The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-01-10


After quoting the constitution pro-
hibiting state officers from receiving
Y perquisites and the legislature from
granting any, Governor Crawford says:
Calls Them Transparent Subterfuaes.
II consider it my duty to call your
attention to what I am convinced has
been an unconstitutional attempt of
prior legislatures to c~ircumvent the
plain n emphatic inhibitions of the
constitution He adds that if the leg
( i%slature can give the governors this
money in i~nstallnents as has been
done without requiring itemized
vouchers it can do the same for amy
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 it in
q civil action. l shall request the at
torney general to carefully examine
this feature of the case
In proposing the application of a 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-
tons in disastrous wire-pulling.
Governor Crawford spoke sharply of
the unfortunate conditions and de-
clared:
The time has come when it should
be made clear and emphatic TIT 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
q by Governor Crawfor as grouped in q
parallel column, other significant SUBJ
jects were treated as follows:
You have much important work to do
ana 1T IS my earnest hope that you may
enter upon that work in a spirit Of fairness
toward each other, with a determination
to be open and frank in ali your differ
ences, and to make all personal and sell
fish interests subordinate to the highest
welfare of the state. Candor, courtesy,
courage. frankneSs, kindness and open and
fair dealing will help a good cause pend
ing before a legislature Just as effectual-
iy as these traits Will help a good cause
anywhere else, while intrigue, stealth, de-
ception. trickery, i'll temper and intoler-
ance VIII hurt a cause here just the same
May | not indulge the hope that loyalty
to principle and duty may be the dominant
Influence with every member of this legis-
lature, and that consideration of PARTISAN
ship. personal ambition, hope of personal
reward, and personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
VIII giye way to the command of duty
received from the people? L shall be glad
10 cooperate with you upon such a basis,
ana here and now offer to join heartily
with you in the faithful performance Of
the duties which have been placed before
Educational, Penal, and Charitable
Institutions.
The development Of intellectual power
and physical strength alone may produce
men WITHOUT scruple and without con-
science. The man who wins first place in
a rowing club or football team and takes
the first prize in mathematics, may, never.
theless, be as cold, heartless and selfish
as nero. We sometimes meet men of this
kind from universities who compel ad.
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 tho
weak: by sneers at all that is pure and
sweet and unselfsh and by a low estimate
of mankind; men who have brains with.
ont heart; power without %scruple; forcs
without sympathy, who believe that the
end %justiiies the means, and that the onl,
aim worth considering in life is to achieve
what the world calls success, no matter
how; who measure other men by whal
they are worth in dollars and cents, OIL
BY what they can without ref.
rerence to principle or conscience; bu'
schools and universities are not maintain.
ed by the state to create such heartiess
human engines of force and power. They
are maintained for the purpose of de.
veloping men who will be just and human,
as well as Intellectual and powerful. 81
likewise our penal and charitable inStitu
lions are maintained, not only to restrain
unfortunate men and women and helples.
children, and to provide for their, neces
possible. to help them back to a lost es
tate. and to bestow upon them the Chart,
which is kind and suffereth much.
have very recently visited the educa
tional and the penal and charitable insti
buttons maintained by the state. includinl