The News and Observer.
VOL.XLVI. NO. TO.
LEADS ILL Him CAROUNA DAIUEB 1 NEWS IIP 0110111111.
A MEMORIAL.
TO DR, CRAVEN
•f • ,
The Big Brained Founder of
Trinity College.
A GIFT TO EDUCATION
BEST WAV A 111 Oil MAX CAN IN
VEST lIIS MONEY.
IGNORANCE IS AN INCUBUS ON PROGRESS
All Advocates of Education Rejoice in Every
Gift to Education, All New Texes
and Increased Appro
priations.
Durham, X. 11, .Juno I).—(Editorial
Correspondence.)—-Everybody wlm at
tended Trinity .comeneeiucut was
greatly pleased with the new Cra
ven Memorial Ilia'll which was
used for the first time as an auditorium.
It will seat 1,500 people, and architectur
ally it is the most incasing buiiluiing to
the eye on the campus. It is ii model
auditorium and -was erected by the
alumni aiul l'riends of the college as a
fitting memorial of Trinity's great round
er. It is a worthy monument of the lug
brained man who made Trinity Colliege,
for Braxton Craven made Trinity Col
lege. The church helped tii'in, lmt it was
born in his brain and grew through his
learning and self-denying zeal. During
the coming year a tine oil portrait of l)r.
Craven will be painted and will be per
manently placed in the most prominent
position in the hall erected by loving
hands to his memory.
The Craven auditorium has been erect
ed at a cost of about $14,000, and is ele
gantly and tastefully furnished with
modern opera chairs and every other lie
cessary adjunct at a cost of something
like $2,500. The interior furnishing was
the gift of Col. .Julian S. Carr, who has
been a generous friend to Trinity, giving
help of a substantial character to the
great Craven when the college was lo
cated in Randolph county, when friends
with money were few and far between,
as well as haying donated the splendid
site in Durham upon which Trinity Col
lege is located.
The trustees have not completed any
plans, so far as 1 could learn, for making
the magnificent auditorium also a 11101110
riai of all who helped the college in its
early strugges and who are now helping
it in its new home. It would be a tine
idea to associate tin* names of all of them
with that of Craven by having marble
tablets placed in the Craven Auditorium.
It would not he well to thus honor any
of Trinity’s living instructors and
friends, but to con tine those memorial
tablets-to such men as Jesse A. Cuimiiig
gim, Marcus L. Wood, W. H. Branson,
John 11. 'Force and others who had min
gled their prayers, efforts and gifts in
loving service to the college, and to leave
room for a tablet to the living friends
and benefactors when they have gone to
the great university in the skies.
Speaking of this method by which the
names of ail those friends of the college
who had done something great or noble
for its advancement could be perpetuated
at tin* college, puts me in mind to com
mend the Angler Gymnasium as one of
the best gifts yet made to Trinity. It is
a model gymnasium with swimming pool,
and with a competent instructor (Presi
dent Southgate says Prof. Whit chouse is
the best in 'America), the physical! in
struction and development keeps pace
with the moral and mental. It is the
best phase oif our new education that tile
college authorities provide for the care
and development of the body as well as
the education of the mind. It was not
always so. The time was when pale
faces marked the collegian who lead his
class. By wisely dividing his time, the
graduate now conics to receive his di
ploma with a sound mind in a sound
body, and many of them look more like
vigorous youths who do manual 'labor
than youths .who burn the midnight oil.
No education is worth getting that is
obtained at a sacrifice of health, and it
is because the public As appreciating that
fact that the first class colleges art' giv
ing heed to physical culture.
* *
Trinity is coming to boa rich college.
When I read a few days ago that Mrs.
Leland Stanford bud deeded projierty
worth thirty-eight million dollars as an
endowment to the Lola ml Stanford Jr.
