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Turkey. TUe people are looking backward rather than forward for their 

 ideals. The Chinese look to their remote ancestors five hundred years 

 ago for examples. The Turks look to the Koran and the times of Mo- 

 hammed, twelve hundred years ago. Hence, progress and change are 

 almost unattainable. 



Again, they have no desire for labor saving machines, as they have no 

 diversity of pursuit. 



They are both afflicted with corrupt officials, who, receiving scarcely 

 am' salary-, liA-e by plundering the people. Justice is not to be found 

 in the courts for the poor litigant. The people, having no voice in the 

 government, have no redress for abuses which they may suffer. They 

 have thus no inducement to accumulate wealth or to improve their in- 

 dustrial processes. 



Finally, there is a great lack of intelligence and education. They have 

 not learned that the first step in making a good farmer is to make a man. 



It is the good fortune and the glory of Michigan that our fath(-rs 

 planted public institutions of learning: The agricultural college and the 

 normal school, the university, the free schools, with the clear perception 

 that to prepare a man for any honorable pursuit a wise and rational 

 education must be secured for him. May their descendants have the 

 wisdom to give a generous support to these institutions, from the lowest 

 to the highest. 



