Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-10-19


the probable premium on gold, when need
ed This is estimated at about $50 1000, !
assuming the value Of gold to remain near
ly as at present 5a sr' r. .i..3 5ds
The estimate for the year 1871 should,
therefore, be $659,406. Inasmuch as we
have reason to expect that the grand list
of the State will be increased, it is hoped
that the tax required to meet this esti-
mate will not greatly exceed the tax of
last year. , .r.,.a.sae ...,.s -a, .,
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. s
Since your last Annual Session. altera-
tions in the Constitution of the State have
been made, which will require correspond
ing notifications of our statutes
1t is not necessary that 1 should call
your attention to all the details of the re-
quired legislation, and |, therefore, spec
tally notice only those which seem most
important. a''"
BY the change from Annual to Biennial
Sessions of the Legislature the tenure of
Office Of all State. and Legislative officials
is necessarily extended to corresponding
period. The support Of the government
must be provided for during the interval
between the sessions a..ar s.
As appears from his report, the Treas
urer's estimate of expenses for the year
1872 is $415,200, and it is incumbent
upon you to lay tax upon the list of
that year sufficient to cover the estimate.
1t would also seem that some provision
should be made, for the revision and cor
rectioh of the lists of each alternate year,
when the Legislature is not convened by
the creation of board competent for that
important duty.
Under the existing law the valuation
Of real estate recurs every fifth year. 1t
is obviously necessary that the interval
between valuations should consist of an
even number of years, otherwise such val
uatlons will alternately occur in the year
Of legislative supervision
EDUCATION.
| congratulate you upon the manifest
advancement the cause of popular educa-
tion is making in our State. There is a
growing interest in our public schools, and
the truth is generally acknowledged, that
the education of the people is an indispen-
sable safeguard to the preservation of free
government. For the general diffusion Of
education, reliance must be had, primari-
ly, upon free common schools. 1t is
therefore of vital Importance TO the well
fare Of the State, that the instruction af-
forded in these schools should be of the
highest character attainable. 1t should
however, be remembered, that system Of
education which fails to embrace the aoad.
enic and collegiate methods and opportu.
mites, is incomplete, aud must languisb
Where mental culture is broadest and
deepest there are the foundations whence
flow the best educational influences ever
drawing up to a higher plane what is be.
low. In turn the common schools send
up their select materials to the higher in.
stitutions, and thus the extremes of the
complete system reciprocally elevate and
sustain each other. Hdi % .E.
I commend to your vigilant care the
interests of all our institutions of educa.
ton. .ow laiasD Jrab 3ataae
Experiment in all the States foremost
in the cause of education, has proved the
great value Of the Normal School, in train.
ing teachers for the Common Schools
Good teachers are Indispensable, and the
Normal School is the best fundamentally
that can be employed to. secure the needed
supply. | venture to suggest that the
time has come for the adoption, in this
State, of a more settled and effectual pol.
: icy on this subject. 1a Hass9H aLi
For information relative to the practical
working of the plan now in operation, its
obvious defects, and the remedy therefor
| refer you to the report of the Board oI
Education, and | commend the earnest
suggestions therein set forth to your con
sideration. Il '''"'' ~ D' 4''
While the plan referred to has not beer
without beneficial results, yet it manifesty
falls far short of our needs. The State
has not in any proper sense Norma
J School. 1t is for you to carefully consid
er, whether the policy so cautiously in
aupurated should not now be firmly estab
lished upon such permanent basis as shal
. secure the desired end.i Tol yr3ai'iim
, 1t is notorious, that no small proportion
Of the children of the State do not attent
, any school, The recognized duty of tn
State to furnish the means of education t
: all her children, implies the power to com
pei the attendance Of all. Ignorance Isl
S prolific source of every form of social dis