Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-03


OF bonds issued f6rsthe support of the
existing university OF literature and
law and for the creation Of an agri-
cultural and mechanical college and
school of medicine at Austin. Mean
time the Agricultural and Mechanical
College will depend for iy~, existence i,
on what you very pertinently term
''the biennial hat passing" How slow
ly and through what nerve racking
process this college has been able to
secure funds in the past those who
have followed its history well know
1t has never been abreast Of the needs
of the State because 1t has not had
the funds for equipment or support
Only few years ago the young men
of Texas seeking education in agricul-
tural and mechanic arts "overran" the
facilities of the college and for sew
eral sessions four hundred or more
had to live in tents in order to get
an education at home. II these condi-
tions applied in the past, what do you
suppose will be the fate Of the A. and
M. College If the people acquiesce in
this monstrous proposition and build
second A. and M. College to please
the resident lobby at Austin, composed
of teachers in the University and citi-
zens of that place? The answer is as
clear as though written in the heav-
ems. The college at Bryan will be
starved and the University will wax
, fat in it's financial independence. Nor
Is this question of localities. II We
were organizing our system Of higher
education, and If it was fact that
the best results could be obtained at
, Austin, that should be the location OF
, this school. Neither is true. The State
3 has at Bryan as result Of thirty-fve
years hard struggle by the friends OF
, the college, plant worth million
OF dollars, and yet inadequate for the
needs OF the State.
Will Hogg, the scion OF his Illus
trious father, valves this aside by the
suggestion to convert this plant into
a lunatic asylum. There's no limit be-
yond which these Austin-bred political
lawyers won't go to carry out the
dream of great political center at
S Austin masked under the name OF a
University. Nor is there any reason
E WHY agriculture or mechanics should
be more effectualy taught at Austin
e than at Bryan. The reverse is natur-
ally true.
The great agricultural State OF
Texas is far behind in facilities for
agricultural education. We need build
ings and equipment in the existing
departments of study and we need
funds for schools of veterinary science
forestry, Horticulture, landscape gar
dening, and other special branches or
n agriculture. for the study OF which
10 there is no provision. The agricultural
u building at the A. and NJ. College cost
is s2S,OOO. Kansas spent 100000, Iowa
as $3.50, 1000. and Michigan s275,OOO for
lie similar buildings. The idea of dividing
d. our resources and building another
agricultural and mechanical college
to when We are so far behind in the de-
ty yelopment of the one we have!
&c If anyone thinks the power OF the
Vi Austin lobby is overestimated let him
Us look TO the past and remember how
III the college has had to struggle foI
al what it has received. Let them bear
as in mind that the Democratic party Of
10 Texas has twice in its platform ue
c' manded that the University and the
sc A. and NJ. College be separated, ano
eu the last time that an equitable portion
~ OF the University lands be assigned tC
se the A. and NJ. College These repeated
al demands OF the people melted into
nu nothing under the tactics Of those whC
~ insiduously fight anything that tehd'
"s IN the broad development OF the A
NC and NJ College. This amendment wal
W. conceived in iniquity, born prema
Vi turely, during the haste of the closln'
jill DAYS of the legislative session. Man!
"u who voted for it have repudiated II
~ and it is hoped that the people VIII
-, bury it so deep in July that the Legs
leu lature will appreciate the fact tina
"s Texas must and will have a great ant
III complete agricultural university a
vi Bryan before it experiments with a.
ap' agricultural side show at Austin.
~ f.. b. CUSHING.
his Houston, Texas, May 30, 1913.