University, and that a preacher in Con
necticut had willed SI,OOO to El on Col
lege each giving all that they had to
lielp educate the youth. I could hut con
trast such bones act ions with such lavish
waste of money as the Bradley-Martin's
dinners and balls. The late Governor
Holt, who was noted for his practical
wisdom, speaking to men of wealth gave
them this advice, “Invest your money in
immortal mind.” It is an investment
that cannot he dissipated, but goes on
giving larger dividends as five years go
by. When the announcement was made
at Trinity commencement this week that
Mr. B. X. Duke had given an additional
fifty thousand dollars to Trinity 1 re
joiced that in his large wealth he had the
wisdom and generosity to invest much of
it in “immortal mind." lie lias given
more largely to Trinity than is generally
known, and his gifts are always made
with the view of laying deep and broad
the foundations of the college to which
he is a devoted friend. I Jove to see a
man give while he lives. He is then
certain that it will go to the objects that
meet his approval, and besides men of
practical judgment like Mr. Washington
Duke and Mr. B. X. Duke can increase
the value of their .money gifts by helping
to direct the ways of using it.
* * *
The man who said that the best col
lege in the world was "a log with Mark
Hopkins at one end and a boy at the
other” truly understood that the best in
struction a boy could get was coming in
contact with a great teacher. For the
individual boy there can be no college so
good for mental training. But the need
of the colleges and the universities of to
day is more teachers like Mark Hopkins
with every modern appliance and equip
ment to assist in better fitting the college
graduate for the duties of life. The high
er institutions of learning in North Caro
lina have all been cramped for the lack
of money to secure such equipment as is
in keeping with the demands of this day.
When 1 think how many great teachers
at Chapel Hill, 'Trinity, Davidson and
Wake Forest have wrought mighty
deeds 011 meagre salary and next to no
equipment outside of their own brains, I
also reflect that many of them were
martyrs to their calling. It will not do
to say they did a great work wit heat
fine laboratories and release from fin
ancial worry, and therefore the profes
sors of to-day can do it. Many of those
old heroes sacrificed their best years try
ing to work with dull tools who would
have lived longer and wrought twice as
well if tiie colleges had been properly en
dowed and equipped.
* * *
I rejoice in every dollar given by a
generous man, in every dollar appro
priated by tlii> Legislature, and in every
dollar of taxation for schools voted by
'the people for the cause of education. 1
do not stop to ask whether it is to teach
the three It’s, the Fkissics, pedagogics,
agricultural science, and what not.
I's it is to lie spent to
make a longer term and better facili
ties for the public schools in every town
ships 1 rejoice most of all, for the great
majority of the children of the State will
get no education except that which is
furnished' in the public schools near their
doors. Whether ii is given to he used by
denominational colleges or at the State
universities and (State supported colleges
is relatively a matter of small import
ance. The time will not come in this
generation when all the institutions we
have can reach all tln- Imys and girls
who need education. There is no room
among those who believe the education
of the people tin* matter of paramount
importance in North Carotin to turn
aside from the great work to speculate
as to whether this way or that is the
best. Let every man who would remove
the incubus of 'ignorance and prejudice
work in whatever way seemeth to him
best to educate the Iwiys and girls, and
entourage larger gifts, larger endow
ments. larger appropriations, larger tax
es. and larger unity and liberality in the
groat work to which they are called.
When they have done all they
can, they will still be oppressed,
with the thought that the har
vest is great 'and the laborers few.
But every new gift, every increased ap
propriation. every fresh vote for larger
taxes for schools makes all who are
lighting ignorance feel “to thank (lod
and take courage.”
J. D.
AS A MAX SEES dIER.
(From the Atchison Globe.)
Another Atchison girl who gets S4O
a month for sitting in an office will re
sign in a few wee as to wash dishes and
cook for love and her board.
When a girl has a new engagement
ring she finds many occasions for feeling
if her hack hair is in good order.
Mean people say that the man a wid
ow selects to support her at her hus
band's funeral is the one she usually
marries afterward.
"Well. 1 see Mrs. Blank is breaking
in,” is tlic women’s comment when they
read in the paper that Mrs. Blank will
give a reception.
By the time a man has save up enough
111111 ''.v lo have a palm and a brusscls
carpet in his parlor Iris gill has reach
ed. the “company” age and he is not
allowed to sit there.
Several years ago an Atchison man
married a slender, modest little d'aliing,
and everybody said it was a case of
hawk and dove. Now the wife weighs
twice as much as her husband, has
whiskers and talks bass.
