The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-07-27

is making farm lie Sad ana Qreary and
repulSlvr. 1t does not meet the crav-
ing OF the human heart for cOmpan-
iOnship, for intellectual and social life.
Is IT any wonder, then, that the rising
generation flee the farm as house Of
bondage? Before the war, the case
was different. The planter gathered
around him colony Of slaves. lie
kept open house. He had leisure. lie
enjoyed the society Of friends and
neighborS.
TO the old Greeks, especially the
AthenianS, the lonely farm house was
almost unknown. They lived in VII
ldges and found untailing pleasure in
Ihe society OF friends. emuSt DESTROY
the barrenneSs and m0notony OF coun-
Try llle. Our civilization will be a
lallure as long as it ignores the train
ing or the intellect. the cultivation OF
Ihe heart. We must make life on the
farm more attractive, more happy, more
joyful, more intellectual. Aud how
shalt 1t he done? How else but by ed .
lcatlng the farmer, by teaching him to
love the beautiful, to love books, to en-
Joy the compamonship Of the choice
spirits OF other ages and other climes
10 reVel in the glorious achievements of
the past, 10 quicken his interest i'm the
great movements of our age, to apply
10 agricultural pursuits the discoveries
on science, the inventions of art to put
MN In control of the mammoth forces
Oh nature, to give him better food and
better homes and better books and bet
ter schools
Ihe manufacturing power Of the
World, 1t Is said doubled by the aid of
llAchlnery every seven years. Shall
lheSe mighty forces which were the bid.
dlng OF man to crush and enSlaYe in
& II ~
snail we not see that day Of which the
poet sings:
The mighty sincwy powers that wait
In earth and sea and air
Snail tirrlcSS early toll and late
Our mcnial burdens bare
Their iron feet still ilcctcr flee,
Our errandS speed apace,
III only art and science he
lhr hrlotS Of our race
May Clemson College perform her
part III this great work. TO give fresh
impetus TO agricultural pursuits, to dig
nlly labor. especially the most health
lul and independent of all labor-on the
larm and In the iieldS-t) swell the
number of real producers, of the men
who earn the bread they eat and the
ralment wherewilh they are clothed; !;
such Is the aim Of Clemson College.
lhe professions So-called are over
c'oNded. We have too many LAWYERS,
700 many pOlltlclanS, too many middle
men, 10 many ShOpkerperS, in short too
many men trying to exc out an exist
| ance 10y some other method than that
OF honest toll. Whenever the mas. IS
become Intelligent, whenever they com
| prehend tier own needs and know
their own friends, the day of the
demagOgueS, Ol the charlatan, of the
| i1r nj In, AN II
the mlll!onarc, Will be forever at an
end. We shall hear no more talk of the
poor. Ignorant farmer. I'll tell you the
n Ell who ought to be the lords of the
land, the Salt Of the earth, are the men
VINO, out III the open country, under
Goa Dluc canopy, earn their bread hy
honest labor
Themen who planned this college are
determined that it shall be no mean af-
fair. Everything has been laid out on
Il magnificent scale 1t is not TO he
OVtrSlladOWcd, us most similar schools
nave been. 10y the State university. 1t
Is not ID be turned into a purely liter
AIRY institution. Oar boys are to have a
sound and complet" training in their
mother tongue, shall BE- taught to WELD
Tie pen and when necessary to address
Il polliical assembly In the depart
meli'S OF ms:thrm tticS, chemistry agrI-
cuilure, physics, mechanics, they are To
h ave Instructions as Cumplet" rs can ID.
given anywhere in this country. So
that when young men leave these halls
they VIII have intellectual training OF
the highest order, they Will BE- prepared
to stand side by side with men IN other
prOtcSSiOES. some people tell us that
TINS cannot he done. 1t remains To be
seen. Agricultural colleges for the
most part failed because they have
been mean affairs, the buildings have
been mcan. equipment has been mean,
the support has been mean. students
and professors have been lJOk"d upon
as mean aud everything about them has
been mean. II such VIII be the case
mere great viii he the disappointment
TO thousands throughout the State
Once more tins college Is not antag.
onlstic 10 any other educational cntrI.
prise. We do not want the earth. We
are not so ambitious lis to wish to mo-
nop0NI" the higher education in ,hiS
Siate. lhcrr Is room and work for us
all. with oiIr State university. which
| nope soon 10 see placed upon Il more
substantial basis, with the drn0mlna.
tIonal cOllrgrS To which tn" State owes
an everlasting debt OF gratitude for
serving higher education at the time
when the halls Of the State university
| echoed with voices Of emancipAip1
| slaves, with our institution for the deaf
and blind, which h rs done so much to
| amcll0rdtr the lot of the unfortunate,
| with our numerous private inStit .tiOns
and our our hundreds Of public schools,
| with all good men ana women who la
| bOr 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