The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1904-09-14

united effort has been the psychi
force, merely using q number of dc
voted men and women as its agents
It forms q fair illustration of tn
power Of the idea as described b
Hegel in his PHILOSOPHY of History,
in which he defined history Is 9Th
progress Of the consciousness of free
DOM" The consciousness that educa
ton makes free is taking strong hol,
and is making history in this section
of country.
1t is because this progressive move
ment is to be attributed to the peopl,
as u whole and not solely to leader,
from without that We think it woult
be q poetic justice for the story O
1.-The Progress" to be we'll and faith
fully written. But a few of the name.
OF the most active agents and agencie.
would probably appear. The ''un.
speakable' Tarbox of Cables stor,
would have to add a few more name.
to his list of subscribers for the
Cyclopedia Universal of Information.
1t would be worthy of being related
that m Robert Martin, of st. Martin.
vile, representing his district in the
State Senate in 1896 and 1898, while
visiting the educational institutions
OF the State in 1896 as a member OF
the Legislative Committee appointed
for that purpose, saw the possibili.
ties ahead for his W section of the
State in the establishment of an in.
dustrial institute as a State institu-
ton of learning within his own sena.
tOrlal district, composed of the
parishes of Lafayette, st. Martin and
Iberia. He Immediately set himself
the task of securing such an act in
the General Assembly of that year.
And though he failed to secure it.
though he was repeatedly rebutfed by
Inc strong men in power in the State,
tenaciously held out in his purpose.
and obtained from many who denied
him at that time the promise that they
would support his bill in the session
OF 1898. But eve in 1898 he had a
great struggle to win. The argument
the State already had more in
situations than she could fairly sup
port was a powerful hindrance to the
passage of the bill creating the new
State Industrial School, and would
lave been sufficient to defeat it if it
lad not been shown that were State
Institutions of learning in every
'ther section of the State except this
notwithstanding the fact that
his section paid nearly half the taxes
the entire State, 1.-THE Parish of
)rleans excepted" In fact, Mr..
Martin finally carried the bill through
10Th houses with scarcely a vote to
pare-but he carried it!
One of the provisions of the bill
establishing the Industrial Institute
'as that it should be located in that
arish of the Thirteenth Senatorial
district which should offer the great
st inducement therefor to the Board
I Trustees, and another provision
as that no locality should be selected
here there were not offered at least |.
900 and twenty-five acres of land :
'r the School. The famous struggle |.
etween the towns of Lafayette and ,
Iberia for the securing of the
chool resulted, as the State we'll
in offers amounting to
sarly 600, 600 and fifty acres of land F..
lstead OF the prescribed 5000 and !,
7enty-five acres, Lafayette finally !;
inning after most careful considera- F:
On by the Board.
The new institution, thus happilv !,
augurated, was favored by the
eneral Assembly in the session of
10, with supplementary means to :
ND and equip itself for the most :
orough and modern educational '
OF the time in which we live. II :
tilt one of the most excellent and '
ELL-DQUIPPED SCHOOL BUILDINGS /.
er erected in the State at a total e
st OF near go, 0 0 a large, we'll e
uipPed workshop and forge shop il
manual training work in wood and d
IN, and . splendid brick dormitory D
: young ladies, leaving the young c
H. for the time, to board in private il
niles. And since that time sue. ii
;SiV0 session Of tho Al