The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-06-25

other matters, during the whole
session of the Thirty seventh Ger
eral Assembly,
The states financial dilema has
been out in bold relief against the
political skies for many, many
months. 1t was brewing at the time
Gov. Donaghey sent US the mes.
sage, his inaugural address; why
did he not make retrenchment and
economy the keynote of that state
paper!
You gleefully play up in bold
headlines the fact that the elee-
mosynary institutions have been
allowanced to half what the bills
call for. If a quarter of million
dollars should be cut from these
institutions, why did not the state S
chief executive note such a coming
necessity long ago. On page 81
of the message, the one which he
thought so much of, and the one
to which he had given his calmest
and most deliberate consideration,
thinking so much of it, indeed,
that he had printed lat his own ex-
pense, presumably several humid
red copies, nicely bound, present
ing to each member of the legisla-
ture a copy with their respective
names stamped in gold letters on
the back; and on the page mention
ed he says, speaking of the char
liable institutions: 1T will be nee.
essary for you to increase still
further the appropriations for
their maintenance at this term. y
On the same page he recon-
mends the new asylum for the in
sane, and the appropriation he laid
on the shelf this week is the out
growth of his own desires and eff
forts. On the following page 90
he says: Speaking of the state
charitable institutions, generally, |
can only say that | recommend
that they be dealt with in a liberal
manner. The people who pay the
taxes are willing for the state un-
fortunates to be we'll cared for. y
The sanitarium for the treat
ment of consumptives was also vig-
orously urged in his message, three
pages being devoted to this meas
ure, and now this bill will also be
put in storage.
Again, why did not your "busi-
ness governor" let his penchant
for economy run against the new
state capitol bills Why does be
not intimate an intention to prure
it somel That's one of the ques.
tions the people will want explain
ed. A governor who gets panic
stricken at a condition the whole
world knew of year ago, and puts
the blind children on allowanced
appropriations, just to keep the
state out of debt, should be willing
to be consistent. Let him cut the
capitol bill to $500, 600, the price
Caldwell e Drake agreed to COM
plete it for.
The governor will of course cut
the verbiage from the university
appropriation, especially so now
since it remains at Fayetteville
He will of course vent the worst of
his slashing on the institutions
which can offer the least resistance
| think he would have cut the old
ex-Confederates down to hash and
cornbread but for the number of
voters among them, and the further
fact that sentiment would have re.
belled. But the blind and demented
can root hog or die.
Your paper and the governor
can throw all the blame on the leg
islature you want to and God
knows it sinned enough-but you
can't blind the intelligent people
of this state to the monumental in
consistency of the present chief
executives action in making the
eleemosynary institutions the vic
Tins of a false economy that refus-