The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-26

names give weight 10 any business
proposition they may endorse.
We call special attention to the names
of the following gentlemen, composing
the board of trustees:
Rev. s. n. st. John, Onaga, Kas.
Hon 4. II. Horton. Atchison, Kas.
Rev. John Wilson, Oberlin, Kas.
Hon. ]. W. Day, Topeka, Kss.
Rev. w. n. Page, D. D., Leavenworth,
Kas.
Rev. f. S. McCabe, D. D., Topeka,
Kas.
Rev. w. C. Porter, Fort Scott, Kas.
P. Fsles. Esq, Ottawa, Kas.
Rev. William Bishop, d. D., SalIna,
Kas.
Rev. L. Sternberg, Ellsworth, Kas.
ReY. D. KingerY, Burton, Kas.
George Gall, Esq, Sterling, Kas.
Rev. J. Z. Platter, Winfield, Kas
Rev. j. ID. Hewitt, Wichita, Kas.
Hon. P. B. Plumb. Emporia, Kas.
II. @. Cross, Esq, Emporia Kas.
Rev. j. F. Hendy, Emporia, Kas.
Rev. r. n. Overstreet, Emporia, Kas.
r. r. McCandliss, NJ. D., Emporia,
Kas.
o. D. Swan, Esq, Emporia, Kas.
5. B. Riggs, ESQ, Emporia, Kas.
II may well be doubted whether
another institution in the state can pre-
sent such an array of prominent and
Influential citizens. The president of
the board is The chief justice of
the supreme court, Hon. A. II.
Horton. The vice president is the
venerable DR.. VIM. Bishop of Salina-a
lifelong educator, who Proffers to this
new enterprise the gathered wisdom of
long experience, and the Jealous SYM
patty of a warm heart. Prominent on
the executive committee is our own dis.
tinguished citizen U. S. Senator Plumb,
with such exact and capable business
men as Hons. o. d. Swan and J. W.
Day.
We are creditably informed that Chief
Justice Horton is most enthusiastic
supporter of the enterprise, and has
pledged himself to aid it by all honora-
bic means within his power. The same
is said of every member of the board of
trustees There are no figure heads on
it. Each one was chosen with the un-
Outstanding that he would give the work
the heartiest and most thorough sup
port.
1t needs reiterstion that the proposed
college is in no sense 10 be a "sectarian"
institution. It will be founded on q ba-
sis broad as Christianity itself, and will
welcome to its classroom pupils of ev-
cry shade of belief.
The duty and the interest of Emporia
as touching this great enterprise, are in
the same line; they run parallel; they
coincide Calm. clear-headed men, who
ought TO know whereof they affirm, tell
US that within the next ten years, to a
moral certainty, the endowment fund of
the new college will reach quarter of a
million dollars. Others more sanguine
predict that it will reach half a million.
But taking the first as basis OF calcu-
lation it requires no prolonged figuring
so estimate the value, financial, social,
and educational of such an institution
TO our prosperous young city.
fever there was time in oar his
tory when suspicion should be disarmed
and cavilling laid at rest. 1t seems to US
this is the tune. Il is not hard thing
to pick flaws; to parade obj. ctions; TO
declare an undertaking impossible.
Ocean steam navigation, ocean CABLES,
alpine tunnels, alpine railroads, were
all declared impossibilitles, but to day
they are realities. We are satisfied, as
we read the list of names on the board
of trustees of the new college, that men
like these know what they are about,
and when they promise US bread we
have no fear that they will ever give
US stone.
Every citizen of Emporia should
lend to this enterprise all moral and
material support. Let every one con-
slider the subject in all its bearings and
when called on in few days by the
subscription committee, let our response
demonstrate the fact that we are worthy
of the great educational gift that has
been put within our grasp.