The government of the people of the state of Indiana . ould be to catalogue all social andbusiness relationships, to examine all the foundations oflaw and order. Efficiency and honesty in the local government, in theschool district, the township, the county, and the citycontribute more than the National Government, to the well-being and happiness of the home, the family and thedaily life of the citizen. When it is realized that, inIndiana, the expenditure in county governments exceeds$8,000,000 annually and that the indebtedness of towns,cities and counties aggregates more than $14,000,000/ th
The government of the people of the state of Indiana . ould be to catalogue all social andbusiness relationships, to examine all the foundations oflaw and order. Efficiency and honesty in the local government, in theschool district, the township, the county, and the citycontribute more than the National Government, to the well-being and happiness of the home, the family and thedaily life of the citizen. When it is realized that, inIndiana, the expenditure in county governments exceeds$8,000,000 annually and that the indebtedness of towns,cities and counties aggregates more than $14,000,000/ theimportance of good local government can be Wright continually urged upon the people thatit was more important to select good county commissionersthan good Congressmen. Moreover it is only through anactive participation in local government that a citizen isprepared to discharge intelligently his duties in the gov-ernment of the Nation, which seems more picturesqueand momentous. 1 Exceeding the State indebtedness by $7,000,000. /*. Col. George Rogers Clark. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF INDIANA. *oXKo I. French Exploration and Settlement. 7. The First Explorers.—Before 1670, the French hadpassed up the Great Lakes and had established on theirshores trading posts and missions. It is possible, thoughthe evidence is slight, that the Maumee had been exploredas early as 1656. It is pretty definitely established thatduring the winter of 1669-70, La Salle passed down theOhio River as far as Louisville. Joliet and Marquetteexplored the Mississippi River in 1673. And it was inan effort to again reach that river that Indiana soil wastraversed by La Salle in 1679. In that year, he with afew followers established Fort Miamis on the St. Josephof Lake Michigan and in December pushed up the riverto the place now occupied by South Bend, crossed by a12 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF INDIANA. 13 portage of four or five miles to the headwaters of theKankakee, and proceeded down the
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