The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-08-16
AGAINST STATE APPROPRIATION
Speeches Made by DR.. Durham and
Prof. Beckett at the Baptist AssOci-
alton Opposing State Aid to the
University, &c.
Winston Sentinel. !

University, &c.
winston Sentinell
The Pilot Mountain Association,
which was in session four days at Mt.
Olive church, Stokes county, closed
Sunday.
The sessions were largely attened
by delegates from all the sc churches
in the bounds of the Association, and
all seemed to act with one accord on
all questions introduced for discussion
or disposition.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The proceedings of most general in
terest to the public was the position
taken by the Association relative to
the University of North Carolina.
The standing committee on Educa-
ton, in their annual report, endorsed
the recent articles of DR.. Taylor, Wake
Forests President, on How far
Ought State to Udertake to Edu-
cate," and condemned the practice of
the State Legislature of appropriating
sI4S,ooo to higher education, and
asked that that amount be reverted to
its proper channel, the public district
school fund,
Pending the adoption of this report,
which was enthusiastically unanimous,
forcible speeches were made by T. W.
Beckett, of Danbury, and DR.. c. Dur
ham, of Paleigh.
Mr.. Beckett warned the people
against the centralizing tendency OF
the government (State and Nationally
and the growing discrepancy in favor
of classes rather than the masses. He
said that the public treasury is being
treated as a &c nubbin crib" He ad-
vocated the demands made by the
resolution and declared the present con-
duct of the University and its State
aid as ruinous to the denominational
colleges.
! He also presented forcible argu-
ments showing the advantages of hav-
ing several different colleges, with two
or three hundred students each, rather
than one big one with one thousand.
" Young men," said Mr.. Beckett,
" should earn their higher education
by muscle and Drawn and not be
taught to 'dead beat the State treas
ury from their very entrance into
manhood" Mr.. Beckett asserted that
while he was reading law at the Uni
versity he heard prominent member
of the faculty declare that there was
no room or need in the State for Wake
Forest, Trinity, Davidson or any COL
legc other than the University-to
which all public schools and acade-
mics should be feeders.
DR.. Durham stated that the S148,
900 now appropriated to higher educa-
ton in North Carolina, if reverted to
the public schools of the counties
would give almost three additional
school months to every township of
every county in the State. He also
said that if every student in attendance
upon the University was made to pay
his own tuition, as they do at other
colleges, the surplus, after paying the
entire faculty their present nigh sala-
ries, and other expenses, would be
more than $4,000.
DR.. Durham also attacked the
Greensboro Normal School and its
State aid, applying the same argu-
ments. He condemned the practice
Of the State of educating ministers and
their sons and protessed teachers free.
\ The former intertered directly with a
primal object of the denominational
colleges and the latter opened up a
, Highway to fraud, in that j young
M IAN or woman could and many did
tne out and teach few weeks school
\nsd then beat the people for collie
aate course. No appropriation, he
9.eclared, ought to be made by the
sn'.ate for higher education but all
~ .,nds should be used for the common
orrhools.
Isl
hi, WE could not have better govern
IS h,ent in the State and counties than
nnse now have, or if we could the Dem
lrt ratic party is the one to make the
'ru.arovement. Certainly no other
luo ssy could improve upon it. The
arSay of Republicanism in North Caro-
,,o,., Ia is not fragrant memory; Populism
he S brought nothing but trouble to the
rBtates which have toyed with it, and
there is no ground for the expectation
that this combination would bring us
anything but misery. - Statesvilie
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