The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-25

1t was their own fault II this is true
dccency and sclf-rcspcct ought to have
kept the lawyers from being so greedy.
Charleston and Columbia run the ma
chime, and rs long us you allow Simons
| ana others to see that they can vote
farmers like puppets they will run it
and you will never get your rights. l
doh,t advise you TO send only farmers
to Columbia. A farmer is q very small
man among brilliant lawyers. lie some
| tlmcs votes against wrong measures, but
nc will not speak against them. If you
nave among your candidates an able
lawyer send him,-on the principle of
setting thief to catch Il thief. They
arc SO slippery, however, that unless
yoa bind him to do what you want him
to do, | am afraid he will bctray You
when he gets there.
| Inc only real question now dividing
us Is that of the agricult arul college.
| mere are some who say that it will be
expensive, it doubtful experiment,
ana that it is useless because the
annex of the South Car lima Col
leSe Is sufficient to meet all our
| wants in the way Of agricultural cd
ucation. This is simply prcposlcroms.
After my speech at Bcnncttsvile and
my letters in the News and Courier the
board OF visitors OF the South Carolina
| College moved heaven and Garth to
show that the annex is all we need.
They circulated lies about me in the
newspapers. They sent for DR.. Battle
OF the University Of North Carolina to
come down here and tell us how we
ought to be educated QIcrc Mr.. Till
man read part Of DR.. Battles speech
III which it WAS said that the people
must be homogeneous and the time
would come when the lion and the
lamb would lie down togcthcr) That
TIME mas already come. The lion and
| the lamb nor lie down together, bM the
tomD IS iH$tdc tie Hon. We are inside
the lion right now. Ii any part of us is
ou' the merchants and railroads have it.
we arc homogeneous tot--in poverty
ana ignorance. All the talk about ed
ucatlhg farmers at the South Carolina
college is hnmbu2: Look ut the agri-
cultural colleges Of Alabama, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Cornell University, tic
| University OF California. The proper
tloh OF agricultural students is insignii-
| cant. The South Carolina College has
! E0 %fHtf'HtS OF agricultural chemistry.
ana why is the number 50 small? 1t is
| because Of a belief which j. inclllcated
IN the minds of the students by every
| professor in that insIitm ion. Il belief
That labor is degrading. The other
STUDENTS snccr at agricultural students.
Ihcy tel them that there is not only no
prOht but also no respect i'm farming.
| When is all this to change For ali tits
wrong Il day Of reckoning is coming.
We will awake at last, but it will be
when your lands have gone from be-
| meath your feet. Already il j. too
| late for many OF YOU. If we arc TO re-
cover il will be by system in which
science and brain are used No name is
more more dear to the memory of South Caro-
linians than that Of Thornwcll. His
plea for education addressed TO Gov
crnor Manning in 1893 is Il grand argu-
mcnt. But the devil it is said can quote
scripture, and so can /. Whatever has
been the merit and the prestige Of the
South Carolina College it has never been
farmers college and never will be. The
boys who so there contract habits of
lilrncS> OF which they are never able to
rid themselves. They went farm. ONLY
five per cent. OF college graduates farm
and many Of these are men who have
JAILED IN other professions, and are
therefore not fit to farm
1t is said that we want $1,000 ut
once TO start our agricultural college.
first two years is 100000, and if we
have the right legislation we can oct
this without additional taxation. The
South Carolina College and the Citadel
Academy get annually 81, 900 of our
money while we grope in Ignorance.
Will you stand such injustice?
The South Carolina College is called
the poor mans college. Let lis see
about this. 1t costs each boy, with free
tuition, $40 Per year. The expense of
each student of the Farmers College of
;MI ;MMIlSs'SS,lppl' exclusive OF clothing is s53.
The boys are allowed to work three
holr Oh the experimental farm at
tachcd TO the college. The institution is
managed on business principles and it
| is success. Besides, it costs farmers
too much to get their boys up to the
standard OF education required for adj
mission to the South Carolina College.
They must know Latin ann Greek and
mathematics and it costs too much to
give this knowledge to most farmers
sons. The Mississippi College requires
only knoNlrdGc OF reading, writing
and the four fundamental rules of
arithmetic. II keeps student four
years, gives him good English cduca-
ton and 50 much OF botany, chemistry.
geology, physiology &C., as will he nee
csSary to enable him to farm iutclli
gently. How many Of you here before
me to-day can tell why YOU should have
rotation OF crops? How many of You
KNOW anything about grating, or the
temperature ut which cream should be
churncd? Gou have been taught to
look upon grass as your enemy, but YOU
must lcara to utilize grass, to have pas-
lures and stock.
1t has been suggested that say some
thing about the department of agrcul-
trrc in Columbia. This dcpartm is |
political hol-houSr and nothing more.
When it WAS established in 1919 who |
WAS put in charge Of it,--farmrrs? No, |
Thompson, Lip>comb and Duncan were |
members cr-oNcio, but among the rest
there WAS nor single farmer. This |
department has spent $,I7,0O of the |
farmers money, because the money |
was raised by II fax ON fertilizers and |
was paid entirely by farmers. In Ohio
thln%s are not done in this way. There |
inc county agricultural societies send |