The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-07-22
A college at Canton.

In our last issue we called the attention of
our readers 20 me desirability of securing
the location of the College now known by
the name of Capital University, in or near
Canton. We then looked merely at the Pc
cUEIAlY advantage, showing that the amount
would probably be warranted in accepting,
would be paid back in money in two or
three years. The permanent advantage we
desire now to notice more fully. The pecu-
mary advantage accrucs year after year, and
in an increasing ratio. From the very start
there will be thrown into the business of
Canton and vicinity the sum of fifteen or
twenty thousand dollars while this would
be directly to the advantage OF Canton, it
would indirectly, but to Il great extent he
TO the advantage OF our farmers within a
circuit of four or five miles of Canton for
the LIVING of students is the greatest item OF
expense in attending College. Thus we
think that they, as well as the citizens OF
Canton, have direct interest in securing the
location of this institution among us. But
apart from this great pccuniary advantage,
paying itself over and oyer again every two
or three years, there are other, and Superior,
advantages in the location of such an Insti-
tuition among us that should not he over
looked
Canton is our COunty-sCa- and it should
he the pride Of every citizen of stark Coun-
81, Us well as the Immediate citizens Of Can
ton, to do anything and everything to pro-
mote the welfare Of this city, But what,
we may ask, will give more honor 10 our
County-seat than good Institution of high
er learning If you developc the material
interests of community, you must eitherpay
to other communities where Institutions of
Learning arc established, or deprive your
selves and your children Of the advantages
of education in the race of National pros
pcrity itself. The Academic and Collegiate
institutions of New England have given her
power over the destiny of this nation far
greater than any material advantages she
possesses over the rest of the country could
possibly have secured for her. Apart from
the direct blessing to ourselves and our chill
dren, if we would hold the power in our
State and National affairs which is properly
our due, we must not, we dare not neglect
to improve the educational advantages which
are Offered and afforded us. Why should
not Stark County, and Canton Us the Coun-
ty-seat of Stark County, have such an Insti-
tuition that her influence in the Great North
West, and in the country, may be distinctly
felt in the futzIre?
The direct advantage, too, of such al In
stitution are rot to be despised wherever
there is 4 higher Institution of Learning, we
find the influence II cXcris extends into eY-
cry department of society. 1t is an encCur-
agcmcnt 20 common schools. 1t eNcites a
general desire among the pupils of these sec
tions to improve the opportunities afforded
in them, and to prepare themselves for a
more complete course of education in the
higher School. The Professors and students
in such a college are parts of society; they
mingle with others, going in and out among
Us, and who can estimate the good thus
brought to bear upon society In higher
and purer morality thus
brought about, be material dvantage sinks
into comparative Obscurity.
But space-and simc would fail ms 10 notice
The advantages OF securing the location Of
this College among us. From what we
know, and have heard from citizens of Can
ton and Stark county, we believe they are
10 attc,ld seriously to the offer of
he Trustees of Capital University and secure
.he location of This Collegiate Institution at
Canton. To give form to this readiness VIC,
N conclusion propose that a public meeting
1f the citizens uf Canton and oft adjacent
parts of Stark County be called to take into
the propriety oi al once NOV
h." by subscription, and Otherwise to secure
his object.