The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-02-25
4 REPLY TO Mr.. GATLING.
PRESIDENT BATTLE CALLS At
TENTION TO HIS POSITION.
How this Discussion Does ien9then.-
But il i Educating the People up To the
Great Need of an Industrial school.

l. y :
not repeat my views Is 10 the construction
Of the Industrial School Law IN reply 70
Mr. Calling cxceleutly written, but most
sophiotcal article ask leave TO correct
some mistakes As 70 my position INTO which,
from hasty reading. lie ha, fallen.
y large part Of his paper Is taken up
with criticism Of the statements III my let
ter TO The News and Observer as to the
amounts donated by Massachusetts,, Nir
gina and Missouri to their Agricultural
and Mechanical Colleges, on the supposi
ton that | applied those statements To the
Industrial School in our state. | made 10
such application. | was replying 10 a cor
respondent, signed X, who alleged that
the Land Scrip Act requires the Uni
verSity 10 have a farm and teach ''practi-
cal agriculture quoted from the Act
to show that the Land Grant money can
not be used for building barns, sta
bles, &C., purchasing stock, machinery,
&c, but must be used in teaching the prn
ciplcS of the sciences relating TO Agrlcul-
ture and the Mechanical Arts, Just as
Judges Dick u billiard have q law school
and teach the principles of law without
owning a court house and running court
and Jury. | showed that all States which
have established separate Agricultural and
Mechanical Colleges, added large sums out
of their treasures, or required counties
and towns or individuals to do 50, to sup
plement the Land Grant. 1t was in this
connection that | mentioned that MISsis-
sippi gave $500, 900, Virginia $50, 600, Mas
sachusetts S235, 900. Cornell $500, 00Q As
North Carolina did not desire to spend
large sums for the erection of buildings.
&C., and as she already owned University
lands and buildings, She naturally ana
properly made the Agricultural and Me
chanical College part of the | University.
our State was not alone in such a course.
Other States, North and South, did the
same. New Hampshire gave he. scrip to
DartwOrth College, Vermont, the home of
Senator Morrill,, the author Of the Land
Grant Act to the University Of Vermont,
Rhode Island to Brown University, Con
necticut to Yale College, New York to Cor
nell University, New Jersey to Rutgers
College, Delaware to Delaware College,
Indiana to Purdue University, Wisconsin
the University Of Missouri, &c. These dis
positions We're made soon after the passage
of the Act, showing how the law has been
construed from the beginning.
IN the South, Georgia has given s., 600 q
year of the Land Scrip money to the Uni
versty Of Georg a. Tennessee gave her
scrip to the University of Tennessee, South
Carolina to the University of South Caro-
lima and Louisiana 10 the University of
Louisiana.
Not State in the Cnion established q
separate college on the Land Grant money
only. 1t could not he done lness it should
br located under the trees IN the open air,
because not :, dime can be expended for
buildings.
So nearly adj the latter part Of Brother
Gatling's beautiful paper falls to the
ground
did, in my letter to the CHRONICLE,
mention the llberality Of Blacksburg and
the county Of Montgomery in donating the
Olin and Preston Institute, being a large
school building and fine farm attached
and also s2e 0l0 in money, III order TO Sc
cure the location oi th. college men
toned also othgg e.tSe- af '.berij!tT by
towns uot near as large MS i;a!ei9h. give
one more. The county Of Washington gave
300 900 ana the town 81 Fayetteville III
ArhaIl.aS $40. 600 10 secure the location Of
the Arkansas Industrial University; total
Sl3U, ,O0Q.
Mr. Gatling has not caught me mapping
in quoting from the Act, as he says. The
word and" in the clause he mentions is a
nialfIt. IGuoted the words accurately
TWICE il the Same card.
Nor did say, as he alleges, that Raj
eigh must offer $50, 1913. 50 in order to Sc
cure the school. | said that the extraOr-
dinary privilege granted the town Of hay
ing large voice n the management Of the
school, which, as the Board of Agriculture
meets only four or five times year, and
the three Aldermen are always on hand,
in practice would probably be the CONTROL
ing voice, would be fair if the town should
make donation approaching that Of the
state, but iz not fair if the town gives one
tenth only Of the necessary funds.
This privilege Of copartnership with the
State is unprecedented and the General
Assembly could not have intended to
grant it, together with the great advalta-
| ges flowing from the location il The State
| should furnish nearly all the funds. The
price to be paid for these great adyanta
ges are stated in the law, viz; IAN amount
adequate to the establishment Of the
| school :
| This word establishment" has def
1 mite meaning as applied to colleges, and
other Institutions, aud ] beg Brother Cat
ling to 60 to the pages, not Of Chateau
| BRAND, Montague or even Tristram Shan
4 dy, but of plain old Noah Webster, and of
/ our Statute books. No amount Of sophis-
try can prove that the General Assembly
meant anything but that the donations
| should be in property or money adequate
| to the organization and equipment of the
school, 50 as to be ready for business.
When thus established the Board of Agri-
| culture is TO give not over So, 900 year tC
help run it. This appropriation is to be
annually made for maintenance and more
complete establishment, as appears to me-
It being foreScen that additional appara-
tus and machinery will from time to time
be required. The theory OF Mr Gatline
and the News and Observer that the Gen.
eral Assembly means for the State to es
tablish the school, contributing nearly all
the funds, IS against the words Of the Act
and against the spirit Of the Act in M
judgment.
The words ''Industrial SCHOOL, are new
in our laws. Therefore TIE General AS
sembly defined them as meaning an insti
tuition where obstruction shall be proyid
ed in wood work mining, metallurgy anC
practical agriculture" at least Now it il
possible that IS, 600 might provide a build
ing for teaching wood work only, (but no
for dormitories) and some machinery anC
apparatus, but where are the farms ant
farm buildings for practical agriculture?
Surely we should provide for that even i
mining and metallurgy be postponed o
else the farmers Of the State would be out
ragged
Mr. Calling says that the use of 20 acre
were offered by Raleigh. But these .
acres are a part of the Fair Grounds tg
miles from the court house. and the 50 90
offered by the city are en- such a conditio
that the school could not lie LOCATED 0