Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-23
A Few Reasons Why Senate Joint Reso'
luton Is Should Be Defeated


Cleveland and Bryan in point Of
honor, intelligence and understanding
as to satisfactorily settle this mooted
question?
Another question that occurs TO me
is. has it been shown that we need
another Agricultural and Mechanical
College? If the proposition embraced
proper limitations as to the amount
of bonds, the rate Of interest to be
lpaid, etc. still the question would
larise as to the necessity or advisable
lity of mourning the expense of build
ing another A. 4 NJ College Is it
because the one we now have is over
crowded? Then ! say it can be en-
ilarged at much less cost than another
one can be built The attendance At
the A. & NJ. College is far less than it
| is at the University, and hence upon
that ground, the argument for build
ing another University would be much
stronger than it is for building an
other Agricultural and Mechanical
College.
Those who recently advocated con
lsoldating the A. and NJ. with the
+ University did so upon the ground
principally that the cost of maintain
ling the two institutions would be far
less under consolidation than it is for
maintaining the two separately. The
statement issued by twelve members
of the Legislature who advocated con-
solidation, estimated that the cost of
operation Of the two institutions, UNI
der one head, would save 20 the PEG.
Iple of Texas from 100000 to $500 O0O
ANNUALLY. Mr.. Louis ii. Scholl, in a
recent issue of Farm and Ranch, used
the following language: Suitable
heads for such departments are eX
Ipensiye and hard to get, the library
and laboratory equipments are very
Expensive, costing hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. 1t is wasteful to
duplicate this in two places" 1t now
seems that the proponents of consoli
Idation have reversed their guns, and
advocate not only the great additional
expense of maintaining two A. and VI
Colleges, but also the great expense OF
buying several thousand acres of land
at Austin and erecting the necessary
buildings thereon, which will cost not
less than two million dollars at the
loutset.
For my part, | am opposed to build
ing another institution in opposition
to the one we already have, unless il
can be shown that the present one is
inadequate for the purposes for which
it was intended, and that the reasons
for building another inadequate insti
tuition like it are better than the rea
sons for enlarging the one We already
have.
take the further view that Austin
is not the proper location for an Agri
lcultural College, for the reason that
that branch of learning can be better
taught in the country where practical
teaching is available, than in a city
where it can be taught theoretically
only. Education is daily becoming
more practical and less theoretical.
In my opinion, an Agricultural College
should be far removed from the en-
vironments of any large city for the
further reason that the alluring infu-
ences of city life have a tendency to
entice the youth of the country, and
to discourage and dishearten them
from making preparation to engage IN
agricultural pursuits.
do not consider the question from
the standpoint of its being discrimina-
tory between the University and A.
| and VI. College, for the reason that I
would oppose it even if that feature
were eliminated Permit me to say
further that I entertain no prejudice
upon the question Of issuing bonds,
but when it is for necessary purposes
and with proper limitations, | have
never failed to lend my support
lam, Yours sincerely,
j. J. MANSFIELD.