The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-11

this fund in whole or in part thereto.
That this appropriation shall be sub
ject to the legislative assent OF each
State.
The assets of this institution are:
L. The site and sixty acres sur
rounding, donated by Nh. R. S. Pull
len, valued at 81, ZOO.
2. The use of twenty acres of land
in the State Fair Ground, donated by
Directors of State Fair, valued at
| $4,000.
3. Three hundred acres of land, the
Camp Mangum tract, located about
three-euarters of a mile west of this
building, valued at $4,000.
4. The Exposition Building, do
mated by the Raleigh stockholders,
and valued at $4,000.
5.Surplus of the Agricultural Depart
ment, $14, 900 per Gnn~m, contingent
upon continued existence of the fertil-
izer tax.
6. The direct donations of the City
of Raleigh in money, S. OO.
Z. The accumulated assets of the
Industrial School set aside under Act
of 1885, amounting to $4,000.
8. The materials and labor furnish
ed and to be furnished by the Direc-
tors of the P~enitentiary, valued at &c.
| 900.
9. The States certificate of indebt-
edness for the Land Scrip Fund,
$500 a year, permanent endowment,
if good government continues, Of
$125, OOO.
10. The appropriation under the
Hatch Act, SIS, 900 per AMMAN, equiv
| alent, under certain limitations, to an
endowment of $500, 600. Total, $472-
| 900.
IL. The earnest labors of 500 Of
our best citizens and the best wishes
of many thousand others.
Grand total To be estimated by
the future historian of this institution,
who shall write the second chapter of
it's history, commencing with the be-
ginning of practical operations by the
| Board of Trustees under the law of it's
establishment.
l. 1 am enabled to read a printed copy
/ of this hist ,ry through the enterprising
| kindness of Mr. E. G. Harrell, who is
an enthusiastic friend of this institu-
ton. I have finished the task that has
been assigned to me. One or two
thoughts and suggestions and I have
done.
You must not expect too much Of
those who have this institution in
charge, nor expect it too fast. l am
glad I am not one of them. They
have a splendid endowment to work
with, but it is hedged about in part
| by limitations, and they are in a new
and untried field in North Carolina.
For awhile they must feel their way
cautiously, as being partly in the dark.
Said Gen. tombstone Jones to me,
himself a newspaper man. 81 never
saw the words Industrial Education
in print in this State until this agita-
ton by the Wautauga Club" This
may not prove that it eve was In
| print, but it does prove that it was
very rare. These Trustees, then, will
meet many difficulties, will make
some mistakes, will receive some crit
icisms, but I confess here, by way of
States evidence, that every hindrance
| this institution has met so far has re-
bounded ultimately to it's benefit.
The hill of difficulty which seems so
steep to climb but helps us down the
other side of it, and resistance to the
progress of truth is Gods method of
of it. If those who have this move
ment in charge will only have faith,
as said Abraham Lincoln, 1.-The peo-
pie, the people, the people, will carry
them through"
see, or | think I see, a difficulty
that will dance attendance upon this
institution with devilish pertinacity: 1t
IS the tendency toward theoretical, liter
arg and ultro-sc5entJfc educaeGon- AL
though we have a thousand schools in
the State where these things may be
taught, and should be taught, the
tempter sitting squat at the ear of the
authorities will whisper, "This is the
place to teach them" There are to-
day five million people in the United
States, and three million Of them are
in the South, who call blackletter
scholasticism alone, education. Lord
Bacon waged war with these literary
Apollyons, and they will be found
fighting against progress or the day
of judgment.
With Pharasaical zeal and bigotry,
these men would feign have buried the
new religion from Galilee mountain
deep beneath the fossil learning Of the
Rabbits and the traditions of the elders.
They wanted to issue a diploma to its
Divine Author before He could get
authority to heal the sick or raise the
dead. Fools seeing this institution in