The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-06-25
SCORED BY BISHOP
CARNEGlE'S GIFT TO VANDERBILT
SHOWN Up.
WANTS IT TURNED down

Bishop Chandler Declares That 1t Is
Not a Donation to the Institution,
But an Attempt to Denature 1t, by
Influencing Decision Of the Su-
preme Court
The recently announced gift Of
s1,000,000 to the Vanderbilt univer-
sity, of Nashville, Tenn, by Mr.. An
drew Carnegie is, in the opinion Of
Bishop Gambler, cot 80 much dona-
ton to the university as an attempt
to "denature the institution. To
representative Of The Journal Bish-
op Gambler said Wednesday:
''This loud-heralded gift appears,
on close inspection Of the terms OF
the offer, to be no gift at all, but a
shrewd attempt to get control OF
part of the property Of Vanderbilt
university in order to set up medi-
cal school fashioned according to the
peculiar ideas of Mr. Carnegie and
his educational employees.
'sIn the first announcement OF the
so-called gift the essential terms OF
the gift and the expressions OF pur-
pose accompanying it were held back.
The request Of q member OF the
board Of trust, even, who asked to
see the papers in the case, was re-
fused. What was contained in the
letter of Mr.. Carnegie was not known
to any one outside an inner circle
until last Monday, when the board OF
trust met. The matter was so Sc
rious that Major Millsaps, a member
of the board Of trust from Missis-
sfppi. moved that the question OF ac-
cepting the gift be postponed until
the members Of the board could
have time to consider it. This mo-
ton was rejected, and the motion to
accept the gift put through with In
considerate haste. On Tuesday four
of the board Of trust offered pro-
test against the acceptance Of the
Carnegie proposals. When the pub
lie sees Mr.. Carnegie's letter the pro-
test of these worthy gentlemen will
be generally approved, II / am not
greatly mistaken.
seThe Vanderbilt university be-
longs to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. The church's own
ership having been denied, suit was
brought by order Of the general COD
terence some time ago to settle the
question. and the chancery court de-
eided every point in favor Of the
church. From that decision those
who deny the church's right took an
appeal, which is now pending in the
supreme court Of Tennessee. TO this
Mr.. Carnegie makes allusion in his
letter, putting his offer in such rela-
ton to dangling money before the
public with the purpose Of inauenc-
tng the case. He also denies the
ability of any and all churches to
manage and control educational in
stitutions-a preposterous piece OF
ignorance and confident assertion
assertion which the whole history Of
education in christendom for thou
sand years contradicts. His express
sions about the churches are as dis
creditable to him as his conditioning
a gift on the result Of a pending
suit is indecent.
"Sut I need not comment on the
proposal. It speaks for itself. With
out sEdenic innocence Mr. Carnegie is
In this letter like Adam in paradise.
NAKED and not ashamed
s.Now the dullest mind can see
that Mr. Carnegie does not propose
to give penny to the Vanderbilt
university. but to take something
from it. to dismember from it one OF
its departments, which is worth
about s50o.000.
t'ry the same process he may pro-
ceed to ALLEVIATE all the other depart
ments and put them under his little
boar@lets. It is strange that more OF
the members Of the board Of trust
did not perceive this patent fact. and
protest against the acceptance Of his
offer. It would be just as appro-
pirate for the Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Animals to accept
for it's uses the gate receipts Of q
bull fght as for this gift to be &C
cepted by Christian institution.
.tIt appears also that the Episco-
palians see in this affair an effort to
defeat the proposed medical depart
ment of the University Of the South
II they are correct in their opinion.
Mr.. Carnegie is proposing at one
blow to destroy the medical school of
the Episcopalians, and denature the
medical school Of the Methodists
and raise on the ruins Of both Car
negieized establishment in his Own
image and likeness.
"I can not doubt that this impu-
dent proposal Of the aggressive and
agnostic steel-monger will provoke
the indignation of the Christian peo-
pie Of all denominations in the coun-
try, and incur the emphatic disap-
proval of all thinking men. This un-
disguised attempt to disintegrate
Christian university IS in keeping
with the well fixed purpose OF an
tagonism to church schools which
Mr.. Carnegie has pursued for long
time"
To the question what will the
bishops Of the Methodist church dc
in the case? Bishop Gambler replied:
"The bishops are common-law visi-
tors to the university, and citation OF
the trustees to meeting Of the visi-
tors at the bishops room in Nashville
next Friday has been issued. have
no right to anticipate their decision