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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
SAMlVEL WELLER ON klLG0 AND
BASSETT.
(Rhamkatt Roaster.l


Mr.. Editur Ramkatt Rooster; I rots
youns last weak how that youns was
to intolerant withe the perfeser. Pears
like youns woant take no advise down 2
Raley. Mr.. luke sed it wuz time fur to
hev the trusteez cum in an he wood hev
perfeser basit 20 bed while thay set
on hiz case but he was fraid 2 hev him
resine. So the trusteez cum; but ther
wuz nothin doin. Mistur Killgoo he med
speach and toad the trusteez that
basit wur down to hiz nous asleep in
wake him. The trusteeZ sed it Wuz no
use as basel had not ro;lned Their wuz
nuthin 2 du Tha dident want ak him.
| Then Mister Killgoo he med anuthcT
speach and sed that if basel he'd it du
over agin he woodent bee so exclooslve.
He wuz shore he wud mcleod Gineral
L. Green along withe Matse Lea. At this
Mistur luke smiled a letle. Then MI
Killgoo med a little longer speach and
showed the trusteez how that when Mistur
Jo-see-for-us DANIELS and others hit
| basel, tina hit the coolidge and when tina
| hit the coolidge tina hit the Methods
church, and when tina hit at the Methods
church, tina hit Wesly, and when tina hit
Wesly tina hit Paul; and when tina hit Paul
tina hit him. So he axed the trusteez to
| pass his character agin witch tina did;
and this showed that Mistur Killgoo haint
| dun no harrum sence he lef confluence
| the da before. And basel wuz still asleep.
| Sum of the trusteez objected to passin
Killgoo's character so often. Tha sed tina
past it after his trubble withe Kingsberry
and after hiz trile of ledge Clark and
after hiz MISUNDERSTANDING withe Webster
after hiz trubble withe julie Carr and
after what he sed about dimons and after
what he sed about Thomas Jefferson, and
| after what he sed about telegraphs and
woodent it bee a good time now to pass
, it agin as Mr. basel wuz still asleap?
Then wun of the trusteez, up then and
! tina and seq he, "That's what We cum
F.! fer, to pass Mistur Killgoo's character"
and all agreed
| Sum OF the trusteeZ wantead to go
home without waken up basel to get his
resinement; so tina past a resolution say
in that the provinshals must not inter-
fear with indipindint thinkin and if5enny.
body sed ennything agin basel it wuz
agin the collidge and John Wesly- and
Paul and Mr.. Killgoo. Then tina past
Mistur Killgoo's Character agin.
Then the boys who wuz keepin awake
so basel Good sleap took one wv tina pro-
vinshals out and linched him for inter-
fearin withe freedom Nv speach an ali
the time Mr.. basel wuz asleep in biz
little crib dramin Nv booker. 4
The trusteez went hoam yesterday
mornin earle. Just before the train
started tina past Killgoos character.
Mistur basel wuz still asleap and the
provinshal wuz swingn in the wind bak
NV Mistur Jukes house and sum good SEN
yor he'd pinnid this latin trays on hiz
brest 'Liberantur academicanos, to hell
with the edturos'' Mistur Killgoo sed so
! fur's he Good tell it wuz good latin.
SAMIVEL WELLER.
Durrum County.
P. S. Mr.. Basit weak at nine O'Clock,
and telegraffed Mr.. Peecock at Greene
boro 2 hav the trusteez bee shore 2 stop
/ thare and pass Mistur K!llgoo's carec-
! ter.
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of their labor and its products proportion
ately, would we not all be just where
We started?
This question, who pays the increased
wage, is submitted, in all seriousness, to
the political economists of the Oregonlan,
the Post-Intelligencer, to Colonel Waiter
son of the Courier Journal, to our genial
friend Mr.. Howell of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition. to the highly cultured editor of
the Springfield Republican, TO Joe Cald-
well and Josephus Daniels of the two
North Carolina Observers and to the tun-
nv man of the New York Sun, and to
the press generally, as well as to the
many political economists OF our unlver-
sites and colleges, and to the general
public.
Who pays the increased wage?
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"a DEED THAT IS AS COWARDLY AS
1T is DISGRACEFUL:
Wilmington Messenger.


