The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-27

ny respects touched West Point.
Mr.. Floyd-LeNington. Virginia. al
ways stood much higher.
Mr.. Hutson--I am only repeating
what this inspector in the United
States army said about it.
Would you have it destroyed? As to
Clemson college, she provides an edu,
cation that no other institution pro
vides. Would you destroy her just as
she has been organized? There are
acts to require the maintenance OF
Clemson
We all know that Clatlin should be
supported. The colored people are en-
titled to it. AS to the matter OF the
enforcement from Clatlin university,
l am not here to discuss that:
Then who is ready to pull down the
girls school at Rock Hill2
Then the question is, shall these ~
stitutions be maintained by Constltu
tlonal provision? lie could not see
an iota of wisdom in the arguments
that had been advanced on the Other
side.
DIR. SMITH.
DR.. Smith of Barnwell then took
the floor and spoke as follows:
Mr.. President: I deem it unnces
sary for me to say, in discussing the
question of higher education that al
passion, sectional or factional feeling
should be laid aside, for I believe it is
the earnest desire of every member o.
this convention to get all the goot
possible from the small amount o
money which South Carolina is ablt
to appropriate to this noble object, ant
We only differ as to the amount ant
the manner in which this money
should be used. The older college:
in this State are far from being IN ar
ideal condition and it is our duty t
look at them as we find them today
as they have been in years past ano
not as we would have them. an
surprised that the most enthusiastic
friend of the South Carolina college
should ask that this convention shoulc
perpetuate administration without any
guarantee that it will be worthy o.
its fortering care. claim that it l:
best for the South Carolina college anc
for the people that the appropriation
should not be guaranteed by the Con
stitution. Let the professors anc
friends of that institution know tina
when it falls below a reasonable aver
age attendance in the collegiate depart
ment, not the freshman or preparatory
department, then the appropriation
shall stop, and this provision should
be made mandatory.
What say of the South Carolina
college applies with equal force tc
Clemson college. If the farmers dc
pay the privilege tax they do not wish
to be compelled to invest in an enter
prise that does not pay. In my opin
ion Clemson collegesis doinga noble
work and filing long felt want, but
at most it is an experiment. | hope
and believe it will be a successful ex
pertinent. If it is the people will sup
port it; if it is not they should not be
compelled to do so. I would repeat
Just here, that at one time the State
of Kentucky had an agricultural and
mechanical college that cost the State
about half million dollars, with
about 500 boys in attendance, and yet
in less than Is years there was not a
boy on that farm and the sound OF
the hammer and saw had ceased to be
heard in its work shop and foundry,
and yet Kentucky is great State.
In my opinion the appropriations to
the South Carolina college and the
Military academy should cease now
for the following, and to my mind,
unanswerable reasons: There are sew
eral literary colleges in the State, the
equal of the South Carolina college,
where young men can be educated at
cost to themselves little. if.any above
that of the South Carolina college and
these colleges are getting no State aid
while Clemson college is doing all the
work and more than the Citadel aca.
deny claims to do for less than half
the cost per student. Besides should
the South Carolina college and the
Military academy be abolished, the
efficiency and prosperity OF the other
institutions would be increased. Then
I ask, why should they continue to be
a burden to the State2
I agree with Mr.. Jervey in saying
that the brain and Drawn of South
Carolina is equal to that of any State
in the Union, but do not agree with
him when he says education should
begin a. the top and necessarily among
the few. That has been the system
practised in South Carolina for more
than hundred yaers, and while she
has alway had few great men, she
has greater proportion of illlteracy
than any of the older States Of the I'm
ion and as direct consequence, IN
science, art and manufactures we are
far behind the other States This sys-
tenn has been weighed in the balance
and found wanting and should this
convention fail to recognize these facts
or be influenced by sentiment, it will
prove recreant to the greatand solemn
duties that have been imposed upon 1t
by the people of the State.
MIR CLAYTON.
Mr.. Clayton did not believe that
they could better the report of the
The gentlemen on the
other side say leave it to the legisla-
ture. Why leave to the Legislature
things that it is our duty to do here?
It has been said that Clemson.is is hum
bug. Why could not some man rise
up and kill-not Clemson, for 1t is IN
part protected-but that grand college
at Rock Hill2 do not oppose Wof-
ford or the other denominational col
leges. 1t is not fair to run down the
South Carolina college and say that is
has only 10 students and her profes-
sors are beneath those of other colleges.
Mr.. Watson-I did not say that. l
gave them the highest commendation.
Mr.. Clayton-The idea Of complain
ing that the free school child gets
s1.40, while the college man gets $500
will do very well to catch votes on the
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