The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-07-07

the PROGRESS oF A PURPOSE
When yoa have carefully read the
Clark kiigo correspondence, printed
elsewhere in these columns. you will
perhaps agree with u that IL 10 SPICY.
interesting and seasonable-s essona.
BILE not only because Of its likeness TO
these scorching July days. but because
It reveals, sharply, the growth Of .
sentiment and the progress OF . pur-
pose.
Never IN issue OF this paper has
failed to warn its readers Of the de-
signs OF the powerful few upo. tie
liberties of the many. We have rung
bell OF warning, from time TO time,
as We have noted the progress they
have made. Wealth has increased, be-
cause men have iabored, but the wealth
produced has accumulated into fewer
and fewer hands from the operation OF
destructive laws, until progress and
poverty go hand in hand.
In the face of every reformer, the
apostles OF slavery decry discomfort
and cry peace when there 10 no
VINO dares to struggle for common
tian civilization.
are gathering more and more surely
into their hands all the cords of the
net which they have thrown around
the people. Having monopolized the
Nations currency, they rob the pro-
dnaoP al ate d. ID b..
consolidated the highways Of transpor-
tation, they levy the tribute OF pirates
upon all production and, controlling
determine what shall. and what shall
not, reach the public ear. They are in
politics always, and therefors control,
for their ends, pt litical parties and the
representatives. Of the people. The
sources Of common infOrmati0u-the
newspapers--they have systematically
brought under their control; and so
thoroughly have they done their work
that you might give an eye for every
daily in North Carolina which they do
not own, without serious injury to
your sight.
Not conte at with their control of the
press. they have gone forward to con-
troll our institutions OF learning. Men
who have made their millions under
the operation of baneful laws of special
privilege have systematically underta-
ken to endow colleges and universities
throughout the land. Stanford pours
bis wealth in the lap of university in |
Rockefeller piously gives
bis millions to the great Baptist Uni
versity in Chicago; Duke, in North !
Carolina, endows Trinity with princely
gifts by the hundred thousand. The |
churches rejoice over such splendid |
nuniicence. They accept the gifts to
heir struggling colleges with wonder
It the magnitude of the benefactions.
they rise in conferences, conventions
Ind associations, and sing the long
meter dOxolOgy. The sanity eager and |
houghtless praise God that the IN
righteous ManmOn comes to the help |
If the church and its institutions in q |
lime of struggle.
But these gifts are not always disin-
Colleges and universities,
for the purpose of teaching |
he truth in it's freedom, fall by the |
Tery fact of these donations, under the |
ritual contI oil of the donors; and they |
ire not permitted to teach any system
IT economics that declares the positive |
popular in ustlce of the legislation |
whereby the donor has gathered his |
Millions.
When Prof. Bemis taught the truth
which condemned the methods of |
gains, he was forced from |
lis chair in the faculty of the Univer-
ity of Chicago. When Prof. Ross, in |
he Leland Stanford University, fol-
owing the dictates OF q gOdly con-
cience, taught the truth as he saw it, |
he shared the fate of Bemis. The like |
ate befell Prof. Adams at Cornell and |
Benjamin Andrews, President of |
Brown University, declared for bimet-
llism, as against q single gold stand |
'rd, believing that single gold stand
lrd was destructive of the rights of the |
masses, and therefore unrepublican |
md unchristiaD, he was driven from |
;he Presidency of that University and |
he purpose of plutocracy became evil
lent to control public sentiment by an |
control of institutions of |
earning.
These things happened outside of |
North Carolina. Here, so far as we
know, no college professor or president |
or political views. But the
same spirit that has been doing its
work elsewhere we find now to be at
work even in conservative old North |
Carolina.
Judge Walter Clark, a trustee of
Trinity College, the institution where
MethOdists of the two Conferences of
n Orth Carolina are asked to send their
boys for training, is asked by the Board
Of Trustees, In his absence and with
put notice after a one sided court-mar-
5ial at the instance of Trinity's presi.
dent, to resign his membership in the
board; not because he is not q repre-
North Carolinian and q re-
preventative Methodist, who has been
honored by his church more than any
other layman within the borders of the
State, but because he dared to criticise
the policy of DR.. Kilgo in the manage
ment of the affairs of that institution.
This to North Carolinians, is start
ling instance of imperial pride, fanatl-
cal faith in ones own infallibillty and
contemptuous impotence of difference
of opinion.
We see, then, that it is come to this
that before man can preside over an
institution of learning, or teach in
its faculty, or be a trustee even, his
teaching and his policy must be ac-
ceptable to the benefactor of the in
stitutiOn.
1t is worth while to inquire where
this money domination will end. Appli-
ed already in institutions of learning,
to professors, presidents, and trustees,
institutions of the Church, why should
it not be applied to the Church itself?
Then it will be that no man can be
bishop, unless his views coincide with
the purpose of plutocracy; no man can
be kresidlng elder who does not
agree with the bishop; no preacher
can be sent to a desirable appointment
unless he agrees with the presiding