Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-08
Price Four Cents.

tHereDy advantage which the corporation has of being relieved
 promotve of enterprise and has carried to snccess fa issue some undertakings that conferred great history of legislation it has usually happened that when any speoisl privileges hsve granted by the It is as true now as in the days Sir William Black s.one, tnaE corporations being composed of as well private persons to deviate from the end of their institution For examples of my predecessor upoe the subject of joint stock laws made to the Legislature in Is7s with the schedule ap, the office of the Secretary shows that similar corpora ti9ns are continually being formed.
 bers, ard much more of capital, unless carefully guarded, almost inevitably generates disregard for the rights of others for the simple reason that such combination ncreasss intensity of action separates in some dsgree the ssociated members from the rest of tn community and subjects them to separate rules of action. ' oA
 In order to correct this tendency. it seems to ma there ought t, be degree of personal liability on the stockholders, at least upon those officers who those with whom the public come in contact-for all labor claims, for any omission of statute duty and should not be in thu of penalty but should be joint and several liability as upon contract.
 You VIII fsl Tar short of your duty if you do not put as VIII make it iposs for ever again to be said
 ss it has been th.t they are discordant and lously ioose and that under them had grown up cor poratons which were gross fraud upon the law discredt to the State.
 
 The necessity for thoroughly organized and equipped militia is beyond question. However W Il common times by the civil authorities, emergencies are inevitable with which military power alone can in it's of hs Naona mas been in my opinion, 2 wise and judicious one Toit the equipment and organization ot it's foroes, y but in the discipline and morale of the different corps which compose them. For the first time since the National Guard reorganized in 1s71 the maximum n h1-Ja boaJ leaving no vacancies for new organizations. The No vember muster shows that it is composed of 1s3 total of 3,077 officers and This is an increase over the previous of 632 The colored battalion, organized, and accounts for 274 of this increase
 Of the 3, o77 men comprising the National Guard, these 277b enlisted men, including the colored bat tson tai have received entirely new uniforms during cost per man of little less than S25. The expenses been about $65 O0O. The communication tax will amount to s94,l66
 The Second and Fourth regiments and the artillery under the command of Brigadier-General s. R. Smith, were in camp at Nant!c iu August, for six days, sc and cseditable proficiency in drfl. am fully satis fled that the National Guar1 in better dion for active service than it is at present. com mend your attention the full and detaied reports of the AdjutantGeneral and Of the Quarterm 2ster- General
 It is matter Of serious concefn that year by valuation of our country towns constantly diminishes The productive capacity of many of these towns is constantly becoming smaller For the last half tury something less, the tendency of population has been toward great centers Business and the op and after the brightest and best young men and women have gone out from their rural homes to swell the increasing number of favored locality. Many have gene to the city The farmers have in great degree s'gone Vest" to the West for homes seems to me the result of mis- information or of wrong theories of life.
 towns of ours go to the Far West to live In almost any of these towns there good schools. Here offices and frequent mail all the conveniences af- forded by having physicians tradesuen and mechan- venisnt things which result from long established and welregulated social organization Why leave all ths west especially to man who wishes to have the comforts of home to rear and train children to none! Certainly none worthy of being named
 The reasons most often urged are the cheapness Of lars am quite confident that material advantage can be gained at the West. The price of improved fences water snd the Hke-is as small right here in many parts of Connecticut 1t is in the West. In heavily burdened than we are here. Take. for in- saEce the parts where the towns and counties have been bonded to build railroads, etc, etc.
 If apy and his wife here in this tate, starting life farm, will put forth the same degree of in dustry that would be required farm in any part of the West; if they will live with the game economy, will undergo the fatigue and suffer the same TO more amusengent: p other wordss they will live here they would be compelled to live thcre they can certainly build up fortune here much mora readily than there.
