The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-01-18
GOVERNOR MOORE CUTTING Elk
PENsEs.

PENSES.
| That the people who expected :
continued large expense account fol
Idaho under Governor Moore's admin
Iistration are going to meet with disap
pointment is further assured in the
Following plain statement ne gave &c
the press this week:
"The taxpayers dollar has no poll
tics,,' Governor Moore said in letter
sent to members Of the boards OF
county commissioners in Idaho, invit-
ling their cooperation IN program
for economy. Governor Moore asks
the boards for suggestions in carrying
out his program of economy and
pledges his efforts to cooperate with
them in their plans to reduce expenses
locally The move for strict economy
in which he expects the prompt coop
Grafton of the members of the legisla-
ture was outlined in the letter which
follows:
:" AS the business managers of your
county, the responsibility for cost and
efficiency of county government is of
vital and personal interest to you. AS
the state executive I am similarly
charged, so far as state government
is concerned. We, therefore, have In
common more than the ordinary inn
terest in scrutinizing critically and
carefully state and county expendi-
lures. We surely have more than or
dinary and common responsibility for
the proper expenditure of the taxpay-
er's dollar.
81 have recommended to the state
Legislature definite program of econ
omy and am expecting prompt action
from its members. There must be an
elimination of luxuries in governments
and the dismissal of employees not
positively needed.
Undoubtedly Idaho would enjoy
luxuries and unnecessary comforts in
government, but enjoying and needing
are different things We know from
the conditions of Idaho's industries,
business and banks that they are rum
ming on the very "bare bones" Of
cost. We know that the basic indus
try of the state, agriculture, has been
hard hit; that few farmers have made
more than their bare expenses during
the past two years. With this knowI-
edge and in the light of the definite
pledges that all parties made during
the last campaign, am serious and
determined in my efforts to 'fmark
time" with government expenses for
the next two years. bespeak you
cooperation to that end andin return
proffer, you the cooperation an dser-
vice of the state administration. Let
us serve and strive together-no
to starve Idaho's institutions nor
those of your county-not to weaken
and hinder county governments iii
proper operation and functioning but
to maintain all government with the
lowest cost consistent with needed
government; to secure from our EN-
ployees the same amount of work that
they would give to private employ /
ments; to get out Of every dollar
spent a full equivalent therefor just
rs a merchant and farmer or any citi-
zen would get.
fRegardless of political or party
alignment, we are similarly interested,
IN fact are as one man in this subject
matter.
"The habit Of "matching dollars
with the Federal government or other
agencies should be scrutinized most
carefully and in my judgment checked
# not practically abandoned. The
dea that we are getting something
FOR nothing" in this way is in the
final analysis erroneous and we should
10 with this type of exenditure as wo
would with every other demand, use
good judgment and the pruning knife.
"I invite correspondence and sug-
yestions to the end that the greatest
possible degree of coordination and
be had between your
county government and the state gov
,rnment."