Every now and then some loon of
an ink dauber alludes to the North
Carolina Press Association as a "Mu
tual Admiration Society," declaring
that if it was an organization for busi
ness instead of pleasure it might be
the means of accomplishing good, ccc.
We have been a member of the Asso
ciation about ten years and had not
discovered that it was a Mutual Ad
miration Society simply. It is com
posed of a number of gentlemen,
young, middle aged and elderly, and
as such they are mutually esteemed
and admired, and if that be a crime
then we plead guilty to the soft im
peachment. It is only those fellows
who are not "in it" when it comes to
having the respect and confidence of
their fellows of the craft who are con
stantly making such contemptible
flings as this. A case of sour grapes
as it were.
WHAT WAS; THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF IT?
On Staten Island they, have a
School of Philosophy, and last Satur
day afternoon, the school was in ses
sion. A paper on "The Progress of
Education of the Negro in the South."
was read by William Leroy Brown,
President of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. In the course of the paper
he said that notwithstanding educa
tion the negro could never be allowed
to dominate the Anglo-Saxon race,
because he was racially inferior.
Whereupon a" Northern man, Prof.
Scovel, in a fiery speech in refutation,
said, among other things, that he
would put a pistol in every negro's
hand until he could assert his equality
with the white man.
At the close of the session the pre
siding officer of the school, the Rev.
Chas. F. Deems, went to the hotel
and paid Prof. Scovel's bill. As Dr.
