Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-14

credSeS OF capital. no 1eglt1nldte puS-
mess. will be injured or harmfully re-
stricted by such action. These mat
tiers affect the honor and good faith OF
the state and should be acted upon at
once and with clear purpose.
Drawing Of Juries.
After declaring that the state should
enact legislation to protect it's people
| from responsible persons who offer
for sale securities OF every sort, the
governor turned to the question of jury
drawing. why has no legislature ever
seriously and earnestly set Itself to
correct this condition." he asks. THE
drawing of grand juries, and even upon
occasion the drawing of petit jurles. Is
VIGOROUSLY subject to political influ-
ence and control In this state, and this
can and should be remedied
Continuing the governor pointed out
reforms in the states taxation sys-
TEN, and suggested that the board of
public utility commissioners be grant
ed additional powers to eliminate dam
gerous grade railroad crossings in "a
thoroughly practical fashion,
The board, he urged, should also be
given power to require railroads to
man their trains with adequate crews.
While commencing the legislature OF
1911 for passing the act permitting
cities and towns to adopt the commits
sion form of government, the COVER
nor urged fuller extension OF the sys-
Item.
THE path of reform in that field"
he added, lis unouestionably the pass
to greater freedom. 1t is a question
of municipal government, perhaps the
most serious question in the method of
government that now confronts the
United states as a nation. | covet for
New Jersey the honor of showing the
way Of liberty and self-respecting re-
Organization.
THE farmer has not been served as
he might be- continues the governor.
1--WE have set up and subsidized agri-
cultural schools, horticultural schools,
schools of poultry breeding and the
trest. aud they have done excellent
work. But a more effective way still
has been found by which the farmer
can be served. Lectures and schools
and CSC erimental farms attached to
schools IKE laboratories are excellent
but they cannot of themselves push
their work home. Some states have
gone much beyond this and we should
follow them with zest"
On Subject of Economy.
ON the question Of economy. Cover
nor Wilson says; THE business of
the state is conducted with a waste
funess, duplication of effort, confu-
sion and conflict Of function which
no business enterprise could survive
for six months. There is an extraor-
dinarily multiplicity of boards, COM
missions, departments and miscellane-
Gus offices. overlapping, connected
without being COT rdinated. independ-
ont Of one another and yet naturally
belonging to single systematic whole,
which ought to be drawn together.
smplified brought into proper rela-
tons, pruned and put upon Il footing of
efficiency which will also be footing
Of economy and quick responsibility.
We are wasting the public moneys and
are not getting the results which good
business methods would get"
The governor dwells at length on
1.-THE need and demand" for a constitu-
tional convention in New Jersey and
concludes his message with an appeal
for the ratification Of the two pro
posed amendments to the national con-
stitution. He says:
1.-TWO great amendments to the con-
stitution OF the United States await the
ratification Of New Jersey, the amend
ment comforting upon the congress Of
the United States on unnistakable
terms to the power to levy taxes on
incomes and the amendment providing
for the election OF senator's Of the
United States by the direct vote Of the
people | cannot too strongly urge
upon the Legislature the ratification of
both these amendments. We cannot
keep our place among the progressive
states Of the union and reject them.
Indeed, we shall be in a very small
minority If we do reject them
MAY | not, in closing. express the
satisfaction l feel in the knowledge
that when I lay down the duties of
governor 7 shall leave them in the
hands of Senator Fielder, a man of
proved character, capacity, fidelity
and devotion to the public service, a
man OF a type to which the people of
the state desire their public men to
conform. I look back with the great
est admiration to that fine group of
men In the houses whose names all
the state knows and honors who set
the pace in the days when the state
was to be redeemed. It is men like
these who have rendered the policies
and reforms of the last two years pos
sible. II is men like these who will
carry them forward and the people of
the state will sustain them. They will
sustain no others. Woe betide the in
dividuals or the party groups that turn
away from that path
THE future is with those who serve
and who serve without secret or selfish
purpose. A free people has come TO
know Its own mind and its own