Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-02-10
MATTERS or INTEREST.
Regarding. RolitIce and Affairs
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not consider matters wy borough.
" b. fore recommending the
printing of text books at the state
:, formatory. He evidently b..
lieved such q recommendation
VI uld be shrewd political NOV.
That he was in error, 10th from a
political and business standpoint,
h. has already discovered. The
laboring people j" the cities and
throughout the state have taken
a stand against the innovation and
condrm it in the strongest terms.
To show that the scheme is entire.
ly Impractical one needs to call at.
tention to only u few things.
The last report of the reformatory
dicl ose> that their is Lut one
printer in the. whole institution.
It would therefore be necessary to
hire MN to do the work. The
average time Of d, tention, in the
reformatory is eighteen months
and most of the inmates are
illiterate. It is therefore lain
that the inmates could not learn
to do the work which it requires
years in we'll regulated print g
esta blishments to master. In
vrst,gatlon proves that if the
state should print its own text
books it could b. done cheaper and
more satisfactorily by receiving
bids f'om responsible publishers.
In discussing the appointment of
Prof. Lewis, of Hastings. to the
office Of superintendent of public
instruction Editor Mitchell, Of the
Alexandria Pcst-New~, expresses
himself ~ follows: "Mr. Lewis,
superintendent Of the Hastings
schools, has been appointed by
Gov. Lind as superintendent of
public instruction. School men
say he could not have made q
poorer selection and are greatly
dlsgusted at the outcome of the
contest. Mr.. Lewis has been at
Hastings for twenty years and gets
now out 81, 400 a year, just what
Alexandria nays its superintendent
of schools. 1t would seem, that a
man who was satisfied to stay tor
twenty years in a small town on
that salary and with no more *.
tensive acquaintance with school
work than that, was not very
promising timber"
Gov. Lind lost his head the
other day and before he knew
what he was about sent Domina.
tlons tor members of the State
Normal School b ,ard to the sen
ate for confirmation. The names
We're published and the newly ap.
point, d members were receiving
congratulations when Gov. Lind
sends a message to the senate re-.
calling the appointments. It
seems that the ex cutive ought to
know whether or not his appoint.
nrnts are proper be gives them
out officially, and there is little ex.
cuse for s"ch indecision. James
Gray, of Minneapolis, who was
elected mayor when Lind was
elected governor. made himself
ridiculous by appointing a man as
chit of police and then disap.
pointing him. Gray and Lind trot
in the same class.
The Irvine investigation is now
practically completes and thee com.
mittee will, in short time, sub
NIT its report to the legislature
AS has been stated before the com.
mittee has found no evidence that
reflects upon the prison manage.
ment. The whole trouble seems
to have ben that farmers neg
lected to order in time. One wit.
ness who appeared before the in
vestigation committee and who,
it was believed, would give some
evidence against tn, prison man.
agement, testified that he had Or