There was a more recent event at
Trinity college to which we wish to call
attention. 1t was one of the most dis
graceful proceedings which the annals
of this State record. 1t was a disgrace
alike to the young men taking part in
] it and to the college unless it takes
prompt measures to severely punish the
perpetrators 1t shows that, while pres
ident Kilgo and his supporters are crying
out for what they call "a sincere spirit
of tolerance" and aginst destruction or
limitation of academic liberty" as re-
presented by Professor Bassett's teach
ings, most revolving act evidencins
arrow-mindedness, intolerance and oppo-
sition to Just criticism is performed by
the young men who are imbibing their
, doctrines.
We refer to the burning in effigy of
Mr. Daniels, editor of the News and
Observer by some of the students of Trim
ity. These young men, just budding into
manhood, who expect in time to be the
leaders of their people in bringing about
greater liberty of thought and tolerance
of action" who hope in time to hold
high position among their fellow men
in the professions and in politics, on the
threshold of their public careers, blacken
their regulations with deed that is as
cowardly as it is disgraceful. They Will
remember this deed to their sorrow as
long as they live 1t will be to them as
the albatross of the Ancient Mariner.
What notice Editor Daniels will take
of this gross and uncalled for insult we
know not. But we know lie has the ne
cessary grit for the occasion, and that
whatever course he pursues he will make
his force ielt. He will show these Trinity
students that the press cannot be rldi-
culed or insulted out of performing its
duty to the public, and that the power
of the press is not to be laughed at. These
men will find before their public careers
are ended that they need the friendship
of the News and Observer and of the
press generally more than the latter need
theirs; and we hope Mr.. Daniels will set
to work to demonstrate this fact to
them.
There are a great many people who
think the newspapers cannot get along
without their countenance and friendship,
but when they undertake to put the the
DRY into practice they find they have
more need of the paper than the paper
has of them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
SHOULD NOT HAVE HUNG IN
EFFIGY.

Wilson Times
The North Carolina Press Association
in convention at Washington passed a
resolution condemning the hanging OF MI:
Josephus Daniels in effigy by the boys OF
Trinity College. Really the boys should
not have hung our Joe in effgy. But II
we were Joe We would prefer being hung
in effigy than by the neck, and whenever
any one decides to hang us, We want 1T
done in effigy.
But how much has Joe lost by beng
hung in efflgy? If somebody away from
home will just hang The Times in etfigy
we'll guarantee we'll add just 500 new
subscribers to the circulation OF The
Times inside of two weeks. Boys, when
ever you get ready to hang US please do
it in effigy, but don't by the neck.
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THE CASE OF PROF. BAssETT.

Columbia State.
The trustees would transcend their
legal and their moral rights did they
essay to dictate to any member of the
faculty how and what he should think
and what he should say and write. A
college professor has the same right
every other American citizen possesses
to hold any sort of opinion on any sub
iect and to speak his mind in whatsc-
ever manner pleases him best. But if
a professors opinion on a given subject
chances TO be subversive of all that is
good, all that is expedient and all that
is essential in the civilization of the COM
runity in which he lives, we hold that
it would be inadvisable for any college to
keep him in its faculty one minute longer
than it would take to put him out.
Prof Bassett, it will be noted, en-
phasizes the fact that Washington IS
mot a typical negro" This is very
proper. If the professor knows anything
at all about the race problem he knows
that no negro could have done and could
have become what Washington has done
and has become. Washington's brains are
not negro's brains, his ambition is not
negro born, his energy is not negro gener-
ated Therefore, this mulatto represents
the very thing which the white South
must oppose, must fight as for its very
life We would not dare to believe that
Southern sentiment on this point is any
thing but impregnable, forever unshak-
able. There is no decent white man in
this section who would not rather know
that his family would not exist beyond
his own generation, who would not rather
commit suicide, than to face the know
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THEIR MINDS ALREADY POISONED.

