The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-02-17
NOT PEssIMIsM. BUT FAIR
WARNING.
(Blackfoot News)

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elected are totally unaccomplished.
The people, sick unto death Of tn
waste, the inefficiency, the officia
bunk of the national administration
swore to have both revenge and eli
cheney for \ change; they annihilate'
the Democratic party in order to ge
this change the Republican leg
isla.aYe il ths result 1t isn't, y
some may fondly dream, splendid
tributs to the personality Of the pres
ent legislators; it's the peoples faiti
in thu Republican party without re.
gard 10 individual standing.
The Republican party is responsible
1t has pledged to change the eondi-
tons that have existed both in the
nation and in the state. Nationally
1t looks rs II they would make good
with epochsl brilliancy and fidelity
For Idaho, there is no such warrant
upto the present time-the promise is
almost exactly the opposite. Relief
from burdensome taxation is the uni
versal cry. The Republican party has
pledged this belief; every candidate,
personally or inhuentially, has guar
anteed this program. 1t is up to
personal honor first, and ultimately
to the Republican party, as the final
guarantor Of honest good faith.
The only way TO reduce taxes is to
spend less money, 1t is time to quit
quarrclling over petty things, and
make this one resolve: We will re-
duee our stae expenditures! Until
that resolve is made the legislature
is only sowing the seed Of humilia-
ton. contemplate, deserving defeat
At the next election.
The News isn't the one TO say just
where the cut should be made that is
he duty, the privilege the people
rave given to the Legislators them
'slves. They are good men, capable
men; all they need is to get steady on
he right track.
"A few suggestions. however, might
ell what many Of the people are
1t would seem well to cut
n the state department Of agricul-
urc; it is a needless duplication Of
he work being better done through
he state university. Also, the state
as university president, who should |
q capable Of directing the larger ed
cational and agricultural college pol
lies; and safe school superinten-
ent, who ought to be able to do all
10 routine work Of the smaller
,hools. 1t Is rather worse than a
eedless duplication to have an an
malous commissioner OF education
. perhaps the highest salary in Ida
>, to usurp the functions of these
70 officers and build up political
achine with an Unsuitable hunger
" both money and power. The state
As an immigration department, but
,propriates no funds to support it
Jcept 20 pay one high salary. The
ate could get no immigrants under
resent national conditions, II it did ,
'end large sums for such work; ii I
ouldn't keep them IL it did get them
except in the quiet grave after they
ID given up the over-taxed struggle I
despair. ,
The public utilities commission, one c
the highest prised extrKvagances
Idaho, is proving Of such question:
le value that it, too. might be ohm
lted, and let the courts be empow- I
ID TO handle, at = 1.-THE Of the pres n
/ expense, the matters that are &
lily worth while. II Federal Judge
ndis in Chicago can adjudicate
seball. surely an Idaho court can n
lust plain business affairs. v
The highways have absolutely fail =
to come up to what YVES promised y
their name; the federal funds have
come in, not even 10 per cent Of ..
At was estimated" MS due to Ida !,
ON the program the state has =
pied and Idaho herself pays ex- :,
ly her proportion of all this federe !.
however much or little it
y be. We are taking money out
,ur pocket, juggling it in our hands ca
he dusty road, and losing part of le
! transferring it to the other peck ex
This road program might better A,
I on clothing and food and fuel tn
make the state comfortable. May ID
the legislators went see any Of no
matters exactly this way but
fact is indisputable, that the
p sum Of expenditures is intoler- in,
J under present financial condi- to
Is, and they must make the cut WI
people are in deadly earnest; they du
q to the present legislature their ma