The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-16

harmony with the principles OF our
government, and morally wrong for
the State to undertake to furnish
free higher education to the few at
the expense of the many, and there
fore that all free buttons in the State
University, in so far as they are based
upon the appropriation of public mon
les, should be discontinued. That we
request the Legislature to discontinue
the appropriation of public money for
free scholarships and buttons at the
University.
18th, knowing that the income
from the buttons is not sufficient to
meet the current expenses of a col
lege or university, we are not opposed
to the appropriations to the Universe
ty, but we think these appropriations
should be limited to such amounts as
are necessary to meet the deficiency
in current expenses after buttons
have been collected from all students,
except those to whom private schol-
arships have been given.
18th, That as the aim of the State
in the establishment of the Normal
and Industrial College at Greensboro,
n. c., and the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College at Raleigh, n. c.,
was to provide technical and not high
or literary education, we declare our
selves in sympathy with them as long
as they adhere to their original pur-
pose, but we are opposed to any poll
cy that will in any way divert them
from this aim"
According to Dr. Yates, and Rev. @.
A. Oglesby, and Rev. Jno. N. Cole, who
led the fight for their adoption, this ac-
ton was in the nature of compromise
between what they called extreme po-
sitions These gentlemen on the floor
of the Conference expressed in warm and
cordial terms their love for and pride
in the University, and declared they be-
lieyed the action they were taking would
advance its best interests, and would be
the wisest thing for the chr h they rep
resent. They and many others take
exception to the headlines in the papers
conveying the idea that the action of the
Conference is hostile to State aid for
higher education. "On the contrary"
says Mr.. Cole, ''the Confesaeee for the
first time goes on record as favoring
State aid for higher education. We mere
ly protest against the free scholarships,
which policy we do not approve" In
their signed statement DR.. Yates and
Mr.. Cole say
THE resolutions passed by the Con-
ference were not only friendly to
Chapel Hill, but positively in her In
terest, plainly stating that the State
ought to appropriate 50 much money
as would pay the salaries of the IA
Guilty, and keep up the institution"
The high character and position of
these gentlemen, authors of and sponsors
for the resolutions, show that the report
that the Conference declared hostility
to State aid for higher education is in
correct. While not believing that it is
the province of the church to take action
in regard to the question touched upon
in the resolution adopted, and that
bad precedent has been established,
we are glad that there is to
be no crusade by either conference
against generous support of our higher
educational institutions. The Methodist
church could not be hostile to the Uni
yresity without cunning counter to the
letter and spirit of the counsel of its elo-
quent and learne:l bishop, George e.
Pierce, whose death is still mourned by
devout Methodist everywhere Upon,
the laying Of the cornerstone of new
building at the Methodist college in
Georgia, Bishop Pierce said:
"What will Georgia do with her
schools without teachers? Where viii
she find them? Sac must look to her
colleges. They have supplied her in
part, and will yet 30 more. The COM
mon school SYSTEM of New England
has been highly, perhaps extravagant-
" extolled, but where would she have
found her Instruments and agents but
for Harvard and Yale, and Princeton
and Middletown? :These filed the
land with educated men, enlightened
public opinion, supplied her academ-
lGS anu sCHbOtS WIFI
and teachers, and sent into every viii
lage and hamlet man competent to
direct the ignorant, to arouse the in
different, and give form and energy
to the common effort. This is what
we need and must have. And we can
have it; yet little Yhile and we will
have it. Let the State foster her uni
versity; let the Christian denomina-
tons rally to their respective insti-
tutions, and these agents, with their
annually increasing force, win cult
vate the land, the wilderness become
garden, and the Empire State of the
South set q Kohinoor in her queenly
diadem."
Spain has not improved in the last
three centuries. Then their idea of dis
posing Of Dutch leader who had re-
volted from Spanish tyranny was to get
him assassinated, Maceo goes the same