WadeSbOrO messenger anu IHVOIII50''o u
The virus is beginning to have its Ell
feet Mr.. Josephus Daniels, editor OF the
Raleigh News and Observer, was burned
in effigy last night, by the students RI
Trinity College, because he has seen mt
TO combat the views of DR.. Bassett on
the negro question. This act Oh the part
of a lot of boys does not amount 10
much. except that it shows that their
minds have already been poisoned against
the traditional view OF Southern whites
On the negro question. But it Is fortun-
ata that there are other colleges IN the
state whose walls do not barbor Bas-
sett. otherwise many of US would be
under the necessity of sending our chill
dren to other commonwealth to be edu-
Gated.
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WHO PAYS THE INCREASED WAGE?
WinStnn,S Weekly.

WHO PAYS THE INCREASED WAGE?
Winston's Weekly.
If the wages of every latorer in this
country. were raised dollar day, who
would pay the increase? Out OF whom
would it come?
Let us suppose that there are six mil
lion laborers in this country that now
receive two dollars each per day. end
that their wages. were raised a dollar a
day, this increase would amount to six
million dollars a day, or one billion eight
hundred and seventy-eight million dol
lars a year, not counting Sundays.
Out of whose pockets would this enor-
nous sum come? If the employers of the
laborer raised the price of the products
of the labor. proportionately, they would
lose nothing. If the consumers of these
products raised the price CT their work,
proportionately, they would be even. If,
in other words, everybody raised the price
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
HE DOES AND HE DOESN'T.

Asheville Citizen.
At any rate, right or wrong, they placed
the Professors utterances on the negro
question well within the realm OF 'aca-
demic liberty" ito destroy or limit which
they expressed themselves as being par
ticularly unwilling"
They saw in the proposed resignation a
coercion of thought and private Judg-
ment''-nevertheless it might be said that
the public had much less concern about
the private thoughts and judgment OF
Bassett than about the incendiary effect
of their public utterance. That is the kind
of EFFECT" the people had in mind. A
man may think anarchy or treason, but
he cannot be encouraged to endanger the
peace of the state by publicly advocating
such doctrines.
However, the Trustees seek to reassure
us by guaranteeing Bassett's orthodoxy,
as it were. Hear them:
1--WE state as fact that Professor
Bassett does not believe in, nor does he
teach social equality, and We have
confidence in him both as man and
a teacher"
But suppose he did believe in and teach
social equality would it not under the
stated view of the Trustees, be breach
of the academic liberty" which they SO
greatly cherish" to permit him to hand
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no pays the increased wage?
WILL HAVE QUITE A JOB.

Littleton Reporter.
Prof. Bassett rendered his resignation
to the board of trustees OF Trinity Col
lege and they refused to accept it. We
credit the trustees with knowing more
about Mr.. Bassett than we do, but VIC
are of the opinion they viii have quite
a job to convince the fathers OF the boys
of North Carolina of the wisdom OF their
action There are no people more loyal
to their church and devoted to It's IN
situations than are the Methodist people,
but we predict at the close of the present
scholastic year an investigation will show
more boys, sons of Methodist people, at
other educational intitutions in the State
than ct Trinity College.
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BUT, PERHAPS.
Greensboro Record

Greensboro Record.
1t may be that DR.. Kilgo and other
officers of Trinity College do not endorse
the hanging of Mr. Josephus Daniels in
effigy. but if so it is queer they permitted
it, for the account says the big bell was
sounded at o'clock in the morning to
give notice of something unusual. But
perhaps DR.. Kilgo's conscience was so Sc
rene and placid that he slept soundly and.
did not hear it.
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1T IS NOT STRANGE.

Wadeboro Messenger and Intelligencer.
To those who have observed the spirit
that has emanated from Trinity College
for several years it will be no surprise
that it's trustees have refused to accept
DR.. Bassett's resignation. Indeed it is not
strange that a college that thrives on
the money of family of Republicans
should hold the Republican view of the
negro question.
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in his unwilling resignation on that ac-
count?
However, the Board insists that Bassett
doesn't so believe, yet it desires the peo-
pie to understand that.
"On the contrary it clearly appears
that the faculty and the students dis
agree with certain of Professor Bas-
sets opinions-so far as we can as
certain, unanimously. Neither do we
agree with him.
So no! He does and he Doesn't He
'is, is not and yet is. Verify, verify, it
seemeth hard to make an explanation that
viii do And that applies to both Bias
sett and his article
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

The article printed elsewhere from the
Goldsboro Argus is published below the
same headlines that appeared in the Ar
gus. The article is entirely from the
Argus-headlines and all.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

The members of Congress are doing
nothing these days but drawing their sal
aries. They don't fail at that.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
MOST REGRETTABLE INCIDENT.
Norfolk Virginian- Pilot.

