Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-01-10


4. teachers in the principles and dutit
= of their high and honorable eallinl
A few thousand dollars of school fun
- applied every year to this purpOsI
will, 1t is believed, make the expeI
ditures for school purposes vastly nor
beneficial in the State.
There are serious objections to tn
the present mixed system of sehoo
management, by means of TOWNSHIP
boards and sub-district directors.
is believed that this system ought {
>, give place to the purely township sys
tenn, iE which all the schools of tn
township areunder the exclusive con
troll OF board of education chosen b,
the electors of the township. Thi
plan is in conformity with that whicl
has been adopted with satisfactory
results in most of our towns, and i
sustained by the experience of other
States in which the purely township
system has been tried.
In several counties of the State col
ored children are practically deprived
of the privilege of attending public
schools. The denial Of education TO
any citizen Of Ohio is SO manifestly
unjust that its is confidently believed
that the Legi lature needs only to be
Informed that such wrong exists to
promptly provide a remedy.
The official reports of the Peniten-
tiary, the Reform School for Boys,
Reform School for Girls, and the
Benevolent Institutions of the State.
which will be laid before you, show
that the work of these institutions
has, during the past year, been well
done. They will, without question,
receive from you all needed encourage
ment and support. 1t seems proper,
however, to direct your attention to
the urgent necessity of such legisla-
ton as VIII empower the Boards of
Trustees and Directors charged with
the erection of buildings for the insane
and for the orphans of deceased sol
dies, to complete them as soon as prac-
ticable-
By the census of 1870. the number
OF insane persons in the State was
34l4. The number of patients under
treatment in the insane asylums of
the State was, last year, only 1885,
The Trustees of the Soldiers aud Sail
ors' Orphans Home report that the
number Oforphans in Ohio, needing
care, is about eight hundred, and that
the number cared for is only about
two hundred and fifty. These facts
sufficiently demonstrate the impor-
tance of the suggestion here made.
Irenew my Recommendation here
tOfore made, that the Legislature pro-
vide for the erection of suitable monu-
ments at the graTes of General Harri-
son and General Hamer.
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 hon.
! orable fame in two wars against the
saYages, and in the war of 1912, a
Secretary and Acting Governor of the
Northwest Territory before Ohio was
organized, la@-maker of conspicu-
Gus usefulness at the State Capital
and at Washington, and was Chief
Magistrate Of the nation at the time
of his death. To honor him is to hon
or all who were eminent and useful
in the early settlement of Ohio.
General Hamer severed with dis
tinction four times in the General
Assembly; was the Speaker of the
House Ofrepresentatives; wss six years
a amember of Congress from the Brown
county District, and died in Mexico,
in 1916, volunteer from Ohio, in the
service of his country, with the rank
of Brigadier General. At the time of
his death, the General 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 Legis-
lature cannot regard that duty as
completely performed until an appro-
pirate monument has been built at
his grave.
Since the adoption of the present
Constitution, the Governors duties
have compelled him to reside at the
Capital. If any change is made in
respect to the power and duties of the
Elective in the revision about TO be
made of the Constitution, the change,
it is probable, will increase rather
than diminish his duties. The evil
dent improperly of subjecting each
new incum bent of the office to the
inconvenience and expense of prOcu-
ring and furnishing a suitable resi-
dence for the short period of Govern
or's term of Office, has led, in many
States, to the purchase of a Governors
Mansion. Three of the States adioin-
ing Ohio have adopted this course. It |
cannot be doubted that Ohio will, at |
no distant day, follow their example. |
The Iapid increase IN the value of |
real estate in Columbusin consequence
of its present growth, and its promise |
of continued prosperity in the future,
gives force to the suggestion that, If |
the State is to purchase q Governors |
residence at all, it would be we'll to do |
it promptly.
The importance of wise legislation
on the subject of railroads, i'm State !
having the geographical position
which belongs TO Ohio, can not be /
over estimated. The greater part of |
the travel between the commercial /
and manufacturing States of the East
and the agricultural States of the
West, and of the business of the con-
tinental railways which connect the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, passes
over the railroads of this State. Four
teen years ago, Governor Chase, speak
ing Ofthe railroads of Ohio, said =
This vast interest, affecting vitality
so many other interests, has grown
suddenly to its present dimensions
system, without general or
yaniZaton, and, in some important
without responsibility u
Then the railroads of the State carried
annually about a million of passen-
gers, and their gross receipts were
about six millions of dollars year
Last year they carried twelve millions
Of passengers, and their gross receipts
exceeded thirty millions of dollars.
All cf the just powers OF the corpO-
-atiOns which conducts this immense f:
business, are derived from the laws of {
he State. If these laws fail to guard
therights and the interests
Df our citizens, it is the duty of the {
General Assembly to supply their de- {
ects. Serious and well-grOunded ap- {
are felt that in the man
lgement Of these companies, which
ire largely controlled by DOn-resi- I
tents Of Ohio, practices, not sanction /
ID by the law, nor By sound morality, /
nave become common, which are {
10 the great interests of I
he great body of the people, and {
which, if continued, will ultimately {
iestroy the prosperity of the State. {
Regarding railroads as the most 9
lseful instrumentality by which in /
ercourse is carried on between differ )
mt sections Of the country, the people