Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-10-15

peruSal by the tnOuSHtlul VO1'
Minnesota's Splendid School Fund.
II is the proud boast of Minnesota
that it has the largest ornament
school fund of any state in the Union.
It lacks only few thousand OF six
teen million dollars at the present
time. In my judgment that fund
will eventually reach fifty millions
and perhaps more. This year the in
terest derived from the permanent
school fund, together with the one
mill state tax, amounts to 81 1922, 1926. :
O5, or a per capita allowance of almost
SIS for each pupil. This year the state
will expend, inclusive of the above
amount, for the high schools, graded
schools, semi.graded schools, rural
schools, The state university, the nor
NAL schools, teachers Institutes and
county training schools in round num-
bers, $2,5OO,OOO. No state in the I'm
ion makes more liberal provision for
the education of her children than
Minnesota. Under our constitution
the permanent school fund must for
ever be preserved inviolate and undi-
minished. Other states received as
liberal donations of land from con-
gress fer educational purposes as Min
nesota, but not one of them can be.
gin to make such a splendid showing,
not even the great state Of Texaa-an
empire in itself.
Great Saving to Taxpayers
The board of control has been in ex-
istence for three years and the result
more than justifes the expectations
of its original friends. The St. Paul
Globe, the mouth piece of the Demo
cratic party in the state, time and
again has assaulted the board of con-
troll. But figures speak louder than
words, and here are the cold facts.
Here are the net savings for each of
the three years that the board has
been in existence:
Net saving for year ending
July, 81, 1902. .$1O5, 900
Net saving for year ending
July, 81, 1908. 10000
Net saving for year ending
July, 81, 1904. $4,000
Total for three years $4,000
This saving was accomplished in
the face of rise in prices for all COM
modities. Take the item. of coal
alone. The board was obliged to pay
$4,000 more for coal for the year end
ing July 81, 1904, than the same
quantity and quality of coal could |
have been purchased for in the year
ending July 81, 1901. If the prices
for cotton goods, wooden goods, gro
ceries and other supplies had not
Increased materially, the saving
would probably aggregate S50O,0OO |
The states dependents are better
fed. clothed and cared for in every
way. The institutions we're never
better managed, and the employees
never received as high wages, as I'M
Ger the board 0, control. That is not
all. The board of con troll is erecting
a better class of buildings and provid-
ing better sanitary regulations than
were possible under the old system.
State Prison Irvine Plant.
The friends of the board of control
point with special PRIDE to its admir-
able record in handling the state
prison Irvine plant. The net loss to
the farmers o. the state who use
prison Irvine. for the two years pre-
ceding the board of control manage
ment was Sill. $3.50 81; that is to say,
the farmer were obliged to pay that
much more for their twne than they I
would have had to pay the Irvine trust.
Under the board of control manage
ment the saving to the farmers over 6
and above what they would have !
been compelled to pay the Irvine 9
trust, was az follows: +
1902 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .$lO9,l 72 10 r
1908 Observation-Disclosures. 141626.28 9
1904 2OO,757 81 Z
Total saving to farmers for Nv
three years. ........ .S45l ,555 SO Z