Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-13
Mr.. STAMFORD.
LNIyTgR ESTING I5TERyIEW Upon
VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
The Principles Upon Which the Great
University VIII be Established
and Conducted.

attempts have been made to find Senator
Stanford at his Office in this city and obtain
an interview with him. On Saturday after
noon a reporter went to Palo Alto, where |
Senator and Mrs. Stanford are now staying. |
When the reporter reached the mansion he /
found that the Governor was cut on the |
ranch, but was cordially invited by Mrs |
Stanford TO await his return When he !
came in a glance was sufficient 20 show the /
absurdiiy of recent newspaper reports that
the Senator's tenure of life is precarious.
Instead of the 6l years he subsequently
claimed one weuld be scarcely inclined to
credit with 81 the hale, hearty, sturdy man
who had just returned from a visit to his
large number of splendid horses. Nor would
Mrs. Stanford's appearance lead one to be-
lieye that her health could ever have
afforded decent pretext for trip abroad.
We'll, what viii you have me talk
about?" said the railroad magnate.
will you say what you have done since
you went 10 Europe?"
Nothing that is not commonplace. I
had been constantly troubled for some time
| with attacks of vertigo, which made me
entirely unable to attend to my duties III
| the Senate. There was no organic trouble,
my physicians assured me, but they urged
the importance of entire rest as a means of
reducing my weight and relieving me of
my difficulty. The unsatisfactory condi-
tion of Mrs Stanfords health finally in
duced me to comply with the demands of
my friends and physicians, who promised
me fifteen years more of life as the reward
| of obedience. | offered to compromise for
| ten years more, and went. We spent five
weeks at Kissengen, where | was the vic
tim of the course usually prescribed there,
rising at o'clock, taking four drinks (of
| water), with long walk between drinks
| breakfast of eggs and hard dry bread,
scarcely more for the middle meal, and re-
pea ing the breakfast for dinner The
| treatment was etficacious, reducing my
weight thirty pounds and making me bet
ter than l had been for years. We then
worked our way to ST. Moritz, 1900 feet
above the sea, where three days of snow in
August proved even worse than the contin-
uous rairs Of northern and western Europe
| and decided rs 10 move on. We went to
| y aa iCF a lew DAYS, 10 Maggiore, Lu-
cerne, Heidelberg. where we saw Flood,
cheerful and looking well Though even
| then his physician had declared he could
not recovery, and then to Paris for two
weeks"
"You are pleased with the result OF the
election?"
"Most decidedly. Cleveland's admins
tration has been failure from the day he
struck his blow at silver until his recent
| demagogic treatment of the British Min
lister. While neither Cleveland nor any
other man, but only public opinion. can
rule this country; and while | would not
sell an acre of land the cheaper for any
mans occupancy of the White House, l
think it much better for the country that
Harrison should be President.
II am a protectionist: am opposed to a
| tariff for revenue believing ii an inequit-
able tax upon the people; a system by
| which John Jacob Astor's coachman may
pay as much as his employer for the sup
| port of the Government. But tariff for
protection is logical and equitable, build
| ing up our industries and our country
ard thereby tending toward the encour-
| agement of labor. England's free trade
is necessity for her. While she pays
| twice the Italian wages, her admirable
| use of machinery and consequent facility
of production enable her to drive Italian
manufacturers from the markets of the
world. And for similar reason our
agriculture needs no protection. In our
wheat fields here we pay one man as
much as forty can earn in India; but our
machinery and the greater efficiency of
our labor enable US TO sell wheat in CON-
petition with India.
81 believe that the next Administration
will do much toward the accomplishment
| of one of the dearest wishes of my life
the eradication of sectional feeling. 1t
was the desire to do something for this
cause that led me to vote for Lamar's con-
frmation. He is broad minded, liberal
man, admirably qualified for the position
| he fills, and his nomination was one of the
wlsest nisde by the present Administra-
| ton"
"Will you tell me something of the Uni
versity?"
"As is known, had hoped to see it
| opened next May-on the twenty first an
nlversary Of my sons birth-but delay in
building has made that impossible, and
now l do not intend that work shall begin
until the buildings and grounds are in
readiness. which will hardly be for eighteen
months az least l have not yet selected
| President for the institution. General
Francis a. Walker, of the Massachusetts,
| Institute OF Technology, would be a capital
man for the position, but then be is un-
willing to leave his present work while the
| institute is in debt. Nor have any pro-
fessors yet been appointed. As applica-
| tons come in, l file them away, and it will
be time enough to act upon them when a
President has been selected. The pro-
fessors shall have at least little more than
Is paid by any other University in America
! Among them shall be some very eminent
men, though / think il desirable that the
faculty embrace many young men. If the
| University is TO accomplish only what is
| done by Others, then l shall regard it as a
failure, and know that the money had
| better gone to some school already estab-
| lished.
The cardinal aim of the University will
| nj tf,on g.
the advancement of humanity. You know
and probably share the common opinion
| that poverty for the masses of the human
race will forever be necessary. Now, | do
not believe il; do not believe that only
few individuals can be wealthy; that these
few can enj " life's luxuries only at the ex-
pense of the great majority of their fellow
beings. l believe that the comforts and
even the elegancies of life are the natural
heritage of every provident, intelligent
man. The earth is inexhaustible in sup
| plies for the qualification of every reason
| able want of man, SO that if everyone of Us
| had an elegant house the esrths riches
| would be sufficient for US all. The intelli-
gent application of labor would bring this
about. The genius of one man inures to
the benefit of all; so that the masses do not
need the genius to discover, but only intel
| ligence to Utilize the discoveries and inyen-
tions of the few whose endowments are
superlative, as the genius of Mccormack
! has put his wonderful reaper into all our
fields. So that our possession of all ma
| terial advantages is question of intelli.
gence only. There are 10 limits to the
wants Of the man whose tastes are deyei-
oped, save only the limits 10 his power to
conceive, and hence there is no danger no
possibility even, of overproaaction.
"Agassiz made ME a visit some years ago,
and most delightful guest he was. Dur
ing his stay with us he declared on one oc-
casion that Honey-making had never been
a consideration with him, as very little was
necessary to crafty his simple wants.
Yes, said l, your physical wants are few
and easily gratsied. But how about youc
other wants? Ia your desire to benefit the
world, to increase its store of knowledge.
goa want many things which only money
can get. You want able men to explore
the world for yoG snd bring you informa-
tion with which YET can fortify your pres
ent theories and advance new theories
which will help Us all. You want Coy
ernmez.t ship now te sail around the Horn
TO make measurements and Investigations
which will enable you to tell the story of |
the oceans bottom. Year wants seem Z,