The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-01-27
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stroy or cripple our colleges and you
destroy or cripple al hope CT better
public schools. AS stream cannot
rise higher than the fountain head, SO
will teaching IN the public schools re.
main low and unsatisfactory until
those who are to engage in this wor K
seek the better to equip themselves IN
the higher semiuarits Of learning.
Nor is this all The primary school,
it is said. has jght to live because ii
fits people for the duties Of citizenship.
But for what duties? 70 read, 10
write, 10 cipher? Does this fit for toe
duties Of citizenship? Fer the lowest,
perhaps, bat " hst OF the highest? DO
not the highest duties require the am
pleSt scholarship, the highest and
MOBILES: training that can be given
Can the free school tit for the high
est duties of statesmauship2 Assured
ly not. For the solution OF great and
oftentimes perpiexing problems, IN.
volviUe peace aod prosperity OF all
tne people, the State stands IN con
slant need OF nleu OF the highes5 schol-
arship, of the proioundsst knowledge
Of law men whose mental grasp is
large enough to sweep the whole horl-
zoo, men able to rise above local or
even State interests. and to actor the
common good CT the people Of all the
| States.
is the chief pride and glory Of
our State to claim for her sons men
whose names sre forever inscribed IN
the history OF this nation.
Such were Legare and Sims and
Timrod and Hayne and Preston and
McDafiie, and the great Calhoun.
From her hills and valleys may there
still go forth men who shall not only
bless their State and nation, but hu-
manity itself. Again does the COM
mon school train men for the profes-
sions of Law or med:cine2 Does 1t
equip for scientific pursuits? Does 1t
send out expert chemists and geolo-
gists and engineers and scientific agri-
! culturists2 It lezsc-sssi R-saea
for the manifold pursuits and
professions open to the ambitious
youth OF the State. For these we must
furnish needed training IL seminarles
of learning, or look 10 other States to
do for US what we should do ourselves
aud spend money abroad for what the
State could supply. Against such a
fate State pride and patriotism alike
rebel. Such disaster would fall with
crushing weight upon the sons and
daughters of the poor, who would be
unable to meet the expenses Of an ed
ucation at the North. But we are told
that higher education in South Caro-
lima costs too much. Does it not cost
less than anywhere else in the worldl
Harvard, with her three thousand
students, has an annual income of
more than a million-a cost OF $500
per student, and this; too, with no
account taken of the millions already
invested in buildings and books and
scientific equipment. And yet who
will say thar the vast sums invested IN
this great university fail to bring IN
adequate returns2 Does Virginia COM
plain of the 100000 annually spent
for the five hundred young men at
her University Have not Michigan
and Wisconsin and Minnesota and
Nebraska and California been amply
repaid for the millions in recent years
devoted to higher education? a tax
of 100000 for higher education in
South Carolina means but little more
than so cents for every thousand dol
lars of taxable property. Such tax,
even We're there no adequate returns,
is no burden to anyone. But it does
bring adequate returns in manhood
and womanhood. It does. I believe
in the long run, pay for the invest
ment in actual dollars and cents.
There can be, there must be, no con-
hict between the Church and the State
colleges. There should be generous
rivalry, but open or covert antagonlsn
is disastrous to the interests of both.
Colleges founded by the churches
and by private bene6cence have per-
formed and are still performing a
great and patriotic service, but no
State should surrender to private
philanthropy or UNCONVENTIONAL zeal
its sacred, inallenable right and sol
emn duty of placing within reach OF
all her children the bread Of knoHl.
edge. Zeal in educational work is
contagious. The Church school Hour
ishes best in those States where public
spirit rallies to the support of the State
colleges, or to speak more philosophl-
cally, wherever the Church is health
lest there are public Institutions for
the good OF man find their warmest
support.
Genuine Christianity enkindles ia-
tellectual life, arouses man from leth.
argy and creates within him public
spirit and patriotism and an unfailing
interest in the welfare of others. In
Mexico, in Brazil, in Spain, wherever,
in short, Christianity has become
stagnant, there all public enterprises
languish. Destroy or cripple our de
nominational colleges and you take
from our civilization its strong, up.
lifting force, but destroy or cripple
our State institutions and you take
the road which has carried Spain,
once the leading Power, and natural.
ly, the richest country Of Europe, to
the rear in the triumphal march Of
civilization. There should. of course,
be no waste in our educational re-
sources.
CONCLUSION.
Fellow Citizens: The political cam.
paign of 1896 is over. You have hon,
ored me as few men in South Carolina
have ever been honored, and far more
richly than I deserve. You gave me
Il say it in no spirit of vain glory or
of boasting, but in profound apprecia-
ton OF the honor bestowed-you gave
me in the Democratic primary the
largest majority ever given a candl.
date for governor. Both factions OF
the Democratic party, as the vote cast
indicates, gave me warm and enthu-
siastic support, such as necessarily
could not have been given to any
factional candidate.
Nv constant anxiety shall be not to