The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-11
A CARD FROM Mr.. WHITE.
Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
RALEIGH, N. c., April 5, 1899

Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
RAL8IGH n. G., April 5, 1899
In your paper of last week you pub
lished a recent utterance from The
Presbyterian Standard aimed at the
BIBLICAL R 3corder, and commenting on
same you cay:
Seriously, however, as this is a
serious matter, the charge against Mr.
White is a gray 9 one. We are 10th to
believe that he would attempt to make
the Baptist denomination Of the State
a party to q political dicker, and trust
that the report is untrue"
Allow me t make three remarks:
1 That no charge, grave or other
wise, was preferred against Mr.. White
in the Presbyterian Standard. The
| Standards editorial contains a state
ment made by me openly, advlsedly
and designedly before the E EDUCATIONAL
Committee of the recent General AS
sembly which speech was q plea, and
the only one made for the pubic
schools before that Committee. The
suggestion that on account of that
speech or anything contained in it, a
charge was made against me has it's
origin in the omce of The Progressive
Farmer.
2 That if the suggested charge had
been made tn t | had attempted ito
make the B3ptiet denomination of the
State a party to a political dicker,"
there are 175 900 white Baptists in
North Carolina who would not believe
1t; and, ineed, no man Of ordinary in.
telligence. or knowledge of Baptist at
fairs and polity would have believed it.
3 That nine tenGhs of The Progress
i've Farmers constituency are IN IN
qualified sympathy with the Baptists
in North Carolina in their position On
the subject OF State aid to higher edu
cation, that ia, suppoeiDg that nine
tenths of your readers are farmers. l
know who they are. I have been 10
their homes. I know what they feel.
/ have seen thirty thousand represeC-
latives Of our rural and agricultural
population in forty.fve districts Asso,
Citations IN North Carolina vote on this
question, and never a vote cast in the
negative except in one soliE0ry and
lone instance near the city OF Greer g.
boro, and that was by a Pr )fessor in
one of our STATE Colleges who had been
given unlimited time in the presente
ton Of his views against a pending
resOlution. | do not think it possible
that The Progressive Farmer is igno
rant Of the fact that il the question
was submitted 20 the people Of this
State, divorced from other issues, there
would be not less than 100. 600 majority
against the principle of State Aid to
Higher Education.
And why's B cause the great, plain, |
common people of North Carolina know
chat the trend of educational legisla |
ton has been against them and in
favor of those who we're able to educate
themselves in the higher branches.
And why's Because the great ma
joriry connected directly or Indirectly
WITH the churches Of North Carolina
have out of their poverty, by sacrifice
and denial, contributed cver $500 600
to endow and equip institutions for
higher education, at D Avidson, Trinity,
Zion and Wake Forest College, and do
not regard it as just that their taxes
should be taken to furnish higher ed;
advantages to those who have
not contributed to end owments for the
educ tior of the youth of the
state.
And Why's Because it is impossible
for them to see that the State is pur
suing the right policy in giving out OF
their texes $50 90 per capita to teach
men La in, Gret K and he sciences, and
only 81 20 OR capita to teach the sac
hundred thousand boys and girls VINO
have lite opportunity outside the pub
lie schools how to read and write.
JNO E v HITE