The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-10
DIR. KINGSBURY'S LETTER.

Whateley the latter afterwards Arch
bishop. and Newman al Roman Catholic
Cardinal. Christ Church College was be-
gun by the very celebrated Cardinal
Wolsey, immortalized in Shakespeare
mastery Henry the Eighth" 1t began
on a great scale, but had to be completed
by King Henry. Wolsey intended that it
should be called Cardinals College.
but Henry gave it the name it bears. He
united the college with the ancient ca
thedral. The dining hall is the grandest
in England, outside of Westminster. To
this day the great University is far be-
hind in the matter of science and special
departments-quite behind the foremost
American universities. Among its very
eminent students in the past We're the
two famous and admirable scholars John
and Charles Weslay. John Locke, Lord
Bolingbroke Ben Jonson, Sir Philip Sid
ney, John Penn, Sir Robert Peel George
Canning-all of the past and among the
living Earl Salisbury and Lord Rosebery
l believe Mr.. Gladstone also belonged to
it. but 1 am not sure at this writing
The late Hon. ]. l.. M. Curry, LIZ D.,
delivered a very capital address before
the great University of Chicago a few
years since. ! referred to it recently In
a brief tribute to the eminent statesman
and educator of the South. His theme
was John G. Calhoun. In the April num-
Der of the New York Book Lovers Maya
zine there is a brief article on Calhoun
Triumph" 1t is from a Northern pen.
The pith of the discussion is that Cal
houn is forgotten while his theory of gov
eminent survives, and now rules the
country. The writer of the paper no.
tices the gradual undermining and chang
ing of our form of government, to which
have referred more than once in these
articles. He thinks that while every
where else in the world privilege is de-
caying and popular authority is increas-
ing, in this country privilege has OBJ
tanned extreme development. and by a
process of development so gradual as to
escape notice. the character of our gov
eminent has been altered" He thinks
that notification is to the front. and
.Calhoun's ideas have triumphed." He
appears to think that the great South
Carolinian was for ''oligarchical rule =
but this is not perhaps correct Mr.. Cal
houn was a statesman of great honor. in
dependence and prescience, and he fore
saw and foretold some important events
that have come to pass. The writer re-
ferred to says that "a few sagaeious and
experienced men, without assuming re-
sponsibility for results, decide actual
legislation by conference among them
selves" This may be true, and it is pre-
cisely in accord with the acts and ag-
gressiye principles of Tom Reed, his sue
cessor in the Speakers chair and their
indorsers and followers in the corrupt.
dangerous Republican party. But / do
not understand Mr.. Calhoun to be in any
sense the author of such violations of the
spirit OF organic law, or of the insidious.
grasping, destructive doctrine now so
popular with the Roosevelt Republican
party. Mr.. Calhoun was firm, earnest
advocate and defender of the reserved
rights of the States, and not favorable to
oligarchical rule DIR. Curry's admirable
address interprets correctly and richly
merits wide reading.
In the March number of the National
Review tEnglish) there is a view of the
Emperor of Germany that is caliedoe-
scopic and very unfavorable 1t treats
of William of Germany in his many
sided personality-as not two men as in
Stevenson's we'll known and most origin
| al and curious story, but as several men,
| "protean and extraordinary" 1t is a
calm attempt at ridcule, and makes the
Kaiser man of many shapes, and con-
Trajectory, antagonizing principles. 1t
exposes his duplicity in the war against
the Beers, showing how he sympathized
with both sides, and fought for neither
side. / can not follow the rather anus
ing exposure, in a career of intense in
consistency and contradiction. The vaga-
RIGS of the Kaiser are great and aston
ishing according to the writer who APP
pears to have made a diljgent study Of
his manifold record and plumbers He
says the German is ''omnscient and ON
| nipotent"-that he is theatre critic.
artist, crusader, absolutist, one while
brazen and then crouching, professedIy
Christian and yet bloody minded, and so
on. The portrait is drawn in bold out
! line, and reveals a most puzzling char
acter In some particulars the picture
! suggests Roosevelt who flops often. and
| is bully and blusterer, with no fixed con-
victions and consistent judgments, who
| blows hot and cold with gusto, and
loves the South and hates it. Both
these big bosses have high standards
possibly, but they never measure up to
them.
The able English Contemporary Re-
view gives forceful account of the aw-
full barbarities and atrocities perpetrated
Upon the Christians in Macedonia by "the
unspeakable Turk" as the great Glad
stone called him. DR.. e. j. Dillon writes
the painful article VITA it's terrible
revelations based upon the best evil
\ denee and true no doubt throughout
These outrages are being done right now,
in this year of grace. 1t is story of
shame OF terrible human suffering ard
extreme brutality DIR. Dillon states that
In one of tho best-behaved districts one
third of the males have been forced to
fee the country. / can only make room
for one horrible passage, but it is a pic
ture not to be forgotten. The bloody
Turks have literally tortured women and
men, and ravished girls from ten to
thirteen years of age, and split the skulls
Of little children But here is the para
/ graph i wish to give DR. Dillon wr1ras.