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for each of tlie iiidnstiial interests of the State, we may say that 

 wherever there are waterworks recently designed, or street railwaj- lines, 

 or electi-ic lighting stations, or a manufacturing plant of any kind, and 

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

 gineering, mechanics and electrical development, there you will find the 

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

 graduates of these technical schools are everywhere. Whatever progres.s 

 the State is making in industrial lines they are instigating and conducting 

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

 manufacturing plants of the State. They are superintendents of motive 

 powers and machine shops. They are found in smaller corporations in 

 charge of the machinery or of the technical processes. Wherever indus- 

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

 nical skill is adding to the prosperity and welfare of the people, the grad- 

 uates of these technical schools are found. 



It is a good old proverb that you should judge the tree by its fruits. 

 In this free land of ours we judge a man for what he is and from what he 

 does, and therefore, we are justified in applying this same rule in esti- 

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

 by what they have accomplished. I have given in merest outlines some 

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

 development is always intimately associated with intellectual advance- 

 ment, moral welfare and spiritual wtll-1>eing. I'he first stone in the founda- 

 tion of a national edifice is material prosperity-. No nation, no matter 

 how perfect its ancestry maj^ be and how lofty its pm-poses, could flourish 

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

 for food and clothing and comfort. He who Avould elevate his State must 

 begin by ministering to these primeval wants. It is useless to trj' to 

 educate the Ijoy who is starving and to preach religion to a man who 

 is .shivering. The inventions which increase the power of man to do 

 things, along mechanical lines, the development of those forces of nature 

 which give power such as heat and electricity, the discovery of laws which 

 increase the fertility of soil such as are disclosed by chemistry and i)otany, 

 the mastery of those sciences Avhich reveal the Avealth of the earth, such 

 as geology, mineralogy, and iiiiiiiiig. ilie utilization of those sciences Avhich 

 prevent disease, such as serum therapy and inoculations, the application 

 of the principles of biologj' to the common affairs of life, as in economic 

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