Win 11 a wotuiaai is old and bilious she
explains it in a poetical way by saying
she is fading away like a 'lsl y.
W hen a woman begins to admire a
man she begins to persecute him.
1 here comes a time to every married
woman when dm lias to use a sort of
tail'll cure on her belief in tier husband's
affections.
It is a pitiful truth that women trust
Ilnur daughters with men whom their
husbands wouldn't trust to open an ac
count.
-V certain Atchison woman is always
invited to serve the brick ice cream at
parties, for the reason that she cuts
it in such thin slices.
Would something terrible happen if a
girl forgot to tie up those terrible but
tons on the back of lieu* skirt, and is it
|H»ssible iinler present fashion conditions
for a girl to dress without the assist
ance of the neighbors?
A POINT THAT ILLUSTRATES.
(Irish World.)
If France, after aiding Washington
and his coinput riot s to drive the English
out of America, bad proceeded to make
the Fnited States French territory she
would have simply anticipated the base
betrayal we have been guilty of in try
ing to annex the Philippines. In the
case of France, which at tile time was
a monarchy, the betrayal would not
have been of so base a character as
ours. She at least in attempting to sub
jugate the Americans would not have
given tin* lit* to professions aiwmt the
inalienable right of men to self-gov
ernment. *
A household journal says that kero
sene will remove rust from stoves. The
j objectionable feature about it is that in
removing rust it incidentally removes the
stove and the domestic sometimes.
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1899.
A KINSTON ROY
AT MANILA
“The Heat of the Sun in its
Direct Rays is Awful.’!
AGUINALDO IS ELOQUENT
KEEPS UP THE .SIMHITS OF iiiS
TROOPS 'EY ORATORY.
THE PRODUCTS OF THE ISLANDS
ll Has Been Said that Pice is the Corn of the
Philippine Islands. Men, Women
and Chi’dren Smoke
Cigarettes.
Mr. Frank 0. Lewis, the youngest son
of Dr. Richard 11. Lewis, of Kinston,
not yet twenty-one years old, is in Ma
nilit, a member of the 20th U. S. In
fantry. We are permitted today to lay
before our readers, ii is last letter to his
mother. It will give the best idea of
conditions in the Philippine islands that
earn be obtained from any source. It is
as follows:
Station Santa Cruz,
Manila, I*. 1.
My Dear Mother:
Your most welcome letters came in
Hie mail of last week, via. Hong Kong.
The one from 1 >r. P. was much enjoy
ed. We get mail regularly, al intervals
of (generally) nine days. Most of it
comes byway of Hong Kong, on regu
lar mail steamers; but some of it is
brought over on tin* Government trans
ports from San Francisco.
1 wish 1 could write to you oftener,
but life is an almost continuous round of
military duty, hence my neglect, which
you may have thought wilful. Our duty
is to patrol the district known as Santa
Cruz. Four patrols, each composed of
a non-com missioned officer and three
privates, walk the streets day and night,
in addition to that, there are three
posts at the quarters. No. 1 has Ins
beat in front of the guard house, Nos.
2 and o walk on the right and on the
left Hanks of the barracks respectively.
As you probably know, martial law is
strictly enforced in Manila, now; and
these extra heavy guards and numerous
patrols are put on to prevent an upris
ing of the natives within the city limits.
There are, naturally, a great •many
insurgent sympathizers in the city; and,
if left to thems<lives, and if the vigilance
of the Americans would, for an hour re
lax, there would .he a general upris
ing, a)id we might have trouble to sub
due thenn. So long as we keep on the
lookout, we are safe; but it is from the
“curs” who have not courage enough,
those who lire from windows and house
tops, that we have most to fear. You
cannot have any idea of the power of a
man like Aguiualdd, over weak minds.
Himself a talented, brilliant man of
genius, thoroughly educated, be, the in
tended deliverer of his country, the
“Washington of the Philippines.”as lie
was styled by the imperialist powers at
Washington, ruled his followers with an
iron hand, and made them believe that
the Americans had come to oppress them
and drive them out. lie has deceived
them by false promises, which he lias
not and cannot fulfill; he lias kept up
their drooping spirits by means of his
brilliant oratory and magnetic power.
