in installments as has been
done without requiring itemized
vouchers 1t can do the same for any
officer of the state, land these barriers
erected by the constitution are mere
/ sand.
! He calls the appropriation acts
carrying this fund subterfuges Of the
most transparent kind and absolutely
void, and that officers who received this
money in the manner indicated can be
required to give an accounting for 1t in
a civil action. / shall request the at
torney general to carefully examine
this feature OF the case"
| In proposing the application Of rule
of civil service in the conduct Of state
institutions, Governor Crawford hit at
q system of political intrigue which
/ threatened the very life of the state
university at Vermillion. destroyed
much of the usefulness Of the agricul-
tural college at Brookings and involved
several others OF the big state institu-
tions in disastrous wire-puling.
Governor Crawford spoke sharply of
the unfortunate conditions and de-
| clared:
The time has come when 1t should
be made clear and emphatic that the
| fixed policy of the state is to place the
| management OF these institutions en-
tirely above all questions Of political
expediency and favoritism."
Besides the recommendations made
by Governor Crawford as grouped in
parallel column, other significant sub
jects were treated as follows
Yea have much important work TO do
and 1t is my earnest hope that you may
enter upon that work In spirit of fairness
toward each other with a determination
to be open and frank In all your differ
ences, and to make all personal and sell
fish interests subordinate to the highest
we fare of the state. Candor, courtesy,
cou tage, frankness, kindness and open and
fair dealing will help a good cause pend
ing before Legislature just as effectual-
ly as these traits will help a good cause
anywhere else, while intrigue, stealth, de-
ception, trickery, Ill temper and intoler-
ance will hurt a cause here Just the same
as such traits will hurt cause elsewhere.
May / not indulge the hope that loyalty
to principle and duty may be the dominant
influence with every member of this legis-
ship, personal ambition. hope of personal
reward. and personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
will give way TO the command of duty
received from the people? / shall be glad
to cooperate with you upon such a basis.
and here ard now offer to join heartily
with you In the faithful performance of
the duties which have been placed before
US.
Educational, Penal, and Charitable
institutions.
The development OF Intellectual power
and physical strength alone may produce
men without scri:0le and without con-
science. The man who wins first place in
q rowing club or football team and takes
the first prize i'm mathematics. may. never
theless. be as cold. heartless and selfish
as Nero. We sometimes meet men of this
kind from universities who compel adj
miration for intellect and nerve, but who.
at the same time, shock us by low and
brutal standards of morality by utter
lack of sympathy; by contempt for the
weak. by sneers at all that is pure and
sweet and unselfish and by low estimate
OF manktn7: men who have brains with
out heart: power without scruple; force
without sympathy: who believe that the
end justities the means, and that the only
aim worth considering In life is to achieve
what the world calls success. no matter