The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-19
BRO BAILEY TAKES A HAND

OF the blOlcaA recorder OF this week.
There is no fun in it to our able con.
temporary, however, for it is playing
a very serious part. Itrepels with all
the energy it possesses the statements
contained in an editorial copied in this
Issue from THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
entitled, 1.-The Progress of a Purpose"
and denies that any church can be in.
fuenced in the manner indicatek. Yet
the two most fragrant attempts to
crush out freedom OF opinion in Amer
icnn colleges ever made in the history
of the country occurred only a year or
two ago in the Baptist University at
Chicago and Brown University. OF
Rhode Island, in order to please John
D, Rockefeller, the Standard Oil king
These cases are too we'll known to be,
denied, and if we are not mistaken the,
Recorder joined in the condemnation
Of the trustees OF said Christian col.
leges for putting money above man
hood. His human natuF undergone
such a change in the short space OF
two years as to render impossible in
1898 what actually occurred in 1889
While no endorsing The PROGRESS.
sIvE FARMER s structures upon the State
press, we respectfully submit that the
Recorder is not the paper to rebuke
such recklessness after having virtu-
ally ascribed corrupt motives to the,
papers that are friendly to the Univer-
sity It's reference to a certain arti-
/ Gle starting ION it's CREASED rounds
must have meant that the hapers that
published it were CREASED" A goodly
number Of the State papers so inter
preted 1t end replied in vigorous Eng
lish.
The Recorded insists that the con
troversy between Dr. Klgo and Judge
Clark is a personal one and does not
involve the question of Christian edu-
cation at all. After laying down this
proposition and condemning the bleRd-
ing of the two matters, it defends Rev.
John E. White for saying 1.-The Baptist
of n )rth Carolina are with DR.. Kilgo
in this controversy" saying he had in
mind DIR. KIlgo's service in the cause
of Christian ~educatiOnl Then, If we
can see straight, the Rev. Mr.. White
falls under the condemnation of the
Recorders logic either way he turns.
If the controversy is a personal one
he is without excuse for Juggling the
Baptists into it. It the question Of
Christian education is not involved.
his appreciation Of DR.. Kllgo's SER
vice in the cause did not demand that
he should take sides with him in a
personal controversy with Judge Clark
any more than that he should assure
him of Baptist sympathy in a dispute
with the t~ailrOs, butchers or candle
stick maker. We leave it to Editor
Bailey and the Rev. Mr.. White to set
tie between themselves who ia to blame
for the BAptists being published to the
world as taking sides in a controversy
which the recorder, their State organ,
says does not nce them at all nor
affect the Question of Christian edu-
cation.
We are glad to be able to say on the
Recorders authority that the Baptists
of North Carolina are not with DR..
Kilgo in this controversy. They have
too much sense to be taking sides in
a Methodist quarrel The Rev. Mr..
White spoke too quick. II the Weekly
had not flashed It's search-light upon
his ''lively contribution to the Clark.
Kilgo controversy las Col. Fred ODDS
labeled it to his string of paperF), no
disavoWal of els I'm warranted and I'M
charitable utGerance would have been
made 1t was uDj 1st alike to Judge
Clark and the BapUIst Of North Caro-
lima. No representative Of any other
Observation-Disclosures, Presbyte-
rian, Lutheran or Catholic-felt called
upon to say his denomination was
with DR.. Kugo in the matter under
discussion, VIZ the if ect Of his teach
ings &c Trinity, his laudation of old
man Duke, the cigarette manufacturer
and member of the heartlegs Cigarette
Trust, as North Carolina's proudest
achievement and the South's greatest
philanthropist, his proposition to have
the faculty OF Trinity College elected
for four years instead of one. The
service we did the Baptists IN having
them set straight in this matter is suh
Gent compensation for the r corder's
show of temper toward us.-Webster's
Weekly, July 14.1598
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
Fl. G. Ewart to be u. s. District Judge
for Western North Carolina.
WAeRINGIoN- July IA The Pcssi-