And when they, realizing their hopeless
condition, fain would rebel, and did re
bel against his authority, lie shot them
down and forced them, by threats and
blows, back into ine trenches, there to
die. Such a man is Aguinaldo, the in
surgent chieftain, the “deliverer of his
country,” the scholar, the statesman, the
brilliant general; but withal the curse
of the Filipinos as a nation. Os his
message to Congress, it has been said
by Senator Hoar, I think, that "it could
not lie dictated by ten men on this plan
et.” Pleading, forceful, eloquent and
logical, full of the choicest English, it
was worthy of a bettor man. But
enough of Aguinaldo. 1 had 110 inten
tion when 1 began of writing his biogra
phy.
I want to tell you of the products of
these islands. I know that army news is
not very interesting to you. Well, to be
gin: Hemp, sugar and tobacco are the
staple of the Philippine trade. But it is
probable that almost every commercial
product of the tropics can in* raised ad
vantageously in one or other of the isl
ands. The cocoa nut tree \s the native's
most valued possession, almost Iris staff
of life—furnishing him with food, wine,
oil, vinegar, fuel, ropes, fishing lines, as
well as filler, which is woven into doth.
Oranges, lemons, guavas, pineapples and
bananas grow wild and in profusion. It
has been said that rice is the corn of
the Philippines, and it is well said, for
' every native raises bis rice crop. It
is planted on low lying ground, near
some stream, that it may be readily
inundated.
Native architecture is confined to the
st'inple, yet not altogether ungraceful
lines of the bamboo "shack.” These
primitive dwellings are inavriably of one
story, with thatched roofs. Everything
in and about the house is made of bam
boo. The beds are made of strips of it
laid on cross pieces and supported by
four legs, also made of bamboo. The
yard, about the house, is generally plant
ed in bananas and cocoa nut trees. Near
ly always there are a few chickens and
ducks a'lid numerous "nniehaehas.” (See
■ Bro. E.) Here the Filipino lives, moves
and has Inis being. Like the Indian, he
makes his wife do all the drudgery and
necessary work, while he makes the
dull hours flee away by smoking cigar
ettes and fighting game cocks. In fact,
the Filipinos subsist on rice, cigarettes
and cock lighting. Men, women ami
children smoke almost incessantly. I
have.seen babies in their mothers’ arms,
puffing away serenely at a cigarette.
They teach the child-ten to smoke. I
believe it; is a part of their religion.
And it is no wonder that they are, as
a nation, depraved.
Catholicism is prevalent, I may say
dominant in all the islands of the l'hilip
pinc group. The priests make periodical
extortions on the natives, and generally
succeed in getting about nine-tenths or
everything that the poor wretches make.
They persuade the natives that they are
going to the Lord, through the ehtn*ch
(the priest is the church.) The Span
iards, from time immemorial, have kept
them in the mire of ignorance and op
pression. And, now that the desire for
I'mdCm and a lomging to throw off the
yoke of tyranny lias taken possession of
them, who •can blame them for lighting
their new rulers with all the strength
and vigor and hatred of their revengeful
natures.
My company commander lias endors
ed my petition to the Department com
mander to stand my examination for
promotion, when the next board is con
vened. The examination will be held in
Manila. 1 am ready and prepared to
fake the examination today, or 1 should
ii'ovjer have asked it. I am going to gel
my| commission unaided and wish to be
able to say that I won my spurs without
any outside help. If 1 cannot get it
that way. I don’t want it. And, as
G< neral Grant said: "I am going to tight
it out on this line,” if it takes me three
years.
I am in splendid health, and feel
stronger than ever before. The heat of
the sun. in its direct rays*, is something
awl'ul. But, if one stays in the shade,
one can manage to exis't.
Please send me some Raleigh papers
and some magazines.
FRANK F. LEWIS,
Co. I)., 20-tli Infantry.
Os Kinston, X. (’.
STATE TRIALS.
Edited by Charles Edward Lloyd.—Pub
lished by Callaghan & Co., 114 Monroe
Street, Chicago, 111.
