The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-08-23

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tackled all North Carolina colleges By
+. saying that no college should accept
monopoly money. 1t reminds us O
the lawyer who, employed by a mar
sued for damages to a kettle, said
Gentlemen of the jury, I propose K
prove three things: 1 That my ellen
never borrowed the kettle. 2 That i
was cracked when he borrowed it. 8
Thatlt was whole when he returned it.
But, laying all levity aside, we viii
now proceed to exhibit the places OF
our wall which we're "butted" by tht
Recorder. In the first place it denies
that there is an that pan
ders to ---U0cracy and fears to D
"onopoly's unholy methods of accu.
nulaVlng money. Let us see.
when Prof. Bemis taught the truth,
winch condemned the methods o1
Rocketeller's gains, he was ford
from his chair in the faculty ofthe
University of Chicago. WherProt.
boss, In the Leland Stanford Cniver-
slty, following the dictates Of a godly
conscience, taught the truth as he saw
1t, he shared the fate Of Bemis. The
like fate befell Prof. Adams at Cornell
and Prof. Ely at Johns Hopkins
When < Benjamin Andrews, Presi,
dent of Brown University, declared for
Ol-metalism, as against q single gold
standard, believing that a single gold
standard was destructive of the rights
OF the masses, and, therefore, unrepub-
llcan and unchristian, he was driven
from the Presidency CT that Univer-
sity; and the purpose of p~lutocracy be
came evident to control public eenti.
ment by an autoeratic control Of insti-
buttons Of learning"
Is there no %pandering hereG Is this
the kind of education the Recorder en-
dorsesH Is this the man of straw
The Recorder perhaps calls this Chris.
tian education. We do not, we shall
not. The people do not; the people
will not.
But the Recorder says that Prof.
Bemis was discharged because "a more
fit man could be obtained" The pc
culiar fitness" Of his successor doubt,
less consisted in his silence regarding
Rocketeller's method of accommodating
wealth.
land President Harper, of Chicago
University, the institution which got
rid of Prof. Bemis, was the leading
spirit in getting President Andrews to
come to Chicago to take the superin-
tendency Of the city schools" says the
Recorder. Granted. Does that teach
the truth to Chicago studentsG Does
not the fact remain that Bemis was
discharged and a man who did not see
fE to expose R~ockerfeller's wrong
doing named as his successor2 Does
President Harper's act atone for tris
We think not.
But next comes q remarkable state
ment. The Recorder admits that
President Andrews was opposed on
account of his views" The fact is, he
was forced to resign because his ideas
Of right did not suit Rockefeller, who
would otherwise have given quite a
sum to Brown University. And, by
the way, as he could not make a gift
TO Brown because Of President An
dreWs' conscience, does not this go to
prove that we are right in guessing the
peculiar fitness" Of Bemis' successor
in the great Rockefeller" Chicago
University But as to the remarkable
statement: Speaking Of Prof. Andrew S.
the Recorder says: But the Baptist
people who control Brown University
quickly made it clear that he should
be free" Just read that again. Can't
you see that it is base" false" and
an attack on the integrity of men of
God with decades Of pure lives behind
them4' What is the matter, Bro.
BAiley9 Don't you know that we ex-
pressed q belief that Trinity's trustees
had OPP ,sed Judge Clark because of his
anti-Oukc-Krlgo v~iews-had been
led astray, but that the Methodist people
who control il will make it clear that
such things must not be, and in this
same article you said the statement
was ''Oase," false" and a ref :c5ion
upon the integrity Of godly mems" You
say Brown University was led astray,
but the Baptist people who control it
removed the blot. tbs statement we
presume is Christian; the proper mat
ter for a religious paper; no reflection
on cody men no intimation of bribery
not ''base" or false you don't feel
like ''hiding your face from the sight
OF your fellows and if possible from
God himself" after making it: nothing
of the kind. Bat when We remarked