The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-02

to supply it. This must be the central
, plant from which goes out its current
of industrial workers. individual eff
| fort cannot supply it, The great mass
of industrial workers and wealth pro-
ducers must owe their equipment to
the State. Their obligation must be to
| the entire body polite.
This building now solitary and
alone, conspicuous for las isolation,
should have around it group of build
| ingS, barns, dormitories, green houses
and the like, with equipment and ac-
commodation for at least one thousand
students of agriculture. There should
be annually in this college an average
of ten students from each county in
the State, studying all that is known
about. agriculture; studying soils, fer
tiliZerS, machinery methods of cultl-
walton, seed selection, plant and ami
NAL feeding and breeding, insect pests
and other subjects relating both to the
science an dthe practice of farming.
Those men who cry against what they
term book farming are now classed
with those who still believe the earth
is fiat. These students should also
study the laws of their country, espe-
cially those relating to taxation, in or
der to protect themselves from the
robbery of unjust and unequal taxa
ton, the natures rapacious oppression
of trusts, and the injustice of freight
discrimination in their necessary eff
forts to reach profitable markets To
those who come from the farm must
we look for resistance to such oppres-
sion. Such a band of young men, from
all sections of North Carolina. thous-
and a year for ten years, would work
a revolution in our great State, con-
Verting the faint light of this early
dawn, over which We here rejoice, into
f.,n erln vin of
In addition, yonder college should be
equipped with buildings and appll-
ances to educate a thousand students,
besides, in mechanic arts, cotton mani
ufacture. industrial chemistry, electric
ity, the manufacture and test OF fer
tilizers, civil engineering and other
lines of industrial endeaVor. with
such material of manhood, thorough
ly trained for industrial achievement
who can doubt that this old North
State would soon be distinguished, not
only by the number, but also by the
variety and excellence of her indus
trial establishments that her products
finished in the highest skill, would be
sought for in the markets of the world.
This college must be equipped Tor
it's work Not to equip it is folly! eX-
trayagant folly a waste of Opportun-
ity for investment! q waste of capital!
a reckless squandering of natures in
heritance! million dollars invested
here would add TO the wealth of North
Carolina within decade, at least a
hundred million dollars. Let the de-
mand be made by this convention OF
the next Legislature. Let the Unlver-
sity and the other colleges endorse
the demand; for the prosperity OF this
college and the success of its ideal will
mean the success and prosperity OF ed
ucation in all schools and colleges. Let
North Carolina resolve that she will
be the foremost State in the Union.
Let her put that resolve in the pro-
cess of realization by .equipping this
institution for education along all in
dustrial lines, with ample accommoda-
ton for every boy who wishes to work
and seeks to be educated heer for bet
ter work. .4.
Ladies and gentlemen; in behalf of
the people of North Carolina, and es-
pecially in behalf of thinking men be-
hind the pillow, by authority of the
trustees of this college, acting for the
Governor of our great State and at his
request, l now formally and officially
dedicate this building to agriculture.
May it stand forever! May it help to
strengthen and perpetuate. the virtues
of character, reverence and hospitality
that have marked our people through
out the centuries May IT add to these
virtues the comforts and blessings of
increased wealth and prosperity