Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-02-10

(By Eagle fToSuWdteT, EulIOT
OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 9.-Lots and
lots Of times you have heard of peo-
pie who started fast a-pace in a GER
tain direction and, gathering speed
as they went, plunged on and on un-
til overwhelmed by their own swift
ness they have fallen, spent and tir-
ed, to their own destruction, broken
and scattered in their wild path.
You can picture. then, what the
Republican members of the Thirteen
tn legislature are doing in the mat
ter of extravagant appropriations, and,
to see the other side of the story
the story that will be written two
years from now-you have but to read
the country press where week after
week one sees persistent calls for an
economical government. Here-and
not in the Republican members of the
1egislature-we see the desires of the
people expressed, the desires which
Governor Listed voiced with universal
appreciation in his inaugural address.
With the convening of this legisla-
ture we heard much about the econ
Omy our Republican brethern were
about to enforce, regular fanfare
of trumpets against the extravaganza
of previous administrations and pre-
vious legislatures, and many prom
Use, many an assertion as to what
I'VE" were going to do. And always
it was economy, the business-like
handling of the states funds, the CO.
operation with the governor whose
sole ambition it is to consolidate and
organize the state government on the
same basis any business is organized:
efficiency and the elimination of dup
licate and hence unnecessary employ
eS.
But while eve" are not doing what
"we said 1--WE" would, but after all
are authorizing large appropriations
and scheduling larger ones to be au-
thorized, with never thought to the
governors recommendations, the will
Of the people or the foundation of an
efficient government, little handful
of Democrats is standing gamely by
it's governor and his policies, trying
it's level best to enlist sufficient aid
to the chief cry of the people of
Washington: economy. But eve" rush
gance to another, until any fool can
tell what the end will be-
And so, while you read about this
appropriation and that, expressed bet
ter when l say this extravaganza and
that, bear in mind that this little
handful of Democrats is standing
close by this program of efficiency and
economy, the program which carries
with it the consolidation of several
state departments. This last week, a
week of OratOry, verbiage and scat
tering of fuss and feathers in the
House and the passage of quite few
more or less unimportant bills in the
Senate, saw the introduction by De-
in both Houses of bills in ac
cord with the Administrations policy
of consolidation and contests against
extravagant appropriations in accord
with the ADMINISTRATORS policy of
economy.
The first appeared in the House
when Representative Fred H. He'd
ger of Walla Walla, a Democrat, in
troduced bills abolishing the state tax
commission and apportioning it's pres
ent duties among other state depart
ments. The second came in the Sen
ate when Senator d. S. Troy of Jeff
ties, the Democratic chairman of the
Senate aspirations committee who
is doing his level best to defeat Re-
publican extravaganza, introduced a
bill establishing the department of
agriculture, and consolidating the Of
fees of the state veterinarian, dairy
and food commission, horticultural
commission, oil and grain inspectors
and state fair commission, assuming
also some of the duties of the labor
commission and the state bureau of
animal husbandry.
Senator Troy proposes a commits
sion of agriculture to be headed by
the governor, the employment of an
agricultural commissioner at $4,000 to
take active charge of the denartment