Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-12-26
TO BE CONTINUED.
The Clemson College Issue.

AhO OAOhoUh SVfkCRO AoouVs
The issue now between the friends
and foes of the Clemson College is
distinct.
The friends of the college wish to
provide for its support from funds
already paid into the hands of the
States officials and usually diverted
TO, other purposes; its foes wish to
taxes on nf9tYl 9tYliit it by imposing additional
institutions, schem1Hesl h1H leaving all other
in undisturbcd possession n''t6SrPrlses g.
present incomes.
Everybody now apparently fovors
the college. One party says: ooh
yes! Establish your college and take
all the money you wish for it, SO you
take it from the pockets of the pco-
pie and do not disturb any of our
pets" That is the position exactly.
MIR. Haskell, for instance, in the
House, is willing to vote 100000 he
says, for the Clemson College, so it
is added in the tax levy and taken
directly from the tax payers.
The real friends of the college
S t""H ~ s.ao as al1erenSy mhlef lGf9Gs|5
is the most important of all; that
before we make lawyers, teachers,
doctors, soldiers, merchants and civil
engineers we ought to make the
farmers who are to support them all;
that thousands of the men who are
to have the control and management
OF the States land in the future are
rapidly outgrowing their youth and
being hurried into the ranks of active
workers without the instruction re-
garding modern methods and the de-
velopmcnts of science in their busi-
ness which would largely increase
their productive capacity and their
hopes for success.
Ihey ask that the people be re-
leaved of new burdens, so far as is
possible. They do not ask for
dollar which will directly or indi-
rectly increase taxation.
They ask that the accumulation of
money to meet debt which will not
be due in years be suspended awhile.
Tho very newspapers which clamor
most bitterly against selling the
phosphate interests to pay off the
State debt clamor with equal vigor
against taking dollar of the money
reserved for paying that debt to
'''ee' III. oressing need for proper
agricultural cduo..;nn. The yerv
newspapers and men that c,,..a aloud
for the State to assume large
amount of six per cent bonds for
the establishment of the South Caro-
lima College now cry to Heaven
against suspending payment in adj
vance of such bonds to establish the
Clemson College. The debt is a
dreadful, horrible, pressing thing to
be met at any sacrifice when money
is to be diverted from paying it to
build a farmers college in Oconec
County; it is small, trihing and
harmless when it is to be added to
operate a university Of polite litcra-
ture ut Columbia.
The friends of the Clemson College
ask that the privilege tax on fcrtili-
zcrs, paid by the farmers and now
used for other purposes, portions of
the Hatch fund, given by the United
Dtatcs Government for the specific
purpose of agricultural education,
and the money now used for the
Agricultural Department at Colum-
bia be given for the establishment
and maintenance of an agricultural
college and experimental station at
Fort Hill. They also ask that the
money now used Tor maintaining an
agricultural annex as a compara-
tfvcly obscure and unmportant de-
partment of the State University be
transferred to and used for college
where agriculture will be the chief
purpose and feature.
II is little enough to ask. 1t docs
not involve n dollar of extra taxa.
ton. i is SIMPLY a question: Of the