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Industrial Universities for the People 428 crative situations at the head of their professions. Monarehial Russia has 68 of these schools, some of which are of a high order, and superior to those in other lands! Cannot each of our confederated republics afford one such institution Y The Hon. M. P. Wilder, in the same address quoted above, estimates the annual loss of the single State of Massachusetts in the one product of her cereal grains, for want of the knowledge and skill which such institutions alone can impart, at two millions of dollars. This would give to the Union, at the same rate, on this single product, an annual loss of, at least, sixty million dollars. A gentleman who has great practical experience, in the line of stock, dairy, &c, in Massachusetts, reports the loss through the same ignorance and unskillfulness in these interests of Massachusetts, alone, at 15 millions dollars. (See Patent Office Reports 1851, page 28.) This would give to the thirty States, if Massachusetts be taken as an average, an annual loss of 450 millions of dollars, in another single department. In other departments of agriculture, and in all our buildings, improvements and use of mechanical skill and labor, it is no better, and in many respects, even worse, as every intelligent man will admit. Surely, then, if these things are so, is it true that "for lack of knowledge the people perish," as well in their temporal as their eternal interests. Both are governed by the same law and are bound to the same fate, like the bodies and souls of men* PROPOSED PLAN OF ACTION Let every Agricultural Society and every Mechanics' Institute, every State and every neighborhood, at once procure Resolves of their corporations, or the signatures of their friends, and forward to Congress the following petition or one of similar form, and adopt suitable petitions for and from their State Legislatures, and forward to the Chief Executor of the League a copy of the same. The Would respectfully petition your honorable body for a grant of Congress Lands to each State in the Union to
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