Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-16
ANNUAL MESSAGE
GOV. JOHN s. PlLLSBURY,
Delivered to the Minnesota Legislature
! Jan. 9th, 1879,

d:n ata,:s.. q tAsss"ete and House Reprs-
The annual recurrence Of public event, conyenes
you this year for the deliberations Of the wsntynrst
regular session Of tho State Legislature.
For something less than twenty -one years, Minne-
sofa has enjoyed political existence ID nernber OF
this union Of States. They have bes yssrs not Of
uninterrupted prosperity, but Of varying fortune and
vcissitude; yet from the first struggling experiment
Of Sovereignty to the assured position Of day. our
career has been marked by constant and
growth IN Al that should constitutes stable and pros
porous commonwealth. Without here Inducing in
the pleasing retrospecton which the facts Seem to
invite it is not too much to say that few years Of the
past have Afforded upon the whole more substantial
cause tor encouragement than that which has just
has acted our people, Their fields have been ea
ept from insect ravages and their labors rewarded
with general abundance. The various industrial in
education and charitable institutions have prosnered
There has been . continuance of the progress
noticed IN my last message respecting railroad con-
strqoaSn growth Of population and the absorption
h1nderance to the uniform advancement of the
general prosperity results from that unwi.e pursuit
OF agriculture which restricts its operations too
largely to the production Of single cereal. Chiefly
In consequence OF this wrongful course, tie profits
OF agriculture the past year were suddenly swept
sway throushout The Oldest and wealthiest portions
v. oss>0S ~ = AoW uo5oO N4AHIOkUuOt8 W66tu6r
which, at critical moment blghted the promise OF
q superabundant yield Of our great starie, while
spar1ng other products In unimpaired abundance.
While the effect has been to cause partial relapse
into the business depression from which our com
munides were recovering, If it shall also prove to
have checked the prevalent tendency toWerd the
contraction Of needless debt, the total result cannot
be deemed an unmixed calamity.
we extend the review to the country at large the
year will long be remembered for the unparolled
abundance Of It's agricultural products: for Increased
revival of industry; for renewed stimulus to the pro-
eress Of invention; for that proud growth Of the
national credit which triumphantly anticipated the
redemption of the national pledges and for the rapid
elimination and exposure Of that strange popular
delusion which assumes that wealth may be created
by arbitrary enactment rather than by actual pro-
duction, and which would substitute the semblance
for the substance Of prosperity. The year will moe
over; be held In both sad and honored remembrance
for the prolonged and deadly pestlence which des-
mated portions Of the country, and for hemagnsu-
nous conduct Of = great people who. saenced tie
voice of civil strife by extending the succor of k1
dred to perishing kindred with unsparing hands.
These varied evidences Of an interposng and con-
ferTing Providence, call for that prompt and CRATE
full recognition of supfems guidance which becomes
an enlightened people. -. ,
The condition of public affairs will be amply shown
you by the reports Of the several departments and
State institutions. The financial exhibit is clearly
detailed by the State auditor, summary Of which
embraced in the figures following: