Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-01-30
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
 TO THE LEGISLATURE
Recommends Abolishing of Gamb- ling, Sunday Closing Law,
 And Other Measures

drank. or iu any other place tU main. tam. conduct or permit such gambling inr 'br purpose pt gain or hire and for 900, person to gamble iu any of said plir,.
 also recommend that you enact law making ii unlawful for women or girls tp frequent or to ho employed in any capacity in aud about saloons or other places where intoxicating liquors are dispensed
 And recommend that you enact a law requiring all vendors of intoSi- eating liquors that are ,o bc drank up. on the premises where sold. to close their place of business and to refrain from selling or dispensing such liquors between the hours of r. o'clock mid night and j clock a. m. of week days. and during all of Sundays.
 There is another scrious evil that [ would call to your attention. The iIl effects of the use of tobacco upon i'm. mature youth must have impressed it. self upon even the casual observer. The cigarette boy' may hc instantly known hy his sallow complexion. by his stuntcd development. and by his unftness for either study or work. That the victim of the vice cannot be brought tu see that hc X blasting all his hopes of future usefulness or in. flucncc renders his situation inc more pitiful. lIr should bc disabuscd of his notion that II K manly to smoke, and as other efforts. if any have been made, to ahridgc or correct the vice have failed. recommend the enactment of e law forbidding the s,lr of tobacco m any form. cigars or cigarettes. un- der severe penalties. to any person un. der 2l years of age. and with like pen. altics upon the person under 2l years old buying the same, even notwith. standing the consent of an indulgcnt but foolish parent.
 Financial Condition.
 The matter of finance Is one which concerns us probably more than any other department of the government. Upon n careful consideration of the subject, with a true understanding of the design and application of n proper system of finances depends the cfiici. cncy of the administration of govern mcni. And as upon n proper admins. tration of government depends almost to an ultimate degree the prosperity and happiness of the people who are subject to that government, the i'm portance of the subject readily sug. gests itself to us.
 The Territory is in better condition financially today than at any previous period. We have no obligations that are due or past due. Every current obli gation is promptly met by cash pay. ment, and there Is every prospect that with economy this condition will con tinuc. The cost of government seems to be willingly, if not easily, borne by the people; and with n few notable cx. captions which l have noted elsewhere; and which are capable of easy remedy, there K little occasion for complaint as 'o the operation of our revenue sys- tenn.
 I,ut a further consideration of our financial policy, looking beyond tho present to the future, brings us to the realization that the time is here when legislation is needed to prevent us from falling into inextricable confus- ion, if not worse, as our funded debt natures.
 The total debt of the Territory is *l,022,o7243, to which must be added the county and town indebtedness funded, and for which the Territory is directly and primarily liable, of *2,lOO O,3O2s6, making total of $3,123, 275.2a.
 This brief review of our financial operations for the past fifteen years is neither gratifying nor creditable. It would be less so if we stopped to an nlyzc the various items Of indebtedness of which the total consists. Without such analysis II can be stated. gener. ally, that the Territorial indebtedness has increased nearly if not quite n half million dollars within that iime--nnd it can be justly said that 1t should not have been increased one cent indeed. II could have been diminished without justly increasing the burdens of the people, and II should have been re. duccd
 l do not here say, for it K not now important m view of what l have to say, that the expenditures made were not justified. lt appears almost at onro that of the s2I6,0OO.OO of bonded indebtedness new debt created since 1892, every dollar could have been paid for the purposes for which 1t was paid ont of money coming in from eur rent sources of revenue had there been merely m increased tax levy of not tp exceed | or i cents on the hun. drrd dollars, ar if the Legislature at the various sessions during that period had been economical in making appro. pr'atlons from the public treasury It was wholly unnecessary Co have created 'h'S part of our funded indebtedness, whatever may he said of that anto. daiing it. The fact that we havc ere. atcd it is not creditablc nor does 1t tes. tlfy much to our foresight; and, I am afraid [, might appear that 1t was with. out much regard for our obligations.
 Thero ls now on our statute books Legislative authority for the creation of more than &l0O, 100000 of further bond.