The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-02
The Ogden Movement"
Richmond Times.

Richmond Times.
 One of the most magnificent statements made by any Northern man Tn conhec tton with the so-called Ogden movement for education in the South was contained in a short address by pr. Albert shaw, editor of The Review of Reviews at the recent conference for Southern euucaion in the city of Athens.
 Dr. Shaw said that for years the gov ernment had been paying out about $l4e.- OOO. 900 annually on the pension account He roughly estimated that of this sum the South contributed something like $5o- GOO OO0 This tax, he went on, was not burden upon the North, for the money thus collected was disbursed among the Northern people and they receive back again the bulk of it, both that which they contributed and that wmch the South contributed. And so the South has gone on from year to year, paylhs ItS part of the pension tax and recaving little in return yet never grumbling. It seemed to him, therefore, a simple mat ter of justice that the South should re- ceive something by way of compensation from the North, and it was in that spirit. he added, that these Northern. phllan- thropists proposed to aid the south Tn bearing it's burden of popular education.
 We take it that Dr. Shaw. who IS part and parcel of the Ogden party, spoke advisedly and expressed the sentiments of his Northern associates
 Tn the same connection, The Phlladei- phia Record says that the education ot the white youth of the southern states Is a matter Of importance to the "hoie nation. ~
 Those who would grasp the full mean ing of this educational slovement should take these two things to heart. The i'm pression seems to have gone out that~Mr' Ogden and his friends are coming to the South as missionaries among the heathen. to convert them to their ways and that they are hestowing these gifts as aims: We say frankly for The Times that IT such were the case if the Northern peo- pie were coming down hera to locate Yankee school marms.' with view 10 teaching the peculiar doctrines or the North to our youth, The Times would re- sent and resist the movement with all It's might We believe in the Southern spirit We believe that true democracy ana true Americanism are to be found in ths section-we had almost said in this sec ton only We will say that there IS more genuine Democracy and Ameri- canism in the South than in any other section. and, apart from any feeling that we may have in the matter, and we con fess to d very deep feeling on this sub ject we think that it would be a national disaster for that sentiment to be dis turbed
 But if there is any such disposition on the part of the Ogden people they nave managed most adroitly to keep 1t thor oughly concealed, and they nave strange way of manifesting it and of working to that end. We are firmly convinced that there Is no such disposition on their part We are fully convinced that their ann IS purely philanthropic and patriotic ana that they have an earnest desire to do good from the broadest point of view. They hold that public education Is na- tonal burden and that no one section ought to bear more than it's part of it. They hold that the South is bearing, and since the war has been bearing. more than its fair share of this burden; and SO in generous mood and in recognition of the fact. they have come forward and said that they will cheerfully put a sum of money at our disposal, to be expended in our own way in promoting the cause of popular education and directly III as- ssting in our school work.
 They do not propose to interfere: they do not propose to evangelize; they do not propose to give aims. Thew desire to help us. They desire to help us to help