History of Milwaukee, city and county . MILWAUKEE STATE RIVERSIDE IIKill SCHOOL, EAST SIDE THE HIGHER INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING 663 state for the maintenance of the society for 1913 was $36,000, added to whichthe institution had the benefit of the income from $73,000 of invested of a Historical Society.—No commuuity can afford to neglectits annals, any more than an individual or family can disregard its leading spirits in the early days of Wisconsin, realized the importanceof preserving the materials of history and public sentiment in that sta


History of Milwaukee, city and county . MILWAUKEE STATE RIVERSIDE IIKill SCHOOL, EAST SIDE THE HIGHER INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING 663 state for the maintenance of the society for 1913 was $36,000, added to whichthe institution had the benefit of the income from $73,000 of invested of a Historical Society.—No commuuity can afford to neglectits annals, any more than an individual or family can disregard its leading spirits in the early days of Wisconsin, realized the importanceof preserving the materials of history and public sentiment in that state, hasat all times supported this view. Especially in local history is found the se-curest home of freedom where the public interests of each individual is rec-ognized in his relations with his neighbors, and this perhaps in greater degreethan in the wider councils of the nation. For, as Emerson writes: Of what avail the plow and sail,Or lands, or life, if freedom fail? History, says Cervantes, is the depository of great actions, the witnessof what is past; the exam


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