The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-10
Page on Preachers.

Senator McLaurin believes that eXpan-
sion, the gold standard, protective tariff
and shipping subsidies are the policies
that will make for Southern development.
The merit or the demert of this pro-
gramme is of less Importance than The
fact that it is radical departure by
man of character and influence, from the
"solid" programme of these forty
"solid" years; for war, poverty. Hitter
acy, epidemics and tornadoes have all
done less hurt to the South (be it said
with respect to all men of breadth and
tolerance) than the politicians and the
preachers. For these have been the con-
SENATORS of outworn opinions and creeds,
and they have suppressed intellectual in
dependence. 1t is they who are to blame
for the loss to the nation of the old time
Southern force and character since the
war. They have suppressed thought ana
prevented growth-these unsecured colo
nels who wear long hair and white ties
and frock coats, and these doctors o.
divinity who herd good women by the
most stagnant waters of theology Wal
ter H. Page.
To the Editor: The enclosed clipping
purports to be the view OF one-tlme
Southerner and native NORTH Carolm.an,
of the present attitude of the South to-
wards certain ideas. Since he was once
a North Carolinan it is reasonable to
suppose that he has based his opinion to
a great degree upon those people whom
he has known best.
| am curious to know what the good
people of our State think of this vile re-
hash of Republican misrepresentation,
this subsidized SANDER, this so-called
independent slush.
And remember that it emanates from
a man whom our University has delighted
to honor, who was heralded as repre-
sentative of the new intellect of the
South, who was to be our prophet in an
other country
! have no doubt his view of us will
find defenders in our State, but a we'll
informed man could easily name them
before they open the mouth to say as
Biblical character did once before, Am
l not thine asst" Because the South sees
fit to stand against expansion, the gold
standard. protective tariff and shipping
subsidies, this young eXpatriate, forget
ting though not forgotten" as yeti, his
illustrious lire of ancestry who, through
long days OF labor, preached the plain
simple gospel to their own plain, simple,
honest people, forgetting the glorious his
tory CT his own people during those forty
solid years" of reconstruction and re-
Mobilization, forgetting the unwavering
devotion to the cause of Christ and their
country of our noble ministry, forgetting
the services of Vance, and Ransom, and
Jarvis, and Holt, and Saunders, and Wat
son, and Aycock, aye, and forgetting even
in his mad rush for Northern approval and
Northern shekels. the plain simple truth,
he has slandered and villified whole
State, has done what Edmund Burke de-
clared could not be done-he has indicted
a whole nation. And for what reason?
Because, forsooth, we do not accept with
out question his own newly acquired pollt-
zeal beliefs and heresies. On what meat
do the trusts feed this, our young Caesar,
that he hath grown so great?
Only a few years ago this Page was
clean, why was it necessary to write
"swell head so large all over it? When
in the course of political ethics or bust
ness ethics does it become necessity for
a bird to foul it's own nest?
And again, what a monumental nerve
this young fellow must have to imagine
that he can scold the whole South into
the Republican party and nobody ever
know he was doing it from behind the
blind of Southern development
Caesar was wrong: all gall was not
divide into three parts-its still in one
piece.
E. B. LEWIS.
Kinston, N. c., June Is.
IThis communication was written on
June 18th, but by some accident it was
misaid This explanation of the delay
in publication is one to the writer.--Edi-