The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-11-30

the weak. The editor who was also
trustee could not Of course repudiate the
act Of himself as trustee in taking money
from a student and afterward refusing the
service while keeping the money.
Ninth-That papers assailing character,
and then refusing the assailed person
space for a word in| defense. An excessive
amount Of religion, however, might be an
excuse for an act that would have placed
even a respectable secular paper outside
the pale Of honorable journalism.
Tenth-The system Of nagging some
men in the local column, which nagging
was supplemented by ignoring other per-
sons for whom the editor may have felt a
grudge. Some Of these aggrieved persons,
to say the least, would have been more USE
full as friends than as something else.
Eeventh-The nagging, or the ignoring
OF the friends Of the college, who didn't
have the personal good will Of the owners
and editors Of the Presbyterian, has done
more injury TO the college than all the
enemies it ever had.
Twelfth-The injury which has resulted
to the college from the unfriendly course
Of the Presbyterian furnishes the best Of
reasons why the church should not longer
be subservient to or dependent upon O
private corporation for it's newspaper
which sends poisoned arrows to crafty per-
sonal pique regardless OF the injury which
may be done to the church or to the church
institutions.
Thirteenth-Because the files of the
Presbyterian furnish little evidence that
it has been working more for the church
than for its own private interests or to
crafty private pique. Such course being
to prostitute an alleged church paper to
private spite, regardless of cost to the
church.
Fourteenth-Because that paper gives
more space to foreign missions than to
all other church interests.
Fiftecnth-From fear of public disap-
proval Of the scheme, or for other reasons,
that paper has never sought to give the
people an open, honest and explicit &C
counting Of how our money has been spent
in Mexico.
Sixteenth-The Theoretically sealing Of
its columns to the discussion of matters Of
which the people should be informed-or,
in other words to keeping the people in
ignorance Of how their money is spent.
II we may remark: We would say that
we hope that a good salary-s1, 800 or
s. 1000 may be provided for Mr.. Parkinson's
successor. The money can be had easily
enough by stopping some of the foolish or
cruel waste Of our money abroad. Is not
the church now paying more than a ST, 900
for one correspondent Of the paper.
We are not now, and may never he, in
position to name, or to suggest, a proper
man as Mr.. P%arkinson's successor. But
he should be a high man, with some
knowledge or with some of the instincts
as to u proper discharge of his duties as
cditor-and he should not be allowed to
hold any other office. He should be
subservient to no faction. He should rep
resent the whole church, and all of it's
interests. The church should be allowed
to claim the paper as its own. He should
truckle tonO boss, clique, clan or hierarchy.
While we have no idea that a hierarchy
would elect any such man as we suggest,
yet we would mention j. T. Bigham, and
w. D. Grist as good printers and able
! editors.