The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-08-23

lie schools, and appropriated $4,000 for
the INDECENT soldiers. She has given her
thousands to the Columbia Canal, and
after expendipg more than 100000 for
repairs on the State House, the governor
recommended, in his last annual message,
an appropriation of 100000 more to
complete repairs, which were first com.
menced with view to roofing it and
putting it in state of protection from
weather and fire. And yet, when we ask
them for $4,000 for our agricultural
college, to puts roof over the heads of
ou. farmers-for it is education that
gives covering and food and wealth and
comfort-they can't afford 10 appropriate
that sum.
The amount Of $50 900 might perhaps
be saved by judicious retrenchment and
well.directed expenditures. But if an
agricultural college should cost us $500.
900 in FIVE years, it will more than pay
for itself in increased production, en-
HANGED values and stimulated energies ;
and would actually lessen the rate Of
taxation rather than increase it. The
stimulus to all other industries would in
crease the wealth of the people. But
shall We span every measure of State
policy by the standard Of money values
Who can measure the blessings of widen
ing, and deepening, and diversifyiugt the
intellectual and moral culture of our
people? 1t is that upon which cur Re.
publican institutions stand. It is that
upon which our prosperity and happiness
depend and, in my judgment, there is
no line of education that will so well
develop the strength aud manhood, the
virtue and good order of our people, as
practical agricultural education. We
must remember that the poor boy who
goes to the plough, looking down to the
ground, has sentiment, and Imagination,
and ideality, as well. as others, which
ought to be drawn out to gee the beauty
and granduer of all about him. He
ought to be taught not only to lift up his
head and behold the glory of heavens,
but also to know the weeds and plants,
the birds and the flowers, the trees and
the animals, and to analyze, the rich
earth from which We all draw our aus-
tenance. He, TOO, ought to be able to
stand up and boast of his profession and
rejoice in his manhood. And when
see them looking into the deep darkness
beneath them, and can hear and almost
feel the throbbings of their loDgings for
something better than they possess, and
when see poor little girls, (for it is this
new system Of archaeological and indus.
trial training which has intensified the
plea for female education, with bare feet
and brown shoulders gathering aheaves,
or harvesting the cotton, or driving the
horses around the gin, or milking the
COWS, or serving ia the domestic affairs Of
the household, and know that these have
all the delicacy of sentiment aud refine.
ment of feeling and longing for knowledge
that belong to their sex, I yearn to take
hold of them all and place them upon a
level with the best men and women ofthe
land.
1 confess to practical and genuine
sympathy with the farmer class, but !
would not legislate to the prejudice Of
capital or other industries. | utterly
condemn trusts and monopolies that
press out the life blood of the weak to
hoard up surplus wealth, but capital
fairly used and the varied industries that
enlarge the aggregate wealth and comfort
of the people must have fair play in the
administration of public affairs. But
elevating and stimu ating this foundation
industry will stimulate every industry in
the State and develop her varied and
wonderful resources. When I run across
the Piedmont, now becoming rich with
factories and capital, and see the golden
grain and her food resources, and pass on
to the fruit belt and then to the melon belt
and then to the cotton belt whitening with
untold wealth, the staple of all industries
and commerce and then to the rice fields,
producing supplies of the best rice found
in the market and then amongst the
mineral resources of the State in which
there is iron and gold, ind the best
granite on the continent and phosphate
mines of unfathomed riches, and see her
forest abounding in latent wealth, and
her soil full of all stores of comfort and
possibilities of production, and her low.
lands and hillsides waiting for the native
grasses and the tramps ofherds, wonder
at the picture before me. For in the
light of industrial intelligence and wise
craftsmanship that has been transformed
into real existence which was once but
the shadow of our sleeping dreams.
But we must rise above the narrow
limits of selfshness and seclionalism
and do justly though the heavens fall
For then shall they fall with dews Of fat
ness and showers of blessing, Let the
affairs of State be administered in the
interest of the people and by the people
and not by sectional prejudice or selfish
cliques, whose aim and calling is to de-
feat the popular will. In all govern
ments of the people, every device which
removes its administration farther from
them is but usurpation, while all history
shows that every concession Of the peo
ple's rights and submission Of the peo
ple's interest to the people, enhance the
virtuous administration of the govern
ment. They cannot desire to do wrong
because it is wronging themselves
While all force is inherent in the peo
pie, virtue alone can utilize it. Tha
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