The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-10-19
CARLSON
DELIVERS
A STRONG
SPEECH AT
SALIDA
TELLS WHAT THE PRESENT RE-
PUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION
HAS DONE FOR THE BUSINESS
MEN OF THE STATE.

the Business Men The Governor |
was warmly received and his remarks |
heartily applauded
Following is part OF GOV. Carlsons |
address: He said:
With firmness equal to that with
which we have maintained that every |
right. which the law gives the work |
ing man or which is inherently his,
should be upheld. do we also MAIN
tain that every dollar invested in
legitimate or productive industry
should be guarded and conserved by
the whole power of government. we
believe in building up industry in
stead of tearing it down. We believe
in honoring Colorado business men
instead of damning them in the eyes
of the nation as did our predecessors.
We also maintain that no injury can
be done business without shrinking
proportionately the opportunity and
demand for labor.
This is not the independent and per-
sonal sentiment of an individual can
didate. but it is fundamental prin-
ciple of our party, the deep conviction
of our whole official family.
Colorado's industries and CONNER
cial interests suffered loss of APP
proximately S15.000.O00 in property
and business values. due to insurrec-
tion, during the preceding admins
tration. Colorado industry has not
suffered One Dollar of loss from such
cause during this administration.
Because thru collapse of State Gov
ernment, Labor's payroll in the coal
mine industry shrunk a sum conser-
vatiyely estimated at s2.5OOOOO a
year for two years, all supplying mer
camille establishments had to sustain
a consequent injury.
Because of this collapse of govern
ment the outside investor and home
seeker were losing faith in our sta
bility and becoming very chary of
the safety of Colorado investments.
Now, there is a sense of internal Sc
curity. and confidence has been re-es-
tablished abroad.
But a little willie ago State war
rants We're selling at 10 and so cents on
the dollar 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 9th
er as rogues and scoundrels; now,
there is harmony and unity of official
action and all public business is dis
patched with promptness, courtesy
and business efficiency.
Formerly. there was persistent of
fetal effort to stir antagonism be-
tween employer and workmen; this
administration has as persistently
sought to promote the mutually and
harmony of their interests.
Formerly, bitter and wasteful dis
putes were constantly arising be-
tween public utilities and the consum-
ing public. Now, these disputes are
vitaliZed utility commission with JUS
tice to the consumer and fairness to
the utility investor. In the second
Shafroth administration all the in
heritance tax and general revenues
were consumed and yet, because of
excess political appropriations. our
State was put in the red 1922 ,37S.06.
Third class appropriations, were paid
so cents on the dollar; fourth and fifth
class appropriations were not paid at
all.
In the Ammons administration third
class appropriations Educational in
stitutions) were paid so cents on the
dollar. Under the preceding admins
trations the Normal School at Gun
nison and the Agricultural College
Experiment Station were practically
without support Altho 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 three hundred
per cent. in some of them, yet there
as scarcely any increase during that
time in the amount allowed by the
state for their support. College Boards
and Presidents would receive appro-
priations 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 midperiod that they
could only get fifty cents on "a dol
lar of the amount appropriated.
Altho $720,000 of excess political
appropriations were allowed to stand
in 1911 and '12, not dollar was
found to build a necessary heating
plant at the Agricultural College, to
remove the boilers at the Blind School
at Colorado Springs, which had long
been condemned and were daily
menace. and substitute new ones, or
to erect new buildings at the Insane
Asylum at Pueblo, altho all that time
the old buildings were crowded to
their capacity and there were hun
,dreds of these unfortunates in differ
ent jails and hospitals of the State be-
ng maintained at an average cost
ito the taxpayer of at least one dollar
per day or ffty-six cents more than
ia would have cost the state To smain
tain them, had the former Democratic
legislatures done their duty and pro
yided necessary building capaaityz
This administration has ceased con
surning the time and energy Of college
presidents in useless financial wor-
RES and has enabled them to copcen-
trata them upon education problems.
This administration has put the state