The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-11
BISHOP GAMBLER FEARS
CREEKS BEARING
GIFTS
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ly in the South, gave 1t warm welcome
and cordial approval. These all, and
others, are not to be blamed that they
had no suspicious OF the General
Education Board" for its promises on
the surface seemed fair and its pro-
posals generous.
1t was not strange that many ap-
plications for aid came very quickly
TO the Board from all sorts OF schools.
There was nothing on the surface to
provoke diStruSt or to suggest Interior
Even now multitudeS see
nothing to give rise to fear, n SONY
may think that | am needlessly alarm
ed. 1t is perhaps true that some mem
bers Of the Board itself do not yet per-
ceive what some others in the huge
corporation really intend. and even
those members of the Board who are
most resolute and definite in the pur-
pose to capture and control the COZ
leges Of the country doubtless persuade
themselves that their purpose is en-
tirely wise. pure, and patriotic. III they
mean to dominate the institutions upon
which they bestow their donations,
they doubles applaud their plans as
a scheme Of benevolent assimilation
But it is not safe for the educational
Institutions Of the country to be unde
the virtual dominion of fifteen men,
however pure they may imagine their
intentions to be, even though their
may be as pure in fact as
they themselves fancy. 1t IS not q
question of motives, but q question OF
whether it is good for the country to
have it's educational work determined
by q Board of fifteen men, responsible
10 no authority civil or ecclesiastical
in the land. On this question my mind
is perfectly clear; such q centralized
educational system is perllouS IN the
extreme. 1t is such a concentration
of power in the matter of the highest
interests of the nation as no fifteen
men,, however wise and tue can
be trusted to exercise without abusing
it to the furtherance Of their own
views and interests and to the injury
of those who do not agree with them
in interest or opinion.
There is evidence at hand already
that some person. or persons, connect
ed with this Board are conscious of the
power in the Boards hands, and that
they have very definite. if not worthy,
ends in view. To draw attention to
that evidence this paper is printed.
I give first two extracts from the
column Of two leading daily papers
published in New York, extracts which
are so nearly identical in language as
to lea no room to doubt thai they
were written for those papers by some
one person who was ac-
qauinted with the inmost Of
the most inner circle of the General
Education Board
Shortly after Mr.. Rockefeller's last
gift of $32, 600, 900, the New York
Tribune said:
mo gift from this great fund
IS intended to be given to State
educational institutions. While
certain colleges will be selected
for contributions or endOWments.
forming a chain of educational in
situations across the continent,
others not so favOured will be left
to their fate by the Rockefeller
Fund. and many of them. it is ex-
pected. will be forced to close
their door in the face of such
strong support to their fortunate
rivals. 1t will become q question
of the survival of the tittest, it is
said, from which it is believed a
better and higher standard of
education will result, and on the
maps of the Williams street Of
flee of the Rockefeller Fund the
little coloured pins will probably
seal the fate of many a college
and work out the destiny of others
TO prosperous ends
The New York Evening World