The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-04-28

ptUN, SUUIH CAKULINA,
Board as a board has made GER
tain promotive gifts with the
understanding that the amounts
should be matched or had been
matched locally, and, in the case
of assisting the common schools
in certain picked locations, with
the understanding that whites
and blacks are to be considered
equally in the use of the Joint
funds. And through all the.
negro has lowered, brought to
the front or kept in the back
ground as occasion demanded !.
These statements are a con-
densation from official and
.authorltativea utterances OF
the movement and of public rec
ords of fact. Elaboration of them
and of their full significance has
been made again and again, and
is readily accessible, It Winbe.
furnished to the State if it. dares
to publish it. The motives of
those persons who have intelli-
gently antagonized the move
ment to the point of minimizing
its possible detrimental effects
have setsforth as clearly as hon
eSty and disinterestedness could
set them forth.
The opposition of the Manu-
facturers' Record to the move
ment, an opposition which has
involved apparent criticism of
personal, business and newspaper
friends, has not reflected upon
the sincerity of purpose on the
part of its promoters. 1t has not
been based upon antagonism to
gifts to negro schools in them
selves. nor upon a lack of hospis
tality toward visitors of the
South content to recognize the
conventional limitations of
guests. iJs opposition has been
and is due to the conviction, in
knowledge of thirty years of
fatal mistakes, that the less in
dividuals from the North, and
especially certain indiyiduals
Hrnmlnent q PsII ld' tx r.sl5G III !iss y q,
-". tsaf commands talked of holv ~
sIs 1ha Inava vaaPGGstg5is Go aS see and sAfse.
,sss, Ion ;oI edacation in the South
lpdIocuIariy the education oE0f
negroes, the better it wipr for
the negroes and the literature
the South; that of the move
ana the speedsed effectively to
ment wo9l6r temporary use the
galVaqdestion as a baneful is
l11sin American politics, as did |
lappen, and, above all, that the |
south cannot afford to be or to |
,e represented as a mendicant in
'ducation, a mendicant either up
IN individual bounty or upon
argess from the Federal treasu-
", the inherent danger of the
after situation having been re-
Gently illustrated most strikingly
n the case of the trust funds for
Indian schools.
The opposition has been main
tained in spite of the knowledge
that many earnest and enthusi--
at'e1c ooutrerners, TuIIy alive to
the educational situation in the
South long before the Ogden
movement adroitly undertook to
dominate it, have been led to
give support to the movement
without questioning it's certain
ends. But the opposition has
seen the fruition of it's
hope that truth-seeking publicity
would bring these Southerners
to a realization of facts
and to a cautious and conserva-
tive attitude toward the move
ment and would restrict the in
fiuence of the movement.
The assault by the Columbia
State upon the personal charac-
ter and professional standing of
the Rev. DIR. William E. Hatcher
is thoroughly characteristic of
the fading policy of unthinking
and ill-informed supporters of
Ogdenism to meet fair, square
and open criticism by vitupera-
tion.
"REMINISCENCES OF THE