The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-09-06

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80 ! ~ educate public sentiment. In the
""plan" of these schools adopted by 'he
annvontion the necessity or pre-
Zinc GREAT Estates IS dWeIt 81
MI that the students lheiel!.
viii become free from deluSloi9
ouI instructed us to the Necessary
60 narmauent uniformity 81 integrity III
tho coin INIT" 1t is easy to understand
,rbot .deIusions'' the American Bahkc
Association proposed to educate out OF
the Students. Among the numerous
extracts from letters To the Association
unfinished with its approval Is one from It
Southern College President which says:
~ j. better to have such schools rs
intaroraI parts of long established and
,,onuIar institutions than to set them off
10 themselves. In this way they can
reach a large number of prepared and
influential students sooner ihln any 9th
or The study of finance ANA economy
fmuiugcS on the question OF human I ShlS.
And rs moral principles depend. for their
,owpr to make vivid and lasting impress
eiuus. on religious sanctions. ;tsmuSt fol
low that those schools in which the ethics
of Christianity find Il place are best suit
cd to teach the rights and wrongs Of
financial policies and economic systrmS.'
II takes no keen insight to say what
kind of financial teaching the American
Bankers Association proposed for these
schools to be established i'll Colleges by
fine Gift of 100000 each and for which
church colleges were to be preferred. An
other Of the numerous letters from cell
Irze presidents published by approval!
saws every college should have an en-
bowed school Of finance under the provi-
dtnce Of the American Bankers Associa-
+r., md Odds. ''NNng1th cn1lI nat no hot
ter employed than in the endowment Of
schools OF Finance.' and another says:
1t seems to me they are the most eff
cieut antidote against hcresies on cur
rpucv questions" We know what that
crowd deems "heresics.'
We now turn to page Z and we find 4
letter from DR.. John +. CroWell then
"president of Trinity College, \. c."
which says to the American Bankers
Association: I'VE are now projecting IN
arrangement by which in 1S92r93 we
shall have a course Of instruction offered
Ike that carried out in the Wharton
school Of Finance and Economy in the
1 University of Pennsylvania 1t will be
remembered that the Wharton School
was the first one established by the Am
crican Bankers Association secured by
81 Gift Of 500, 900" and whose obpect
"LItl pun poses NAVE IttH OtllIlIlbu III tIlt'
ahoVe extracts.
What the arrangemcn was Which
secured" one like it here. whether it has
been carried out and whether or not it j.
still working ON the same lines you are
better informed than |. My success liz
procuring information from your minutes
as to Il matter which concerned myself,
after our late resolution of censurc, was
not such as to encourage me to seek
for any OF this subject. But | can say
that if his is 4 Methodist college, owned
by M~ethodistS. it ought not to teach any
particular theory of Finance. i'll eXchanI,
for donations as indicated by the report
ed proceedings of the American Bankers
Association and the letter of the the
President of this college. promising ::
course of instruction Tin Finance like
that carried out in the Wharton School
Of Finance at the University of PennsyI
vania. The Turkish Janisaries were
Christian boys taken from their parent:
when young, reared and drilled as Ma
hommedans and then used as Il selecu
body Of troops to repress the aspirations
for liberty of those of their own blood
We want no imitation of that policy il
the colleges of this land.
DR.. kilgo has stated publicly so often
rs to require NJ special proof that "Afte!
he got Il few more Trinity students in
the Conference he would make it hot foI
the preachers educated at other colleges
Tins is on 4 par with his suecch a
WeaversvilIe that "Trinity was coming
into its kingdom Che DOUBTLESS,
meant Dukedom) one of thcs,
days and the preachers VIII,
did not stand by her would d,
made to feel her power" On exactly
the same lines are the recently adopte,
resolutions of the Shelby conference il
the Advocate, which is in evidence
There You have the 'machine' die
closed. Trinity is to run North Carolin;
Mcthodism. Or. l<ilgo is to run Trinity
and the cigarette millions are to run him
and To aid him to maintain his Suprc
macy.
This is we'll understood. Rev. jess,
II. Page, in his speech, replying To Or
kil@o. published in the Charlotte Oh
server, said: Il haven't stopped t,
count the loss / am to suffer for takin.
this position. and giving utterance t,
these sentiments. You had before You
this morning, the question of settin.
off Il mission in Il lonely desolate section
of our district. 1t may be that thi.
field of labor is being prepared especial,
A'i Iil' ~ II H'- j VIII i'Iit b'l'ilN ~
my honest convictions whatever it ma,
cost The feeling that it is dangeroU
to oppose DIR. kiIgo has been widely cul
tiyatcd. 1t is his chief strength. 1t ha.
hampered the prosecution in getting tn,
evidence, especially as the ATTENDANCE
of witnesses could not be compelled
From the vast number of letters / hayt
received from laymen. which show tina
the laity are almost solidly againS
KiI@oism, | will not quote. but | vii
read brief extracts from letters received
from three ministers Cout of many
l.Ive received situated in widely differ
cent sections. One writes:
There were thousands who had no
bowed the knee to Baal. but they Wer
Invisible. 50 there are many with You
that Shall lie revealed should the matte
be- carried to the Annual Conference
Ours is not the age in which the spiri
Of iuquiSition thrivcs. ] am willing fo
the Dukes to put their money WheT
fHtv like but rrcipiputS thereof mus