Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-16
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
Third Annual Message Of Governor
John s. Pillsbury, Delivered ID /,
the Legislature Janu-
airy 8, 1879.
A Review OF the Several Departments
Of the State Government and
of Public Institutions.

Gentlemen Of the Senate and House Of Represent
you this year for tho deliberations Of the twenty.
hrst regular session Of the state Legislature.
For something less than twenty one years Min
bsr Of this union Of states. They have been years
Of not uninterrupted prosperity: but OF varying
fortune and vicissitude; yet frem the first strug.
position Of o-day. our career has been marked by
Constant aud unsurpassed growth III all that
should constitute table and prosperous com.
monwealth. lthoGt here indrlRng IN The
pleasing retrospecion which the facts seem to in
vte it is not too much say that few years Of the
past have Afforded upon the whole more substan.
just terminated. No wasting pes.ilence nor des.
titution has afflicted our people. Their fields have
been exempt from insect ravages, and their abors
industrial interests of the state have been fairly
advanced. Our educational and charitable institu-
tions have prospered. There has been contnu-
ance Of the progress noticed in my last message
respecting railroad construction, growth Of popu-
latiOn ana the absorption and cultivation Of our
unoccupied lands, and the sole hinderance to the
uniform advancement OF the general prosperity
results~ from that unwlse puEsuit OF agriculture
which restricts its operations too largely to the
production Ut . single cereal. Chiefly III conse-
quence Of this wrongful course the Pronts OF aeri
culture the past year were suddenly swept away
throughout the oldest and westhiest pottiona Of
the state by a few days OF nnpropitious weather
which, at critical moment. ollgnted the promise
spsriug ether products in unimpsi:od abundance.
While the effect has been to cause partial relapse
into the business depression from whichCur COM
munities recovering, If it shall also prove 10
have checked the pr vslent tendency tow ard the
contraction Of needless the total result can not
be deemed an unmixed calamity.
If we extend the review to the country at large,
the year will long be remembered fort Q unparal.
lelled abundance Of Its agricultural products; for
increased revival Of industry; for renewed stimu-
!us to the progress Of invention; for that proud
growth Of the national credit which trlumphantly
anticipated the redemption Of the national pleuees
and for the rapid cumiua ion aud exposure of that
strange popular deusion which assumes that wealth
may be craated by arbitrary enactment rather than
by actual production, aud which would substitute
the semblance for the substance of prosperity,
The year will, moreover, be held IN both sad and
honored remembrance for the prolonged and dead
~ pestilence with decimated portions of the
country, and for The magnanimous conduct Of a
great people, who slenccd the voice Of civil strife
By extending the succsr Of kindred to perlsh,ng
kindred with uusparing hand.
These varied evidences of al interpreting and con-
ferring Providence cali Tor that prompt grateful
recognition of supreme guidance which becomes an
enlightened people.
Tn condi ion o; public affairs will be amply
shown you by the reports Of the several depart.
ments aud state Institutions. The financial exhibit
clearly detailed by the ttate auditor, summary
OF which Is emo ace ID the figures following: