The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-12-14
MISSOURI.
Governor browns Ssessape


ST. LOUIS, Dec. 7.-Governor Browns
message was read to the Legislature to-
day. Some of the principle features, not
already mentioned, are as follows:
He thinks the most effective remedy
for corruption and the incapacity ofofici-
ais IS IN limiting executive appointments
to cases of emergency, and refer other cleo
tlons to abe people He says the greatest
incubus now resting on the people Of Mis-
souri, IS found In the taxes and duties. d.
rect anu indirect, levied by the United
States. They amount to much more an
nually than all other taxes put together,
and do uot 90 into the national treasuary.
but are spent largely IN collection, OF are
put into the pockets of the favored classes.
The bonded debt of the State Is Sl7
SOC, 900; assessed value of all taxable prop-
erty IN the State, $575, 100000: total re-
ceIpts into the State Treaguarv for the
1ast year. So 572, ,34l; disbursements 50
25,759; of which S8l6, ,3S5.I8 are on the
account Of interest, $I2,527 % on account
OF the State government. $4,000 on ac-
count ofthe sinking fund, and 1897 asa for
schools. The balance in the treasuarv is
S947, l82 The county township and mu-
nlclpal lndebtness is nearly $45 OOO
the larger portion being for rail road sub
scnpilons. The Total county school fund
Is SIS, 1897 0S4; whole number of schools is
6.ll4, of which 2I0 are colored the whole
number OF children taughl is 3lS. l54, and
the whole number of children in the State,
between the ages Of five and Jwenty-one
Is 627, ,2O3. The ntmber of miles ofrail road
built IN the State, on the lst of January,
1871, was 800; the number of miles in
course of construction 797. The capital
TnUaatnn ~ fhaGa 70
$ll7, ,54s, ,3l7.
The Governor discusses the national
political fltuation at great length. After
reverting to the material welfare of the
State, and congratulating the people on
Its prosperity, he says it is equally a
source of congratulation that its political
influence has been signaily enhanced by
the wise course of Cancellation so smphat-
lcally initiated by our last election. The
advent of liberalism to the administration
OF the State, has reconciled the results of
the war, confirmed absolute freedom TO
all the enslaved, renewed the principle of
self government acting through local or
ganizations, established pure civil service
instead of that compelled by the slavish
ways of partizanship, and exclted the
youthful energies of a new generation to
compass the great destinies of the future,
rather than rehabihtate itself in the dead
issues of the past He then enumerates
what liberalism has done and draws q
lengthy distinction between the Republi-
can idea and the idea which he saws has
been foisted upon the Republican party
in the discussion of this distinction He
makes a powerful arraignment Of the a.
ministration party, and its policy as per-
version Of Republican ideas and high trea-
son to Republican principles.
One OF his closing paragraphs is as fol-
lows:
The attempt to establish by the force
of martial law, a civil socie that would
accord with the superior government, new
er has been and never will be a success.
At present 1t is not success in the South.
In the past 1t was not a success at the
North, and the teachings OF '76 eliminate
the failure of a century later. There is
talent IN the reconstructed StGtes. IS else
where throughout the Union. Much of
that sentiment which finds expression in
devotion to local freedom, q sentiment
exaggerated into wrongful secession. un-
der the plant passion of the slavery con-
troversy, but one which, in the absence Of
slavory, may be channeled back into the
surest safeguard tor the equal freedom of
all II - III maintaining Tue
points from which grow those or free opin-
ion, start IN preserving the forms through
which it passes into political life and 70
specting the distribution Of the duty it i'm
poses, the eonsGtpdonalism it has created.
That security viii be found for all who
are commingled in such society, as ours,
It's prosperity because this is assailed and
sought to be supplauted by outside force
alone. that so little advance has been
made by the government in its nstensible
reconciliation. The same result would
follow in other States, on any other ques-
tien thus engineered, and it is worthy of
note by the Republicans as well as the
Democrats, that every party which has
passed from power since the foundation of
the government, has lost the confidence of
the people, because of the attempt to un-
duly exalt the national above all local
freedom, and to strain the national power
to ends for which il was never designed,
by methods repulsiYe to the common
thought, and the present will only add
another to the list, for it Is great mistake
to suppose that northern men do not re-
cognize this fatal blunder, or that they
demand continuance of the method of
madness in this behalf Trade has been
wiser than politics. and it is ever true
that love is stronger than hate"