THE CALL OF THE LAND 



We joyfully hail the promise appearing 

 in many ways that there is to be better edu- 

 cation in our common and public schools. 

 You cannot have a strong university unless 

 the teaching in the schools below to the 

 uttermost parts of the state is what it should 

 be, day after day and from month to month. 

 Without this the university will droop, not 

 only in the quality of its work, but in the 

 numbers of those desiring to attend. 



The schools are rearing many pupils who 

 will go far beyond the most of us in the edu- 

 cation they will receive. The youthful 

 minds we are training will soon be adult 

 minds, many of which will have gathered 

 discipline and stores of knowledge that will 

 surprise those now teaching them. 



That these schools, so important to the 

 life of the state, that this public education, 

 may accomplish the best results, certain new 

 conditions ought to be met. 



It is a fitting time, after so many fat 

 harvest years, to urge that the salaries of 

 good teachers be liberally increased. 

 Though the state is wealthy, use every pos- 



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