Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-20

We are willing to acknowledge that
while The Intelligencer has hammered
all along on a white college and ala
much for the raising of the necessary
amount to build such an institution,
yet the honor Of the whole thlnE
should go to our friend. A. M. car
penter. 1t was purely to his EFFORTS
that the college will be built in An
derson and but for his work, the col
lege would not have been built at this
time.-Anderson Intelligencer.
This is very kind and also very en-
barrassing. If the editor of The Daily
Mail. by reason of circumstances or
bv reason Of the position he happened
to occupy. was active in the college
movement. deserves no credit on that
account He tried to do his duty In
the matter as he saw 1t. A man never
deserves praise when he tries TO 90
his duty. and he deserves censure only
when he does not try to do his duty.
The editor of The Daily Mail feels that
he deserves no more credit for the
establishment of the college than
scores of other citizens. He refers to
the matter in this manner because
so many of his friends, through tEelr
kindness. have given him more cre.i
than is due him.-Anderson i'a''V
Mail.
Now, Just look at the trouble our
friend Carpenter is in, all because ne
tried to do something and succeeded.
That is heavy jolt that has been fired
at him. 1t does not look heavy to the
man on the outside-the man who is
acquainted only with the work the
Daily Mail has been doing-but it
weighs heavily on the man that it was
aimed at, nevertheless. The individual
who fired the shot knew what he was
about, and the individual who penned
the reply knew no less. Human nature
is very much the same in Anderson as
il Is elsewhere. The probability is
that neither the Intelligencer nor the
Daily Mail subscribed many dollars to
the building fund. Neither of them are
able to subscribe many dollars. Both
were, no doubt heart and soul for the
college. and both understood the only
way by which the necessary funds
could be raised. Probably both did
all they could by way of encourage
ment; but somehow inspiration i'm
parted by the Daily Mail was more po-
tent, more far-reaching, more some
thing, and outsiders gave more credit
to the Daily Mail. In the comment of
the Intelligencer there is a tinge of
something that can be seen if not felt.
Newspaper men who are or who have
been in an attitude of opposition, un-
derstand the matter better than 9TH
ers. Others can't see it at all. The
spirit of the Intelligencer is something
like this: The Mail is getting credit
for all this splendid work; but 1t could
have done nothing without the liberal
subscriptions of our citizens, and we
will embarrass our contemporary by
arousing the jealousy of the people
who put up the cold cash. We will tell
these citizens in effect that they did
nothing. that the Daily Mail did it ALL"
Seeing this clearly, the Daily Mail
comes back with: No, our friend"
which it does not regard as a friend
at all, tries to give us too much credit
We did no more than dozens of others,
and certainly no more than our duty"
The Intelligencer is a bit jealous and
shows it. and the Mail feels that it
cannot defend itself except by extreme
mOdesty. 1t is fully aware that it is
lodging, but somehow it feels that it
cannot afford to do anything else, and
there you are.