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

have said that in our issue of July 26tl
we made q complete r~etraction.
The Recorder then says that Judg,
Clark got into the controversy With
DE-. Kilgo because he said Klg0 tried
to get a. four years tenure upon his
Office, and insists that Dukes gift was
not an issue; that Judge Clark once
thanked Duke hr a gift. ERhe last
statement may be true, but CarkN die
not went q President who w1uld en-,
dorse lukesmethod of making money
He says that Kilgo's actic-S gave
cnor to the charges" ''tAaG the consld-
Isration Of the gift by members OF the
( tobacco trust 90 Trinity was that the
you'll thOre were to be + = taught
a nIiti&l heresy." Dukes gift not an
issue. IA
TIE Recorder, too, has insisted that
are wrong in believing that Judge
lark is wise enough to see the progress
a purpose Of ~plutocracy to capture
our educational institutions. If the
Recorder will read his letter to DR..
Kilgo under date of July IA, 1897, it
will see that he speaks Of
THE attempt of Northern multi mil.
lionsires to capture by gifts and en-
doWment the control of the education
Of the children of the people," Any.
thing more convincing needed9 If so,
call on us.
Neither does the Recorder now be.
lieve that there is any conspiracy on
foot on the part of corporate wealth to
corrupt education. Oh, no; such a
statement is IAN attack on Christian
institutions, = and If not q fight
on Christian education, we cannot
reason"
The Recorder of August 4th, 1897,
said:
1T is clear that corporate wealth
has debauched the suffrage in this ma
tion, and that it can do so again upon
a days notice. = : Money has elected
bad men and defeatsd good ones,
Everybody knows these things. Momes
has recently disciplined o. university
president because he 1UrOte books on
finance Which did not please certain
men of UeGlth. Is IT POSSIBLE THAI
MONEY Is NOT CONTENT WITH DEBAUCH
ING THE SUFFRAGE AND NOW CONsPIREE
TO CORRUPT EDUCATIoN9 The nation
cannot stand THE; the people will moi
stand it. Somebody must cut off tht
corporations from the throat of the
country"
Yes, it is true under the title
alarming" the justly alarmed Re
| corder asked:
SIS it possible that money conspirei
to corrupt educationG"
All, the Recorder forRets. 1T was
blown up by its own floating mine.
BAH =
The Recorder now argues that Il
gifts of monopoly exert no influence
whatever. But barely a year ago, il
the Recorder of July IA, 1897, to b
exact, we find these words:
1T mag justly be argued that q gift
acquires for the giUer q certain con
Sideratt0n
To day the Recorder would call such
a statement an insult to all NORTH
Carolina Christians. would it not, Bro
Bailey Floating mine No. 3, is it not
Again the Recorder of August 10th
1898, says:
I'VE demand that r r 4 benefac
tors shall be free to make gifts without
being blackguarded IS conspirators Oh
scoundrels."
1t was not ever thus, At one time
when The Recorder still stuck to the
old faith, it did not believe that you
should cease to call a scoundrel G
scoundrel because he gave a part of hi
i'll gotten gains to colleges. But how
the mighty have fallenI" For instance
read this from the Recorder of May
165h, 1894:
- = Trusts may be good things
a professor of political economy has
said they employ labor, buy produce
and reduce prices. Also, they some
times become benevolent" and endoW
colleges with insurance policies bought
with their i'll got gains; and there is G
man in our State whohas declared tina
such endowments are more endurire
than classic piles" These things MAY
be true. Perhaps our college boy
should be taught to admire the opera
tions of trusts. But they are unlaw
full in North Carolina and as sucl
should be destroyed, whether they b.
useful to needy institutions or instruc
tive to college students or not"
And in tho PcOor1or ~ A. -