The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-02
a REVIVAL

one OF the most entertaining publica-
ton, that comes to this Office Is the
worlds Work, edited by Or. Waiter
pare. Ii Is edited with intelligence and
conservatism. and we ueunlly ma our
selves Il, accord with tho views ~ e1-
nresses. We are very much surprised
therefore, to sec that this publication mas
taken an utterly erroneous view OF SUD
feet which has greatly interested inc
r,eonln OF the South Our surprise Is
greater because DR.. Page is himself
Southern man.
We had supposed that this subject had
been thrashed out and that nothing more
would be said about 1t. but the World
Work has seen 1T TO revive it. We refer
30 The action OF Emory College. in the
State of Georgia. in requesting the Tesis-
nation OF Professor Andrew Sledd' VINO
recently sprang into notoriety by writing
nm article on the negro question Tor the
Atlantic Monthly.
THE important question" says tho
Worlds Work in referring to the incl
dent. as not whether a section OF pubic
oniniou in Georgia or the governing body
OF the college agrees or disagrees with
Mr.. Eledd, for they have q perfect riGht
10 disa gree with him. and they have also
n perfect right to dismiss him heo-''ec
they do not like his opinions, OF for any
other reasons But they are narrow and
ehort-sighted to dismiss him for this rea-
son, for such an action is Interpreted
everywhere In the academic world as
notice that free expression OF opinion on
public subjects is not wanted ct Emory
College: that is not an institution Tor ttie
liberal culture of youth. bat Tor the per-
petuation OF particular opinions: not
place to arrive at the truth by the fTee
discussion Of every great subject. but
place for intoxicating certain fixed ideas
That Is a very unfair criticism of
Emory College and Of the trustees who
requested Mr.. Sledd's resignation. Cell
ii narrow-mipded or what you Will, the
fact is that there Is one thing in the
South upon which the Southern whites
as a whole are agreed. 1t is a part of
their religion that there must be ahso-
lutte separation between the races. lor the
very integrity of the white race depends
upon 1t. Mr. Sledds article Indicated
that he was not altogether orthodox on
that Question, and the trustees OF Emory
College decided that he was not proper
man to teach Southern youth. There was
no disposition to suppress a free express
zion OF opinion Mr.. Slcdd is highly re-
carded in Georgia and in Virginia. and
he Is at perfect liberty to write and speak
his sentiments. But in the article under
discussion he showed that he was not IN
entire accord with the dominant view In
the South on the race question, and so
Emory College did not want him as an
instructor 1t was much the same thing
as though secta,ian college had dis
covered that one of its professors was
not orthodox on some cardinal principle
ofAthe. church organization In such an
event. of course. the resignation of the
professor would be asked for.
Or. suppose that some professor in a
Northern college forty years ago had
written an article declaring his belief in
the right OF secession and the institution
Of slavery. does the Worlds Work be-
lieve that his services would have been
retained?
Call II narrow mindedness If you Will
bat the people OF the South intend that
their children shall be taught that there
must he no mixing OF the races, and they
will not permit their children to be taught
by any man or woman who Is not per-
fectly sound In that cardinal doctrine OF
Southern society.