The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-25
ARE FARMERS ON THE RUN ?
IF NOT, WHY SHOULD THEY WITHDRAW
FROM HEADQUARTERS

IF NOT, WHY SHOULD THEY WITHDRAW
FROM HEADQUARTERS
If they Want a College of their Own, they
Should Take Possession of the South
Carolina College.
A Second Class Manual Labor School
May do for Boys of Very Small
Aspirations -.- AbbevilIe Farmers
Have Made of their Sons, Preach.
ers, Statesmen, Lawyers, Judges.
Doctors, congressman, Politicians.
and it il not Likely that they will
Now Retire from the Forefront.
The enthusiastic silence with which some
of our esteemed contemporaries have halled
the Clemson bequest is striking. It is rather
Clemson % % had left sio0,oO0 to the State college
| the Citadel Academy, Charleston college or
Clafin university there would have been Q
torrent Of gush and propositlon 10 ouila
doomed and been still born by this time.
But the bequest has knocked one or the
strongest combinations and shrewdest Jusgles
of political history endwise, ana IL Is regaru,
| various pets. Presently we shall see the new
problem met. however, and all the powers oi
opposition to farmers college arrayed IN Q
new plan OF attack; cnamgeo Ma,Gs 10 lnee' 'he
We think 1t little premature for the Ne,os
| to say what would have been said and done,
If Mr.. Clemson had left his estate to the south
would have thought him foolish to do so, and
would not have accepted the gift.
AS for the bequest knocking cofnbinatlons
endwise," we think there Is mistake as
ton on the part of the people against the
Agricultural College. II there has been
| "combination," it must have been on the
has never been defined so far as weknow, and
the desire for an uphcaval seems more ap'
parent than real. We do not know that there
has been sufficient demand for an "Agricul.
way or the other. If we are not mistaken,
one object of the FARMERS movement was
reduction in the expenditure OF the pu9l1c
money. Members to the Legislature, we oe.
lieye. were elected on that basis. The result
was that we have had the most eXtravagant
Legislature that has ever met. Appropria-
tions were Increased. Not single leak was
stopped. They gave money 10 every'sHinnSSo; a. Nh
was given to an imaginary school IN Colum'
bia. The appropriation to the South caro-.
lima College was largely Increased. Inc ices
for eng eaH o the
military. $4,000, was voted down, put Is
1t not true that at least some OF the
farmers came to the rescue OF the adyoGates
of the measure, and II was passea. inoy
courage mendicacy, and TO meet the deman1s ma n6H
OF which would require not less than S2oo,oVo,
TSeg % sas to pr
ations sufficient to furnish every voter In the
State with the monthly report OF the sclen-
tifc experiments by the Agricultural Depart
port alone would be worth, If properly dis
trlbuted the entire entire cost Of the college.
The farmers have grievances In the forms
of law which wipe up their ilttie estates, IN IN
the expensive foreclosure Of their mortgages.
They have grievances in the instability OF
the laws. They have grievances III the en-
actment Of laws which neither the psoplte IGr 9
The farmers have grievances IN the poiitlcal
machinery Of this State which practically
engineers them out of politics, except IN SO
far as 1t may be necessary TO UO'e ~, ioF sane tHe
Convention puts forth. They have grievances
because the laws are not, properly enforced:
The Press and Banner has been silent on the
subject OF the Clemson beQuest,
/. Because we do not believe that Mr..
Clemson was possessed of n "sound and dis
posing mind.' and If he has wlled HIS prop;
erty as is claimed, we do not believe the VIII
gent jury. And II it did stand, we DO not Pc
ieve 1t we'll for the State to accept u. Ihe
State is not beggar-Georgia refused TO let
Gov. Brown into partnership with her state
Institution.
3. We do not believe the Clemson estate Is
worth the fourth OF hundred thousand DOL
lars. . -, ,,,s
State will submit to having their sons as
signed 10 an Agricultural College situated
either on the peaks or in the coves OF the
mountains. c,,, cououo
Is for all the boys Of the State who may
choose to come. 1t is located at the capital
of the State, where buildings have been erect
ed, and are paid for. In that INSTITUTION may
be found expensive libraries anu otGer Tx TX
lures advantageous ana necessary III Ine
education of.our youth, H..
5. There is no use for more than one edu-
cational institution In the State. The South
the sons of South Carolina. It's teach
inps are to obliterate imaginary differences
in the social caste OF The sons OF the state. ~
teaches that the only aristocracy nes In
and whatever else goes to make true man.
hood great .,.,o
the cultivation and growth & OF ,Ie ieeiing ra o.,
is an actual line Of demarkation between the
high and the low. The most ob1ectionaoie
feature under Republican Government, Is
that which creates PreJualee ,m Ine citi1ens Who 20
have achieved distinction, and whose charae-
ter and life are worthy OF oil emulation. Inc
highest places are within the reach OF allIno
matter how humble the boy may be-provia11
7. The farmers Of Abbeville county are
just as good as anybody, on the lace OF ne
earth They make of their sons. useful e; Glti.
zens in every honorable walk OF life. They
teach them to believe that they are the equals
of the sons OF anybody. else. Ihey are he
equals of the sons of anybody, ana honoraDle
and worthy farmers of this county will never
consent for their sons to be retired from the
South Carolina College, and to be banlshed 10
the woods Of the mountains. But WIN Just
pride in their own manhood ana rejoicing IN
the noble heritage which has been hand
ed down to them by glorious ancestry, they
propose to send their sons to the capital OF
the State, or to some OF the most eHccileht
denominntional colleges wlthin tne 0ouhu-
aries of the commonwealth. Abbeyilie has
had experience for hundred years in man
ual labor schools. We nave now an immense
from, with liberal endowment, Tor q ma uual
labor school, but the school Is dared lot the
want of scholars.
S. We oppose the Agricultural College be,
cause we already have sufficient NUMBER OF
colleges and we would not injure elther the
ton by establishing SECOND claS manual
labor sehool-call It Agricultural College, II
you will.
8. we oppose the Agricultural College be-
cause such institutions have been failures
from the beginning down to the present time,
and because such institutions are organized
on an impractical bnsis. Such institutions
are bound 10 be failures as long as the princi-
pie is contrary to the wellestabished laws o.
common sense, and contrary to the well
known fact that cause produces effect.
10. No man WHO does manual labor can sue
ceed in Intellectual WORK. A fatisued, tlred,
and worn out body cannot possess an active
and vigorous brain.
Therefore the pursuit Of intellectual work
is diametrically opposed TO manual laoor, ana
vice versa. What farmer, after q hard days
toll, is prepared for study when night comes