The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11
PROF. MASSEY'S REPLY.


YOU have seemed to think that you
were the specially inspired mentor for
the y. and NJ. College, and the appoint
cd denouncer of the wicked fellow who
writes this. 1t was perhaps Il serious
error in the faculty of our college to at
tempt to attend to their own business
without first asking the advice and con-
sent of the wise and venerable editor Of
the Recorder. But the fact is that we
were totally unaware that man who
never sets foot inside the precincts of the
college, and who knows nothing what
ever about the work of any man con
nected Herewith. could have intuitively
such an accurate knowledge of what
we should do We were blindy of the
opinion that tree is known by its
fruits, and fondly imagined that the
crowd of our graduates occupying posi-
tions of trust and honor in various
parts of the country, and the fact that
the WiScSt business men of the State
eagerly take our graduates as soon as
they leave the college, was proof at
once that the training and education
given here will compare favorably with
that given in any other college.
1t is not our fault that you have seen
only the full dress side and have never
seen the men who may wear kid gloves
at times, and have earned Il right to
wear what they please, spending the
greater part Of their time with blue
overalls and leather aprons There are
none so blind, sir, as those who will not
see and the fact is that you do not de-
sire to see anything good in our college
or any of its officers, and have never
made yourself in any way familiar with
its workings.
But it is more especially on a matter
of personal Importance that / wish to
speak to you now. You have for years
lost no opportunity to sling innuendoes
and insults at me in your paper. | for
time. attributed them to the fact that
you were young and ignorant. But the
persistency with which You keep up
these attacks shows Il spirit that can
only be called malicious. / have been
told that in this weeks issue of your
paper you make sundry charges against
me. | am sorry that | have not copy
of yo,fr paper at hand. have been
told that you charge me with writing
scurrlous articles anonymously for the
press. Will you kinde' reproduce any
thing that | have ever written, signed
or unsigned, that contains a word of
scurrility, or that i'll the remotest de-
gree approaches the mendacious sour
riHty which you have time and again
printed about me!
| am told that you charge me with
comprising the dismissal of two asso-
ciates who were ihcomparably my su-
periors While | do not concede your
ability to distinguish between the quail
lications of professional teachers, whose
work you are profoundly ignorant of, |
will be glad if you will name the two
gentlemen, or any one, superior or infe-
rior whom | have ever tried to get dis
missed. Will you also name one gentle
man on any of the boards under which
| have served who will testify that |
ever said TO him Il word with the pur-
pose of getting any one dismissed, or
who will say that | ever tried to get
any place under the board except Ii.
one have so long occupied, and which
for nearly ten years | have tr ed to fill
faithfully, though begged to go else
where at higher salary!
You have also charged that | write
articles for pay advising the use of
potash. 1t is true that |, in advising
farmers in regard to the use of fertili-
zers, do advise the use of potash where
potash is important for the crop or the
land. 1t is true also that | advise the
use of phosph0rc acid and nitrogen, and
advise the use of phOsporic acid to
far larger extent than | ever advise the
use of potash l know that the fer
tilizer manufacturers rarely use a sufh-
,t,,,r ,.f nuh fnt m
crops in their mixtures, because it is
cehpaer for them to make the phos-
pilates larger in proportion. l have
earnestly advised the farmers to mix
their own fertilizers. because | know
that they can save money i'll doing 1t.
| have been working for the uplifting
of the agriculture of the South Tor
more years than you can number, ana
to-day my name is held an thankful re-
membrance in ten thousand homes all
over this broad land for the help have
been able to give them. Yes, | am paid
for the work | do in this line, and
publishers all over the land are eager to
get whatever | have time to write. Is
not this helping Of ones fellowmen to
better methos and wiser use or the
gifts of the Great Creator in the soil
WORK just as wen worth pay 40 lie wiz
ing of falsehoods in religious paper
about your fellow men for an editorial
salary! | have never written line In
regard to the use of fertilizers or any
thing else that was not just what be-
lieved to be for the best interests of the
farmers of our land. / have tried
might and main to stop the lnJudlclous
way in which commercial fertilizers
have been used in the South, and to
show our farmers that what they need
is the feeding of more stock and the
raising of more home made manure. And
| have received the thanks of thousands
for the help | have given them.
Only last week gentleman from an
other State, whose official duties re-
ouired his attendance here on the
United States Court, came to my house
and introduced himself saying that he
wished to make the acquaintance or
the man who had enabled him to make
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