University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-29
TELLS or THE MIt[
TAX. AMENDMENT
Alumni Association Issues
Pamphlet Explaining Plan
for Support Of M. U.
ASSESSMENT TO BE SMALL
Missouri Will Follow Plan
of Other States by Adopt
ing Proposition.

| Pamphlets telling of the eleventh
amendment which pro
vides a mill tax for the permanent
support of the University of Missouri
are being sent out from the headquar.
tiers of the alumni association here
The pamphlets say:
This amendment will provide for
the permanent support of the State
University, including the College of
Agriculture, the School of Mines, and
the other departments. The burden
of this support will be very small. AS
the assessed Halue of property aver
ages less than one-third of its real
value, a man with property of the
value of $1,000 will contribute only
10 cents towards such support. "
That permanent support is essen
tial has long been recognized. but re-
cent events have made it absolutely
necessary that this shall be provided
at once. Other states which do not
compare with Missouri in wealth or
population, but which give their Uni
versities more ample and certain sup
port, have been able to take from us
many of our teachers and investiga-
tors. Only the unselfish devotion of
President A. Ross Hill to his work in
Missouri prevented the University of
Minnesota from depriving us of his
invaluable services. These men by
their investigations promote the ag-
ricultural, industrial, and commercial,
as we'll as the educational interests
of the state. These considerations
as we'll as state pride demand that no
other state should be permitted to
deprive Missouri of that which she
needs.
Endorsed by the Governor.
The Eleventh Constitutional Amend
ment has been endorsed by the gov
ernor and state otncials and by lead
ing citizens and associations from all
sections of the state. Its adoption is
SO urgent and important that, the Dem
ocratic and Republican state coRyaR-
lions united in unanimously adopting
the following resolution of endorse
ment, as a part of their respective
party platforms: ~
1--WE declare ourselves in favor of
public education and adequate appro-
priations for the support of all de-
partments Of our educational system.
AS the constitution provides that at
least one-fourth of the public revenue
Sail be devoted to the support of the
common schools, we favor putting the
state University on the same basis as
the public schools, of which it is a
part, as has been done in practically
all the states of the Union; and we
therefore indorse the principle of pro-.
viding a separate and permanent fund
for the support of the University, the.
College of Agriculture, the School of
Mines, and its other departments"
A Progressive Movement.
By adopting this amendment Mis-
souri, will be following the practice
of the most progressive states, many
OF which provide much higher rate
than that which is here proposed. In
this connection it should be empha-
sized that the reports of the United.
States Commissioner of Education
show that our state University is main.
tanned at much lower cost in proper
ton to the wealth and population of
the state than any other, state Univer-
sity, its actual income being only one
third of the amount going to the Uni
versity of Illinois and Michigan, one
half of that of the Universities of
Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin,
and much less than that of the Indiana
and Kansas state institutions.
The number of students at the Uni
versity increases each year, and dur.
ing the present session will exceed
5000. Each additional student in
creases the total cost and unless bet
ter provision is made the number must
soon be limited. Missouri cannot afford
to deny to any of her sons or daugh-
ters an opportunity to obtain a public
beginning in the common
schools and extending through the
University. ...,....
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