Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-22

Taxes. ,.................... f2oI $50 o.
Railway companies ................ $500 %
Insurance companies. sN,UtO W
Miscellaneous sources. ................. 2soj ~
Total ......,........ .-..-......... Sn'f,Aeo "a
If your appropriations do not materially exceed
the secretary estimates, tax levy by his IL gisla
ture of 5000 60 will he ample for all purp
1t does rot need, l think. that should amplify
the views heretofore expressed upon the subject OF
appropriation and public expenditures. 1t is
neither prudent nor popular to Withhold VIII Is
neces AIRY. The people of Wisconsin are not stin-
gy, nor do they elpec their repres natives to be
| niggaidly i'll the management OF pubhc business.
They realize that penurious ~ SIS uot not constitute
economy, and therefore viii approve wise expendi-
lures ard account them profitable Investments.
EDUCATION.
The report of the ate superintendent shows
that the total am ount of money expended fer the
support Of The common schools of toe state during
The past wear, was Sl,152 7s3 Is, sew, ntyfour per
cent. Of VIII Gu tor teachet s. wages; that 293,
2s6 pupils attended these schools, and rece ved
instruction from ISIS teachers in 1925 school
house. The estimated Va ne OF these scho n
houses is si3l9,4l5 81 Of the sites upon which
tn are located f73S 52J.95, and OF the apparatus
sbey contain Sl57 q 2 30-an agg egate Investment
for common school purposes Of $i2l4 9i9.O6 The
total number OF children Over four aud under
twenty yeas of age, IL reported at sS4 33, with
less than 5000 of them in school Districts MAIN
taiui Ig schools less THAI five months in tn year.
The Expenditures for the four normal schools
So 7oS07, OF which s5, 49s w-fe PAL 20 in-
srucors The attendance during the year aggre-
gated s03 different pupils.
abe catslogu- of tine state university shows 4Sl
different suaents in attendance curing tn year.
The boa d OF regents report $40 s51 is paid out
during the year for curreut Exp nses Of which
s. 2i6.T7 were received by instructors.
These statistics irese ted for your consider
ation not by way of Cit cem or complaint, hut
with the hope that they will attract to the subject
OF education the attention which its importance
demands. l believe our schools are improving
from year to year, particularly the rural district
education and that this improvement is due, IN
large measure, primarily to the alou5 and inell-
gent labors of state AID county superlntendents,
and the enthusiastic cooperation OF the profession
| al teachers who have graduated from our normal
schools and state univ rsity, and the excellent col
leges other institutions of learning not in any
way aided by the state 1t is, therefore, serious
misapprehension to assume, as fear many do, that
the only jusifc ition and reason for eypendng the
! large sums OF money necessary to equip ana main
taiu normal schools and uniy ers1ty, 10 he
! found in the direct and prim ry results of their
labors in furnishing the opportunity and means OF
| education To the pupils III attendance. These
| results though III and Of themselves by no u
unimpottant are among the least of the benefi 4
conferred by these institutions. Their full iruitiun
| is not seen without including the public schools
| proper, and the good therein accomplished.
The ordinary income OF the university il derived
from the interest upon the uuive sty and gricul
| tural college funds, amounting last Year to $780,
344 %, and the proceeds Of the one-tehtl OF mill
tax provided for in sect on 800 of the revised stat
rites which was 81 ,3l0.5o. These sums appear to
Oe adequate for ali the present M cesstes OF the
insti ution and II the present ratio OF assessm Mt
| is to continue there is perhaps no necessity ( r
any change in the law butift should he inc eased.
it ought to be to represent more nearly the actual
va ne Of taxable property, there would seem to be
manifest propriety Ia chaDping the form of the ap
propriat on from iDde finite to fixed sum, 90
such sum, be it more or lees, 90 the legitimate
| needs of the university may require.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
The VIII ole number of boys IN attendance at the
| industrial School for Boys. in Wsukesha, during
| the last fiscal year, 435, and the average
| attendance 425 The number admitted was lz5, rs
| against Isl last year, and the nuaber discharged
49, The current expenses were S42, $50 ~. or at
the rate of $lU0.S6 per inmate "a against STA 81
last year. The amount paid for salaries and wages
was $l3 SIC 49, and for subsistence ST. 81 Al. The
sum Of $l3, s0U'O0 has been lad towards the cree
ton of new buildings.
The managers ask for an appropriation Of
$50, 600 in addition to surplus and the sums to be
received from counties to meet the expenses OF the
| current year.
or the amounts heretofore appropriated for
| building purposes, there will remain, when the
present buildings are completed and paid for, the
sum of $5,20l "A, which the managers propose to
| expend in building hospital and ice house. They
claim that iii represents in part the va ne Of
the labor of the boys IN the erection of the suili
| ings the past Summer, aud that it may tn retore
be legitims.ely expended In providing other needed
| structures.
The d demIo which prevailed in that IN sttution
| last summer attracted wide attention and ELECTED
much discussion. II is easy to b. WIS after the
! fact. The h Alth OF the boys, and all connected
with the school, had been for years excep
honally good, under circumstances and
conditions, TO all appearance, precisely
similar to those existing when the disease
| b. ke ont, ani the managers are not censursble
because th y did not discover the indiscoyerable.
The total number of cases Of typho-malarial fever
| in population Of nearly $40, was 49, six OF Them
! terminating fatally. The promptness, yigor and
skill with which the disease hand &C after lis
breaking out. is creditsble to the managers aud
attending physician
The managers o. the Industrial school for girls in
Milwaukee are not required TO report to the state
but do, in fact favor with copy OF their rel or
| wbea published. Not having received heir report
for the past year. 1 am unable to give you the de-
tai of their work. / have, however, Wis ted their
| inst tutlon, and been much or tti6ed aud enco1r-
aged in Witnessing the success Of toe lsbors OF the
| phianthropic LADIES' who have It's IL aDagsinent ID
| charge / am perso3ded that the advantages CT
| this hool are not sufficiently known or spprec-
ated throughout the stat. Mag strates and Others
| who are clothed with su horlty and with res p)nsi
bljes in such atters, shr ud to IT that girls
who ought to be N that school are sent there, as
they see to it that boys sent 10 the school in
| Wsukeshs. Womans influence aud exam pie. for
syil as well for good, ave far more potent than
mau's aud hence 1T is vitality important that girls
| whose surroundings or habits are aiding them into
tie paths OF shame, ana sin, and crime should be
resclcd-resc ued lot alone for themselves but for
| the pbb ic good.
The building and the site occupied by the Indus
tra school for girls the properly of the state
There Is some necessary grading 10 be me upon
and 'roun the groun y, and something also should
be do.e 10 the way Of enumeration, by planting
trees, constructing walks and otherr ise. The
managers have funds with which u do this
work or no cans Of securing them except by volun-
tary bene factions. and all that he secured in
This way are needed t. meet current expenses.
therefore commend an approprat'sn 10 the D.sn-
ayers 10 enable them to make these necessary i'm
provements
DEPENDENT CHILDREN.
cannot forbear in this connection calling aten-
tion TO the unsatisfactory provision made by the
state for the care of dependent children who
,iunly moor and with ut homes. The authorities
the poor house, and with eqn,I reason eugat to b.