The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-27
THE BULL AND THE LoconorIyE,I
Very Touching Narrative OF shook
Lnrnin'" and English Polltics.

A very TOuchtng Narrative OF "Hool
Lnrnin'" and English Politics.
Chicago Iair. 0tean. :, z 81
1t is highly proper that the little band 0
free.trsde pedsgopues who run Yale Col
tege should rebel against the platform re
Gently announced by the Republican NA
tional Convention. We must express ou
satisfaction along with our surprise ths
these New Haven persons have had tht
candor to confess that their hostility to tht
Republican platform Is a primary and theil
distaste Tor the Republican candidates 9
secondary confederation. We ars glad tc
SET twenty.slx Yale professors take charge
Of an antl.Republicau meeting In New
Haven, Of which ono OF their number Ia
chairman. We rel ice to see them pu,
forth rs their hrst resolution the following:
Rtso'txd, That the National Republican
Convention, recently held In the city Of
Chicsgo, has In its platform departed from
the principles on which the party was
founded, and from the purposes Tor which
the party exists. M ..7g H1'r'
Such q resolution is the natural and 10y.
ical outcome Tor the intense contempt for
everything American, for American legis.
lAtion, American craftsmanship, American
history, and American industries, which
has Tor twenty. five years been taught q.
Yale College. Every lesson given to claas
In political economy for quarter oil q cen.
fury at Yale has taught thar the founders
Of our Republic, Washington, Hamilton,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and the
Adamses, were fools and idiots, who
"sougn. during peace to revive, by ar,ih.
cial legislation, all the Inconvenience
which had been entailed upon comm srce
by the war;" Yale college teaches as pollti.
cal science that the American people are
and always have been toolishly parted.
pasing. in q work Of reciprocal rapine,
mutual robbery, and that clear net profit
would arise 10 the country II absolutely all
ilB industries Except possibly raising corn
and colton) could be hired to lie idle,
Yale College therefore occupies toward
the rest OF the country the attitude OF an
organized alander.mili, whose business 1t is
10 teach TO youth ~ the demonstrated and
ultimate fact in political science that the
American people are all fools, that Ameri.
can statesmansnip is hollow sham largely
tinged with knavery, and that American
history consists y holly Of the record of
disasters indicated upon nation oil char.
latans Tor having ever ventured to break
away from dependence upon English ideas
and commodities. a....-|
All at once the Republican party, hav.
ing hit several other classes OF nuulbe KILLS
over the sconce with club in yay that
has settled them and laid them out stiff. 1t
last turns around like based lion upon
the little tribe OF piguy professors that
nave been annoying 1t, and strikes them
blow such as only comes from lioa's paw
when bis heavy-maned majesty OF the
desert and the plain means business.
OF course 1.-THE Yale College yeIps back,
and between one Bet OF frantic ki.yis and
the next 1t gathers conference enough to
say that the American lion is lot pure:
that the whole American people is CORRUPT,
or 1t would not have struck out go, uke
cyclone, with its fore paw.
II the enunclation Of political doctrine
made BY the Republicans. at Chicago is
sound and wise, then Yale College has
been for twenty years merely mission for
the propagation Of English economic false.
hood, and siander.mlll for throwing yi,rol
a. American sIatesmen and at ali Amer.
can Interests. We are glad Yale College
has found out what ls the matter. Either
the American people as whole or Yale
College as whole has got to be reformed.
and that At an early uate. In Contest BIZ.
tween bull and locomotive We ALWAYS
bet on the locomotive, notwithstanding
the bull has the QpSt Orpaniz ,,ion and i
the more English of the TWO,