The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-17
THE "ENEMIES OF TRINITY COL.
LEGE".

! These people 4 North Cdruiina-aild
they embrace most OF the Methodist lay
men-who have criticised what they re-
garded as the plumbers and mistakes OF
President Kilgo, have been heralded 10
the world by DR.. Kilgo and his iptimates
the president of that institution has made
blunder after blunder, denounced good
man after good man, exhibited spirit %
venom and prescription to this and that
leader, spit upon this tradition and shown
contempt for that sentiment dear to the
hearts of old-fashioned North Carolina
20 stand by him at all hazards, finding
that his course could not be successfully
defended, have fallen back, whenever he
was criticised to untrue the sterotyp"d
reply, 20 he is an enemy of Trim
ity College, For a time some good peo
pie fell into repeating that and more
has come when that statement can TO
longer protect DR.. Kilgo and DR.. Bassett
from criticism. They must be judged by
their words, their actions their spirit.
BY these they must stand or fall. If
they are wise, prudent. sensible no enc
mics can injure them. If they are unwise.
imprudent, wanting in that sensible course
that inspires public confidence, no friends
can long uphold them.
Who are the "enemies of Trinity Col
lege?" They are the men in its faculty
who write and speak things that are
false, absurd, fantastic, egotistical, mali
cious-give utterance to sentiments that
shock the best sentiment of the State;
students at the college who sing of hang
ing an infirm Methodist preacher on "a
sour apple tree and are guilty of the
spirit of anarchy and lynch-law; trustees
who, shutting their eyes to the just de-
mand of a great church, that has entrus
ted them with the management of the
college, use their position to keep at its
head and in its faculty men who will
destroy the usefulness of the institution
by making it alien to North Carolina
patrons and preachers who, from a false
conception OF loyalty, are caring more
to uphold DR.. Kilgo and DR.. Bassett IN
a wrong course than to broaden the use
fulness Of the institution and bring It
more in touch with the heart of the great
mass of the church which established 1t.
Who are the friends of Trinity Col
lege" in this crisis In it's history? They
are the men and women who wish to
see its splendid equipment and magnif-
gent endowment employed to prepare
young men to fill Methodist pulpits, 70
teach in the schools. and fill other places
of profit, honor and trust; the men and
women who wish to see the welfare OF
the college put above the ambitions and
freed from the vagaries OF any man or
set of men, the men and women who
believe that Trinity College ought to be
a North Carolina institution in spirit, m
aims, in its mission, and that no spirit
alien to the best traditions of the State
should dominate it; the men and women
in the Methodist church who want peace
and know that it will be secured oriy
when the sensational and intolerant pres
ident now at its head gives way to broad
minded, sweet-spirited, patriotic man OF
letters, who will seek to weld together ths
church in its support; the men and women
whose patience, almost threadbare be
cause of the friction and trouble that
Kilgoism has brought into the church. has
been worn beyond further endurance IN
the negro equality preaching of DR.. Bias
sett; men and women who wish hiGh
ideals held before their sons at college
and who do not wish to see commercial
ism elevated above all elsc--these are the
truest friends of Trinity College. They
love the institution more than they arc
the partisans of any man. They see that
1t is doomed if the present influences
continue TO COUtTOl It's dIdll ..
The wise physician does not try poul-
ticc when drastic medicine is required.
The wise friend of Trinity College is he
who would apply the remedies necessary,
not failing to use the knife.
This paper has always been the friend
Of Trinity College. 1t has grand mis-
sion. It can easily be made the glory
of Methodsm and an honor to the State
of North Carolina. The door to great
usefulness stands open. The church needs
hut to man it with men of learning and
religion. men free from malice and lsms,
men who do not seek sensations but nave
their lives all bound up in the instruction
OF aspiring youth. surgical operation
separating DR.. Kilgo and DR.. Bassott
from all connection with the institution
will save it to the State and to the
church. There is no other way to make
II what it can easily become. There are
many who have held to DR.. Kilgo until