 The Board of Agriculture in this State is charged with the general duty of promoting agrcutursl eau cation and the general interests of and the methods and wants of practical husbandry, to aseel- the adaptation of agricultural products to soil, climate and markets, and of disseminating agrioutu- ral information"
 Is it not within the duty of this take pains to disseminate the information that farmers can live here in New Engaud here in Connecticut, better than anywhere else in the country; and then the further to follow the business of agriculture with profit?
 costs the State s5 to S6 OlO to sustain the Board q include iu this sum the amount appropriated State fair and it is for the purpose of enabling mora people to live in the State by agriculture and
 In examining and rehecting upon the work this bev have m taken that is perhaps too highhat
 is above the gr at mass of the people who ought 10 ate fairs and learned discussions. and have had reports publish in which there have been pictures of MT. Somebody's handsome Berkshire pig or some other msns Jersey bull but confess that do not how poor man on rocky farm, with big mortgage, say ihis ia no spirit of hostile criticism. The Board Agriculture has done and is doing much .ervi of the Board in the prevention of contagious diseases among animals has been of vast advantage. poor in moderate ecircumstancesthey do not own cear of indebtedness and it is these oeope aud such these whom the State of Connect- desires mainly to aid and encourage, through it's Board of Agrculture The State has desire totake iu animals at speculative prices.
 does desire in every suitable way to promote the true nterestsof the practical farmer.
 Connecticut will make new start in her career of - and prosperity when larger proportion of her enterpsing young stay at hone ana with their in eligence and improved methods prohtably cultivate he farms and develop local industries.
 Ths common schools of the State are in a generally satisfactory condition. Their number at the close of school sessions was IFS S-1O days the number of ,htdren between the ages of four and sixteen WAS S8 428 the uber of children in the public schools was 119, 382 the number of children in other than ouelc schoo!swss H. 212 the percentage of children revenue from the school fund, state town, dis 5rict taxes and other sources $1, ,390 972.54; nsw s School Pbapgs in 1ss was neay s1a5 poo. In 1879 it only S37C00 The total reduction
 The policy of free schools is now so thoroughly es- ablished in tate that do not suppose any one hess are oa of come to us and re- member how bnrdensome is taxation, we apt to vantage does the State derive from all this expendi- ture? Might the whole, or at any rate some part of It, be emitted These questions come to us all. May t not be worth while for few moments to consider hs othAr side? And in this shall only go fact, many of you are familiar Lord Bacon has in gor- yeous language forcibly illustrated that learned m instructed people hos been for the most part a rich, laborious energetic and powerful people: s: of lofty grandeur. With us the question is not one of sentiment It Is the sordid question of
 Iu enc of the reports made to the Board of Educa- lion in sachusets years ago, the Secretary Mir. Horace Mann-showed by precise statistical de- tails collected the superintendents of naanufac turing establishments, that throughout the whole range of mechanical industry the well-educaied oper alive did more work did it beter wasted less, used his allotted portion of machinery to more advantage and moro profit, earned more money, commanded more conidence faster, from lower to the more advanced positions of the employment than the uned heated operative" am S66fdent that every farmer who employs labor testify to similar rule among ,arm laborers In the report made to the Board of Education in Connecticut, for the year 1870 the Sec etary lops thi line of thought to considerable ,xtent. In the summing up he says It proves that ,ducation is economy, and that ignorance means plans his work that every blow tells, while he econo both his strength and his stock that even in he humbiest labor he will do more work, in better tyle, with less damage to tools and machinery than he boor who csn only use brute muscle.o
 This kind of evidence might be extended much fur- her. Does it not certainly show that the best nstru mentality for guiding and helping labor and the la ,orer, and making it profitable is to give him he highest practical degree of mental culture and lseful knowledge? Is it not then obviously duty IS well as the best industrial policy to promote, df use and perfect it?
 Let read you brief extract from ts e most bril- iant of New England orators.
 stThere is not occupation Of civilized life, from he making laws, and poems, and histories, down to he opening of New Jersey oysters with broke jack 1nifs that is not better done by bright than dull nan, by . quick than slow mind, by an instructed nora than by a Rross simple by prudent,