The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04
POSSIBILITIES BEGUN.

Now that Congress and the lepis,
ture are taking a much needed ra,
editors must find other things to ts5
Of. Here, for instance, is lively Raa
between the State organs of two Qre.
religious denominations. The Presb
terrain Standard of Charlotte, ia I,
sggressor, and the other interes
party is the Biblical Recorder of Raj
eigh. The Standard last week poura
the following volley into the Recorder
ranks. Next week we suppose the IA
corder will reply. We will try to sess
up with the fight, and give each wed
a revise d list of the killed and wouL ded
Seriously, however, as this is g geriou
matter, the charge against Mr. WINS
is a grave one We are loath to h
lieve that he would attempt to mah
the B Baptist denomination of the Stsp
a party to a political dicker, and trus
that the report is untrue.
The Standards 8rtI le ia ss follows
the Biblical Recorder of last weeE
is juoiI8nt over the fact that an 8p
preparation for water works for thu
University was cut down from $40 600
to 81 500. We can imagine the tyW
o demagogue who can boast on t.
stump Of a saving of twenty five hun
dred dollars by the great State Of North
Carolina. in sanitary necessities for III
University Students, but it is \ email
thing for a religious editor to boast Of
Says the r 9corder: And yet, when 10
one outside, 80 far az we know, bad
spoken to q Senator in onj 4crion to The
bill to give SO 600 co the University
there a towering Opp sitlon
which compelled, the advocates 81 viii
draw it. This was q clean and swesp
ing defeat OF the State aid idea uDdR
circumstances in which no one hardly
dreamed defeat was possible M.
one hardly is good. If the Rentena
we're unRrammstical it would be also
untruthful. If the editor had ssid
hardly any one instead of using the
indefinite NUMBER expressed by no one
hardly he would have given the lie to
Secretary White, who let both a church
and a State secret leak out when re
said, in the sbove mentioned address;
Before n recent election the m8Dsg
ers of the D 'mocr attic party sr1
ious to get the State al Iseup u 1t
the campaign and they officially
pledged to q gentleman WhOm thel Gp
preached on thts matter that they
OOOuLd oppose and preUemt any smcrea@
Of appropriations to higher education
(LG4lIcs Our J..
Hence the carefully prepared dio
Chalmers as to the approaching of SeDS
tors. and the undre8mPd f defeat 0!
the State aid principle. 1t did not
need to be dreamed of, it was all fixed
before the Legislature met, by a 20
l.tical trade Of which Legislators were
ignorant as we'll as the people, thai
there should be no increase in apOrO
priations to the University or STATE
Normal. It was q pledge that ought
to have been repudiated by every hon
est man in the Legislature, and a trade
that ought to be rebuked by every
B aptist who honors the history and
the principles of his denomination.
"Che Presbyterian Standard is will
ing to leave all questions of ~sporoDriG
lions with the Legislature. where they
But it wants to lift it's voice
In indignant protest against all such
secret political pledges. The sober,
Christian men OF Mecklenburg county,
men with boys to raise and daughter
tn protect. did not know that they
we're voting last fall to parpatuate The
on ger fox evil of the Charlotte saloons
matter what the will ~ the neopls
be- found to be Nor did the
friends 1T our State institutions know
that their votes we're cast tn cripple
the gro wing usefulness of those instE
buttons
IF public sentiment haa takon such
great turn in our State during the last
two years. az the Recorder would have
us believe, why was that pledge kpD'
ecret from the public until after tho
cleo inn3
I'VE should like to know what the
Carolina Baptist thinks Of this
particular kind nj briberyI The Bsp
lists OF North Carolina should have
some organ to den0uncQ it for the GOOD
name Of their denomination And Ws
can hardly expect the Recorder to 90
nounce itself."