The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-06-19
Clemson College Matters.

The Sumter Southron and Watch
man says:
Clemson College must be reor-
ganized and the sooner the life
trustees recognize this fact and
bow to the will of the people
the better it will be for Clemson
and for the State. Without the
fertilizer tag tax Clemson would
sink into poverty and insignitl-
cance in short time, and unless
there is a thorough-going reor-
ganization of the institution and
the entire elemination of the con-
troll of life trustees, it is but
short step to the withdrawal OF ,
the tag tax. The sentiment OF the
great majority Of the intelligent
voters of the State is rapidly grow
ing stronger against the continp-
ance of control by self-perpetu
ating body that cannot be held to
an accounting by the State.
What does the Watchman and
southron want the life trustees to
do? These gentlemen, who are
among our very best citizens, have
had sacred trust committed to
their keeping and they CANT lay
if down to please lot of politicians,
who are the only people that are
making row about the way Glenn
SON College is managed. Does the
Watchman and Southron think that
the trustees elected by the State
are better men than the life trustees
are? We hardly think that our con-
temporary would take any such ab-
surd position. Then, why is this war
on the life trustees?
The Watchman and Southran says
without the fertilizer tag tax Glenn
son would sink into poverty and in
in a short time, and
threatens that unless there is re-
of the institution and
the entire elimination of the con-
troll of the life trustees that it will
be destroyed. In other words, II
the politicians are not allowed to
control the college they will starVe
it to death by refusing to make any
for it. This is a
bold threat, and should put the
friends of this noble institution on
their guard AID The: should pr
pare for the coming struggle.
The farmers of the State pay every
dollar of the fertilizer tag tax. 1t
is a class tax and We believe wrong,
but as long as it is collected it should
90 to Clemson. the farmers college.
The farmers who put up the money
to run Clemson College are not ask
ing that the life trustees be kicked
out. They seem to be satisfied with
the way their money is spent in its
support. The only people that are
clamoring for change are the poll
ticians, who do not contribute any
thing to the support of the institu-
tion. The opposition comes mainly
from that class of politicians who
always did and who always will op-
pose such institutions as Clemson.
Hunt up their records and see il
this is not true.
These politicians live mostly in
the cities and towns, and are COM
posed of professional men, who think
it a waste of money to spend it on
an institution like Clemson. Their
real object is to break Clemson Col
lege. up, and they use the life trus-
tee bugaboo as an entering wedge
to carry out their design. II they
succeed in that, a little later on they
will make another move, and keep
or until the college is reduced to
nothing almost, and then they will
abolish it on the ground that the
people do not wish it. This we be-
lieve is the object of the war on
Clemson College, but it will not sue
ceed.