New Ulm review., 1912-03-27
Speech OF Judge Lorin Cray a
Editors Banquet.

At the Southern Minnesota Editoria
Association Banquet Judge Lorir
Cray spoke on subject for which hi
is peculiarly fitted. he has lived ir
this country from the time that o,
carts we're in vogue until the present
day, when people ride in sutomo biles
and he has watched the country attain
remarkable growth.
Mr.. Cray remarked that the re-
sources of the country should be ad'
vertised extensively but that this had
been shsmefully neglected, even des
erts receiving more publicity than this
this beautiful part of the state. He
said: .
"The trouble with the people of this
part of the state is that they have
relied on the resources to advertise
themselves, while the citizens should
have done it instead. Gentlemen OF
the press, this is an opportunity to
make known far and wide the resou rces
OF this country, for it is through the
press that it is to be accomplished.
81 notice with regret sometimes, the
space given in local papers to letters
from some far-of country which
p 'aises that country to the very skies,
letters whose authors slate that they
have found the Garden of Eden, while
g country right around US IS very
much better. 1t leads people to leave
this part OF the state when they should
be coming in.''
Judge Cray took for his main topic
the faultiness of too much education at
p ,blic expense. He said that he had
yet to cast his vote against appropria.
tions of money for education at the
public expense, for it has been God
send to the country, but education at
puu,.cc expense should be confined to
the graded and high school and the
smaller institutions Of learning. AS
he sees it,the high school at present is
merely a stepping stone to the uni
versity. He believes those who seek
to learn q special trade or profession
should pay for their tuition and should
not be educated at public expense.
The large universities turn out scien-
lists, artists, professional men,
capable of earning from $1,000 to
$40, 900 q year. Mr.. Cray feels that we
are going too far and practicing an
injustice to those who cannot send
their children to these larger places OF
learning. We are building up a
veritable oligarchy. Last year the
state university and state fair associa-
tions asked for and almost dena nded
an appropriation sufficient to build up
the entire city of Mankato. This
great Capitalization of education it
means a depopulation OF the rural
regions; Che young men will be ab'
sorbed in the large cities, and this
will result in detriment to the large
cities themselves, for they depend in
measure upon the farms for their
foodstuffs. Have we reached the tor
nd are we going down? According
to the census reports we have. II We
have what are the reasons?
Judge Cray spoke of the revolution
that is slowly taking place at th'
state university. He said "Iowa i:
more evenly balanced than Minnesota
for we have two great cities almost a.
one, and we have one of the larges
educational institutions in tn
country in one of these while in Iowa
they have no exceedingly large cite
as educational centers. This is on
reason why land Is selling so mucl
higher there than here although no
as productive.
"Why not, instead of having on
great agricultural college, have
dozen or hundred small ones tha
are more far-reaching and that vii