Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-02-12

personal rights, and, in q word, none OF
the amenities OF refined and advanced
aumanliving. aud that hotguns, whisky,
ioHngirg at tha cross roads, eoarseneEs,
~fawlessness, disorder and ignorance are
everywhere rampant and dominant In
Missouri fs
WHOLLY U~NwARRANTED.
The school system is ample and admir-
able. q A high average of Intelligence OBJ
tatns almost universally. Law, order,
good government, security OF life, prop
erty and person, immunity from crime
and every species of outlawry, with rel1-
-gion and morals, are AZ paramount n
| universal In North Missouri as In the
naighhorhnod OF Michigan University,
0berlin College or Faneaii Hall. The
/ proof of this is patent to a visitor OF a
day. Here in beautiful, typical Audrain
County they have
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS
advantages of q high order. There are
In the county 85 free public schools, &c
mostly new and ~tastefully built school
houses, with modern appointments. and
an enrolment OF $3.50 school children.
The elements of a good English educa-
ton are offered free to every child In the
county. With a permanent and inalien-
able school fund of $4,000, a three mill
tax; the apportionment from the State
school fund, the public fines and penal
ties, and a liberal and advancing school
sentiment. popular intelligence Is not
likely to depreciate.
THE PUBLI ORA
are carefully guarded and fostered too
by the presence and influence of 26
churches, representing nearly all the
denominations, and are nowhere dis
played to better advantage than In the
general observance Of the Sabbath, and
especially In the
ONE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
Of county affairs. There are no repudi-
ators of the public credit and obligation
here. Every public promise to pay Is
honored with prompt payment of princi-
pal and interest. They nave III high
measure that singular and inestimabie
virtue called
POPULAR CONSCIENCE,
and make 1t the inexorabie rule or meas
ure of judgment and action In ali public
administration. 1t is as Interchangeable
as the law of the Modes and Persians,
and though s.
B ENTERPRISE
has tmpelled the expenditure OF $780,
UGO-principat and interest-for the
building of railways; $65, 900 for county
buildings and appointments, and not less
than $4,000 for the bridges, with a Ill.,
esal expenditure for Incidental uses, ali
within little more than a decade, every
dollar Of county obligation has been paid
at maturity, nobody has had the hardi-
hood to V talk reputation, and happy,
r,1.,a.1,,1 A yti .u1. 10 t,rnaff0ryty
OUT OF pEBr
to-day, only about sos, 600 OF bonds re-
naming unpaid, ample provision for the
liquidation OF which is already made In
the assessment now being completed
And the county Ia offered for its railway
stock, nearly enough cash In hand to
cancel this nominal obligation without
reeorting to the impending levy for this
purpose. The county paper bears 8
handsome premium. and the
NOMINAL
after the present year-less than one pei
cent for all purposes, pom a valuation
OF 81, e49, ll3-will rest lightly upou q
brave and honest people, who have
woTthily earned for their fair domain the
houors of
MODEL OUNTY
The honesty, enterprise, Intelligence
public and personal morals, progressive
tendencies, and cosmopolitan style AM
temper OF the 20, 900 people of Audrair
County, not less than it's commanding
geographical position, uniformly rici
soil. charming Landscape, varied produc