This is one of the most interesting
books on the market this spring. The
story of its inception is this: A South
era woman, who had written for years
for the magazines and newspapers, was
pi teed in charge of the exhibit of the
Ib .‘lU't'i'onl of Justice at the Omaha
Exposition. Among other tilings en
trusted to her care was a bookcase full
of valuable old books, the Pandects
of Justinian. (Ndonial Laws, and copies
of the State Trials in Great Britain
from the reign of Richard the 11. to
that of George the 111. She not only
read them herself, but she bought a
table and chairs, placed them in tin*
beautiful niche over which she pre
sided and permitted her more cultured
visitors to read them. This table tilled
with books became a favorite resort for
judges, lawyers and scholars. The
popularity of the books, especially the
State Trials of Francis Hargrave and
T. B. 1 towel I. Esq., convinced her that
if the best of these books could lie put
in handy volumes at a cheap price there
would be a demand for them. At the
suggestion of several prominent lawyers
she wrote to Messrs. Callaghan & Co.
and they approved the plan. The first
volume is just issued by that firm. It
contains the Trials of Mary, Queen of
Scots: Sir Walter Raleigh, and Cap
lain Kid, the Pirate. These are con
densed, but everything of especial in
terest is given in full. There is no bet
ter way of impressing English History
on one’s mind than by reading these
Trials. No lawyer can fail to find a
romantic interest in every page of the
book and he will be amazed at the
language and the ruling of some of
the lawyers and judges of the dates
given. For instance, Sir Edward Coke,
who was Attorney General when Sir
Walter Raleigh was tried for high trea
son. uses language towards the distin
guished prisoner which would not is*
tolerated in the courts of to-day. Fif
teen years later, when Coke was Lord
Chief Justice, lie, manages to bring Sir
Walter Raleigh to execution 011 a pre
text evidently prepared for the occasion
at the command of King Janies. The
intense jealousy of Spain at the en
croachments of the Anglo-Snxoii on
the. Western Hemisphere is everywhere
conspicuous in the trial of Sir Walter
Raleigh. It is made plain that Spain
was the indirect factor in the death of
Raleigh. In the light of passing events
1 lie retribution of history is startling.
Sir Walter Raleigh’s charter from
Queen Elizabeth for the discovery of
Virginia extended far to the northward
of the present boundary of that State.
Its western limit was the Pacific ocean.
The descendants of the colony he
founded number many who are about
to sweep the power of Castile and
not only from tin* Western
Hemisphere, but from tin* Pacific
Ocean us well. The royal line of Stuart
is extinct. The name of Raleigh is
kept alive in several States of the
Union. The cruiser naleigh was one
of Dewey’s squadron at the battle of
Manila. The wisdom of Raleigh was
recently endorsed by the Congress of
the United States, for lie first advised
the holding of the Isthmus of Panama
as the strategic point to control the
commerce of the two oceans that wash
the shores of this hemisphere. Raleigh
is tin* capital city of tin* State of tin*
two distinguished gentlemen to whom
the bonk is dedicated—viz., lion. Jeter
C. Pritchard, senior Senator from North
Carolina, and Hon. Janies E. Boyd,
First Assistant Attorney General of the
United States.
A .matinee girl says the going out of
men between the acts is far less objec
tionable than the coming back.
SECTION ONE— Pages 1 to 4.
ROI NUMBERS
FOR A HOI DAY
Prof. W, F. Massey Writes
to Editor Bailey,
THE A. & M. COLLEGE
EDITORIAL ON “FAILURE OF
THE KID GLOVE IDEA.”
SEVERE STRICTURES ON PROF. MASSEY
Editor Bailey Hard on the A. & M. College anti
Prof. Massey Replies Vigorously and
Severely to the Recorder's
Editorial.
Prof. W. F. Massey, professor of
Horticulture at the A. and M. College,
lias sent us for publication an “open let
ter to the editor of the Biblical Re
corder.” As it would 'be unfair to print
it without publishing tin* editorial to
which it is a reply, we give below the
editorial and Prof. Massey’s open let
ter. The Recorder’s editorial is as fol
lows:
THE FAILURE OF THE KID
GLOVE IDEA.
