The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-27
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Mr.. WILLIAMS resumed lin COMMITTEES
Of the Whole House,: The report Of the
farming occupies but ten lines. Let the man
VINO GOES to the County T~reasurer's office to
pay mis- taxes read this. There are many
farmers in Indiana who never heard of Pur-
due University, who raise better crops than
these ten lines show. Corn, fifty bushels 70
the acre, although the crops had not been
gathered or weighed" How is this? Then
the crops were let out to farmers TO gather.
Sons swivels were made by them, aud the
only thing curious about them was that il
was hard 10 tell whether they we're patterns
OF harroWs or patent churns. The President
OF the University speaks Of their blacksmith
shops, yet his report shows an Indebtedness
to g blacksmith at Lafay cite.
And here is more information from that
agricultural collegs-that they have found
that you can dig post holes in compact as
well SIS loose earth; and the only recompense
they have for this information is to give you
the name of the firm manufacturing these
post holes. And another thing they tell us
is of a system they have OF keeping hairs
from blowing into milk. What q beneficial
thing! Now If they could only extend the
same invention to boarding house hash.
Laughter. Ii costs the best you can make
of ii 500 per year TO q boy. Your son could
attend Heidelberg for that. l am not favor
ing strangling Purdue, but l want it to
take care OF itself. If you vote $4,000
to Purdue in this body you place
a milestone about your neck and
of course 1 expect the gentlemen from
Tippecanoe to vote for it. | would not
blame them for it. But others should not.
| have no personal luminosity. IsPeak as q
matter of Justice and right.
Mr.. WILSON: It seems TO me that the
amendment TO strike out this appropriation
resolves itself into this thing: Shall Indiana
support Purdue or let it die? and shall In
- 80 - a.. --sELI-,-- 4 $500. F1-,
educational institutions2 The labor Of an
educated man is worth more than the labor
OF an ignorant man. This is ACKNOWLEDGED
everywhere. 1t is our duty to educate
it is our patriotism. The gentleman
refers to certain colleges which are
doing great work. Still these colleges are
no part of the State, Shall the State en-
fers Us to Valparaiso? Valparaiso is in my
part of the StsJe, and l ought to be proud of
1t. But / must say that pupils attend that
because It is a continuous picnic. Paying
board and tuition is about al there is TO
that. We M not Judge Purdue farm by
the amount of grain grown, but the expert
ments made there. There we're ffty-one
kinds of grain grown there last year.
Mr.. KELLlSON: To the proposition to
strike out this item / can not agree. I have
heard the speech of the gentleman from
Knox (Mr. Williams). 1t was eloquent, sar-
castIc ana carefully prepared. III LDls col
lege is not sustained, as the State agreed
with the United States, then John Purdue's
heirs may come in to reclaim the property.
The college is not so much to put boys to the
manuel OF form labor, but 10 teach them
about ii. It was never so contemplated in
the founding and endowment OF the college;
but it was founded to teach the mechanical
arts. They gentleman says that If they IN
dertake TO teach the mechanical arts to Is.
dies they violate the contract. That is his
idea, but is not mine. When the safe
may tire of this property, then
the Legislature, by an act, can give back the
property to John Purdue's heirs. There may
be some doubt il Indiana can keep three
half starved institutions; it may be better to
have only one; but so long as we keep pos
session OF the money of John Purdue we
must keep faith with the college. l am not
in favor OF $4,000, bat I am in favor OF CIV
ing a reasonable appropriation. Better have
no State institution of learning than 8 starved
one. This opposition comes from one or
two gentlemen-led by the gentleman from
Putnam (Mr. Gordon He has assaulted
the State University, Pardue University,
and we may look for him 20 charge on tina
State Normal ~School-all in the interest OF
monopoly Of the DePauw University, named
after a man who can not write a grammat-
ical sentence.