Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21

manifest propr1ety IN CHANGING the form of the ap-
preparation from an 1ndef finite to fixed sum-
such sum, be it more or less, the legitimate
needs of the university may require.
ESTIMATES.
The secretary Of state estimates the expenditures
Tor the calendar $780, will be 1868 305 81 and
the receipts under existing laws, follows:
Iaxes..... ................... 800, 1855 81
halI"ay companies ................... $4,000 90
insurance companies. Observation-Disclosures. 900 90
miscellaneous sources. ................. 500 90
Iotal Observation-Disclosures $677 1856 81
If your appropriations do not materially exceed
the secretary's estimates tax levy by This legisla-
ture of 1920, 5000 will be ample for all purp oses
1t does not need, think, that should amplify
the views heretofore expressed upon the subject of
appropriations and public expenditures. It is
neither prudent nor popular to withhold Whist is
necess airy. The people of Wisconsin are not stin-
gy, nor do they expecs their representatives to be
niggardly in the management of public business
They realize that penuTiousnss does constitute
economy, and therefore will approve wise expendi-
lures and account them profitable investments.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
The VIII ole number of boys in attendance at the
Industrial School for Boys in Waukesha, during.
the last fiscal year, was 1885, and the average
attendance 425. The number admitted was 125, as
against ISL last year, and the number discharged
113. The current expenses were $42, 8e672 or at
the rate of $1O0.86 per inmate "a against $l14.52
last year. The amount paid for salaries and wages
was $13.8ln3 6, and for subsistence Sl1G974 Al The
sum of $13,s00.00 has been laid towards the erec-
ton of new buildings.
$50 00c, in addition to surplus and the sums to be
received from Counties to meet the expenses of the
current year.
OF the amounts heretofore appropriated for
building purposes, there will remain, when the
present buildings completed and paid for, the
sum OF So, 2Ol "a, which the managers propose to
expend in building hospital and ice house. They
claim that this sum represents in part the value of
the labor of the boys in the erection of the build
ings the past summer, and that it may the refore
be legitmately expended in providing other needed
structures.
The 'demic which prevailed in that institution
last summer attracted wide attention and elected
much discussion. 1t is easy to bs wise after the
fact. The b alth of the boys, and all connected
with the school, had been for years excep-
tlonally good, under circumstances and
similar to those existing when the disease
broke out, and the managers are not censurable
because tn did not discover the indiscoverable
The total number of cases of typno-malarlal fever
in population of nearly 5U0, 80, six of them
terminating fatally The promptness, vigor and
skill with which the diseas hand ed after its
breaking out, is creditable to the managers and
attending physician
The managers of the Industrial school for girls in
Milwaukee not required to report to the state
but do in fact, favor with copy of their report
when published. Not having received their report
for the past year, am unable to give you the de-
tails of their work. I have, however, visited their
institution, and been much gratifed aud encour-
aged in witnessing the success of the labors of the
phianthropic ladies who have its management in
charge. I persuaded that the advantages of
this school are not sufficiently known or appreci--
ated throughout the state. Magistrates and others.
who clothed with au hority and with ret ponsi-
bties in such matters, should to it that girls
who ought to be in that school are sent there az
they see to it that boys sent to the school in
Waukesha. Woman's influence and example, for
evil as well as for good, are far more potent than
mans, and hence it is vitality important that girls
whose surroundings or habits are aiding them into
the paths OF shame, and sin, and crime should be
rescued-rescued not alone for themselves but for
the public good.
The building and the site occupied by the Indus
frio1 dir 49,
There Is some necessary grading to be done upon
and around the grounds, and something also should
be done in the way of ornamentation, by planting
trees, constructing walks and otherwise. The
managers have no funds with which to do this
work or means of securing them. except by volun-
tary benefactiops, and all that can be secured in
this way are needed to meet current expenses. /
therefore recommend an appropriation to the man.
ayers to enable them to make these necessary i'm
provements.
DEPENDENT CHILDREN
I cannot forbear in this connection calling atten-
ton to the unsatisfactory provision made by the
state for the care of dependent children who are
simply poor and withc ut homes. The authorities.
are by law wisely prohibited from sending them to
the poor house, and with equal reason ought to be
prohibited from sending them to the industrial
schools. They ought not to be brought into asso--
citation or contact with paupers with children
who are incorrigible or have begun criminal prac-
tices Their true places in the thousands of
homes where they needed and would be well
come, where they could confer as well as receive
benefits. Institution life at best is but poor sub
dren should be only batting place and distribut-
ing station The more reflect upon this subject
the more positive become my convictions that the
next public enterprise to be undertaken in Wiscor-
sin snculd be school for dependent children,
separate and distinct from the industrial schools
STATE PRISON.
The number OF convicrs confined in the state
pr. son, September so, 1879, 309-thirty seven
less than were there year previous. The average
average for the preceding year. There were only
40 commitments during the year, against 213r
for the year ending September so, 1878. 1t does
not follow however, that there has been a decrease
in CT me, under the change in the law relating
to larceny, many are now ntenced to county
jais who were formerly sent to state prison. / am
very reluctant to recommend return to the law as
it prior to the revision of the statutes yet
it must be conceded that incarceration in the ave-
rage Jail is not conducive to reformation of char
acter. However unfortunate it may be for this
class of offenders 1t certainly is oredtable to the
state that our criminal population is not numer-
Gus enough to justify the erection of an interme-
date prison. A temporary and tentative solution
of the problem may possibly be found in utilizing
the north wing of the prison at waupup,.
as an intermediate prison under some appro-
pirate name other than state pr son. This would
obviate the necessity of erecting and expensive
buildings and providing extra corps OF superin-
tendents ard officers, and measurably remove the
odium attaching to sentence to state prison.
OF the $50 eonvic's committed to the state prison
during the last fiscal year. only twenty had thereto
fore been in prison, and but seventeen were
without the rudlments of an education. The total
cost to feed, warm, clothe, guard, instruct and
discharge the prisoners was $40, 270 08, or $2.36
ments were. for salaries and wages SIS, $685. and
for subsistence. 3fT Iha total reCentss