The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-19
TYPES OF OLD
AND NEW SOUTH
DR.. Carlyle Best Type in
Education of What La
mar Was in States
manship.
KILGO AND BASSETT
john spencer iia~~ctt iia~ Hcsn IL
cosorCtl-D- kti-ot~ >,w Work
~teetti Praised III I.n~ton
Transcript AMI criticised la
tie News and Courier.

charleston News apa Courier)
some tine aga w. spoke. Hlth glee
~ the assimilation ~ New England 81
john spencer Ra~~ett. formerly q pro-
fcSsor in Trinity college. North Carr
lima This at On the par, OF smith
College * highly regarded by tn
New Englandcrs and has caused pro-
found gratitude" ia the South. 4 feN
days ago Or. John q kilgo. president
Of Trinity college. delivered an all
dress. which, In a subtle way. Wa
connected with tho life and career of
John Spencer Bassett-at least the es-
teemed Boston Transcript finds them
INTERVIEWED and I~umlnouSlv discusses
them together. kilgo and R1ssrtt-in
al article which Wc ELSEWHERE repr"-
ducc.
Nevertheless. ~ fear that The Tran
script is not sympathcticaIly ~acquaint-
ed with Or. kslgo. able and busting
callege president THAI he l.. Neither
are we, but we nave derived the idea
that however he may be- opposed L. the
'TillmanS, Nardamans, IT III omne
genus, he is not precisely. even a an
educator. zone OF the old type IL
southern leaders" The longing" ~
4 John & kilgo for Il Southern lead
er like Lamar or Hill or Vance 10
.rcbuke anything in the 4ame Of the
old South titllatcS. To use a mild verb.
We dc not reflect upon DR.. kilgo's
greatness; il is very great N he has
and deserves numerous admirers. But.
lest an picture of him find
place on the cranial walls Of the
Transcript. We remark that his repu-
tation in these parts is that Of a man
who gets there So does Tillman.
and so. we fear. will Earlaman. Dr.
Kiigo is much the same II education
that Tillman is To politics. If Till
man is not of the new and the work
ing south" in his special field, poll
ties. we should Xix 10 know who Is.
If Tillman does not embodv all 10
which Lamar, Hill and Vance were OPP
posed Who in the name of the great
horn soon does? We now of no two
men more deXterOuS in accommodating
Yankee money than Tillman and
kilgo, and it is funny, distinctly conf
cal. that a sage New England news
paper should imagine that one more
resembles the old South than the
other. Both are 'out for the stuff"
both have winning ways both are
master dispensers of words that siz-
zle. and if the one must sometimes
hold uD the other as a horrible exam
pie it is part Of the game. Moreover.
both have their uses. both do a great
deal Of good for which they are cnti-
tied to much thanks, but we protest
that DR.. III go is no more akin in
n methO0S 10 the beloved
President Emeritus of Wofford COL
lege, for example. than is Ben Tillman
to the late l.. q. G. Lamar. Yet. If
we were asked 10 find surviving in
education what Lamar was in the old
South craftsmanship. we Woul name
DR.. James n. Carlisle-as would the
Transcript if it knew him.
Meantime it is pleasant to hear
again from that distinguished "fugi-
tive from Injustice John Spencer
Bassett. lis sad awakening to the
truth that community life in the
South will never be exactly the same
as that of New England" is refreshing
to the incorrigible and ~stif-necked
whom he has left behind. Moreover.
it is SO good of him to say that this
community life lis rapidly becoming
of a kind that is creditable and de-
sirable in its democracy and business
and industrial activity" But the sor-
row that John Spencer could not en-
dure TO wait a little while for the
gladstone contamination must abide
with US always.
The following article from the Bos-
ton paper quoted from the Boston
Transcript commenting on the above
editorial taken from the News and
Courier: