The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-12

Attention is called to the fact that our laws
make no suitable psoyision=t Tor the education
Inexpensive place. is proposed in this report.
The report contains suggestions in regard to
additions and improvements to existing insti-
tutions, and recommends the erection OF an
other prison and asylum for the insane.
While appreciate the force of these recon-
mendations. feel bound to state that do not
think that the State is in condition to engage
Immediately in the construction OF new public
institutions involving direct appropriations
from the treasury.
The board expresses its approval OF the act
OF 1876, which provides for the appointment
of inspectors Of illuminating, oil, and disap-
proves any reduction Of the present standard
great public importance and should be rigidly
enforced. The inspectors are appointed by
the judges Of the district courts, but no officer
Is empowered to remove them for inef6ciency
or malteasance in the performance Of their du-
ties: 1t should be amended in this respect so
that tire Governor, upon cause shown, may
have the power to depose unworthy appoint
eeS.
THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION.
The Legislature at its last session appointed
board OF centennial commissioners, and
made small provisional appropriation to ena'
ble them to enter upon their work. 1t ap-
pears from their report that they have taken
steps to collect cabinet of ores, minerals, fos-
slis, soils and building stones of the State,
and specimens of our forest trees and plants.
They have succeeded by personal efforts in
awakening lively interest among our manu.
iacturers. They express very emphatically
their conviction that the occasion is one which
hno1l1 has mail ~r%n 00 %n%n Ck~Ao
recommend an appropriation of $50, 600 tor
that purpose. They recommend ns to follow
the example of other western States, AMI to
erect building to te exclusively used for the
exhibition of our contributions.
We are now at the beginning of the hun
dredth year of onr national independence. For
one century the idea of s.t- government, as
embodied in our institutions, has been sab
jected to all the tests which try the stability OF
nations, and it has withstood them all. For
eign war, territorial aggranaizement, the can.
ker Of peace, the disintegrating influence of
slavery, civil dissension ending in civil war,
have by turns attacked our institutions with
all their powers of destruction, only to leave
those institutions frmer and more glorious
than before.
At Philadelphia in l776 it was pronounced
that all men are created equal and that all gov
ernments derive their just powertrom the con-
sAAoso }
OF the earth shall meet in commemoration If
that event and vie in exposition of the pro-
ducts of art and industry.
This occasion is one which appeals for rec
ognition to every patriotic heart. This COM
memorative act is to be performed at a time
when our country is at peace with all nations;
when the animosities Of traternal strife are
nearly effaced by the sweet oblivion of restored
love tor our country when statesmen from
every State are laboring together to make the
assurance OF our future doubly sure when no
word is heard, no argument spoken for
acknowledgement of the Union; when every
thought is for its perpetuity when the influ-
ence of education has sufused the very being
OF every citizen of the Republic; when art and
science, keeping pace with the advance of our
country in prosperity, exhibit their results on
every hand, not only in the luxurious appli-
ances Of civilization b9t also in the satisfaction
OF the daily wants oflife.
You will find upon enquiry that other States
have made liberal appropriations with which
to enable them to take their part in this his
toric pageant with dignity and propriety, and
trust that Minnesota will appear among her
sisterhood in such guise that no comparison
will put her to shame.
FISH COMMISSION
The report of the fish commissioners pre-
sents An interesting account of their labors
during the year. They have placed in the
waters Of the State about 81, 900 California sal
mon; $4,000 Atlantic salmon; 1890 land
locked salmon, dividing them among the
lakes and rivers Of twenty-five counties. In
mon Were placed in iatching houses at Still
water and Red Wing. These eggs Matched
with :ery small percentage of failure, and
during the coming year the Try will be depos-
tied in our waters. The commissioners have
also ordered 100, 600 whitefsh fry.
The history of the cultivation OF fish extends
W;%1;r, 80 -
it has been demonstrated that results of start
ling economic value eau be produced where
until recently no influence was felt besides the
spontaneous and unregulated operations of
natural causes. All civilized nations have
made the subject one of state policy and con-
conclusive]y proved its intimate relations and
creative power in regard to those questions
which effect the well being of the people in
their most primary and material aspects.
AS matter of economy the whole subject
deserves, and will doubtless receive, your
an appropriation of 8, 600 for the necessary
of this year, and in doing so they
all attention to the fact that when the work
of planting the fish is finally thoroughly done
throughout the State, the necessity tor appro-
priations OF this character will cease.
THE STATISTICAL BUREAU.
The Commissioner of Statistics has fled his
annual report of the labor of that difficult and
department. It's functions, though
they have been enlarged every year, are yet
felt by that officer to be inanequate, in many
respects, to present a complete exhibition Of
the resources and progress Of the State The
therefore recommends several
amendments to the statute, which are com.
mended to your consideration.
The report of the present year, comprehend
ing as it does the results of the census, is
document of universal importance, and a state
ment of the leading results to which the sta
tistician has arrived may not be deemed unin-