The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-02

sands. gravels and lime in inexhausti
bic quantities. and valuable minera
waters of varied properties. 1t has &c,
900 business manufactures, with
paid up capital of $500. 900 900, will
zoe, 900 employees, turning out finished
goods of all kinds amounting to $500,
100000 annually. 1t has 6,Si5 miles o.
railroad and a number of navigable
rivers. Its railroads have the highest
order of modern equipment, and pas
scnger and freight service unsurpassed
anywhere in the world, the frequency
the speed, the elegance and perfection
OF its trains being the admiration OF
the travelling public. Upon its rivers
are TO be found steamboat and barge
lines capable of doing at low cost an
immense freight business. and al
these facilities are constantly being
added to.
In the city of st. Louis, Missouri pcs.
sesses the third manufacturing city in
the United States. and probably at this
time and for several years past the
most steadily and beautifully growing
city of any Importance in the country
In Kansas City. Missouri has the sec
ord live stock market of America, and
amp!es of unchecked advancement,
even amid generally depressed condi,
tons of trade. In quite Il number OF
lines of business and manufacture Mis-
souri, cities lead not only this country,
but the world.
Ed ucation.
Among it's chief elements of desira-
rilty is the proud position which Mis-
souri, has taken in the educational
world. Missouri enjoys the eminent
distinction of having the largest avail
able public school fund in money of
any state in the American Union. This
fund amounts to more than S12,C coo. 900.
besides which there is an equal sum OF
money invested i'll the public school
houses of the state. While the common
schools have been most a~ssiiuously
cultivated. higher education has not
heen overlooked. The state university
at Columbia stands at the head of the
great educational system of the state.
Three normal schools, located at
kirksville, WarrenSburg and Cape Cir
ardeau, furnish instruction in their
special lines, and Lincoln institute. ut
jefferson City. has become Il college
for the higher education of cOiored
boys and girls. In addition to these,
Washington university. in St. Louis,
and hundreds of private colleges and
schools, technical as we'll rs general,
furnish liberal mean of education. In
the way of cleemoSynarv institutions
Missouri has not been SLOW m answer
iTg the demands upon her rhilanthro-
pie and kindly care Of The afflicted.
1t has three insane asylums. one TO-
Gated at Fulton, one at st. Joseph and
one at Nevada; a school fer the deaf
and dumb ut Fulton; . school for the
blind at st. Louis; Il reform school for
boys at Boonville, and an Industrial
home for girls at C~hillicothe. These
institutions are not only literally pro-
vided for by :he state, but they are
admirably managed both from the
scientific and economic sides. Indeed,
they are model institutions. The Forti-
eth general assembly has provided for
the establishment of Il new hospital
for the insane in southeast Missouri.
and for n hospital or colony for the
feehle-minded. at some point to he Sc
icctcd Ey a board of managers. which
has already been appointed by the
governor. Missouri challenges cumpar-
tous care which it has bestowed upon
these unfortunate classes Of people.
Low Rate Of Taxation.
The government of Missouri is con-
acrvative and careful. guarding with
Jealous care the credit of the state.
The bonded debt of the state. which
was over sci. 200. 600 in 1872, has beer
reduced to $3.G42.000 IN January !,
1899. Missouri 3H $40 bonds sell at n
premium. State taxation is very low.
the state tax being p cents upon the
500 valuation uron Il low assessment.
len cents of This levy is for payment
Of interest and principal of bonded in
d~cbtedness, > cents goes hack to the
people Tor the use Of the
scECclS. so that Il tax of 10 cents on the
500 valuation is all that is exac;ed
from the people ut large for govern
mental expenses. which include the
appropriations made from the revenue
for the university, normal Scnunis
and elcemoSynary institutions. and
these are quite considerable in amount.
1t can be safely said thai no state in.
the American Union can show greater
for the small amount OF mOncv
taken from the taxpayers. Taxes are
also kept to a low point in The coun-
ties and cities by constitutional iimita-
tons.
Thrift.
During the financial depression
has visited the country for Scv- |
cral years back. the mrtropoiitar city
of ST. Louis WIS mt only Il bUt"ark IT
strength 10 financial institutions with
in this state. but I'll example and en-
engagement to the entir. coun;rv.aud
while times may have borne hardly
within this state As elsewhere. one has !
tut to travel to see that nowhere else |
have tn" people been able better to
the effects of the Shrinkare
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