The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-19

, apparent and it's the duty of the State
: TO provide without delay for the proper
care OF at least five hundred of the un-
: iortunaees who are now penned up in our
Jalls, poor-houses and private dwellings,
The additional hospital should be com
: pleted as soon as possible. When thisi
done, and the present hospital enlarged
to the size originally contemplated by
the ADDITION OF two wings, we shall have
hardly sufficient room to receive all who
J require hospital treatment. I know that
L am recommending the Immediate ex
penditure of much money, but. gentle,
men, cannot forget that there are hun.
dreds of insane persons suff-ring for want
of these hospitals. No one can visit our
jalls, poor-houses, or dwelling houses.
where insane persons are confined. and
see how much the misery is aggravated
by the want of proper care, without be-
Ing convinced that the State ought to act
promptly and literally in this matter.
The insane can be properly treated only
In institutions designed for that purpose
They cannot be provided by counties or
cities. Justice and economy alike dictate
that the State should establish and main
tain them, and humanity protests against
delay in SO doing.
have heretofore recommended the
founding ola state school for the educa.
tlonsot feeble-minded children. The exl
perlence of other states where they are in
operation has shown that such schools
are nearly, if not quite as beneficial in
their consuls as those established for tho
education Of the deaf and dumb, or the
blind. The education of this class of
unfortunates, the highest possible devel
! opment of their feeble faculties.
IS due them from the state. MOI
should it be regarded as charity, to be
grudglngly bestowed, but duty. to be
cheerfuily performed. In changing their
life from curse to a blessing ; in reclaim
| ing them from life of abject wretched-
ness; in saving them from sinking, with
advancing years, into hopeless idiocy,
society will reap the highest reward for
the performance of "a sacred duty. [ be.
speak for these children your earnest
practical sympathy In a few years the
property in Madison now occupied by
the Orphans Home will be available for
the accommodation of this school Ifit
shall be established immediately, only
temporary arrangements will bereouired.
Senators NJ H. Petit, e. S Miller and
| s. ID. Bui chard, and Assemblvmep
Matthew keenan,, Willard Merrill, q. G.
Swayne, g. I. Thorn, w. P Rounds and
H. A. Chase were appointed members of
the visiting committee of the state.
They have made a very thorough examlna-
| ton OF the affairs of the state penal and
charitable institutions and visited the
charitable institutions of the city of Mil
waukee. Their report will be laid
before you at an early day ~
again submit for your consideration
the policy OF reducing the number of
each board of trustees having charge of
our benevolent institutions to five and
that there be established a State Board
Of Charities, which shall have the general
oversight of them all, and oyer the Re.
form School, and the county tails and
poor houses, with full authority to enter
and examine into their general manage
ment, at all times and to be required to
report to the State annually am fully
convinced that such board will be of
very great practical benefit to the State,
and OF much assistance to the trustees
having immediate control of the institu-
lions. Such has been the experience of
every state which has organized such
a body. This change will tend to secure
the greatest possible economy, uniformity
and progress in the management of the
interests thus placed under supervision.
EDUCATIONAL. H1i
1t is source of real pleasure that am
able to say to you that our system of
education continues to meet with the
heartiest approval of the great mass of
the people. The common schools have
been we'll sustained during tbs past year,
speedily drawing nearer that state of
perfection which it should be our aim to
have them attain. For this we are ir-
debted In great measure, to the teach
ers They manifest zeal in their labors,
an appreciation of the responsibility of
their high calling and an emulation to
excel that merits the warmest common.
dation. The district and graded schools
should be the best in the state and
hope to see them reach this point Of ex.
cellence at no distant day. The state
authorities by judicious encouragement,
can do much to hasten this consummation.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction we
may feel in view of the success of our
own common schools, the fact that over
MY CAouoauu CulICron 10 DOC aCCcnQ
school in the State stands forth warn
ing to the people that fifty thousand
children are growing up in their midst
to be men and women who are not fitting
themselves to become intelligent, useful
citizens Too many of them will, in con-
sequence of their ignorance, be vaga-
bonds, fitted only for prisons, brothels,
and poor houses. Finally, believing that
this source of future danger to the State
should be removed, and that no parent
has right to thus rear child, renew