The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-10-23

most numerous and important body of
her citiZens-her fair daughters-and
has made provision for the education,
the training of all their Godgiven
faculties and abilities to prepare them
to make good homes, good common
schools ard a good support for them
selves aud for those dependent on
them i; need be-
Recognizing that woman is the
natural, logical teacher Of the Young
and that it is economy, as we'll as a
necessity for the State to provide
skilled instructors for her common
schools, in which over 200 900 of her
children are being educated at an an
nual public expense of nearl y $780,
600. South Carolina has made gener.
Gus provision for normal training here
while not subordinating in the least
the industrial training which will en-
able our young women to become
bread winners in more ways than III
teaching and to become good house.
keepers and home-makers. 1t being
recognized that the fryingpan is at the
bottom of such misery and moral OBJ,
liquity that dyspepsia leads to moroid-
ness, weakness OF the will, unhappl-
ness in tie home, failure in life and
much wrong doing; that good din
ner is a great moral uplift; that a
sweet and well-kept home strengthens
and preserves many man IN time OF
trouble and trial.
The State has done her part in ac-
corlplishilg these results-the build,
ings are splendid, in proportion and
are well adopted to the work and every
convenience is at hand.
But after all. results must depend
upon the efforts of those for whom
these preparations have been made.
| There is 40 royal road to learning.
No inventi:e genius will ever discover
a way OF dropping nickel in slot
and taking outa complete education.
! Heaven is not reached at single
bound
Bricks and mortar will not make a
college. Without effort on the part OF
the faculty and students, the stone and
brick will be but the monument OF
dead hope
May you, young ladies, who are to
be our students, bear clearly in mind
that the success Of your college will
largely depend upon your spirit and
attitude and work. May YOU regard it
as loving mother, and may it shelter
you and nourish you into fullest In
tellectual and spirited life. I feel sure
that with you taking a pride and in
terest in its success, with the energy
and public spirit of Rock Hill behind
it. and the public spirit of the whole
State immensely for it, the Winthrop
Normal and Industrial College will
surely and speedily become what 1t
was intended to be-a great and noble
| and enduring institution for the edu-
cation of the hand, the heart and the
head of South Carolinas young wom-
anhood.
After the close of Professor John
sons speech, the audience was treated
to some instrumental music by Profes-
sor Brown and Miss Waddill. Cover
nor Evans then, introduced as the
father of industrial education in South
Carolina,
SENATOR B. R. TILLMAN,
who said: THE divine bard who put
into the mind of Mark Antony the
arotion over the body of Caesar uses
these words: The evil that men do
lives after them. but the good is oft
Inferred with their bones" The rea-
son must be apparent to any one from
the illusions that have been made by
two or three of the speakers that l
speak Of somewhat under embarrass-
iuc conditions. l have been credited
by some of the gentlemen who spoke
in advance of me with being the orig
inator of the Idea whose creation we
have witnessed today. There are times
when words seem poor and Intellectual
from their inability to convey proper
ly the thoughts that come into the
mind of man. Such an occasion as
this is one Of them, as most of you
understand. When I began nine years
ago to agitate the question of indus
trial and technical education for men
and women both as almost the only
way in which South Carolina could
build up her waste places, there was
nothing of the kind here. In five years
we see Clemson and Winthrop, which
were erected at a cost of half million
dollars. Some have called me the
originator of this-let the credit 60 to
whom it may. God be blessed that we
have it.
You will understand that it was the
expectation that we should have today
as the orator Hon. J. L. NJ. Curry,
southern agent of the Peabody fund.
His letter explains his absence. and
until yesterday thought that my
part on the programme would be
merely that of one of the board Of
trustees.
There are number of things l wish
to say to these young ladies before me
and to this faculty we have selected
regarding the work we have laid out
for them 10 do. The year 1895 will go
down in the history of this common
wealth as an epoch. Our prosperity
will point to it and say: Here we be-
gan the upbuilding of South Carroll
ma" Why do say thisI There is
today in the capital of this State a
gathering of Representatives of this
commonwealth for the purpose Of
framing new Constitutions law
framed by South Carolinians for South
Carolinians, and under which you
must live. This school, which we
open marks an epoch in our history,
viii always be pointed to as having
been inaugurated in the year 1895.
Now what have we right to expect
from this school? for will not dwell
upon the Constitution; I only allud-
ed to it in passing. 1 say without
hesitation and in no boasting spirit,
that the last five years have marked
in this State change of things such
has not been known in the history of
tais commonwealth since it was taken
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