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for each of the iucUistrial iiitorcsts of the State, we may say that 

 wherever there are waterworks recently designed, or street railway lines, 

 or electric lighting stations, or a mannfactnring plant of any kind, and 

 in general, wherever the people are enjoying the benefits of modern en- 

 gineering, mechanics and ehn-trical devi'lopment. there yon will lind the 

 representatives of the technical education of which I have spoken. The 

 gradnates of these technical schools are everywhere. Whatevei- progress 

 the State is making in indnstrial lines they ari' instigating and condncting 

 it. They are in charge, or assisting in tlie management, of the great 

 mannfactnring plants of tlie State. They are superintendents of motive 

 l)()\vers and machine sliojts. They arc found in smaller corjiorations in 

 charge of the macluncry or of the teclmical processes. Wlierevei' indus- 

 try is progressing and wliere manufacturing is growing and wliere tech- 

 nical skill is adding to the prosiici-ity ;ind welfare of the people, tlie grad- 

 nates of these technical schools are found. 



It is a good old proverb tliat you should judge the tree liy its fruits. 

 In this free land of oin-s we judge a man for what he is and from what he 

 does, and therefore, we are justiticd in .applying this sanu^ rule in esti- 

 mating the value of the sciences in tlie material development of our State 

 by what they have accomiilislied. I have given in merest ourlines some 

 idea of the services of science to our industrial development. Industrial 

 dev(>loi)m(Mit is .ilw.ays intimately .associateil witli intellectual advance- 

 ment, moral welfare .-md siiii-ilual well-lieing. The tirst stone in the founda- 

 tion of a national editice is material in-ospei-ity. No n.ition. no matter 

 how p(>rfect its ancestry may he and liow lofty its iiui-posi's. couhl tiourish 

 in a desert, or on .-in iceberg. The insistent demands of humanity are 

 for food and clothing and C(nnl'ort. He who would elevate his HUxW must 

 begin by ministering U) these iirimeval wants. It is useless to try to 

 educate tlie boy who is stai'ving and to preacli religion to a man wlio 

 is sliivering. The inventions which increase the power of man io do 

 things, along mechanical lines, the d(>velopment of those forces of nature 

 which give power such as heat and electricity, the discovery of l.-iws wliicli 

 increase the fei'tility of soil such as are disclosed by chemistry and bot.-iny. 

 the mastery of those sciences wliicli reveal thi» wealth of the earlh. sucli 

 as geology, mineralogy, and mining, ilie utilization of thosc^ scienct's wliicli 

 pi-event disease, such as serum therapy and inoculations, the application 

 of the principles of biology to the common alfairs of life, as in economic 

 entomology and zoology, all these underlie and sustain not only our in- 



