Download or read book Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois, 1889, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Illinois General Assembly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois, 1889, Vol. 1 If it is desirable to maintain investigations of this character, and extend the accumulation of evidence as to the conditions of life in this State, such an expenditure should be authorized as will, under prudent management, secure the best results. Statis tics are of value in exact ratio as they are authentic, impartial and exhaustive; but the cost of them in time, labor and money is also great in exact ratio as they possess these high qualities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.