The Glenwood post., 1916-10-21
imately SIS, 900 900 in property and

imately $15,000,000 in property and
business values, sdue to instruction,
during the preceding administration.
Colorado industry has not suffered one
dollar of loss from such cause during
this administration.
because through collapse of state
government, labor's payroll in the coal
industry shrunk sum conservatively
estimated at $2,5OO,OOO a year for two
years, all supplying mercantile estab-
lishments had to sustain a consequent
injury.
"Because of this collapse of govern
ment the outside investor and home
seeker were losing faith in our stabil-
ity and becoming very chary of the
safety of Colorado investment. Now,
there is a sense of internal security,
and confidence has been re-established
abroad
"But little while ago state war
rants were selling at 10 and 80 cents on
the doller and insurrection bonds at
less than par. Contemporaneous with
the advent of this administration they
were again raised to par and our bonds
now command a premium.
"Formerly different elective and ap-
pointive officials were constantly in the
public print denouncing each other rs
rogues and scoundrels; now, there is
harmony and unity of official action
and all public business is dispatched
with promptness, courtesy and business
efficiency.
Then and Now
Formerly, there was persistent Off
cial effort to stir antagonism between
employer and workmen; this admins
tration has as persistently sought to
promote the mutality and harmony Of
their interests.
"Formerly bitter and wasteful dis
putes were constantly arising between
public utilities and the consuming pub
lie; Now, these disputes are being set
tied by an Independent and vitalized
utility commission with justice to the
consumer and fairness to the utility
investor. In the second Shafroth ad-
ministration all the inheritance tax AMI
general revenues were consumed ana
vet because of excess political appro-
priations, our state was put in the red
$72237sO6 Third class appropriations
we're paid so cents on the dollar; fourth
and fifth class appropriations were not
paid at all.
"In the Ammons administration
third class appropriations educational
institutions were paid 80 cents on the
dollar. Under the preceding admins
trations the Norman school at Greeley
and the Agricultural college experiment
station were practically without sup
port Although there had been great
increase of students in all the state
institutions between 1908 and 1914 and
an increase during the same period of
over 800 per cent in some Of them, yet
| there was scarcely and increase dur
ing that time in the amount allowed
by the state for their support. College
boards land presidents would receive
appropriations from the state, fix their
budgets accordingly, contract, as they
were necessarily required to, for the
employment of teachers and for other
expenditures year in advance, then
were told in mid-period that they could
only get so cents on a dollar of the
amount appropriated.
Although over $720,O00 of excess po-
litical appropriations were allowed to
stand in 1911 and '12 not dollar was
found to build a necessary heating
plant at the Agricultural college, to re-
move the boilers at the blind school at
Colorado Springs, which had long been
condemned and were a daily menace,
and substitute new ones, or to erect
new buildings at the insane asylum at
Pueblo, although all that time the old
buildings were crowded to their cap
acity and there were hundreds of these
unfortunates in different jails and hos
pitals of the state being maintained at
an average cost to the taxpayer Of at
least 81 per day or 56 cents more than
it would have cost the state to main.
tain them, had the former Democratic
legislatures done their duty and pro-
vided necessary building capacity.
Education Institutions Provided For
"This administration has ceased con-
suming the time and energy Of college
presidents in useless financial worries
and has enabled them to concentrate