Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-10-09

as a>nickle of any other kind of mon
ey and should purchase just as much,
yet the solution of the tax problem
must go beyond the question of saw
ing money.
So far as the present administra-
tion is concerned, there is no reason
why it should not receive the un-
qualified Endorsement of every re-
publican in the state. 1t has been
clean, it has been studious and it
has been economical. 1t has under
taken careful study and analysis
Of the tax situation, and for the first
time in the history of the state, ex-
penditures for state business have
fallen off, and through the example
set by the administration, economy
has begun to be practiced in all de-
partments of the government and
every day reports come in heralding
reduction in taxes.
There is one thing alone which,
if understood by the people of the
state in all its phases, would un-
doubtedly be sufficient to demand
their support, and that is the en-
ployment of convicts upon state
, lands.
We have always had vast area
Of state lands unimproved. We
have always had large bodies of
state convicts unemployed. The
present administration has put the
: convicts on the land; they are rails
5 ing magnificent crops; they employ
q their minds; they will make this
penal institution self-sustaining; anc
they are raising the value of tn
= school lands upon which they ar
S employed from $40 to 500 an acre
d This is business. This is commol
y sense.
n A glance over the Carey act sitna
it ton Of the state of Idaho reveal
le that through the constant work an
untiring energy of the present &C
1t ministration this problem is on tn
IN high road to solution, and for tn
* first time since few years ago whe
le Carey act disasters came thick an
ly fast, the sun of promise is peepin
S. above the eastern hills, and it will
a but a short time until every Care
is act project in the state of Idaho W
n be in good condition, its settlers So
p isfed, good irrigation systems buil
and an increased population broug
he to the state.
10 The present administration inhe
Ill tied vast difficulties from previo
ro- ones in the matter of Carey act pl
'or jects. The administration began
ms. the bottom, and has worked eve
yu- day to rejuvenate those projects.
en- has succeeded in some and it v
is succeed in all, until the Carey |
to history of Idaho instead of being
her discredit will be positive credit
ing the state and all its people.
rn- This time it would seem the op
ne, sition is complaining about
ad, method of the state land board
and loaning money. Well. if it we're
Who this it would do something else.
one would be shame, indeed, to depl
uch the opposition of an argument,
OF of course they must make the
showing they can. They must 81
the some reason why they should be el
dol ed. and the land board always
id it nishes fruitful field. Whethe
ally be Republican or Democratic. aly
ates and invariably, it is charged !
save fraud, and it is charged with e
upon crime under heaven for political
peo- poses only, but the people IN
.hese stand this of course. They say
and loans have been made.
save They know better. They !
dol that there has not been one Ger
ather money out of the three million
aying lars that has been loaned to the t
eople ers of the state Of Idaho that ha
e the an abundance of security behir
'alua- The state has at the present tin
the | have said, three million d.
loaned to the farmers Of the sts
that Idaho at low rate of interest
z and Any private loaning compan
money gagged in such an enormous bui
aered Is this would expect to eharg