Biennial Message Of Governor Winfield T Durbin And Inaugural Address Of Governor J Frank Hanly PDF Download

Excerpt from Messages and Documents of J. Frank Hanly: Governor of Indiana, January 9, 1905-January 11, 1909 Field, mine and factory have yielded rich reward to the efforts and industry of the wealth producers of the State. Labor is employed and hopeful. Farmers have witnessed a steady increase in values and in the accumulation of their savings. Merchants have enjoyed a growing and profitable trade. Manufacturers have held old markets and have gained new ones. Transportation companies have closed a year of unequaled profit, and the banking and financial institutions, both state and national, that have to do with the savings and investments of the people, are upon sound and satisfactory footing. There have been few failures within the lines of legitimate business. Mismanagement and speculation in some instances have brought disaster. Some private banking institutions, for the supervision of which there has been in the law no adequate provision, and a few national banks have closed their doors, but none of these have substantially affected general business or financial interests. Keeping Institutions Out Of Politics. Usually fortunate in the administration of State affairs, we have been especially so during the last twelve years. In that time there has been no malfeasance in any public office of the State. Governor Matthews set a high standard of executive efficiency and excellence, and the late Governor Mount raised that standard yet higher and inaugurated many wise and improved business methods in the handling and expenditure of the public revenues. Today Governor Durbin goes out of office after four years of executive service unexcelled by either of his immediate predecessors. He carries with him into private life the good-will and kind wishes of our best citizenship, and he may justly feel that he has earned the confidence and the gratitude of his countrymen. During his administration the public debt has been rapidly decreased and the annual interest charge materially lessened. Honesty and economy have characterized every department of the government. The correctional, penal, benevolent and charitable institutions of the State have received from him considerate care and efficient management. These institutions have been placed upon a plane far above partisan politics, and there this administration intends to keep them. There shall be no backward step. Above all personal and party obligations, however sacred and binding they may be, I hold the good of the State and the welfare of its unfortunate wards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.