The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-03
FEAST AND WEST AROUSED
An Impassioned Editorial in the Ar
gus--.Capt. J. B. Edgerton Writes:
"If Had Son Under Prof. Bassett
I Wonld Wire Him to Pack His
Trunk and Leave on First T'rain"-.-
Denunciations at Durham.
Especial to News and Observer.)


Goldsboro, N. c., Nov. 2.-The editorial
Ia the South Atlantic Quarterly on the
negro question as published in the News
and Observer of Sunday, has created a
storm of indignation against Prof. Joha
S. Bassett, the writer, who Goldsboro
people are loath to admit calls this city
his home. Ever since the News and OBJ
server reached here early yesterday mo.u-
ing the editorial in question has been
the subject of much adverse comment on
the streets, in hotel lobbies and in the
homes of all who have read the article,
The concensus of opinion is that Prof.
Bassett should be compelled to resign his
position on the faculty of Trinity Col
lege at once. No man who holds sucn
distorted views should be allowed TO train
the youth of any State.
THE ARGUS EDITORIAL.
The following editorial in the Goldsboro
Argus this afternoon struck a responsive
chord Ill the breast of every citizen OF
Goldsboro and has been fayorably corn
mented upon:
'"the dining OF Booker Washington, tie
Alabama negro, by President Roosevelt
outraged the sentiments of the white
people OF the South beyond any racial IN
cident in all history In this country; but
it has remained for a North Carolina
man-and man, too, hailing from Colds,
boro, (God save the mark though not
born here, thank God, to out-Roosevelt
Roosevelt not only in his adulation or
Booker Washington, but in giving ute.
ance to views and sentiments on the
negro and the racial issues that cause
the white people of this State to stand
aghast, az if coming suddenly upon a
vicious, deadly reptile ready to strike,
where they were wont to gather flowers
and drink from pure fountains OF refresh
ing water.
Prof. John s. Bassett. of the Char
OF History IN the faculty of Trinity Col
lege Durham, n. c., the great Methodist
college of the state, has published an dr
ticle in the South Atlantic Quarterly
of which he is the editor in which, under
the heading, Stirring Up the Fires of Race
Antlpathy' he gives utterance to views
and sentiments about the negro that nu
rightly balanced white man, with pride
OF ancestry and hope for posterlty of his
own race, could possibly cherish. Tie
article in question covers four columns
of yesterdays Raleigh News and Obser-
YER and Is so outrageous in expression
of racial view and gratuitous slander
upon the white manhood of the State
and the South at large, that we doubt
If We would give it place in the columns
OF the Argus, even If we had the space
to spare; but the gist of it may be OWNED
from this one sentence: Now Washinglo-,
(Booker) Is a great and good man,
Christian statesman, and take him all IN
all the greatest man, save Lee. born III
the South in a hundred years.
Shades of the great white manhood or
the South-heroes Of the sixties and OF
Reconstruction times-statesmen of the
past and present and hopes of the future.
defend us from the too much teaching,
OF learning, or what, that has produced
this man Bassett, who from the chair
Of history in a great Southern college
gives utterance through his quarterly
publication to the worid at large that
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