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why that research is in any wise confined to a.c^riculture? What prevents 

 the Government or the State from using pubUc money for research in 

 hygiene? If public money can be used for research in agriculture it can 

 be used for research in commerce, in manufacture, it can be used for re- 

 search in any direction. The Government while confining the research 

 to agriculture only has committed itself to the doctrine that public money 

 can be used for research in any direction that is profitable enough to the 

 people. Many of your wise men are quibbling on the streets — I fear 

 some in Springfield — I am glad if it is not so in Springfield — but some 

 men in Columbia, at least, are quibbling on the subject of whether public 

 money can be used for the education of children — whether it is right to 

 take my money when I have no children to educate, to educate your chil- 

 dren, just because you have children and I have money, and some people 

 do not think that public money can be used legitimately in that way. 

 Some think it can be used legitimately for taking in a little learn- 

 ing, but not very much, it cannot be used for the high school 

 nor for the University legitimately. What has the Federal Government 

 declared? That public money can be used in carrying on research in 

 agriculture or research of useful information in agriculture to the people 

 in any way in which it can be gotten there. So far from confining it to 

 the children, the Federal Government has endorsed the doctrine that 

 useful information can be carried to the people at their homes, whether 

 voung or old, and when people in this State are questioning whether it is 

 right to have a State University at Columbia and to graduate young men 

 on the Campus, the United States Government under the leadership of 

 ]\Ir. Hatch has taken the very advanced position that it is right to carry to 

 the people from the cradle to the grave useful information at their homes, 

 by publication of newspaper reports and by lectures or any other method 

 which you choose to employ. If this can be done for agriculture, it can 

 also be done for manufactures, it can also be done for commerce. It has 

 not been done yet a while, but if it is right under the theory of our Gov- 

 ernment to take useful information to the people of the State at their 

 homes, with the aid of public money about agriculture, why not about 

 commerce, about manufactures, about public health and why not about 

 any useful thing ? And does it not seem to you that the Government has 

 taken this position that the education of the people from the cradle to 

 the grave is a function of the State? That it is the business of the State 

 to educate young or old in schools because it is the most effectual way, 

 but also to educate the full grown who cannot leave their homes, at their 

 homes, and it almost surpasses my comprehension why people should feel 

 it incumbent upon the State to educate the children who constitute the 

 citizenship of tomorrow and refuse to educate the full grown people who 



