The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-01-20
IMPORTANT STATE AFFAIRS.

IMPORTANT STATE AFFAIRS.
Our Ohio lawmakers should get up
program and then try to work II
out There are certain things which
ought TO be done and the Legislature
should go TO work, in an intelligent
way, and oaact the proper legislation
and let politics pretty largely alone.
1t occurs TO us that more should be
done to make practical scientific
knowledge q agriculture to all the
farmers In the sate. There ought to
Be farmers course of scientific
INSTRUCTION worked out and this course
should be presented through the
subdistrict schools IN some way Leg
slators should write TO President Van
IIise of the Wisconsin State Universl-
ty for spec fications.
Likewise more attention should be
given to state regulation of freight
telegraph. telephone and express
charges. r. at recent stunt of the
Wells Fargo Exrn Company dis
tributing 800 per cent. extra divi-
dend ought to oren the eyes of legis-
-lators.
- effort bein. made to consolidate
, me management OF the State in
stltutions under one board ought also
TO go through although It be opposed
by every CRATER in the State. 1t would
save yearly hundreds of thousands
OF dollars to the people.
The recen- cutting of expense ac.
counts of state employees or rather
the stopping of the stealing going on
under the corm of expense accounts
is a movement in the proper direction.
Attorney General Denman has decided
that State officers and employees can
not charge expense of going to Co
lumbus and returning and hotel ex-
penses when there including imagin-
ary tips to porters &c, but that those
people are supposed to reside at the
capital and live at home. The move
ment to reduce the state work to
scientific and economic basis has
good beginning and we hope it will
go on until the rough stealing at
least. is all cut off. II that were done
there would not need be made such
an effort tc find other sources Of
revenue.
One OF the crying evils of Ohio is
the continued existence of the rotten
old canals and canal ring which costs
the people more than 100000 annu-
ally. This has reached the point where
Il has become an outrage on the
taxpayers and If our legislators had
sand enough TO meet and master a
long standing evil they would tackle
this one. What is needed is for men
10 quit trading and do what ought
to be lone.
On the matter Of regulating freight
rates we submit the following ex-
tract from AN Iowa correspondent to
tne Cnlcaso Ir!Dune'
"Within recent years cities like Des
Moines have beer employing freight
rate experts wno have appealed to
the board and to the interstate COM
merce commission tor better rates for
Iowa and IN the legislature of 1907
secured tn, enactment of law en-
powering the board to direct the at
torney general to appear before the
interstate commission in any case ef-
fecting 10 va.
"The basis of the contest with re-
spect to the reorganization of the
board is ou lined by Mr.. Stearns in q
letter which he has issued to the
voters In soliciting their support
II believe II 70 time for the state
OF Iowa to assume such regulation
and control of her agencies as shall
secure TO her producers, merchants
manufacturers. and miners the ser
vice their business demands and at /
cost that shall put them on fai
footing wicu their competitors" say
Mr.. stearns.
1--WE are no loI ger frontier state
with sparce settlement and slow
trade, but one of the greatest produc
ing and shipping regions OF the con-
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