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Activity Illinois Industrial League 78 approve, for he thought that the establishment of an industrial university would be in the interest of the few rather than the masses. In his opinion the seminary fund should be used for the public school system. However, the reports of the meetings in the Press, together with those appearing in the Peoria Republican and the Morning News, were entirely favorable.31 At Peoria Rutherford and Turner separated. Turner went direct to Bloomington where on February 9 he addressed a representative audience on " Education as connected with the establishment of an industrial university, normal and common schools/,22 One of the important results of this meeting was the organization of a branch industrial league for McLean county with Jesse Pell as its director. Turner reached home February 11, and immediately wrote Bronson Murray that they had triumphed at Elgin and Peoria and that at Bloomington their victory had been more complete that at any other place. "Roe," he wrote, "never opened his mouth after a two hours' onslaught from me. All there is in the town worth getting we have got." 23 Turner valued the fact that Jesse Fell had joined them and twice, in his letter he advised Murray to confer with Fell and to tell him all he wanted to frankly. The relations of Turner and Fell became very important for the two men worked together in harmony for the establishment of a state normal school and a state industrial university. After leaving Turner at Peoria in February Rutherford held meetings alone in sixteen places in northern Illinois. In the order visited they were as follows: Henry, Lacon, Ottawa, Lockport, Ottawa, Peru, LaSalle, Aurora, Princeton, Moline, Rock Island, Belvidere, Geneseo, Moline, Pekin, and Freeport. Besides these sixteen places he canvassed Stephenson county in DaUy Press (Peoria), January 30, 1854. The seminary fund by federal law creating if was intended to be used for an institution of higher learning in the state and not for common schools. This subject is discussed below p. 156. M J. H. Burnham, Home Influences Which Led to the Foundation of the Normal University, 6. "Turner to Murray, February 12, 1854, Murray manuscripts. Edward Reynolds Roe was a member of the board of trustees of Illinois Wesleyan college and therefore a natural enemy of the Industrial University idea. n
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