The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-01-30

the South Carolina college, gave voic
to the sentiments and wishes which ar
prevalent at the University and Militar
Academy when he chopped to see the in
fernal Clemson College sink out Of sigh
next year." They all want to sink tn
"infernal" agricultural college out o
sight, and if it's friends do not rally one
more to its support it will either be de
stroyed or starved, 30 that it cannot d.
the great work it Is expected to accom-
plish. All the cry about 'existins in
stitutions" which must remain iuviolatt
shows that the ring ,ho South Carolina
University, Citadel, Agricultural
Bureau, Columbia Club, Greenfield
building ring intend in the future, 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 accus-
toned apathy. The University was
given an increased appropriation, and
there is no thought Of transferring it to
Fort Hill, although the land scrip fund
which is sent there was expressly donat.
| ed for the purpose Of mechanical as well
as agricultural education, and so with
the experimental 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 intend to yield
obedience to the law only when they are
made to do t7 The Farmers Associa.
tiou demands that the laud scrip and
Hatchfunds and the fertilizer tax shall fret
be consolidated and used for the build
and maintenance Of class industrial
school, with Experiment Stations
attached, for farmers and mechanics.
We hold that the experimental work,
the educational work aud the inspection
and analysis of fertilizers can all be moro
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 not
now want any increase of taxes to ac-
complish these ends. But our opponents
having seized the opportunity afforded
10y our agitation to double the income Of
the South Carolina College and call it a
university, and in addition obtained the
Hatch fund of $15, 900, donated for Ex-
pertinent Stations, cry out: "Take our
Clemson College,! We will give you
$99, 600 or $198, 600 if you want it raised
by taxation, but don't touch existing in
stitutions." 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 impudence2
THE DoINGs OF THE RING.
They seized first the land scrip fund.
Then they misappropriated the Hatch
fund. They increased the taxes $65, 900
year to equip and maintain the diff
ferent departments of the grand unver
SHY. They voted 100000 in one lump
without even division to rebuild, re-
pair and equip the Citadel Academy, and
then say to taxpaying farmers: Leave
our existing institutions alone. Let the
agricultural bureau with its board-who
arc our chosen sons, every man Of them
belonging to or aspiring to belong to our
aristocratic ring let this bureau waste
$50, 600 year more-leave our Expert.
ment Stations at Darlington, Columbia
and SpartanburR 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
IT you will have 1t, and we will vote the
taxes.
An analysis of the vote in the House and
Senate which defeated the consolidation
of all our agricultural work shows that
the board and Department of Agriculture
are sustained by the fertilizer manufac-
turers, tho phosphate miners and the
University and Citadel. If a farmer
voted for it's continuance it is because he
felt that the South Carolina University
would lose something by it's abolition.
The support of the fertilizer companies
is easy to understand. This bureau has
been their best friend. Year after wear
we have been told by Commissioner
Butler that the guanos inspected were
below the guarantees, but nobody has
been punished. In fact there is no ade-
quate punishment for selling fraudulent
guanos in this State. The bill prepared
by the committee of the Farmers Asso-
citation for the reorganization of the
Board of Agriculture would have secured
our farmers against swindling fertilizer
dealers. but it was amended to death by
the lawyers in the Senate, who are attor-
neys for the phosphate miners and fer
tllizer companies; and the men who we're
elected on the board over the nominees
of the farmers convention were chosen
not because they are more loyal to the
agricultural interests. or better fitted for
the position, but because they are friends
OF the University and belong or are sub
oo' '''cho W Jul aiiotOCIaCy-''S SO CalleQ'
and the phosphate miners are too we'll
satisfied with the system Of collecting
the State royalty to permit change if
they can help it. How wonderfully per
feet oridefective is this system is shown
by the fact that during the ten years
under the same officials not single ins
dictment has been brought against any
one for attempting to swindle the State
out OF its dues. No wonder charleston
is in love with the Agricultural Bureau
and cannot bear to soc that "existino
institution" disturbed.
The recent proposal to sell the state's
interest in the phosphate beds is fortu.
nate, because thereby the attention of
taxpayers is attracted to this most i'm
.portant matter. The Farmers AssJcia-
tion proposed in 1886 to increase the
royalty as a means Of lowering taxes,
and we believe this can be safely done
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