Biblical Recorder.
The North Carolina College of Agri
culture and Mechanic Arts has been
drifting for several years; from tin* day
if left its moorings it lias sailed out of
its course. Conceived as an institution
for farmers and mechanics,' a technical
school, an institution for the learning of
trades and the improvement of work
manship, those who have controlled it
have steadily aimed to make it a Litera
ry institution of low grade, with enough
of Agriculture and Mechanic Ants at
tached to draw the funds set apart for
colleges conducted in that name. As a
result, the situation of the college is
most serious, and about it now' there
are many doctors with many schemes
for its relief —a condition of some of
them being that the doctors be perman
ently employed!
Conducted- upon the plan originally
intended there is great need and a
great future for this institution; eon
ducted as it has been so far it can never
amount to a great deal. The only hope
is "to begin all over again,” profiting by
the experience of the last few years.
Even then, being dependent upon poli
tical influence for support, it must: needs
have political changes and political
greed to contend with; lmt as a trades
school. a technical institution, a college
of practical instruction, it will find great
relief.
There is, 110 need for it and 110 future
for it as It Literary Institution. To en
deavor to make one of it is to argue
that the University of the State has
failed and that the denominational col
leges are inadequate. To make a litera
ry institution of it can benefit no one
save tin* professors w»lio conduct its de
partments.
But as a technical school, whether
rightfully or wrongfully we are not. here
discussing, it can fill a place unfilled in
North Carolina and serve more young
men than any other one institution. It.
has a spendid income, more income by
appropriation than any other institution
in the State, more income per student
than any oilier. It could reach out
into North Carolina and take up five
hundred boys a year and teach them to
build houses, lay brick, make machinery
and run it, conduct farms and orchards,
raise stock, and develop mines, and ful
fill thus a great mission. There is many
a boy now who drives ten miles to a
depot for a bag of guano who could be
taught to make fertilizer at home. And.
if we mistake not, tin* mission of ibis
institution was conceived to lie to such
boys. But tin* kid-glove idea lias pre
vailed. The institution does not reach,
docs not try to reach this class, docs "not
pretend to do this work. Tin* people
have no confidence in it, 110 hope for it:
It is on the rocks.
Better begin over again. *
Get a teacher of Horticulture who
will teach that department, attend to
his own business—without writing scur
rilous articles anonymously for the
press, without recommending “Potash”
for everything under heaven at so much
per line, without assuming to run the
Board of Trustees, without trying to
run two other professors infinitely bis
superiors out of the faculty, without try
ing to get one of their houses to live in:
Do this for one thing, and there will bo
hope.
And in place of the fawning fellows
who infest tin* halls of legislation, when
they ought to be teaching, and lobby not
only for appropriations, but for Trus
tees whom they can control, get real
teachers. Then, at any rate, tin* alumni
of the institution can have some consid
eration in the selection of trustees.
There is hope for the North Carolina
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts, if its Trustees will resist the fa
cility clique who are running it and mak
ing life a burden for their fellow teach
ers*. there is hope if the trustees will
make of. the institution somewhat of
that which its founders desired. But
there is t |o hope unless they begin all
over again. )
A splendid plant, an excellent location,
a magnificent income, a large field of use
fulness; but all so far to no purpose.
The kid-glove idea bus failed; the peo-
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
pie know it: cm q ‘ pretentions; let
us come down to • aprons and real
work.
Prof. Massey w J n open letter in
reply to Mr. Baile.v as follows:
PROF. MASSEY'S REPLY.
All Open Letter to the Editor of the
Biblical Recorder.
