The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-05
them, to devote so many hours each day

them, to devote so many hours each day
to field work, not as amateur gardeners,
but as steady, daily workers on said
farm ): not merely aiming at the highest
skill in cultivation, but also to- approxi-
mate as nearly as possible selfsupport
in the dairy, in raising staple crops, in
vegetable culture. horticulture, vinicul-
ture, etc. If this proposition has any
force in it, it is apparent at once that
the Agricultural College is smothered at
once, on q small farm of less than fifty
acres, in the suburbs Of a fashionable
city, and in competition with one hum
dred and fifty or two hundred boys in
the literary department of the Universe
ty, who, for the most part, have not the
remotest idea Of earning their bread in
the field or the workshop. So that the
Esprit de corps will be adverse. to the
farmer college boy-so much SO that re
apprehend there will scarcely be any
material increase in the number of col
lege graduates for the farm. A failure
here is a failure in.the great purpose Of
the establishment of 8 department of
agriculture. Unfortunately, heretofore
all our educational institutions of high
order have drawn our boys away from
the farm. To correct this great evil is
the main object of the present move
ment on the part of the farmers, hence
no unnecessary distractions should have
been put in its way by location, by con-
tiguity to other literary institutions,
where the controlling influences would
be prejudicial to the farmer boy who
proposes 8 course of study. preparatory
to the great pursuit of agriculture or
mechanics. But as We have something
SO much better than anything we could
say, and pertinent to the question, we
invite attention to the following extract
from the great speech of Col. Park, at
the opening Of the Farmers Convention
and reiterated again at the
Sandy Springs Mass Meeting:
Our system of education, not only in
the South, but throughout the country,
has, hitherto, tended to the development
of only one Departmental human effort,
viz: Conquest on the forum, or renoWn
in professional life. In our system of
education no conquests in the great field
Of agriculture were planned-no avenues
for distinction and renown were opened
up to the aspiring young mind in the
great field Of Industry.
The great and imperative need OF our
people, and of our time, is the practical
education of the masses. Wherever at
tainable, give the youth of the South
brightly FURNISHED mental machinery,
but We owe it to ourselves, to our poster.
ity, and to the world, to see to it that
they are provided with the weapons OF
practical knowledge with>which to fight
iife's battles. Let US teach them how to
work, and teach them to be proud Of it.
Let us teach them how to makea q dollar,
and how to live on 80 cents of it. Estab.
lish institutions for the practical, indus.
trial education of the masses of our peo-
Pile. It will be glorious day for the
South, when our young men shall not be
ashamed to hang their diplomas in their
workshops, their factories, their labora-
tories, their school rooms, their counting
rooms, and their farm houses. twill be
q gloriousday for the South when her
young ladies, educated in all the higher
and refined arts of life, shall boast, and
without blushing, of equal proficiency in
the management of the household and
the flower garden. Teach them the i'm
lportant principles involved in the great
Science of Agriculture, the nobility of
honorable industry, and thus.lift our boys
to 8 higher plane of thought, Of aspira-
.tion and of manhood. The most piliable
of all the examples of worthless man.
hood, ia that young man who is too
proud to be poor, and who is too lazy 70
work. All, the towering spirits that
have been stripped of their bright plu-
mage, by this unmanly and cowaFdly
dread of honorable labor |! Let US have
institutions for the special practical
training of the brain and the hand, and
thus bring forth an army OF young men,
inspired with just appreciation Of the
dignity: and nobility of honorable labor,
and whose skill and ability shall COM
-mand success. We need, and must have,
skilled artisans, skilled mechanics,
skilled scientists, skilled agriculturlsts,
skilled brain and skilled labor in all de.
.partments of industry, if we would de-.
yelop and utilize all the varied and won
derful capabilities of this highly favored
section" I. d. 4.