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THE REVERED TAX DODGBR,
THE COLLEGE WHICH HE PROPOSES TO
ERECT WHEREBY HIS NAME WILL
BE IMMORTAL.

THE COLLEGE WHICH HE PROPOSES TO
ERECT WHEREBY HIS NAME WILL
BE IMMORTAL.
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May be Worth Much, if Heeded-All
Manual Labor Schools I'm the Past
Have Been Absolute FaiIures-Can
Clemson Change the Record? or
Will He Entail Calamity Oh this
People?
As1IEv1LLE SULPHUR SPRINGS, n. c.
August :, 1883.
Editor Press and Banner:
perate from the effects of the exhaustive heat
Of summer, but keep informed on the pro.
gress OF the political campaign, State ana
county for regard IL mex hext m 70 m r. smTs
to result In important changes in our public
institutions of learning, as vel as In economic
questions. The action Of the Board of Trustees
Of the State University last year In creating
ing for increase Of appropriation, In my Judg-
ment, was serious blow to the Citadel Acad-
emy, though brought about by the friends OF
the CitedeI uniting with those Of the Univer'
clamoring for the needed education of her
sons, cannot afford to ooverstock the University
with professors. The people OF the State, of oil
classes, do not understand the necessity ol
employing twenty-iour professors to teach III
students, and some Of the best educated men
with whom l have conversed, con slider 1t q
the enemies of the University. and Of higher
education generally. 10 use slang phrase, II
was "too previous" 1t Will be q long time
before three or four hundred students will be
will I'LL easy chairs at good salaries, waiting
for students 10 instruct. From my reading Of
the reports OF the campaign, take IT as set
tied that the farmers are going to have sepa
rate Agrieuit;pral college, and In ss1rt time
port so many institutions OF learning, and the
result will be that some of them must 60
Which? Is an important inquiry to the re.
spective friends OF each. The University Will
stand as 1t should stand, and, in all time te
come, be an honor and an increasing glory tc
the State in spreading the light aud blessings
of higher education and culture over our State
the the great body of the people, in its hallowed
memories OF the past, for any would-be re
former to lay the rude hands OF q vandal upon
Its walls. see no disposition in that dlrec
ton at present. The Farmers" have toe
much common sense to sanction such an out
rage.
THE OLD TAx-DoDGER's CoLLEGE-PRoPEF
VIEWS AS TO TAKING MONEY FROM THE
TREASURY.
Now a few words as to the "Clemson Col
lege." yield to no man in sympathy for @ thf
fear they make q mistake If they believe tha
an agricultural college will relieve them O
any or their burdens, or can be established on
out additional taxation. Any funds taken
from other departments, to be put into the
treasury of the Agricultural college, will have
TO be supplemented by taxation to keep VI VI
aban doned. The Department of Agriculture
so we'll managed by the Commissioner, anc
accomplishing so much for the State, shoulc
not be crippled. If the income from the
claim, let 1t be turned into the treasury. II
fact all funds OF the State should 60 into The
treasury, In the regular way, and be appro
priated by the Legislature as the necessities o
their wisdom, require. This way OF hamper
ing the Judgment OF candidates for the Legis
| lature by all sorts Of interrogatories, some
members Of the Legislature, and is an insul
| to their intelligence and patriotism. There II
| a great deal OF demagogisna. insincerity, lyln!
| and dishonesty In politics. Almost ever,
candidate answers every question favorably
| to the views and wishes OF the interrogators
| 1t Is amusing, and at the same time amazing
Captain Tillman, In his speech at Hodges
twftting them by the remark that they, were
noU 'toeing the mark like little men," Fa
better to direct the attention OF candidates u
needed reforms In county and State govern
ment-to some OF the iniquitous laws on tn
statute books, apparently enacted lor IN.
benefit Of county officers and attorneys, ant
which bear heavily upon the people gener
ally.
THE WAY SMALL ESTATES ARE ABSORBED.
You may very pertinently ask why 1t Il
| that about one-fourth OF small intestat
estate is absorbed by officials In winding l
to express the idea. Why is it that It costs IS
| to foreclose a mortgage OF 5000? 1t didn't u.s.
to be so in ante bellu,n days, and ought not Il
| be so now. The machinery OF county govern
ment is too cumbersome, and requires to-
many officers TO run 1t. 1t is an importation
from thickly settled Northern countes, ant
does not suit us.
INCREASE POLL TAX-REDUCE TAX LEV,
| FOR SCHOOLS.
| The two-mill tax which requires one man Il
educate the children of his neighbor, whethe
| he be poor or rich, should be reduced to on
mill, and the poll tax raised to two dollars
The educational fund for common school
| would not, by that, be seriously affected, ant
1t would make large class Of our people Wh,
receive the benefit of most of the school funt
aud who pay but little, pay more REASONABLE
share, for all OF the poll tax goes TO this fund
But many Of these changes can only be mad
| by constitutional amendments by the Legis
| lature or by q convention to amend the con
stitution.
MANUAL LABOR SCHOOLS HAVE ALL GoNl
DOWN.
But as to the Clemson college, which, In tn
minds of the farmers, seems to overshado7
every other public question In importance
and the bequest which all the candidate
were so ready to accept, whether the State !
| to control 1t or not, or whether there is TO q
| q long litigation in the courts over the will
which, the lawyers will tell you, means n bi
hole In 1t. Let us look at manual labor school
and colleges In the light Of experience. 1t wa
once q popular idea, and many such institu
tions have been tried In the South and Il
South Carolina. Where are they now? Con
down. as all such experiments will go, wher
students are required to work, and are pal
for 1t. l take it that public farm, run D.
paid officials, cannot be managed as econom
cally and as successfully as one run by
| farmer who owns 1t. And II most OF ou
| farmers find 1t hard work to make "buckl
and tongue meet" how can II be eXpecte
that public farm can be anything but al
expense?
! THE DE LA HOWE SCHOOL IS CLOSED.
The Furman University undertook such
school at Winnsboro. but 1t was abandone
and the Institution was moved to Greenvillt
4 You are all familiar with the De La How
school. Here was O large tract OF land, goo
| land, beQueathed to the State with ampl
means. by benevolent man, for practica
j its day it accomplished good, but it wen
down until the trustees found 1t necessary
| suspend operations and to rent the land.
THE CoKEsBURY MANUAL LABOR SCHOOL,
| THE WAY THE BOYS woRKED-WHA
/ THEY TAUGHT THE ANIMALS -FISA
| BREAKING UP.
| Ofthe "Cokesbury Manual Labor School,
can speak more confidently: This institutio
was owned by the South Carolina Methods
Conference; the funds TO build 1t were sui
scribed mostly by the citizens Of CokcsburJ
They started out in 1887 with near 4O0 acres
fresh land, O two-Story brick building wit
some forty rooms for the students, mes mes