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They have all long since made ample

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ingly failed to realize that the State's
welfare is more dependent upon the
women, on account of their greater
influence upon society and citizenship
through the home, where are origin
ated the forces which determine tht
character of the community, the State
and the nation. All great men have
had great mothers.
The relation of woman is close tc
the government of the State, for wher
women are educated the children
never grow up in ignorance. The
happiest people are the best educated
people. All governments are looked
upon in accordance with the way they
treat their women. This institution il
monument to reform, for it is true
reform. The idea was conceived by &
great mind, who, upon his humble
farm, studied the abuses of his time
and has had erected this monument tc
his State if not to himself.
It is with pride that we are able tc
say that South Carolina nobly meets
the highest test of her enlightenment
While maintaining for the benefit o1
her sons the South Carolina. college
the Citadel and Clemson college, she
has responded to the demands of love,
patriotism and justice in behalf of the
most numerous and important body OF
her citizens-her fair daughters-and
has made provision for the education,
the training of all their God-given
faculties and abilities to prepare them
to make good homes, good common
schools and a good support for them
selves and for those dependent. on
them if 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 nearly $500,
900. 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 IN
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 ob-
liquity that dyspepsia leads to morbid
ness, weakness of the will, unhappi.
ness in the home, failure in life and
much wrong-doing; that a good din
ner is a great moral uplift; that a
sweet and we,l-kept home strengthens
and preserves many man in time OF
trouble and trial.
The State has done her part in &C
complishing 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 no royal road to learning.
No inventive genius will ever discover
a way of dropping nickel in a slot
and taking out a complete education.
Heaven IS not reached at a 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 a
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 a loving mother, and may it shelter
you and nourish you into fullest in
tellectual and spirited life. I feel sure
that with you taking 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 it
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 Carolira's young WON
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: 1.-THE evil that men dc
lives after them, but the good is of
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
speak of somewhat under embarrass
ing conditions. I 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 time:
when words seem poor and lnetectua
from their inability to convey proper
| ly the thoughts that come into the
mind of man. Such an occasion a:
this is one of them, as most of yor
understand. When began nine year:
ago to agitate the question of indus
trial and technical education for mer
and women both as almost the only
way in which South Carolina coult
build up her waste places, there wa
nothing of the kind here. In five year:
we see Clemson and Winthrop, which
were erected at cost of half million
dollars. Some have called me tn
originator of this-let the credit 60 t.