Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-12-14
WHOLE NO. 1855.

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use of man, 10 the Improvement of
machinery to aid the agriculturalist
in his labor and in bis knowledge of
scientific subjects necessary to q
thorough system of economy in agri-
cultural production, namely, chemis-
try, botany, etymology, etc. A
study of this report by those inter-
ested in agriculture and deriving
their support from it, will find it of
value in pointing out their articles,
which are raised IN greater quanti-
ties than the needs of the world re-
quire, and must sell, therefore, for
less than the cost of production, and
those which command profit over
the cost of production because there
is not an over-production. call
special attention to the need of the
department for a new gallery for the
reception of the exhibits returned
from the Centennial Exhibition, in
Guiding the exhibits donated by very
many foreign nations, and the rec.
concentrations of the Commissioner
of Agriculture generally. The re-
port of the District Commissioners
and the Board of Health are just re-
ceived, too late to read them and
make recommendation thereon, and
they are herewith submitted.
THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.
The International Exhibition held
in Philadelphia this year, in CON-
memoration of the one hundredth
anniversary of American Independ-
ance, has proven great success,
and will no doubt be of enduring ad-
vantage to our country. 1t has
shown great progress in the arts,
sciences and mechanical skill made
in q single century and demonstrated
that we are but little behind other
nations 10 any one branch, while in
some we scarcely have a rival. 1t
has, too, not only served to bring
people and products of skill and la
Dor from all parts of the world to-
gether, but in bringing together the
people from all sections of our own
country, which must prove
great benefit in the information
impaired and pride OF country en-
gsndered 1t has been suggested
by scientists interested in and con-
nected with the Smithsonian institu-
ton in and communicated here with,
that the Government exhibits be re-
moved to the Capital, and suitable
building be purchased or erected for
it's accommodation as a permanent ex-
hibit. | earnestly Recommend this,
and believing that Congress will Sec
ond this view, directed that the
Government exhibits at the Centen~
NAL Exhibition should remain where
they are, except such as might be
injured by remaining in building
not intended as protection against
bad weather, or such as may be
wanted by the Department furnish
ing them, until the question of per-
manent exhibition is acted on.
Although the money appropriated
by Congress to enable the participa>
ton of the several departments in
the International Exhibition of 1876
was not sufficient to carry out the
undertaking to the full extent at
first contemplated, it gives me pleas
ure to refer to the very efficient and
creditable manner in which the
board appointed from the several de-
partments to provide an exhibition
on the part of the government have
discharged their duties with the funds
placed at their command, without
precedent to guide Them in the
preparation of such display.
The success of their Iabors
was amply attested by the
sustained attention which the con-
tents of the Government Building
attracted during the period of the
exhibition from both foreign and
native people.
am strongly impressed with the
value of the collection made by the
government for the purposes of the
Exhibition illustrating, as it does,
the general resources of the country,
the statistical and practical eviden-
ces of our growth as a nation, and
the uses and application of applied
sciences in the administration of the
affairs of government. Many nations
having voluntarily contributed their
exhibits to the United States, to in
crease the interest in any perman-
ent exhibition Congress may provide
for. For this act of generosity they
should receive the thanks of the
people, and respectfully suggest
that resolution of Congress to that
effect be adopted.
OUR SYSTEM OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECT
ION.
The attention of Congress cannot
be too earnestly called to the neces-
sity of throwing some greater safe
guard over the method of choosing
and declaring the election OF
President. Under the present
system, there seems to be no
provided remedy for contesting
the election in any one state.
The remedy is partially, no doubt,
in the enlightenment of the electors,
the compulsory support of the free
schools, and the disfranchisement of
all who cannot read and write the
English language after fixed pro-
baton. This would meet my hearty
approval. l would not make this
apply, however, to those already
voters, but would to oil becoming
so after the expiration of the proba-
ton fixed upon. Foreigners coming
to the country to become citizens
who are educated in their own
language would ACQUIRE the reonisite