The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-06

ucm&nu that state taxes shalt DO re-
duced and that the appropriations for
"higher education" shall be much re-
duccd or cut of entirely. Our people
are not in condition TO afford luNuries.
In our situation frce common schools
are necessary. Thousands of our peo-
pic have no other opportunity or hope
| of securing tn" ordinary rudimsuts OF
| education. We have been trying TO do
| too much. We have an elaborate COM
| mon school system, Il "higher cduca-
tion" system even more elaborate and
in proportion far moro expensive, u
pension system, militia system.
something will have to 20 If We arc to
pay our honest debts and allow the
people chance to live and do business.
AS it Is nearly every dollar the farmers
make goes in taxes OF one kind or an
| other and there is no money left to
spend with merchants for common COM
forts, to say nothing of luxuries. Coun-
| try and towns suffer alike and tho bur-
/ den is yet further increased by our
efforts to establish railroads to develop
| the country.
Something has got to give way.
Every sensible man knows that when
| he is hOpclessly stalled he must take of
part Of the load. That Is our situation.
rhc team is stalled. The people urc
trying to pull more than their strength
will allow. We can spare tho higher
institutions better than anything else.
The dcnOminatiOnal institutions can do
| their work at little more cost to the in.
dividual and no cost to the taxpayer
The State was made to carry the Co
lumbiu canal for years and at last got
clear OF it by 9i ing it away. We be-
licvc she would do well TO clear herself
| Of the equipment Of colleges, unversi-
ties and academies she is loaded with
| in the same way, If she can bc rid Of
| them on no other crms.--Grccnville
News.
We tod the people this eight and
ten years ago when the Greenville
News and other papers and public men
were udvocuting more higher institu-
tions, and some Of our friends con-
| dcmncd us as an enemy to the farmers
| and against the interests Of the people.
We were even boycottcd.
There is no doubt in our mind that
We have too many higher institutions.
but what arc you going to do about it.
| The people demanded them and now
| they arc hero. 1t took money to build
| them and it takes and will take money
to sustain them. TO raise this money
takes taxes. You can't have higher in
stitutions without paying for them.
We told the people Of this county
| that there was no demand for Clemson
| College and that if it were built we
would not have Il half dozen students
| there, because the farmers would not
bc able to send their boys there. We
were put down rs an enemy of The far
mer This year shows one student at
Clemson from Ncwbcrry. We sec it
stated by MIR. Donaldson that it costs
Sl5' per year for each pupil at Glenn
son. This, rs we understand it, is
| what it costs the State besides what it
| costs the student to stay there. That,
he considers very cheap. 1t may be.
Clemson is good college, and we sun-
| pose Is doing II rood work, but while
| the State pays %!55 to educate some 400
boys nt Clemson, who arc ubio TO cdu-
cate themselves, ii pays 81 IL child to
! educate in the rudin.cnts for the
| thousands Of children who need hclp.
boy at Clemson College, Ncwberry
| College and Woilord and Due West
| will give him just rs good education
| for less than onc-Lhird this amount.
The South Carolina College, with
| about the same number Of students rs
Ncwbcrry College, can scarcely get
| along with an appropriation Of $25, 600
from the State, while Ncwbcrry would
feel richly endowed if she had gross
income OF Tl0,0uO, and gets along and
does good work on Il less income.
How Is IL that it costs SO Lluch moro
to run Il State college than it does u
denominational college? Still the build
ing of additional State institutions has
not affected the patronage OF private
institutions. The people demanded
these State institutions. They cost
money to build and it takes money to
keep them going. The people must
pay the money.
We are not opposed to them now and
do not want to tear them down, though
VIC think some Of them might be run
at less expense.
We did not think it wise to build
them. Now that they arc built, We do
not want to pull them down. though we
think it beyond the function of govern
mcnt to tax the people for higher cdu-
cation.
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