The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-07-19

ana now snail IL Ue uOHc! 11OH cloe
but by educating the farmer, by teach
Ing him to love the beautiful, to love
books, to enjoy the dompanionship Of
the choice spirits of other ages and
other climes, to revel in the glorious
achievements of the past, to quicken
his interest in the great movements Of
out age, to apply to agricultural pur-
suits the discoveries Of science, the
invention of art, to put him in control
Of the mammoth forces Of nature, to
give him better food and better homes
and better books and better schools,
The manufacturing power Of the
world, it is said, is doubled by the aid
of machinery every seven years.
Shall these mighty forces move at the
bidding Of man to crush and enslave,
instead of liberating and eleyating
him? Shall We not see that day OF
which the poet sings!
"1'he mighty sinewy powers tf1at wait,
In earth and sea and str,
Shall tire1y early toll and late
Their iron fleet still feeter fee,
Our errands speed apace,
Till only arts and science be
The helots of our race"
May Clemson College perform her
part in this great work. To give fresh
impetus to agricultural pursuits, to
dignity labor, especially the most
healthful and Independent Of all labor,
labor oh the farth and in the fields; to
swell the number Of real producers, Of
ihen who earn the bread they eat and
the raiment wherewwith they are cloth
ed. Such is the aim Of Clemson Col
lege. The professions, so called, are
over-croWded. We have too many
lawyers, too many politicians, too
many middlemen, too many shop
keepers-in short, too many men try
ing to exc ont an existence b. some
other method than that of honest toll.
Whenever the masses become intelli-
gent, whenever they comprehend their
own needs and know their own friends
the day Of the demagogue, Of the char
iatan, Of the swindler, Of useless mid
dle-men, Of THE millionaire; will be
forever at an end.
We shall near no more talk OF the
poor ignorant farmer. I'lltell you the
men who ought to be the lords Of the
land; the salt of the earth are the men
itto. mt in fHe 6i}et1 6buntry. under
Gods blue canopy, earn their bread by
honest labor. The men who planned
this College are determined that it shall
be no mean affair. Everything has
been laid out on magnificent scale. 1t
is not to be overshadowed, as most
similar schools have been, by the State
University. 1t is not to be turned in
to a purely literary institution. Our
boys are to have sound and complete
training in their mother tongue, shall
be taught to WELD the pen, and when
necessary to address political assem-
bly,. In the department. Of mathemat-
les, chemistry, agriculture, physics,
mechanics they are to have instructions
as complete as can be given anywhere
in this country. So that when young
men leave these halls they will have
had intellectual training Of the highest
order; they will be prepared to stand
side by. side with men in other profess
sions
Some people tell us that this cannot
be done. It remains to be seen. Ag-
ricultural colleges for the most part
have failed because. they have been
mesn affairs, the buildings have been
mean, the equipment has been mean,
the support has been mean, students
and professors have been looked upon
as mean, and everything about them
has been mean. If such shall be the
case here, great will be the disappoint-
ment to thousands throughout. the
State.
Once more. This College is not an.
tagonistic to any other educational
enterprise. We do not want the earth.
We are not so ambitious as to wish to
monopolize the higher education in
this State. There is room and work
for us all. With our State Univer;
sity, which I hope soon to see placed
upon more substantial basis, with
the denominational colleges, to which
the State owes an everlasting debt Of
gratitude for saving higher education
at a time when the halls of our State
University echoed with voices Of
emancipated slaves, with our institu'
tion for the deaf and blind, which has
done so much to ameliorate the lot Of
the unfortunate, with our numerous
private institutions and our hundreds
Of public schools, with all good mer
and women who labor for the public
veal, we hope to join hand to hand
shoulder to shoulder, and with one
grand, united effort lead the people Of
the old Palmetto State to higher
planes of thought and action.
May ours be a State famous for hel
schools and scholars, her poets, hel
historians, her novelists, her painters
her sculptors and above all her happy
contented, intelligent, harmonious
people. May Clemson College fulfil
the expectations of her friends and
founders. May we who teach here
never betray the trust committed te
our care. May you, young men, seize
the golden opportunities offered tt
Won. but denied to YOUR less fortunate
brothers.
Here on the homestead of Calhoun
the purest if not the greatest Ameri
can statesman, here upon the sol
hallowed by the footsteps of great
men gone to their reward, here where
life-refreshing waters shoot sparkling
from everlasting hills, here beneath
the magnificent oaks that stand out
like giant sentinels bidding US stand
firm and true, here where fairest skies
bend above greenest fields, here where
the atmosphere is pure and bracing
away I. >the din and strife and pes
thence OF >>great city, here in sight
of these 81 ll-inspiring mountains,
may the youth Of South Carolina,
from generation to generation, come
to drink at the pure fountain Of
knowledge, to imbibe lessons of hero.
ism, patriotism, of homely virtues, Of
faith, fraternity and equality.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF Toll
NM WHO HnrYN,n1y