Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-26
Let the South Heed
Bishop Gamblers Warning

Editor Atlanta Journal
Let the south hear the warning sound
ed by Bishop Gambler in your columns
Sunday. His conception of the Ogden
movement as attempt to capture and
control the colleges of the country" is
justified by the plans and aim of this
''monoacly in education as far as these
have been uncovered in its articles of
incorporation; and the certainty that II
will capture and control the colleges of
the land, or embarrass, ripple or kill such
as it can't control, is enough to chill and
dismay the people 1t means Rockefeller
in education, as we have seen him In
business, the power of gold to help for
selfish aims and hurt for selfish aggran-
dizement.
1t ought to be enough to convince the
trustees of every institution 1t offers help,
That the money is to come largely from
That the money is come largely from a
man whose advocacy of any course justly
brings it into suspicion If this money
lord wishes 10 do the benevolent in edu-
cation, he can do it by lacking to his
gifts to the colleges no demand for sur
render to him of their liberties. Autono-
my is too costly to be sold for gold. Il
fear this Greek although he comes bring
ing gifts" The whole movement in eff
feet is a dangerous attack upon our ed
vocational institutions. 1t is another horse
they bring to the gates which must be
destroyed to admit 1t. 1t has in its hold
secret powers that may issue forth 10
the midnight overthrow and sack of our
institutions Ii aims at the merging into
one huge educational trust Of all the col
leges of the land. 1t means the reign Of
Rockefeller over books as well as oil
wells. 1t is handing over into the hands
of a very undesirable citizen" the polit-
ical influence of the educated graduate
and retain teachers of thes subsidized
colleges, which are the only colleges they
intend Ito allow in the land"
The south should reject every dollar
that they offer. We have money enough
to finance oil our colleges, but If not sure
~ we are not ready to sell one to this
suspicious aims giving, that is too distant
from the millennium and its probable
birthplace and beginning 10 make us be-
lieve IT is only heavenly in its aim. When
ever men talk to me of 1.-The benevolent
assimilation" Mr.. Rockefeller proposes in
his effort to draw out struggling colleges
TO his bosom, I'm like the countryman
who. hearing an infidel repeat his creed
against hell shook his head and said. 1T
takes a great deal of believing TO believe
that" Faith In this business grafters
benevolent regard for colleges is sure to
end in--fire!
What will we do with it? What is the
final course of these rich mems gifts IL
the colleges they select for benevolent
treatment and assimilation?"
! l can see what they can easily do with
! It,
For example, take the south. Give trust
builders and money "a monopoly in edu-
cation" and in one generation, through
graduates and teachers of the colleges
/ they subsidiZe and control and own. they
can reverse the political traditions and
convictions of one section, and bring
about the federation and approval and ad-
vocacy of a protective tariff that in morals
isn't one degree better than the midnight
robbery of the helpless justifying and
practicing a monstrous graft of 90,OOO,000
/ of people to enrich a few thousand; and
encouraging the growth of trusts until
they swarm like the frogs of Egypt.
Again, they can do even worse than rob
| us of out political heritage. They can set
| up the folly of social equality, by open
: ing these colleges to both races in this
country Mix white and black in school,
and they finally inter-marry Isn't this
allowed in the states our benevolent aims
/ givers inhabit? Well, It won't go herel
: The south means to be Anglo-Saxon for
ever! DO they imagine that, for money.
we are going to sink the royal race of
men to a level of the very lowest, and
| imprison the blood of kings in the veins
of mulattoes? Does anybody say 1 am
unfair in my suspicion and unjust in my
J inference? ! answer: ''They create con-
dition that makes such results easy" Are
! there not fanatics that affirm the negro
I is their equal. He is. But not ours. And
we won't tolerate for money, or power,
or earth, anything that encourages such
admission here. It's not building up, but
breaking up the south.
! They are trying bishop. to capture and
control colleges, to capture and control
public policy to capture and control So
ciety and mongrelize America! Lay on
Macduff, Thank God for 1.-The big stick
in Georgia, and for the beneficent fact
that some heads which deserve to be brok-
en- are not going to escape.
LAGRANGE, Ga. WALKER LEWIS.