The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-02-10

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Thursday, Feb. 10, 1870"
-..517 Q, NoHnAt acHoo1s.' e. s:sa;z
- From motives which, m,ys perhaps
have their origin in zeal for economy
With more Of honesty land intelligence
latent than .ppearss on the surfaes, sssSl
sralfof ethspsps's' q thii State aud !
.ing, Of members y of ,the Legislature |
have commenced AZ, ;narelensisse Val. |
fare upon The Normal Schools Of Mir
neset.a & Thsses attacks have betrayed
% ss.caasiht,ues With anything more
az 4 E: tas true principles and benefits Of
s yaaesh6 schooh sat est. Paul D:,pascA
has succeeded in gaining an especial
lotoriety ID this erusade-ths one end
in view in its own case, -,
The style Of arguments advanced by
the enemies Of Normal Schools; is alter
tho following, ~ from. the Dispatch
Charging tie entire appropriations for
tho three schools in one lump At 1885,
$780,: it offsets this with ,eighty-nioe
teachers graduated thus far At the
Winona school-the only one which has
been in operation two years or, tax.
ing the current expenses alone and ia
tsrest on the building appropriations, i,
gives tho total at s67 ,l8o;, and there
upon ,fereciously charges each teacher
NTH having cost the State $754.S3.:
The uufairness, aye the maliciousLess, OF
this representation will be appreciated
when it is remembered tha: three years
afe required :or teachers to graduate,
and The Winona school has only had
itsifourth graduating Glass; while the
Mankato and St. Cloud schools have
had none at all, It j. only within the
past year that the Winona school has
occupied its new building, aud thus
bssn able to derive the benefit Of its
moro commodious quarters. The Dis
patch has, We find, charged to tho st..
Cloud school &l0,O for building pur.
poses, appropriated in 1869, which
amount yet 'ensaiins IN The hands Of
he SFa>e Tea.urer, and has therefore
been unused ~ the school. r Similar
facts may doubtless be true with re-
garato the other schools. ''''f' IT,
n MY strike many people as being
somewhat curious that the Normal
Schoqls, Of oil our. State Institutions,
should be singled out for this attack.
Since 1858 these schools have cost in
al. s1s5,5oo:" What have the expeu,
dltqres for the State Prison, for the
1gsaas AAsglun, the Deaf and Dumb
Hoipitd aud tbe Reform, School
ano.hted to? The Reform School cost 20,
last year $50, s94.16.. The. number OF
inmates on the FIRST Of January was 60;
making each young scamp taken charge
of cost the State about $515. Last
year the St. Cloud Normal School
received 1000 exclusive Of the s1o,.
600 yet uudrszn in the hands Of TIC
State Treasurer,) and impaired a be1nc
feiaf educstion to 1913 well-behaved pu
pills; MAKING. the average cost Of each
scholar les, than $25.. By all means
then, shut upsthe Normal Schools ant
fill the@F House Of Refuge societ,
would DO % much the more, benefited
and besides it, is 30 much-cAeape, r.
The expeoses'of the Institution 10,
the Desf, Dumb and the Blind fo5rr 1S6e
were about s28; 1000, with total att.td
aoco Of SO persons; averaging th,
COST Of esoh At o'sr 1925: Appropri:
ations'to the amount Of $4,000 arc
asked for by the President ct the Boare
and recommended n'9e BY the Governor, 70,
tho, present year. .,I. "., ~ .. -. ,.
The Hospital for the Insane expcnd-
ed last ys"ri sl04,457.4s-or withil
about 1000 Of as much as the tire,
Normal Schools in, the State, iucludin,
tue $4,000, appropriated to the s.
Cloud schooland still held by the Stat,
Treasurer. The Hospital cared TO,
2as patients Gncluding those in .oul,
aportio9n Of the year,) while the Nor
NAL Schools had Sis pupils-.averaa.
cot ct insane $40 each; average c,osl
Of Normal seti0ol pupils, si25:, In a,,d ID
dition the Trustees ask and the Geverno,
resq@pssds further appropriations I,
thsisnounteof &10s, 00O 8or the Ipfcsen,
ysar:- mailing ovsf9 ,,oo h4 hi, 6 thoaut
*as y 8 %. ia..itau.iqu 10 ",
ye.Is!.s qWlh'eie is tho Di.poseh'. or,
ofIeesao1y r.! 'Iiz, ~ vi. e ooY'a.
FheFsspense, of the State Ptisot
last syesr we're $ls, l11.17, ' ',vi,hosui
00uanss ag 10 yl Sc interest on the none,
expanded % 10, ,buildisg,ss the DIS.
Paseh hssetlone in the case ofethc N 81:
nal eehodas:. At tho time 81 III. ro.
po.!9s ths, Warden. there we're ya y 81 3
prsoneeks IN oesdasnen., winch (dn
daaslpgshe "a l27:18 earnings daatins
shsSsslJ @o6Edsnske the cot Of eaci
coiyise ib65dt sl6o-=4oars 1i,as lhan S,
tigss As pqca y, =, pupil al The 81
Cloud Nomal aebooliw s4isA si.S ,7s|'
WeshasUthus; shown from the pficciia
Conference.-The innates If the Refsst4n
Skool iivwa1ty ff ;me. ', .: ms,