Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-01-13

W uuc W Tue euuCaJlOnal advantages en-
joyed by her people. Every measure
which tends TO continue and increase
those advantages, merits your earnest
and favorable consideration.
For many years the most eminent
teachers and friends of education have
urged the necessity OF establishing insti-
tu:ions'for the instruction OF teachers IN
the principles and duties of their high
and honorable filling. A few thousand
dollars of the school fund applied to
this purpose, will, IL is believed, make
the expenditures for school purposes
vastly more beneticent to the State.
There are serious objections TO the
present mixed system of school manage,
ment by means OF township Boards and
sub district directors. II is believed that
this system ought 10 give place TO the
purely township system, in which all of
The schools of tho township are under
the exclusive control of Board of Ed
ucation chosen by the electors of the
township. This plan is IN conformity
with that which has been adopted with
satisfactory results in most of our towns,
and is sustained by the experience of
ship system has been tried,
In several counties of the State COLOR.
ed children are practically deprived OF
the privilege of attending public schools.
The denial of education to any citizen of
Ohio is so manitestly unjust that it is
confidently believed that the Legislature
needs only to be informed that such a
wrong exists to promptly provide q rem
edy.
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS,
The off cal reports of the Penitenta-
ry, the Reform School for boys, the
Reform School for girls and the be-
nevolent institutions of the State, which
will be laid before you, slow that the
work OF .hese institutions has, during
the past year, been well done. They
will, without question, receive from you
all needed encouragement and support.
1t seems proper, however, to direct your
attention to Ihe urgent necessity of such
legislation as will empower the Boards
of Trustees and directors charged With
the erection of buildings for the insane
and Ton the orphans of deceased soldiers,
to complete them as soon as practicable.
BY the census of 1870, the number of
insane persons in the State was 3,4l4.-
The number of patients under treatment
in the insane asylums of the State, was,
last year, only 1916. The trustees OF
the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home
report that the number of orphans in
Ohio needing care is about 500 and that
the number cared for is only about 250.
These facts sufficiently demonstrate the
Importance of the suggestion here made.
/ renew the recommendation hereto
tore made, that the Legislature provide
for the erection of suitable monuments
at the graves of General Harrison and
General IIamer.
General Harrison has many titles to
the grateful remembrance of the people
of Ohio. He was one of the pioneers of
the West, a soldier of honorable fame in
two wars against the savages, and in the
war OF 1912. a Secretary and Acting
Governor of the Northwest Territory
before Ohio was organized, law-maker
of conspicuous usefulness at the State
Capital and at Washington, and was
Chief Magistrate OF the nation at the
time of his dc ath. To honor him is to
honor all who were eminent and useful in
the early settlement of Ohio.
General Hamcr served with distinc-
tion four times in the General Assembly,
was the speaker i'll the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, was six years member of
Congress from the Browne county Dis
trict, and died in Mexico in 1915, a vol
unteer from Ohio, in the service of his
country, with the rank of Brigadier-G Gen
eral. AT the time OF lis. death, the Gen
eral Assembly, with entire unanimity,
"resolved, that the body OF the deceased
be brought from Mexico and inferred in
the soil of Ohio, at the expense OF the
State" Having undertaken, as the duty
of the State, to give the remains of Gen
eral Hamer fitting burial, the Legisla-
ture cannot regard that duty as COM
pletely performed until an appropriate
monument has been built at his grave.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
Since the adoption of the present con-
stitution, the Governors duties have
compelled him to reside at the Capitol
If any change is made in respect to the
powers and duties of the executive in
] the REVISION aOOuL 10 DC maze OF the
constitution, the change, it is probable,
will increase rather than diminish his
duties. The evident improperly of sub
iecting each new incumbent of the office
TO the inconvenience and expense of pro-
curing and furnishing suitable resi-
dence for the short period of Govern
or's term of office, has led, in many
States, to the purchase of Governors
Mansion. Three OF the States adjoining
Ohio have adopted this course. 1t can
not be doubted that OHIO will, at no s.
tant day, follow their example. The
rapid increase in the value Of real estate
in Columbus in consequence of its pres
ent growth, and its future, gives force
to the suggestion that if the State is to
purchase a Governors residence at all, it
would be we'll to do it promptly.
The importance of wise legislation on
the subject of railroads, in State hav-
ing the geographical position which be-
longs TO Ohio, cannot be over estimated.
The greatest part OF the trade and travel
between the commercial and manutactur-
ing States of the east and the agricul-
tural States of the west, and of the bust
ness of the continental railways which