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Activity Illinois Industrial League 69 The Mechanics institute, a literary association, took up the matter also and issued the following call to mechanics of Chicago: "The Board of Directors of the Mechanics Institute have had under consideration the contemplated meeting of the - Illinois Industrial League' for the purpose of eliciting an expression from the citizens of Chicago, in reference to their plan of an Industrial University, and system of Common Schools. I t purports to be a scheme to bring education home to the people of this state—the great industrial classes; and we are fully persuaded that this is a cause that demands the immediate attention and instant action of every mechanic in the city. If the plan is what it is represented to be by the press and its numerous advocates, now is the time for the mechanics of this State, jointly with other industrial classes, to assert their rights in respect to this matter of Education for the people. "The Mechanics of Chicago are hereby especially and earnestly requested to unite and turn out en masse, to meet our friends of the league, at SOUTH MARKET HALL, next Wednesday evening, January 25th, at half past seven o'clock. P. Graff, Pres. J. Deer ~ Ives Schovill E. McArthur Nobel Martin S. D. Childs Geo. P. Hansen Directors Mechanics Institute." 1 5 Some of the objections to the plan had been presented to the public by the Democratic Press in temperate language on the day before the mass meeting in an article headed, "Industrial University." Though this paper was the only one which came out with objections, it may have voiced the thoughts and feelings of a considerable number of people. In any case it seems well to note what the objections were: 11A part of the plan is to secure from the state t h e ' Seminary Fund,7 amounting to about $150,000, and to appropriate the same to the endowment of this Industrial University. Every man and child in the state has an interest in this fund. It has been set sacredly apart for a specific object, and it should not be diverted "IZKnoi* Journal, January 31, 1854. These calls appeared in many of the Chicago papers.
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