The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-11-13

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and discretion and more ability to act
promptly to farm successfully than
almost any of the ordinary callings.
The seasons change, the conditions
Of the crop change every day ac-
cording to the weather, and the suc-
cessful farmer is the man who thinks
and acts, promptly in regard to, the
condition before him that day and
which will lead him to do the thing
that ought to be done that day, rath-
er than wait until tomorrow or next
week. .t.-..
Then there are some farmers who
are always behind with their work
and who instead Of driving their
work, allow their work to drive them.
These fellows ought to be on an en-.
gine where the thing would carry
them along if they would simply pull
the throttle open. The fireman has
to put coal under the boiler and tho
engineer has to keep the engine in
good order, but fellow who has to
be dragged will never succeed at any
thing. He has got to drive, and there
is one of the distinguishing and
pleasantest aspects of agricultural
life. Intelligently followed, farming
assures man a competence and indie
pendence as sure rs the sun shines,
if there is at all any intelligence and
energy employed in following it. It
does not promise big bank account,
but it promises this much; that is,
that you are your own master and
take orders from nobody. (Applause.)
[ started to say that do not see how
Texas can maintain her self-respect
and not feel ashamed to have any
stranger come within her gates un-
less she does better with this college,,
and do not see how she is going to
get along with one so inadequately
supported. Until she does take care
of this one and make it respectable it
is absurd to talk of another.
[ take the liberty of speaking thus
not because feel any desire to OBJ
trude, advise or to appear to stick
my nose into something that does not
concern me, because that is not my
purpose at all, but knowing that there
has always been more or less preju-
dices in the minds Of those who run
our Government against this kind of
education, many of them contending
that you cannot make a farmer in
college, and that what you want is
the ordinary general kind of educa-
tion, and let the farmer be made at
home by the father, or let the boy
after he has got the regular men,
tai drill learn it for himself.
Prejudice is Widespread.
There is a vast amount of ignor-
ance and prejudice along that line,
and I had to fight it in the effort to !
establish separate agricultural col
lege in South Carolina, and to this |
day [ have found the trouble almost |
universal in the United States. To
this day the funds contributed by the |
Federal Government, the original and |
script endowment fund, and the
Morrill, and the Hatch fund for ex-
pcrimental stations, all devoted by |
! statesmen in Congress for the devcl-
opment and maintenance Of practical |
schools Of agriculture and mechanic |
arts, have been misappropriatcd and
Stolen, as it were, by the literary
schools, and they are satisfied at
simply providing a kind of an annex
and have made the agricultural fea-
ture of the literary schools an agri-
cultural tail to a literary kite. Cap
plause.) We cut our tail off in South |
Carolina after hard and bitter fight, |
and we took that tail and we moved
it off in the upper part Of the State
at Calhoun's old home, and we made
a kite Of the old tail as big as the !
old kite was when we had it. Uaugh-
ter and applause.)
So that there is certainly room for
Improvement, certainly necessity
for more liberal policy and larger ex-
penditure Of money to fit this school, |
if it is not already fitted, both in ma
terial appliances and funds for the
proper men to manage the College.
Why, [ don't see how Texas can get
along with an agricultural college
with only 500 boys, who you ought Co
have one with 5000 in it. (Applcase.)
| These are bread and butter soboo1e,