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THE DEMOCRAT.
Entered at the Post Office. Mineral Point
Wls., as second class matter.
Published every Friday moral mk hy Oeouok
and Robert m. Crawford, Proprietors.
GKOUUK CItAWrOUI). EDITOR.
THURSDAY. NOVKMRER 2!>, 1884.
The care of the feeble minded was
considerd by the conference of chari
ties and corrections, at Milwaukee,
on Thursday of last week. The mat
ter was brought up in the form of a
committee report submitted by Albert
Salisbury, president of the Whitewater
normal school. The purport of the
report is well expressed in the follow
ing sound propositions which it con
tained:
“ The state should systematically
care for and train its feeble minded
for the same reason that it educates
the deaf and dumb and the blind.
“The state should support its feeble
minded for the same reasons which
demand the care of the insane.
“ The state should hasten to care for
the feeble minded as a measure of self
preservation, for the greater health,
physical and moral, of the body social.”
In the discussion which the read
ing of the report the fact was
brought out that Wisconsin is the
only one of the larger stales with
out an institution for the feeble
minded. Prof. Salisbury and others
have lime and again presented to
the legislature the strongest reasons
why an asylum for the feeble minded
should be established. Twice lias
such a measure been passed by both
senate and assembly, and twice has it
been vetoed. It is to be hoped that it
will lie again passed by the legislature
of 181)5, and that (Jov. Upham will
add his executive approval,
OUR 0001) URMDIT.
