The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-02
ADDRESS OF DEDICATION.
Delivered by Lieutenant Governor
Winston.

Delivered by Lieutenant Governor
Winston.
The formal address of dedication.
delivered by Lieutenant Governor Win
StOn, was a master piece of eloquence.
He swayed his audience with a Won
derful power and almost lifted it to its
feet There was a glory in his voice
and a richness in his diction and an
nunciation that seemed like the ut
terance of an inspiration. His address
concluded the ceremonies. Governor
Winston said:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I'VE are in the performance of a
long neglected duty. We take today
the first step in the work of adequate.
ly providing for the industrial, and es-
pecially the agricultural, education of
the sons and daughters of the old
North State.
For more than century our State
has possessed schools. colleges and a
university. They have trained schol-
airs and men in literary profession
but for training and handy work, for
education i'm the various mechanic
arts, and in agriculture there was no
provision until the establishment of
this college fifteen years ago and not
until this day has there been build
ing erected, equipped and dedicated to
agricultural eduction. For two hum
dred years our chief occupation has
been farming Yet, strange to say, the
study Of agriculture was not deemed
worthy a place in our public schools
until two years ago. But the day-long-
wished-for rs beginning to dawn. A
new era hS come to the old North
State, both in education and griculture.
The farm is now the place of intel
lectual activity This building, which
we now dedicate, is entirely and pc
culiarly frmers building, It's exist
ence is due to farmers; it will be used
for the education of farmers. The Pc
tition for its erection was mde to the
General Assembly by farmers; the bill
providing for its erection was intro
duced by frmer member of the
House of Representatives.; the COM
mittee selecting the plans nd super
vising its construction was composed
of farmers: and, to cap the climax, the
| money which pays the bills came from
the farmers of North Carolina, in the
shape of a tax on commercial fertiliz-
ers. This building is Il monument to
the industrial and educational progress
of North Carolina, but still more to the
wisdom, unselfishness and patriotism
of those of her sons who till the soil.
And, in the name of all the people in
the state lIldHh Tie COllllIilSSloltl
| of Agriculture and his wise board of
practical farmers and the authority of
| this college for their ready response
to the demands of agricultural educa-
| ton.
I'VE rejoice to behold this building.
We admire its sOldity. its we'll arrang-
| ed and spacious halls, lecture rooms
and laboratories; its adaptation to the
| purpose of its erection its handsome
in
| it's fine location amid feels we'll culti-
waited. within sight of our State capitol,
neighbOr to the great State Fair.
Worthy and proper environments for
| it's great purposes!
1--WE rejoice over what has been ac-
complished here. 1t is grand
achievement compared to what has
| been done In the past or rather COM
| pared with what was not done. This
| day is bright indeed compared with
| the night preceding. But the day is
| only dawning. Our work is just be-
| ginning. AS yet we have scarcely laid
| the foundation.
Compared with our agricultural
| States, with Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, In
| diana, less than our equal in natural
| wealth, this college is not equipped for
| it's work, not half equipped scarcely
one fourth equipped. Compared with
our own States equipment for educa-
| ton along literary, professional and
| scientific lines, this college, our sole
| industrial college is most Inadequate
| ly equipped. To put it on a plane OF
| efficiency commensurate with theirs, or
| commensurate with the great task and
| the great opportunities of developing
| the recourses of North Carolina, this
| college needs an equipment of build
| ngs, apparatus, machinery and dormi-
| tories, to the value of at least a million
dollars. We are to be the richest State
| in the Union. We are to be the most
powerful and influential State in the
Union. Howe do you ask! BY
training our young men and women TO
| utilize and develop the recourSeS Of
| wealth which the God of nature has
given us. North Carolina has ever
| been q nursery of great men, for her
self and for other States. Her sons,
| as soldiers orators, statesmen, lawyers,
preachers, doctors and men of affairs,
| have given fame to other States, where
| owing to the crowded condition Of
those lines of endeavor at home. they
| found wide opportunities; with indus
| trial progress based upon handicraft
| and manual labor exalted and honor
| ed through skill and large returns OF
wealth. You cannot produce wealth
and power by stump speeches, law
suits and sermons. Wealth is produced
by manual workers, and aDundanl
wealth by workers highly skilled and
highly trained. Wealth is begotten in
the wedlock of cunning brain and cum
ming hands.
1.-The prosperity of our State, Other
conditions being equal, depends upo,
the aggregate amount of skill. techni-
cal knowledge and Industrial enter
prise that it possesses The need o
North Carolina for all these factors J!
urgent and imperative. That neeC
must be supplied. Here is the plac'