Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-01-11


After quoting the constitution pro-
hibiting state officers from receiving
perquisites n the legislature from
granting any, Governor Crawford says
Calls Them Transparent Subterfuqes.
81 consider 1t 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 If the Leg
islature can give the governors his
money in installments as has been
done without requiring itemiZed
vouchers II can do the same for any
officer of the state. and these barriers
erected by he constitution are mere
sand.
He calls the appropriation acts
carrying this fund subterfuges of the
most transparent kim and absolutely
void, and that officers who received this
money in the manner indicated can be
required to give an accounting for Ii in
a civil action. / shall request the at
torney general to carefully examine
this feature of the case
In proposing the application OF q rule
of civil service in the conduct of state
institutions, Governor Crawford hit at
a 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 1t SHOULD
be made clear and emphatic ti-.t the
fixed policy of the state is TO place the
management of these Institutions en-
tirely above all questions OF political
expectancy and favoritism."
Besides the recommendations made
BY Governor Crawford as grouped in a
parallel column, other significant suh-
Jects were treated as follows:
You have much important work to do
and 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 all your differ
ences, and to make all personal and sell
fish interests subordinate to the highest
welfare or 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
else, while intrigue, stealth, de-
ception, trtckery, i'll temper and intoler-
ance viii hurt a cause here just the same
as such traits will hurt a cause elsewhere.
May not indulge the hope that loyalty
70 principle and duty may be the dominant
influence with every member of this legis-
lature, n that consideration of partisan
ship, personal ambition, hope of personal
reward and personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
will give way to the of duty
received from the people? / shall be glad
TO cooperate with you upon such a basis.
and here and now offer 70 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 scruple and without con-
science. ~ mar 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 adj
miration for inteflsct 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 unselis', and by a low estimate
Of mankind; men who have brains With
out heart. power without scruple: force
without sympathy: who believe that the
end ~justifies the means. and that the only
aim worth considering In life Is TO chiev
what the world calls success. no matter
how; who measur other men by what
they are worth In dollars and cents, or
by What they can accomplish without ref
schools and universities are not maintain.
ed by the state to create such h&artless
human engines OF force and power. They
are maintained for the purpose of de-
yeloping men who will be just and humane
as well as intellectual and powerful. So
likewise our penal and charitable institu-
lions are maintained. not only TO restrain
unfortunate men and women and helpless
children. and 10 provide for their neces-
eary physical wants.. but also, wherever
possible, to help them back 10 a lost es.
tate, and to bestoW upon them the charity
which Is kind and suffereth much.
Es1 have very recently visited the educa'
buttons maintained py The svate. includinf