Norfolk Virginian-Pilo
That is not a pleasant incident tina:
was reported from Trinity College in
yesterdays Virginian- Pilot-the burning
in effigy by q large body of students or
Mr.. Josephus Daniels. editor of the Raj
elgh News and Observer. Mr.. Daniels
Is the editor and owner of one of the
leading newspapers of the South, man
of blameless life far and away above
the average that obtains even among
men of parts, has held high public of
flee, is now Democratic national COM
mltteeman from his State. and has per-
haps done his State as much disinter-
ested service as any man of his years
who dwells within its borders He is,
however, a man of strong convictions
and the courage of them. Hence this
Bassett episode.
The incident will of course, do MIR.
Daniels no harm. But it will do Trim
ity College harm, the extent of which
is yet to be determined.
1t is distinctly painful to know that
this sort OF thing has occurred, that it
could occur, in Southern college. 1t
will not do to say that it was the work
of thoughtless young men carried away
by Indignation at what they considered
an injustice done to a professor and q
friend Young men in college, especially
III Southern college, are not thought
less. They are not school boys but
young men in fact, and their acts must
be viewed as the acts of young men.
And so we are constrained to regard
this episode as a much more serious
matter than the Bassett publication. That
publication was the mere expression of
an individual opinion. This other episode
is an indication of college atmosphere
and an index of college spirit. We think
it can hardly be contended that it is an
indication of a thoroughly wholesome at
mosphere or of that liberal spirit that
should obtain at seat of learning.
AS we had occasion to say before, the
critics of DR.. Bassett have the same
right to freedom of opinion and of speech
as DR.. Bassett himself. And yet we here
find distinguished citizen and publicist
burned in effigy in the name of freedom
of speech and opinion for exercising free
dom of speech and opinion! Surely the
spectacle is not edifying. The point of
view here is a trifle too much like that
of the man who asked the Lord to bless
him and his wife, his son Jim and his
wife, the four and no more.
The college professor is no more above
criticism than the day laborer, and it
will be a sorry day for the Republic
when mere position shall exempt any
man from criticism in the public press
Nor is burning in effigy a satisfactory
or enlightened method of answering such
criticism.
We repeat that we regret that the
thing should have happened at South
ern college. We do not like to think of
our colleges as making the sort of citi-
zens who burn people in effigy The
spirit that burns in effigy is not the
spirit Of sweetness and light, nor is it
the spirit of intellectual liberalism and
of sound manhood.
This incident is the most regrettable
that has occurred at a Southern college
in a dozen years. And we trust the stu
dent body of Trinity, by this time, see it
in that light
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A MORNING TONIC.
(Senator Hoar.)

dissatisfaction, disregard of tradition
and precedent and authority, pride in be-
ing law to themselves. these are the
besetting sins of successful and self-made
men who have achieved fortune and great
ness rapidly.
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BEGINNING OF THE END OF TRINITY
COLLEGE.
Goldsboro Argus.

Goldsboro Argus.
At the time of the pronunciamento Of
Prof Bassett, of Trinity College, on
Booker Washington, the Argus expressed
itself fully on the odloua utterance of
Bassett, and then let let it pass into
oblivion, so far as this paper is concerned.
1t becomes necessary now, however, TO
refer to the matter again, IN chron-
icing the vote OF the trustees of Trinity
College, yesterday, upon the proffered
resignation of Bassett from the faculty.
Of course it was generally expected, when
the trustees should meet, that they
would-not accept Bassett's resignation,
but expel him. The surprise OF the pub
lie, therefore, is the greater that Bas-
sett by a two-thirds vote of the trustees,
is to remain on the faculty.
Well, the Argus is not running Trinity
College, but we believe we know the met
tie of the people of North Carolina, and
we venture the prophesy that the begin
ming of the end of Trinity College is 1T
hand.
The students of Trinity, now there
having become acclimated to the pecu-
liar atmospheric conditions that prevail
within it's Dukedom, may remain for the
but if they ever come out into the pure
Anglo Saxon air of the State at large
again-as they doubtless will at vacation
time, they will realize what it is to be "a
student of Trinity College," few Of them
We opine, will have the hardihood to
take pride in its tutelage, and none to
return to that institution after they shall
have sounded the peoples animadversion
and abiding odium. Hence we venture
the prediction that the halls of Trinity
College and the campus, with its effigy
incident of yesterday morning, will be
deserted, and all the wealth of Duke
and the advanced thought" of Bassett
cannot people it with Anglo-Saxon OF
Southern stock.
We suggest that the trustees tender
the college to Booker Washington an ar
| "annex" to Tuskegee.
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PROPERLY DENOUNCED 1T.

