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but these seeds you sow will be reaped by the next and future generations. In 

 Ohio you do not want to build a palace for an agricultural school. In America 

 you spend too much money in putting up your educational buildings, and then 

 starve your professors. I learn that you put up a very grand building in your 

 city of Columbus, called the Starling Medical College ; I have a picture of it. 

 lam told it cost some $70,000 or $75,000; and now you are starving the profes- 

 sors in it. You did the same in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Then, I am told, 

 you built two universities in Ohio, and now the professors can barely live on 

 the salary you pay. The consequence is that these schools, colleges, or univer- 

 sities must run down. There is no place in the whole world where knowledge 

 can make so much money as in America ; therefore, your best men will not 

 become teachers or professors, simply because they can make more money out of 

 something else ; and they naturally apply their talent and ability where it pays 

 best. No man will engage in an educational course of life, for life, on a salary 

 of $1,200 or $1,500 a year, when, by applying the same ability in some other 

 pursuit, he can make $4,000 or $5,000 a year. Hence you have no first-class 

 professors in America ; but you have instead first-class business men, first-class 

 mechanics, and managers of large and colossal establishments." 



