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manage them. have no doubt that his heart
is III the institution, and that he thinks the
state is doing all that it can do. His oduca-
tinn in polite learning, is such that hc
! thinks the present system is all that is need
cd.
a MAN POSSESSED OF THE DEVIL.
No doubt many Of the farmcrc in this hall
| will II Ot agree with me in the necessity of Il
I practical education. But my whole heart Is
! in this work. At the beginning Of this move
mcnt they Sat down Oh me 1T BennettSville
| They mali%ncd me III tie newspapers, a1d
now have IN me all the devil that was ever
! in Ihspficld will go down with the farm
crS, for have no compromise to mako with
/ these men.
| TIE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Now, my friends, in discussing this ques-
! tion of an Agricultural College ! want to put
| ii first on the ground of simple Justice. Con.
"rcss has appropriated certain money to he
IapprnprialGdtO to certain spccilicpurpuScs. The
| establishment OF one College whose leading
object shall be the teaching of the science of
not excluding military tactics. But that in
stitution solely dcvotes its energy to the teach
! ing Of the classics,
Literary education does not make better
farmer. Science is what we want. Practical
training is necessary in this science. on
may try till doomsday to educate Il practical
farmer in the South Carolina College, and nine
timc; out of ten he will be failure. In the
first place, lie goes to thatiinstituiion which is
surrounded by an atmosphere where the la
boring man Is looked down upon. The whole
walls of that College are prrmratcd with The
idea that his brain is cultivated 10 enable him
to makea living out of the sweat Of some
body clsc's brow. ,tArpausc.I We'll now, |
have strong hankcring that way myself, but
ii happens that do not make living In that
way. So 10 speak. al other classes arc above
us on top OF uS-I will not say above MS.
won't acknowledge TINT they are above MS.
Tho trustees are thoroughly alarmed, for
fear We will kill the South Carolina College.
Voice. hope to God you will.
No, sir; do not agree with any such scnti
trustees are fearful that we arc going to Kill it.
! am fighting this system Of high literary CD
ucatinn which excludes the practical Cduc:l-
tion Of the farmer. They arc fighting to the
death to prevent us from separating the hSri'
/ cutrral and Classical departments
Here Mr.. Tillman read extracts from Gen
| Battles recent address before the gradualinG
clas Of law in the South Carolina College.
| From the land grant the college rccc yes
$500 annually, and the Legislature appropri.
atcs :N5jO 10 that Institution. You pay nali
that sum- say more, but the News ana Cou'
maniS that military tactics shall be taught
at tho college receiving this amount of land
grant money from the United states, Bui
did the LAWYERS who rule this state abide by
that law? They took the Uni ted States lac.
ticion whose duty il is 10 teach the military
tactics, TO Charleston, and assigned him tn
| the Dude Factory.
TIE BRILLIANT EDITORIALS IN TIE "SoCTII
CAROLINA CoLLEGIAN."
| Here the speaker related the story about
the lion and the lamb lying down togcthcr-
when the lamb lies down inside. He then
| said, if the farmers are not now within the
| legal and mcrcantic lion, they are very near
| it,. He now read some choice extracts from
the from the ISD1tHt Cfu0Iian Cohcgi0H, which
| took the hide or of "Moscs" Tilman, "but,'
he said, 81 am glad to say it grows back faster
and thicker after every REMOVAL Contln
| ing, he read another editorial extract from
| the South Carolina C0ilc?yi0n in which con-
tempt was expressed, and an cpithct applied,
| to that class of citizens who object to hcin2
lima College. After Il pause. and gesture,
which attracted cniiro attention from all
present, Mr.. Tilman said: This, brother
farmers and lcllow.taX-payers. is what thc
| young gentlemen, who arc being educated ut
your expense, have 10 say of you.
There is, in the history Of South carolina, a
long roll of distinguished and good men, OF
| whom we arc Justly proud, and Abbcvillc has
furnished Il full share of them.
Ihrrc is no name which holds n higher
place in their hearts than that OF pr. !. II.
| Thurnwcl. In l>j2 he wrote 4 letter to Gov
cgnor Manning, setting forth the duty of The
State To educate her SONS. 1t is one Of the
graud,s st arguments for higher education that
was ever written. They have thought so
much of it as an unanSwrrablc argument,
that the City Council of Charleston had II
published last year. anh there was appointed
! Il committee in every District To distribute
that lrltcr,ns an Argument IN favor or the
South Carolina College. Mr.. w. III. Parker
! believe, was appointed agent for AbbcrIlle
/ county, and those of you who have never
/ seen the letter would do well TO get IL ana
read il. IT is regarded aS i Bible by those
who favor the classics us being the only thing
necessary.
! Here Mr. Tillman read some extracts from
| Dir. Thornwrll's icttcr.l
If I can convince you by the facts deducted,
that you cannot hope 10 see farmers come
from The South Carolina College, aS from the
Mississippi COLLEGE. ] shall have accomplish
cd Ety purpose. When we were rlch thSrs
WAS no need of practical education hy the
State, hui now We are poor, and we need the
practical education more than the classical.
WILT TIE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE DOES
The South Carolina College ahsorbs the
farmers money, 10 give n classical education,
while the practical education of farmers Is
neglected. / want 10 separate the classical
and practical departments OF the South Caro-
lima College. | do not want the farmers to ac-
crpt Il mere sop, while they are pushing the
classical education Of our boys in Il College
where cOntCnpt OF labor burdens tho AIR,
where the boys loll about in the Slia!lc Of
those splendid trees in the campus. Will any
OF them ever be willing TO go To work? Ger
tainly not one in Il hundred will do so. Too
many Of them get too lazy to work, TOO proud
10 beg, and too honest TO steal, and Sink 10 tile
level OF drones and vagrants, and become u
burden to their relatives. How many o! such
characters havp yOu in Abbcviic county"
Abbcvillc county Is the Athens Of the State.
II has more educated men in 1t than any
other county in the Stale.
Here we are, sixty thousand farmers crop
ing blindly In their own idcas-c"nScrvatlfc
till we arc nearly stupid. Yet the statesmen
want to deny you yonr just share OF Gods
light 10 help you out of III" bog
TAftcr reading extracts from letters rom
General Stephen u. Leo and others in refer
cnce 10 Agricultural Colleges, and conlfncnt-
ing OF the same, lie said
BOYS THAT WILL BE LIKE TILIMAN'S
BROTHER.
You cannot educate Il farmer in town. You
may fil him full of science; you may cram
him full with books, hu: if lie has not been
taught how 10 apply IL, hn Will Gc like my
brother, who knows all about geology, ana
minrra!u"y, and yet he lacks one little bit of
pr;trt ical application. lie las been looking
for Il gold mine for twenty years. and h;'Sh
found it. -
Going back TO the Spanish rrOvcrb, NO
grass no stock, no stock no manure, no ma
nurC no crop, no crop no money many oi
our farmers are on the road to The pGur house,
because they work six months To XIII grass,
and then say we can't raise grass ~ an cNcuS"
for suilin to the stores TO buy hay. With ms
SIate ui affairs VIC are all OH the road 10 Tie
poor house.
only fourteen ont of two hundred students
in the South Carolina College are taking the
agricultural course, ;tutl yet III" Elrmrl% are