Winston Sentinel.
The North Carolina Press Association,
in session at Washington City, very pro-
perly denounced the indignity offered Mr.
Josephus Daniels by the students OF Trim
ity College.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

The man who goes to the bad never
thinks of providing himself with re.
turn ticket.
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Spirit of the Press.
CHANGE ITS NAME.

The Harbinger.
1t is up to Trinity now to change its
name to Dukes Academy" or ''Tuske-
gees Annex"
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Paean of the Gridiron Knights.

Loud swells the shouts and clangs the
bell,
And in that sound what feelings mix
The Tar Heels paean but the kneH
That tells Virginia's DER the Styx.
The glowing bonfire leaps IN view;
The hoarse mob roar like lunatics-
Victory to the White and Biue!"
With laundering drum and furious yell,
Our rooters hailed the Tar Heel bricks
AS forth they rushed to break and quell
Virginia's pride--heT team transfx.
Alas, what grief that team afflicts
Instead of palms to wear the ruel
Her Haunting flag the low dust licks:
Victory to the White and Blue!"
Old Richmond town ere long shall tell
How on November 26
The Tar Heels gave Virginia-Well-
And showed her proud eleven some tricks,
Your boasting's DER, poor derelicts.
And bitter is the pang to yoi
That our exultant shout inf cts
Victory to the White and Bluei''
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ENVOI.

Hail, Carolina! Hail, Victrix!
All honor to your team is due.
Mid blazing stars your name we fix:
Victory to the White and Blue!"
M. II.
Chapel Hill, N. C.
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THE WORST BLOW TO LIQUOR.
Charity and Children.

Charity ana CnlIuIen.
The worst single blow the liquor bust
ness received was the adoption OF the
amendment to the Constitution. That de-
prived the rum power OF the negro vote,
which has always been cast practically
solid for Whiskey. On the day that amend
ment went into effect the doom OF tne
North Carolina liquor traffic was sealed.
1t will take while yet to uproot the
business, but it is going to be done as
surely as that the sun will rise. The next
generation of boys will have fewer temp
tations than those now growing UP. Rev
olutions never go backward, and the
change in public sentiment toward liquor
in this State is little less than a reyolu-
ton, though it took a long, selt-denylng
struggle to pave the way for it. The
next Legislature of North Carolina will
not be as shy on this matter of temperance
as its predecessors have been. Some OF
the old veteran politicians will develop a
courage and zeal that will be positively
surprising.
LIKE A CHAW OF TRUST TOBACCO
Salisbury Sun.
The students of Trinity who have not
yet learned the sacredness of the 'illimit-
able freedom of the human mind" are not
more to blame than the faculty for the
execution of the editor of the News and
Observers editor.
Academic Freedom" is a very nice
saccharine slug to roll under your tongue
But its sweetness is spoiled when one re-
members that chaw of tobacco is just as
sacred to some folks
Mr. Josephus Daniels may not be worth
owning, but he don't have to slobber
every time the tobacco trust spits.
1t takes considerable gall for faculty,
whose head called Thomas Jefferson "a
monster" to quote approvingly the man
who had the exalted goodness to say "this
institution will be based upon the illimit-
able freedom of the human mind"
s'The illimitable freedom of the human
mind" of course includes effigial hanging
of an editor and the Punishment OF his
paper from the sacred institution.