The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-30
NORMAL SCHOOL.

| 1869 ,92S. 90, or an average or Sl5,49O.'
! 90 per annum has been appropriated
for its wants. 1t has 13 professors and
assistants, 800 students, and very
creditable apparatus and library
STATE PRISON.
1t is impossible to ascertain without
great labor the nature of the appropria.
tions for this institution, as part have
been for deficit in running expenses, and
part for building purposes; but from
1856 to 1874 inclusive, it has drawn
from the Treasury 44,545.OO. Al.
most all of this has been expended in
buildings and grounds, nearly the whole
Prison, walls and shops having been re-
built in the last 20 years.
1t has drawn nothing from the Treas
ury for running expenses for the last
six years, but on the contrary, over
$40, 700 has been expended from its
earnings in new buildings. Was there
ever anywhere such showing of duty
we'll performed as this? Do not these
figures bear me out in the statement
that the Republican party created the
State and gave it shape and comliness =?
In 20 years it has expended for in-
stitutions of learning, the care of the in
sane, the deaf, dumb and blind, and the
criminal classes, So 5,5O7 10000 ; while
their predecessors in power, forgetting
their duty to the State and its helpless
and unfortunate classes, never gave
during It's whole existance 81 100000
for these purposes.
They were running the State as a
political machine; but it was left to the
Republican party to show the State as
the father of its people, quick to see
their needs, aud prompt to supply them
While thus doing its full duty in
great things, it has not been unmindful
of the lesser needs of its citizens.
" The Geological Survey" of the
State has been conducted and its re-
suits published.
A " Fish Commission has been es-
tablished, and our inland waters largely
stocked with fish.
Large improvements have been made
in the ST. Mary's Falls Ship Canal !;
tolls upon it have been largely reduced
for the benefit of our ship owners.
A liberal bounty was paid to estab
lsh the manufacture of salt, now one of
our leading products.
The State Library has been fostered
and cared for, so that to day it is one of
the best of its kind in the Union, having
over 10000 volumes on its shelves,
valued at 800, 600, while in 1854 it only
had $500 volumes valued at $4,000.
The State Militia has been thoroughly
organized, equipped and uniformed, and
is credit 10 the State and its mem
bers.
The new Capitol Building is pro-
crossing rapidly, S407 10000 having
. been expended on it up to this time, and
not dollar of debt created for it.
When the Coat of Arms Of the State
IS placed in its rotunda, the golden
.. motto Pay as you 90 can be added
; to it, as a rule for the guidance of future
rulers and people.
! We have reduced the bonded indebt
edness of the State very largely, IL
spite of the increase during the years o
the Rebellion.
Y We began the State work as toe
, many of us perhaps begin business, by
e borrowing We borrowed in 1885
$4,000 900 90. We did not pay th'
interest on this loan, and in 1912 4;
issued some half million of bouds, will
! which to pay this interest that had thus
I been allowed to accumulate.
The State debt in 1854 was S2.531
}. 545.OO, in 1866, So 979, 100000 Will
U today it is 1889, ,292.0O, being les
:; than it ever was since 1888, and show
l. ing a reduction since 1854 of $941
a 253.00
We have paid for interest upon th
State debt from November Both, 1854
i. to September 81, 1873, S3,15S,37O.O(
Is the largest amount paid in any on
1. year being s244,536.O0, in 1866.
J. The reduction in the State debt hs
in reduced the annual interest to SLY
h 10000 in 1873, and to about S11O,OO(
D. in 1874.
In addition to all this, we did ou
full share towards putting down th
N Rebellion and were compelled to borrow
" from 1861 to 1866, S1,630,67S.00 fc
,e =, this purpose, all of which has been pal
le T. except the bonds due in 1890, 100,
~ ~ and these we would pay to-day coul
20 we induce the holders to present the
= for payment,
a. Is not this a record of which we ma
~ well be proud
Is there citizen of the State wi
~ ~ dot feel personal pride in it ?
" ~ Who of us, as we stand here to-da
a. = grudges single penny of the none
~, ne that has been so wisely invested ?
In y Who of us would have the Sta
u anything different from what it is, e
cept that it may be better ?
Who of us, if he has grace enough
". thank God for anything, does not thar
of Him that this is our home, that