The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-30

privilege TAX on fertilizers tor one year
and We have $40,000 with which t.
commence building a separate agricuI
tural college, where the sons of pool
farmers can got a practical education
at small expense.
But we dare not relax our effort ol
rely upon the long professions of oul
opponents as to their willingness now
to build and equip this agricultural
school. Senator McMaster, trustee
OF the South Carolina College, gave
voice to the sentiments and wishes
which are prevalent at the University
and Military Academy when lie
hoped to see the Internal Clemson
College sink out Of sight next year"
They all want to sink the "infernal'
Agricultural College out of fsight, and
if its frienus do not really once more tc
its support it will either be DESTROYED
or starved, so that il cannot do the great
work it is expected to accomplish.
All the cry about "cxisting institu-
tions' which must remain inviol;. se
shows that the ring-the South Caro-
lima University, Citadel, Agricultural
Bureau, Columbia Club, Greenfield
building ring--intend in thefuture, as
in the past, to get all they can, and
keep all they get. These pets of the
aristocracy and its nurseries are only
hoping that the people will again sink
into their accustomed apathy. The
mechanical department of the Uni
versity was given an increased appro-
prlation, and there is no thought of
transferring it to Fort Hill, although
the land scrip fund, which is sent
there was expressly donated for the
purpose of mechanical as we'll as agri-
cultural education, and so with the
experiment stations. The Hatch fund
is given to the Clemson College, but
the stations are left at Columbia and
Spartanburg, under the control of the
South Carolina College.
Is it not plain that these people in
tend to yield obedience to the law only
only when they are made to do it?
The Farmers Association demands
that the land scrip and Hatch funds
and the fertilizer tax shall be consol-
idated and used for the building and
maintenance of a first class industrial
school, with experiment stations at
tached, for farmers and mechanics.
We hold that the experimental work
and the inspection and analysis of fer
tiliZers can all be more efficiently and
economically carried on under one
board, mostly at one place, and much
Of it by the same corps of men who
teach.
We have never and do notnow want
any increase Of taxes. to accomplish
these ends. But our opponents having
seized the opportunity afforded by our
agitation to double the income of the
South Carolina College and call it a
university, and in addition obtained
the Hatch fund ofSl5,0 ,00O, donated for
experiment stations, cry out: "Take
your Clemson College, We will give
you $4,000 or sl9S,O00, if you want it
raised by taxation, but you don't touch
existing institutions ;" They have built
with our bricks but say we must not
take them, but that We can build if
we make Others. Was there ever such
impudence?
They seized fist the land scrip fund.
Then they misappropriated the Hatch
fund; they increased the taxes S65, 900
a year to equip and maintain the
different departments of the grand
University; they voted $4,000 in one
lump without even a division to re-
bnild, repair and equip the Citadel
Academy, and then say to taxpaying
farmers Leave our existing institu-
tions" alone. Let the agricultural
bureau with its board-who arc our
chosen sons, every man of them
belonging to our aristocratic ring
let this bureau waste $4,000 a year
more. Leave our experiment stations
at Darlington, Columbia and Spartan
burg alone. We expect to control
votes with them and they must not be
touched.
Put your hands in your pockets and
pay for your Clemson College if you
will have it, and we will vote the tax
es. An ANALYSIS of the vote in the
House and Senate which defeated the
consolidation Of all our agricultural
work shows that the coard and depart
ment of agriculture are sustained by
the fertilizer manufacturers, the phos-
phate miners and the University and
Citadel. If farmer voted for its con-
tinuauce it is because he felt that the
South Carolina University would lose
something by abolition. The support
of the fertilizer companies is easy to
understand. This bureau has been
their best friend. Year after year we
have been told by Commissioner But
ler that the guanos inspected were be-
.ow the guarantees, but nobody has
been punished. In fact there is no
adequate punishment for selling fraud
ulent guanos in this State.
The bill prepared by the committee
Of the Farmers Association for the re-
organization of the board Of agriculture
would have secured our farmers
against swindling fertilizer dealers, but
it was amended to death by the law
yers in the Senate, who are attorneys
/