The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-07-12
ABOUT EDUCATION.
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News Observer Chronicle
We regret to see the efforts that are
being made to attack our State institu-
tiOns for higher education. Now it is
the University that is attacked now
It IS the Normal and Industrial School
Tor Women, and soon it will be the
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
These are the three State institutions
tor the higher education of her youth,
, all established by the State and sup
ported IN part by appropriations from
The treasury. The same principle
applies to them all. The Agricultural
and Mechanical College receives aid
both from the State and from the
National Treasury; but all the money
1t gets comes from the people of North
Carolina, whether collected by sheriffs
or by Federal officers. The principle
IS the same in either case Indeed the
taxing OF the people OF North Carolina
by the Federal government for the
support of college is hardly as
, deienslble as for the people of North
, Carolina through their legislature to
tax themselves for this purpose. Those
who are now attacking one of our
State institutions for higher education
must necessarily attack them all, if
they proceed from principle and main
! tam consistency.
Why, then, is this attack made
Why should the State of North Caro-
lima set up a college for the training
OF young women and proceed to knock
| 1t down as soon as its walls are filled
with pupllso Are we to throw up our
! hats and shout for the A. & NJ College
until it has 400 students, and then
! demand its destruction? The Uni
vtlslty once had an endowment Of two
/ hundred thousand dollars given it by
the State, which was swept away by
the war. 1t has lived and grown as a
vital part OF the State for one hundred
years, and never in its history dld i,
more nobly fulfill its mission than now.
Since 1875 when its reorganization
was effected with seven teachers and
sixty pupils, it has grown and
struggled amid the prayers and plaudt:
OF our people until now it has twenty
SIX teachers and four hundred pupils
and is deservedly ranked among the
foremost Universities in America. L
this the time to destroy it?
The Teachers Assembly at More
head had recently resolved to have tht
State establish a Reform School.
Shall we all favor this until the schoo
is established and then shall we demanC
its abolition?
1t is asked whether the people O
North Carolina have a right to ta'
themselves to give their children tb'
lnestimable benefits of higher educa
ton. This question is answered il
the fundamental law which created tn
State, in every enactment of thel
constitution by the people of III
State, in the practice of the State 70
one hundred years, and in the practic
of our sister States throughout tn
Union.
The policy is now part OF GU
Statehood. The denial of the righ
of a state to maintain schools 70
higher education is virtually denla
Of its right to maintain any schools 70
what is higher education? Wher
does it begin? Where does it end?
Higher education is given day il
a dozen North Carolina public school
in such places as Raleigh, Goldsborc
Wilmington, Greensboro, Charlott
and Asheville, than was given flft
years ago in the average college
Shall these schools be closed2 Sha1
their instruction be curtailed fror
eight, nine or ten years to three
Shall the orphans in the Oxfor
Asylum be allowed to study Latin Q
to practice telegraphy or stenograph
or typewritingo Shall the blind girl
and boys be allowed to learn on tn
piano, or to learn singing fror
teachers paid by the State?
This movement against the Stat
making provision for higher educatio
within her borders should cease. Han
in hand go educational and industrls
progress. North Carolina is now enter
ing upon great career in both line
Too long has her growth been retalde
: bv sectional quarrels and divisions
| which happily are ended. TO tear tt
State to pieces by new quarrels an
iealousies over this subject would |
calamitous. 1t can be done only ;
the expense of the best interests {
=, North Carolina and Of the welfare
our people. Let us leave the matte
. alone.
Real faith never grows weak by haVil
to wait Sufferers taking Hoods SarS
parilla for chronic complaints should
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4 uoot'S cures.
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III .Allegedly Democratic men m: