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MISGIVINGS IN MICHIGAN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 5, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 2.

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MISGIVINGS IN MICHIGAN.

In the reports of the county superintendents of the poor of the State of Michigan, for 1876, we find the following expression of anxiety with reference to the future. It is from the superintendent of Ingham County:—
“With the repeal of all prohibitory laws; with open and unrestrained sale and use of intoxicants; with paupers and criminals increasing at the rate of 4½ per cent to 1 per cent of population; with a decrease of 33⅓ per cent in the average ability of the property owners to pay taxes, what will be the condition of our county and State ten years hence?” See State Prison report, reports of superintendents of the poor, and sheriffs’ reports for 1875.