Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-16

lures for the calendar year 1SSU, Will be
1868 305.5i, and the receipts under existing
laws, follows:
taxes. .............-......S ZUi ,o00 0f
Railway companies. ............-. 395,OO0 W
Insurance companies. ............ $4,000 on
Miscellaneous sources ........- 9,6OO W
Total. Observation-Disclosures 677,455 81
If your appropriations do not materially e1-
coed the secretary estimates tax levy by
this legislature of 1920. $50 90 will b. ample for
all purposes.
1t does not need, l think, that | should am
plify the views heretofore expressed upon the
subject of appropriations and public expend-
itures. 1t is neither prudent nor popular to
withheld what Is necessary. The people of
Wisconsin not stingy, nor do they expect
their representatives to be niggardly in the
management of public business. They realize
that penuriousness does not constitute econ
omy. and therefore will approve wise expendi-
lures and account them profitable invest
ments.
EDUCATION.
The report of the State superintendent shows
that the total amount OF money expended for
the support of the common schools of the State
during the past year, was 81 l52, 1915, seven
ty-fOur per cent. of which for teachers
wages; that 900, 2S6 pupils attended these
schools, and received instruction from 8, S15
teachers in 1925 school houses. The estimated
VAlue Ol tutbe SCHDDi HOUSES Is '-1.OlJ no OIL
of the sites upon which they are located. S73S,-
$50. %, and of the apparatus they contain, 49,,
OH 30-an aggregate investment for common
school purposes OF S5,2i4 979.06. The total
number of childrea over four and under twenty
years of age, is reported at Ash, 355, with less
than 3, 600 of them in school districts maintain
ing schools less than five months in the year.
The expenditures for the four normal schools
were S72, 70S.07, of which S57, 49S. 40 were paid
to instructors. The attendance during the
year aggregated SOB different pupils.
The catalogue of the State University shows
4Sl different students in attendance during the
year. The board of regents report $40, $685. Is
paid out during the year for current expenses,
of which $40, 206.77 were received by instruc-
tors.
These statistics fare presented for your con-
slider alton, not by way of criticism COM
plant, but 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 schools, where the mass of
our people receive their education, and that
this improvement is due, in large measure,
primarily to the Jealous and Intelligent labors
of State and county superintendent, and the
enthusiastic cooperation of the professional
teachers vino have graduated fron normal
schools and State University, and the excellent
colleges and other institutions of learning not
in any way aided by the State. 1t ia, there
FORE a serious Misrepresentation to assume, a.
l fear many do, that the only justification and
reason fer expanding the large sums of money
necessary to equip and maintain our normal
schools and university are to bs found in the
direct and primary results of their labors in
furnishing the opportunity and means of
education to the pupils in attendance. These
results, though In and of themselves by no
means mportant are among the least of the
benefits conferred by these institutions. Their
full fruition is not seen without including the
public schools, proper, and the good therein
complished.
The ordinary income of the University is de-
rived from the interest upon the University
and Agricultural College funds, amounting
last year to $50, 34.23, and the proceeds of the
one-tenth of mill tax provided for in section
800 of the Revised Statutes, which was 5il,-
5000. These sums appear to be adequate for
all the present necessities of the institution,
and if the present ratio of assessment is to con-
tinue. there is perhaps no necessity for any
change in the law; but if it should be increas-
ed, as it ought to be to represent more nearly
the actual value of taxable property, there
would seem to be manifest proprlety in chang
ing the form of the appropriation from in
definite to a hXed sunl-such sum, be II more
or less, as the legitimate needs of ne Univer-
sity mayrequire
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
The whole number of boys in attendance at
the Industrial School for Boys in Waukesha
during the last fiscal year. was 435, and the
average attendance 425. The number admit
ted was l25 against Isl last year, and the
number discharged ll3. The current expenses
were S42, S6672 or at the rate of 300. Sc per
inmate, as against Sll4.52 last year. The
amount paid for salaries aud wages was SI3,-
S1036. and for subsistence Sil.091.4l. The
sum of Sl3, 800 90 has been paid toward the
erection of new buildings.
The managers ask for an appropriation of
$4,000 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 S5 20l.14, which the managers pro-
pose to expeud in building hospital and ice
house. They claim that this sum represents in
part the value of the labor of the boys in the
erections of the buildings the past summer,
and that it may therefore be legitimately ex-
pended in providing other needed structures
The epidemic which prevailed in that institu-
tion last summer attracted wide attention and
elected much discussion. 1t Is easy to be wise
after the fact The health of the boys, and all
connected with the school, had been for years
exceptionally good, under circumstances aud
conditions, to all appearance, precisely similar
to those existing when the disease broke out,
and the managers are not ceGsurable because
they did not discover the indiscoverabe. The
total plumber of cases of typho-malarial fever.
in population of near 500, was 80, six of them
terminating fatally. The promptness, vigor
and skill with which the disease was handled
after its breaking out, Is creditable to the
managers aud the attending physician.
The managers of the industrial schools for
girls in Milwaukee are not required to report
to the State, but do, in fact, favor me with a
copy of their report when published. Not
having received their report for the past year. 1
am unable to give you the details of their
work. Ihave, no xever. visited their institu-
ton. and been much grati6ed and encouraged
in witnessing the success of the iabo's OF the
philanthropic ladies who have its management
in charge. an pursuadet that the advsn-
tages of this school are not sufficiently kup"n
or appreciated throughout the State. Mags-
trates aud Others who are clothed with author
ity aud with responsibility in such matters,
shou Id see to it that girls who ought to be IN
that school are sent there, they see to 1t that
boys are sent to the school in Waukesha.
Woman's influence and example, for evil as
well as good, are far more potent than mans