The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29
A CASE

Some kind friend has nla,o
under obligations for a COPY ~ u Us
New England Homestead, DuhIist 'ng
at Springfield, Massachusetts h"
which we extract the following.
"Connecticut farmers have ,.,
deeply to heart the injustice dnSl
them by the State ALLOWING t th
$1,000 income taken from the Stu .ne
Agricultural folIege4 und to 90 '.c
Yale college/instead OTTO the = In%
cultural SCHOOL at Mansfield. wb5an,
it properly belongs. 1t is prohaLnes
that they will demand Of the L."
islature this winter that a nortiSS
or the whole of thisincome be ,urnoI
over to the agricultural school. THU
very strong grange organizatinn
can right this wrong if it sets ont
to. The issue is certainly a live oN"
which the leading farmers oryan
izations may we'll tackle in earnest"
What a striking parallel this
furnishes in the case OF the Connect
lieut. farmers and the North Cara
lima farmers. Substitute North
Carolina for Connecticut and s. atm
for 81, 600 and you have the case Of
the North Carolina farmers to- dot
The farmers OF Connecticut
propose to right that wrono.
the farmers OF North CaroIiH1a,
also propose to right that wrong,
and what is more they do not pro.
pose to rest until that wrong is
righted. Connecticut secured but
a little over half the lands that
North Carolina did, but these lands
We're honestly disposed OF and the
result is that the annual interest
amounts to within $500 OF what the
interest on North Carolina's appro-
priation, though much larger, does.
Bad management and dishonesty
combined frittered away at least one
half the original gift AS far as the
farmers OF the State are concerned,
the interest arising from what the
State afterwards assumed, $500 a
year, has been squandered, for it has
been appropriated to an object
and in a way from which they, for
whose beneht the lands were donated.
have not derived a particle Of bene-
fit. They have stood this thing,
this palpable and gross injustice,
since 1868 and have been silent,
silent not because they idnot under
stand the situation and comprehend
the extent of the injustice done them,
but because they thought that time
would right the wrong. They have
waited long and patiently and find
that they must move themselves if
they would find justice. They have
begun to move and propose to keep
moving until the wrong is righted
and justice done.
In this connection we may state
that we have been requested to
republish our editorialo on University
Appropriations, which appeared m
our issue Of August 25. We do not
wish to do this, but for the benefit
of enquirers we will state that the
University has an annual appropri-
alton of $40, 700, besides the inter
est on the land scrip fund amount
ing to $500, which belongs to the
farmers of the State and which it
uses annually, making $27,5OO not
counting funds arising from other
sources, the exact amount of which
we do not know, because we have
not the means of ascertaining it def
nitely. With the appropriation by
the State we have nothing to do,
because that comes fairly and hon
estly, but against the use Of the
$500 belonging to the farmers we
solemnly protest and shall continue
to protest until that misapprOpr1a-
ton ceases and that money is APP
piled as it was intended it should be
applied by the donors.