The Placer herald., 1874-08-29
TAKING WATER.

The Sp'Tu OF the Tunes, Stanford u
Co.'S special organ, two weeks ago, was ju-
bilant over the removal Of Prof. Carr, from
the chair of Agriculture, in the State Uni
versity. 1t said: ''rhe removal Of Prof.
Carr, was one eminently fit to be made. . 4.
That he was incompetent and unfit for the
place. He was secretly and in an un-
derhand manner, plotting with its enemies,
against the interest of the institution, and
doing all in his power to injure and break it
down. No man is responsible for the de-
posing of Prof. Carr from bis chair in the
State University, but Prof. Carr himself. -.
While Professor in the State University,
Professor Carr held double position; one
being an assumed knowledge Of agriculture; !;
the other an inherent knowledge of treason
We loathe treason and treachery let it
come in what shape it may, but in a guise
like that to which we now allude, 80 specious
and deceptive, it becomes doubly abhorrert"
Further on in the same article, in referring
to the regents, it says: "They have fairly,
honestly and honorably conducted their own
business, and it is but just to assume, they
will pursue the same course and with the
same result in connection with the affairs of
the State University" This article, in due
time, reached the monopoly's headquarters,
at Sacramento, and its result can be well
imagined. TO say they contemplated this
abrupt explosion Of their pet scheme, with
sickening horror and disgust, would be put
ting it mild. AS soon as they were able
to collect their scattered senses, they evil
IDENTIFY sent Marcus Demosthenes Boruck
an epistle, something about as follows
"You fool! Look at your leader, of the
18th, on the State University and see
what you have done. You must be getting
either honest or demented. In either case
we shall have no further use for you. unless
by some hook or crook you can make
amends. Booth and Swift both voted to re-
move Carr, and you uphold them, when it
was the best chance we will ever have of
mashing them both out. The Grangers
are all mad about it, and we intend all our
journals to hold Carr up in the light of a
prosecuted angel, and his persecutors as
enormous wretcbes. We could thus not
only have secured the sympathes of the
Crangers, and consequently their support,
but would have been able to injure Booth,
Swift and the whole Independent cause
more in week than we can otherwise in
jure them in lifetime. But your action
has not only exploded the entire arrange
ment, but has weakened us otherwise, and
given strength to our enemies"
Mr.. Marcus Demosthenes Boruck, when
he read the above, must have smote his
breast and rent his wavy locks, and scratched
among the dandruA, to start up an idea or
thought by which to clear himself
His attempt comes in last Saturdays is
sue, and it is, after reading the above ex-
tracts, sickening indeed. His apology goes
on something like this: "Booth played the
apostate to the Republican party. This
was proven in the vote cast by Booth and
Swift, in favor of deposing Professor Carr
from the chair of Agriculture Professor
Carr the direct representative of the Grangers
in the Board; be was popular with them
To the Granger element Booth is indebted
... AT the very first opportunity he had
of serving them he again assumed the role
of the apostate.'
After comparing the above extracts with
these latter, is it necessary to comment
further? When paper says, one week, a
man acted "honestly and honorably" in a
certain matter, and the next week turns
around and accuses him of being an apos-
tate, in the same matter, what shall we
think Of it? Still is this not characteristic
of the monopoly press?