The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-20
REGULATE LAND RENTS
URGED BY FERGUSON

| who labor, organized and inorganic
| ed" was recommended and a salary
of $4,000 year for the labor com
! missioner was requested
! On child labor, the Governor
| said: The child labor laws Of
| Texas should be carefully looked in
to, and such additional legislation
should be passed that would pre-
| minors where their health or educa-
ion might be impaired as a result
| of such employment
At another point in bis message,
| he said
| Il would recommend a reason
| able compulsory education law. This
! law can be so drawn as not to in
! terfere with the necessary liberty of
| the child and at the same time
| tary education to every child in
| Texas. "
and Mechanical college from the
! University of Texas, Governor
Ferguson recommended that both
the College Station and the Austin
institutions be placed under a
single Central Board Of Con-
troll He suggested another agricul-
tural and mechanical school but i'll
North Texas. He appealed for bet
ter support of rural education, espe-
cially rural high schools.
Governor Ferguson came out en-
! phatically i'll favor of printing all
school books in Texas. He also
! favored free text books when author
lied by voters Of the school district.
Everybody must have an educa-
ton in Texas whether he or she is
able to buy it or not" said the gov.
ernor.
His long awaited expression on the
penitentiary system suggested the
working out of some method of using
convict labor on the highways and he
took a sharp fling at politicians, say
ing:
THE penitentiary system is the
| cancer carbuncle that is about to de-
yelop into alarming proportions, 1t
is a cancer because it eats on the
treasury of the people. 1t is car
buncle because when you try to do
something with it you hit sore spot
on some politicians neck or some
Teller who thinks he has a right
to use the prison system for his
private advantage.
Within the last eight years the
people have been taxed to pay about
5000, 900 loss in the operation of
the system and it is now over 1885,
900 in debt as a result of recent
operations.
AS a lawyer. the governor made
lengthy and detailed recommends
lions to relieve the crowded condi-
tons of Texas courts, suggesting that
district courts should be redistricted
to serve about the same number OF
people; that the courts should keep
open the year round except for
months vacation; that the number
of courts of appeals should be in
creased at once by one and later by
a second; and that the supreme
court should be aided to get rid of its
mass of accumulated business.
The governor called attention 10
the promises in the Ell Paso platform
| to exempt all cotton and wooden fac
tories from taxation. to abolish the
fee system and protect the live stock
industry He suggested the appoint
ment OF forestry commission.
Economy was touched on in the
governors treatment OF appropria-
tions for the coming fiscal year and
he urged the appropriations commit
tees of the legislature to get to work
at once "A full dollar Of value for
every dollar spent for the state" was
the governors slogan.
He took a slap at book farm
ers" and suggested that the state
agricultural experiment stations
demonstrate how to make living
on farm in different sections OF
the state. Steps to bring the land
less man and the homeless land to-
gether were urged. Rural credits
were touch on in recommends
tion for the study OF mutual loan
association and cheap money.
The governors message also
said:
Interest rates are too high in
Texas and must come down. lie.
us begin to study how to organize
mutual loan societies as credit
basis upOn which we can hope to