The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-01-06
sly, new GOVERNORS
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rlNAuGuRATED, THREE oem''
1 Gratis. ONE REPosI'eAN'
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GOVERNOR DIx'S ADDRESS
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10 is First Democratic Governor IN
Eighteen Years-TaIk was Q"
Business and Economy.

. Six new governors, four OF them rep
resenting different political parues
than their predecessors, were lhausu'
rared in the United States MOnuay. III
three of the states the changes repre-
sent gains to the democratic rams
the fourth, Nevada, by the Inaugural
tion of Lasker l.. eddie, now has us
first republican chief executive III
nearly a score of years.
TIE following are the states III WHICH
now chief executives LOOK Iuer OH
ces:
New York-John Alden Dix, demo
crat. succeeds Horace White, repuO-
lican.
wisconsin,. f. McGovern sue
ceeds James Davidson, both repuoh-
/ cans.
! Nichigan-Chase S. Osborne sue
ceeds Fred NJ. Warner, both repuDi''
cans.
Wyoming-Joseph NJ. Carr, demo
crat succeeds B. B. Brooks, repuDh-
can.
Idaho-James II. Hawley, a demo-
crat, succeeds ]. H. Brady, repunn-
can.
Nevada-Lasker l.. Oddie, repubIi-
can succeeds D. C. Dickerson, demo
crat
The inauguration Of Governor Us
borne, on the other hand was marked
bv extreme simplicity. He had ap-
pointed no military staff and assumed
his position in the parlor OF the exc
cutive suite before only friends ana
relatives.
Governor Dix said in part:
THE end of all government should
be the preservation OF true liberty
the liberty which guarantees to every
man the fullest measure or lndlVldud
right consistent with proper man
: tenance of the rights Of others anc
at the same time preserves and main
tains the collective rights OF all the
members of the state.
o Under our constitution such llber
= tv we possess in New York. 1t mus
" he our constant aim SO to Strengthen
q and extend the exercise OF persona
and inalienable rights by the lndlV
dual as to bring to the state the srea
n est growth and highest development
v, of which our citizenship and resource
e are capable.
d Great as are the public resource
Of our commonwealth, expenditure
have grown in a measure out OF a
a proportion to the revenue Of the stat
ID and we seem committed to an Outla
ne which will not alone tax to its full
en tent our income, but demand that, "
draw upon the future in way Whlc
in my opinion, is of very doubtful WI
10 dom.
~ During the past sixteen years tho
-, in charge of the state goVernme
have discovered and turned to accou
many sources of indirect taXatl
GA whereby the attention of the gre
70. mass of people has been directed fro
In the fact that our expenditures ha
nv been growing out OF all proportion
our increase in population, resourt
and wealth.
led Frankly, we have reached pc
the where, for long time past, we ha
yirl been living beyond our means, l
inc pressing duty of the hour is me
her ure of reform and retrenchment Il
will reverse the condition and rest'
to us the healthy and normal posltlt
d.. where we shall have something M
IDS than a largely fictitious surplus.
ing In my opinion, it is far better
~" insist on inconvenience and difficu
lust in the public departments than to
sort to an expenditure which will c.
pei a return to direct taxation