The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-05-10
The UnIver.ity, csnfield, and Fres Trade

II - %iIh the greatest pleasure We notice that
Prof. CHni;rld, his friends aud partisans up
and hnlzing the matter of his Free Trade
teachings, aud iha management of the I'nivers-
". II shows that ;hr abuses stirred mp by the
'hiet are attracting attention. and will result in
an "verhanling and cleansing. That was just
what ~" wanted. We are satisfied that If these
questions brought before the public, and
discussed in the papers, the result will be a
construction "f the University mana cement, and
the employment Of Teachers who do not teach
Hn-Amcrican doctrines in return for their saa-
lies, or stoppaSe If supplies altogether. That
is what We are aiming at and although IL may
take several wears. the end is bonnd to come,
aud 10 that end We shall keep hammeriug away.
Prof. Cani"ld's latest exploit is the pnblica-
ii"n "f Free Trade article, in which the most
ahicct servility to England is displayed. lie
warns America that England is not compelled
." purchase our wheat aud other fool but has
hren waiting patiently for to adopt her free
trade theories, she In"uOpolIc our mar
kets with her manufactures, to the destruction
Of Onr industries lie doesn't say what
England will do if America allows her patience
10 become exhausted: but We presume she will
proceed to crush us. To think that such an ab-
irci lickspiI of u foreign Government is placed
as teacher over the young men of Kansas, and
that oHr people taxed to pay him for it, is
both aggravatin. aud humiliatiug. Congress
man Haskell replies 10 this tool of England in
Lawrence paper, and literally skins him alive.
Next ia order, our attention is called 10 a
Inrnicai"u from the Secretary "f the University
BOARD. IN the HoltOn Re,ordsT, chiefly relating
10 the attendance al the University. which mat
Ter referred Ia last week. The Secretary re-
marks that he always supposed Sol Miller was
friend Of the University. He thought correct
ly. We ar a friend Of the University, in its L.
gitiInate sphere. We could even overlook its
common school attachment, under the fiction of
9 Preparatory Department" unjust As it is to
other parts nf the state. if that was the only
fault. But object 10 having men put in
charge Of it, at the expense of the State, who
i-ach under the gnise Of Political Economy, the
Yer! worst species of demagogue politics. antag-
onistr 10 the most vital interests of The United
States. We object TO having Prof. Canfeld,
from the roof the University, make himself
faint fzzling echo of Prof. Sumner, of Yale Col
lege, who has not only rendered himself obnox-
ions to every true American, but who has been
proven a brazen liar, and a slandercr of Ameri-
can manufacturers
Now comes the lola Register, which, while
c"ndemning Prof Canfeld's Free Trade false
teachings in article. contains another which
puTpoTts 20 lee 4 defence of the Professor against
the abuse Of the Chict. The Register says that
Garfield was not born in England. hut in Yer
mont; and his father was protectionist; that
Garfield is free trader because he honestly be-
iirves II is right; that he il not paid with Brit
ish gold to teach free trade rs the Chief iusinu-
ates: that he cannot he hired to teach what he
does not believe; and that there would he Just
a. much seusr in tumbliHg him out of the Uni
versity because hn adhcres to the teachings of
the Episcopal church. a. 10 do 80 for adhering
Ia his free trade belief. The Fort Scott Monitor
WAS our authority for saying that Garfield was
an Englishman, and the belief confirmed by
his name aud his principles. But if the Registcr
will stop tearing it, linen, aud look closer. it
will discover that we never charged that Cau-
field not honest ia his ,rlicf in Free Trade
docirinr We never said or imsinuated that he
paid 10y British gold to teach free trade
What We did SAY was. that British writers fur
nish most of the free trade literature: that Brit
-h gold pays Tor printing and circulating it;
and that British emis>arirs art creeping into
our colleges, Ia leach British doctrines. Because
tsmteld is honest in his belief, is reason why
he should he employed to teach that belief TO
students. Ifhe honestly believed in MormoEisIn,
that would he no excuse for hiring him to teach
il TO his pupils. No person has right to object,
ar does object, 1" his adheriug to the Episcopali-
an belief: hat they would have right to object
ii he taught tina: religion 10 his classes so of
tree trade. II is his teaching of it that is object
ed 10, while "n a salary paid by the State of
Kansas. for which the people taxed and a
large majority of whom in favor of American
principles. So that the Ecgistsr has failed TO
make II single good point.
The Professors in the University accused
Of teaching Communism, we'll free trade
doctrine of the same family. But the press is
stirring the thing mp, and the people will he
aroused Garfield will have To 90.