The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-09-12

mated, and it, name an absurd
IniSnomer.
"But, after all, the best college
work is only preparatory work
ia agricultural science, capable,
as has been pointed out already,
Of laying only the foundation
Of that intellectual Development
which will II. a man IN some
degree for the pursuit OF scieG-
tific agriculture, and finally OBJ
tain the mastery Of 1t. 1t is In
the great postgraduate school
of real life that educational
work is mainly done; that intel
lectual growth and development
attain TO any considerable pro
portions, and it is true that
when many conceive education
TO he complete and finished the
real work is only about to be
begun. As tie graduate with
his diploma steps forth fro III his
mimic world of words and SYM
bols and abstract principles, and
is brought face to face with men
and things in Il world of grim
realities, what is he now to do L?
What does he know how to do I?
Atas! for this poor schoolboy.
Thrust out of doors up,n the
world, too many times there IS
nothing in the books to show
him how be is to find out his
Hfework, or even to help him
about the finding or the doing
Of it. Therefore, it becomes
necessary for the progress of
agriculture that the post-gradu-
ate school of real life shall be
we'll organized and equipped.
Out Of this necessity haye arts
ed snch institutions as agr.cul-
tural societies, clubs, wheels, al
liances, and other like organiza-
tions, which are SO many chairs
in that great school in which the
actual life-work of the man is
to be done. TO help on the
work Of this school we have
also State and National exper.-
ment stations and Il great Ma
tional Department of Agricul-
ture. We have moreover, pa
pers, aud periodicals, and re-
ports. and bulletins, and adver-
tisements, and museums, and
shows, and many mo instru-
mentalities, to say nothing of
the practice and experience of
neighbO:s, and more than all, of
tie mans own practice and ex-
perience.
"Now, therefore, Why have
the politicians, who indignant
ly disclaim that they are pvofes-
sional politicians, but who never
theless by that trade have their
living, rizen with one accord to
denounce our Alliance as mis-
chievous in purpose and effect ?
The Democratic politician de-
nOunces it as a scheme to break
up the Democl attic party, the
Republican as a trick to ca tch
Republican votes We say to
them of both parties, let us
alone hinder us not. We are
about our own business; do you
90 about yours, if any you have.
We are preparing ourselves to
meet a great issue. x
care you for us or against us?
Are you hostile or friendly
Give us true account. If you
are against the tyranny OF mo
nopoly, we are against it; we
have a common cause against d.
common foe. How then can we
be scheming to break you up
We are battling for those rights?
Then have we a common cause
against a common foe, and how
say you We are plotting a
Democratic trick to catch Re-
publican votes? Here is square
issue. Gentlemen, politicians,
meet it squarely. That is the
best thing you can do. If your
purposes are honest your meth
DDS will be manly and direct land
we shall find no difficulty in dis
covering our friends. Still less
are we likely to fail in develop
ing the position of our enemies.
Understand us, we are getting
to be educated a little, in our
postgraduate school, about men
and things. We have marked
out our course and we intend to
pursue it. We have marked it
OUT, not on radical and destruc-
tive lines, bnt within establish
ed lines of safety. The pur-
pose of these Alliances, these
other organizations and institu-
tons, is educational, and is in
tended to better our condition,
moral, intellectual, civil. pecu-
mary, social. In Sd doing we
offer no offense; we do no wrong
to any party not found in close
alliance, offensive, defensive,
with our enemies-with trusts,
combines. deals and steals. If
any party be found in alliance
with or exercising a protector
ate over these nefarious com
bines let that party prepare for
the onset. We will surely fall
upon them, and if we do not
crush them it will I've because we
are not able.
"Such is this agricultural edu-
cation of the modern sort. where