Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-05-22
ADDRESSED C|T|-
zENs OF BRYAN
Mr.. c. 3. Metcalfe, Farmer and Stock
man of San Angelo, Made Strong
Address in Defense Of A.
and M. College.

Mr.. C. B. Metcalfe, live farmer
and ranchman OF San Angelo, ad.
dressed large audience this morning
In Carnegie Hall on the efforts which
are being made to kill the A. and M.
College through Senate Joint Reso-
luton 18.
! He stated that he was a plain man
and made his living farming, and he
viewed the proposition from farm
er's standpoint, and was heartily in
favor of the A. and NJ. College. The
A. and NJ. is school for boys who
need education. Mr.. Metcalfe himself,
when a boy back in Tennessee, had
to work to support himself while get
ting an education as best he could,
and he appreciates the difficulties
which beset a boy under these cir
cumstances and believes that the boys
who battle against such opposition are
entitled to the help and encourage.
ment that the A. and NJ. College gives
them.
More than half the farming popula-
Ition OF Texas are tenants, making only
barely enough to keep body and soul
together, and this is brought about
through ignorance. Education is their
only chance, and they are Unable to
send their boys TO school except
where advantages are offered as at
A. and NJ.
These people produce large share
of the wealth of the State, and their
sons are a sturdy, manly class of
boys who, II given the education they
are entitled to, would make splendid
citizens
The Legislature apparently seems to
have forgotten those boys whose par
ents do not make enough on an aver
age to send them to school.
Twenty years ago Mr.. Metcalfe sent
boys to the A. and NJ College, and
they received good, practical educa-
tion, and they have made men. All
who have sent worthy boys to the
school are the friends of the institu-
ton.
Mr.. Metcalfe asked why should the
A. and NJ. College be converted into
a lunatic asylum when OF the million
school children in Texas, there were
facilities for only one-third of that
number. There should be no tearing
down but building up.
Let the University establish an agri-
cultural school if it wanted to- There
never was an A. and NJ. man who
fought the University. But they would
fight to the last any scheme on the
part of designing men to cripple and
kill the A. and NJ College.
Resolution is has been worded am
biguously and the friends of the school
fear Justly that it is to this end, and
should the University establish an
agricultural and mechanical depart
ment under this amendment, the A.
and NJ College at Bryan will be
starved to death for funds.
Instead, it should be supplied till
the poorest boys can come to the
school, where they are received on
equality with their fellow-students and
not stunned and spit upon because
they do not belong to a fraternity.
The A. and NJ. student body are
manly, sturdy fellows, and are
taller, better appearing body than the
United States army men now en-
camped in South Texas.
Lawyers declare that Resolution IS
will permit legislation which will sap
the life from the A. and NJ. College.
Mentioning the proposed bond issue,
Mr.. Metcalfe demonstrated that the
should not be turned loose
without limit and "jerk the bride off,"
issuing bonds for the penitentiary
which would burden posterity to sup
port criminals and assassins who are
able to work for themselves and could
be made to earn their own living as
honest folks are compelled to do.
Mr.. Metcalfe urged that Bryan peo-
pie should denounce the libellous
stories that are being circulated
against Bryan people and Bryan So
ciety. The stories are utterly false
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