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Activity Illinois Industrial League 71 can be so extended as to bring its advantages within the reach of the sons of every tax-payer of the state, it must forever remain obnoxious to the charge of this injustice—that it employs the money of one man for the education of the sons of another. I t may be possible that such an extension can be effected, but it does not strike us as being among the possibilities. "Other objections have occurred to us, but these must suffice for the present. If what we have already advanced are satisfactorily set aside, we shall feel encouraged to offer others. I t may be that the friends of the measure have thought over these objections, and they are prepared to show that they have so modelled it as to obviate not only them but all others which have occurred to us. If this be so, then we have to ask them once more whether it would not be easier and attended with better results, to so modify our present system of Collegiate and University education as to answer all demands which are pressing upon it, than it will be to commence at the foundation and build up a system that must necessarily clash more or less with the old one, which it will be admitted seems not only venerable for its antiquity, but to be lived and admired no little for the good it has done." 16 The Free West as well as several other Chicago papers presented Turner's arguments for an industrial university. They mentioned now, as had the Granville resolutions some two years before, "that the plan for an Industrial University would not obstruct, but greatly promote the prosperity of existing literary institutions. The physical and social development promoted by it would only increase the demand for the system of liberal education which the colleges then furnished." 17 The mass meeting of January 25 was entirely satisfactory to the friends of the cause; it was presided over by the mayor of the city and was well attended by representatives of all professions, and occupations; "Professor Turner's address," said the HUnois Journal, "was an elaborate and very able exposition of the proposed plan for an Industrial University, winding up with an overwhelming reply to the objections raised against it. 18 The "Democratic Press, January 24, 1854. t7 Free West, about January 24, 1854. u llUnois Journal, January 31, 1854.
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