•
Sir: Ever since you began to make
Sunday school speeches, and to wobble
around so loosely in the editorial chair
which your great father so ably filled,
you have seemed to think that yv>u
were the specially inspired mentor for
the A. and M. College, and tin* appoint
ed denouncer of the wicked fellow who
writes this. It was perhaps a serious
error in the faculty of our college to at
tempt to attend to their own business
without first asking the advice and con
sent of the wise and venerable editor of
the Recorder. But the fact is that we
were totally unaware that, a man who
never sets foot inside the precincts of the
college, and who knows nothing what
ever about tiie work of any man con
nected therewith, could'have intuitively
such an accurate knowledge of what
we should do. We were blindly of the
opinion that a tree is known by its
fruits, and fondly imagined that tiie
crowd of out* graduates occupying posi
tions of trust and honor in various
parts of tin* country, and the fact that
tile wisest business men of the State
eagerly take our graduates as soon as
they leave the college, was proof at
once that the training and education
given here will compare favorably with
that given in any other college.
it is not our fault that you have seen
only tin* full dress side and have never
seen the men who may wear kid gloves
at times, and have earned a right to
wear what they please, spending the
greater part of their time with blue
overalls and leather aprons. There are
none so blind, sir, as those who will not
see, and the fact is that you do not de
sire to see anything good in our college
or any of its officers, and have never
made yourself in any way familiar with
its workings.
But it is more especially on a matter
of personal importance that I wisli to
speak to you now. You have for years
lost no opportunity to sling innuendoes
and insults at me in your paper. I for
a time, attributed them to the fact that
you were young and ignorant. But the
persistency with which you keep up
these attacks shows a spirit that can
only be called malicious. I have been
told that in this week’s issue of your
paper you make sundry charges against
me. I am sorry that 1 have not a copy
of yous paper at hand. 1 have been
told that you charge me with writing
scurrilous articles anonymously for the
press. Will you kind if/ reproduce any
thing that 1 have ever written, signed
or unsigned, that contains a word of
scurrility, or that in tin* remotest de
gree approaches the mendacious scur
rility which you have time and again
printed about me?
I am told that you charge me with
compassing the dismissal of two asso
ciates who were iheoniparably my su
periors. While I do not concede your
ability to distinguish between the quali
fications of professional teachers, whose
work you are profoundly ignorant of, I
w ill lie glad if you will name the two
gentlemen, or any one. superior or infe
rior, whom I have ever tried to get dis
missed. Will you also name one gentle
man on any of the boards under which
i have served who will testify that I
ever said to him a word with the pur
pose of getting any one dismissed, or
who will say that I ever tried to get
any place under the board except '! •*
one 1 have so long occupied, and wiiieL
for nearly ten years I have tred to till
faithfully, though begged to go else
where at a higher salary?
You have also charged that I write
articles for pay advising the use of
potash. It is true that 1, in advising
farmers in regard to the use of fertili
zers. do advise the use of potash where
potash is important for the crop or the
land. It is true also that I advise tin*
use of phosphoric acid and nitrogen, and
advise the use of phosporic acid to a
far larger extent than 1 ever advise the
use of potash. I know that the fer
tilizer manufacturers rarely use a suffi
cient percentage of iwdash for many
crops in their mixtures, because it is
eelipaer for them to make the phos
phates larger in proportion. I have
earnestly advised the farmers to mix
their own fertilizers, because 1 know
that they can save money in doing it.
I have been working for the uplifting
of tin* agriculture of the South for
more years than you can number, and
to-day my name is held in thankful re
membrance in ten thousand homes all
over this broad land for the help I have
been able to give them. Yes, I am paid
for tin* work I do in this fine, and
publishers all over the land are eager to
get whatever 1 have time to write. Is
not this helping of one’s fellowmeu to
better inethos and a wiser use of the
gifts of the Great Creator in the soil a
w ork just as well *worth pay as the writ
ing of falsehoods in a religious paper
about your fellow men for an editorial
salary? 1 have never written a line in
regard to the use of fertilizers or any
thing else that was not just what 1 be
lieved to be for the best interests of the
farmers of our land. I have tried
might and main to stop the injudicious
way in which commercial fertilizers
have been used in the South, and to
show our farmers that what they need
is ilu* feeding of more stock and the
raising of more home-made manure. And
I have received the thanks of thousands
for tin* help I have given them.
Only last week a gentleman from an
other State, whose official duties re
quired bis attendance here on the
United States Court, came to my house
and introduced himself, saying that he
wished to make the acquaintance of
the man who had enabled him to make
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