Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-01-20
WHOLE NO. 1714.

herewith l transmit their second
annual report, giving detailed
statement of their operations for the
past year. Measures de,ignated tc
Increase the food resources of the
people are entitled to your careful
consideration. The appropriation OF
last year was inadequate to the wants
of the commissioners in the matter OF
state Matching house. With the
facilities of such an establishment,
the money expended will go much
further and yield more satisfactory
results. | therefore recommend that
you give the subject careful exam
nation aud such aid as in your judg-
ment the interest of the state re-
quires.
HAsTY LEGISLATION.
There are two euils which, in my
opinion, you should seek equally to
avoid One OF these is unduly pro-
longing the session. every day OF
which visits a considerable burden
upon the treasury. The other is
undue haste in the dispatch of bust
ness in the closing days OF the session,
which leads to the passage of crude
laws, and makes it impossible for the
Governor to exercise proper care in
the examination of bills that are
presented for his approval. The
remedy for both evils is, it seems to
me, that you shout apply yourselves
promptly to the labors before you,
and mature the more important pro-
jects of legislation at the earliest
possible day.
ECONOMY.
| cannot impress upon you too
strongly that In all respects you will
best meet the wishes of the people by
q strict regard for economy. La
pursuance of this policy, there is no
saving 80 trifing but that it is our
duty to realize it If we can. The
business of the State ought TO be
transacted with the smallest number
of agents that can transact it eff
GENTLY, and possibilities for retrenoh.
ment ought to be sought diligently
in all departments OF the government,
and wherever they may be found,
they ought to be improved to the
utmost. 1t has been remarked, with
what Justice | cannot assume TO say,
that the expenses incident TO the
sessions of the legislature are greater
than are warranted by actual neces-
sity. II such shall appear to be- the
fact if it shall be found that there is
a single officer or attendant that can
be dispensed with, or any other
source of expenditure that can be
closed. | earnestly recommend that
you apply the remedy. In all
of the government, the
same course should be pursued, and
10 your efforts TO this end, | pledge
you my hearty cooperation. The
conditions that now surround the
people of this country call for private
and public economy, and for the re-
form of any habits of wasteful or
needless expenditure into which we
may have fallen under more prosper
GUS circumstances.
STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES AND REFORM.
The State Board of Charities aud
Reform have prepared a very full
report of their work for the year,
and in submitting il to yoI, | would
call your attention specially to the
passages on appropriations and prison
The members of the board
nave critically examined the reports
aud condition of the State institu-
lions under their supervision, and
their recommendations are entitled TO
great weight. The care of criminals
S an important part OF every scheme
Of good government, but however
much the penal statutes OF the State
need systematIzing, radical and funda-
N en- tai changes of the law should not
be made except upon the most ma
ture deliberations.
CONCLUSION.
It is not the part of wisdom to dis
guise the fact that the people of this
state in common with those OF all
sections of the Union. have suffered
some abatement of the prosperity
that they have enjoyed in the past.
At the same time, it Is manlfestly
true that in the relative condition OF
our state, there is abundant cause for
congratulation and for gratitude to
the Providence that has made our
history record of uniform progress.
We may accept it as an evidence OF
the natural advantages of Wisconsin,
of the solid foundation upon which
her industrial and commercial inter-
ests are built, and of the intelligence
and integrity of her citizens, thai,
amid the depressing conditions that
have overtaken the country, the
credit of our business men has been
only slightly impaired, that our fiscal
institutions have, with very few ex-
ceptions, maintained their solVency,
and that labor has generally been
able 10 command employment
We have entered, gentlemen, upon
the Centennial of our existence as an
Independent Nation. 1t is fit that
we should renew the spirit in which
tie Republic had its birth, and our
determination that it shall endure 10
fulfill the great purposes of its exist
ence, and to justify the noble sacri-
fees of it's founders. Let US, to
whom the interests and the honor of
one of the states of the Union have
been committed, invite the inspira-
ton of the anniversary, and with
a firm resolve that Wisconsin shall
bear her part worthily 10 the sister
hood of states, proceed with the dis
charge of our trust.
HARRISON LUDINGT0N
MADISON, January Is, 1876.
REMEMBER TH1s.-Now is the time OF the
vear far Pneumonia Lung Fever, Coughs,