The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-09
THE BEWILDERMENT OF DIR
YATES.
Louisburg, N, c., Oct. 5.
TO the Editor;
Please print the following article that
appeared in the Durham Sun In the
News and Observer.
w. II. NICHOLSON.

W. II. NICHOLSON.
/ am not going to NEEDLE with the
great discussion nor challenge the
jury" / may after awhile get the boys
all righted up. but for the present ! am
after light / have always been Of an
inquiring turn of mind, and when con-
fronted with a strange problem am rest
less until / solve it, or get some editor to
unrayel the thing for me, and hence !
write TO you.
The newspapers have been for some
time advertising Trinity College in such
way that the recent opening Of the
institution had larger number of stn
dents than she ever had before III all
her history. This is Il little puzzlins
but my philosophy at this point relieves
me somewhat.
inst after | had worried over the
problem as to how the Philippine island
were to be governed, here comes this 9th.
or botheration. In the midst of all tbs
clatter about the Dukes money going t.
Trinity College, and the great sin of it,
and all that, and the dire combustion
and ruin touched off therefor in the
newspapers, it seems so strange to me
that nearly all the papers nave missed
the main point and have allowed the
awful evil to run on unnotieed. Let me
ask you as one of the saviors Of this
country. if this good old mans money
Is To 60 on poisoning the youth Of this
land what will become of us III few
years?
learn upon good authority that these
Socratic corruptors of our youth have
actually given this money poison to
several colleges in the Western part of
our State, and that the colleges were so
stupid that they never found out it was
poison, and stood. with some others, with
open mouths. seeming to say ''pizen us
agin;" that Mr.. George w. Watts. n
Presbyterian member of the American
Tobacco Company-(whateyer that
means)-has put the same kind Of filthy
lucre into a hospital in Durham, and
that even the sick are not to be exempl
from the poison;-and that from the
same poisoner twenty-five thousand OF
lucre went to a Presbyterian Geological
institute and that the poor young tlieolo-
CUES are to be thus tempered with. And
worse still, that the Dukes have actually
even slipped up ON the blind side Of the
Ouakers and injected some of their pois
on into Guilford College.
| But worse still. We might leave the
mountaineer colleges to take care of
themselves and defend their literary in
nards" from this Duke poison; we might
leave the Quakers, who have long since
got beyond quaking at small matters, t.
take care of themselves, and even the
| sick at Watts hospital may not know
that they are being poisoned by American
Tobacco Company money. But oh. even
the heart Of an iron monkey ought to
soften at the ruin Of the poor orphans
at Oxford Why, it is said that rfteen
thousand dollars of this poison have
gone 10 this home put UP by the good
/ for the little fatherless and motherless
lchiIdrenl viii Duke never stop? And
| have the papers been paralyzed by the
awful shock produced by the Dukes
hurting three hundred thousand dollars
Of these poisoned wheels at Trinity Col
lege. SO that they have not awakened
to the awful evils which have mention
| ed above? VIII not the papers awake
and save the QuaStrs? aGd save North
| Carolina colleges? and save the sick al
| Watts hospital? What is the matter With
All these newspaper watchers or Zion's
walls? Can this negligence OH th.ir