The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-24
EREE TUITION.


schpols.--Raleigh Register.
Why is it that newspaper men
viii rot deal fairly with each ether!
.hv is i that men cannot agree to
disagree without inpugnlng the
Inotives of each other, and making
talse charges against each other!
Why cannot one man be as honest
n his convictions AS another man!
Why should man lie DENOUNCED;
md his views OH the questions
II the day ridiclued, misrepresent>
d and twisted out Of shape and
made to speak a ialsehood instead
# the truth! It must be, because
lie heart of man is like a cage OF
lnclean. binds. and desperately wick
I'd. Besasase lie loves evil rather
,l,an good, and darkness more than
;wht. As man is not individually
| responsible for his wicked depraved
nature, and for a heart desperately
| wicked alfd bent on mischief, we
conclude it is human to err and
men are excusable for a departure
rom tie golden rule, to- do unto
| others as you would have othars do
| unto you. But if men speak the
| truth they, believe, and give others
credit for equalhonesty, we cannot
| understand how our views and those
who agree with us can be so under>
stood, or so badly misrepresented.
We are not after our esteemed cen
temporary quoted above nor any
one especially; but we are more than
anxious to find out how our friends
discovered that to oppose free tut
ton at Chapel Hill was equivalent
10 being all enemy to that institu-
lion, and more besides, an enemy to
the free schools.
BY what newly discovered pro
cess of reasoning has the Wilson
Adoance, Kinston Free Press and
Raeigh Register convinced their
own minds that he who is
against the free tuition feature OF
Chapel Hill, by taxation of all the
people. Tor the benefit Of one boy
from each county to be selected by
the county commissioners is not
only an enemy to Chapel Hill as a
University, but is also an enemy to
our free schools. viii Our brother
Of the Register show the writer how
the war on free tuition at the uni
versity is connecting itself with a
war upon the public sehoolsa
i We plead ignorance, supreme ig-
norance. Open if you please, food
gates Of light, and turn i'll upon ou1
,enighted mind whole rivers o.
light, golden light On this subject
that we may see the error Of ou1
course and turn therffoni as a fee
ing sinner to the city Of refuge.
You had as well give us this light,
this information now, Tor we tell
you in behalf of the people, it must
and. shall come SOONER or later be
lore you run your hands again into
the pocket Of the tax payers Of this
State to educate one boy from each
county to be selected by the county
commissioner of each county contra
~ distinction to all other boys Ii
the State.
"Our friends are going too fast
and are making serious error in
their calculations Of popular
strength" We have never travelled
far enough to take money oftof one
mans pocket to educate another
mans son at Chapel Hill. Now
take care brother that you do not
go so fast, that you may go over the
precipice, where neither you ZOE
Chapel Hill can be rescued
from utter ruin. We want to save
both you and the University and
will if you will let us for we love
you and revere and honor that old
institution of learning which we
hope to behold as the pride and
glory Of our State, provided we can
save it from its, friends. If that
good old institution could speak
with a human voice, it would say
alo''d III tears and grief, ssaye, me
from my friends" We have given
our reasons time and again in these
columns for opposition to free tut
ton at Chapel Hill, and shall not
do so again until the proper time.
| But we may be driven again to
say more ON the difference between
making Chapel Hill free school
for one boy from each county, and
having free schools at every mans
door-siil in each county. And il