Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-02

/ zens, its existing endowment being in
sufficient for his purpose.
| The views and conceptions of Chan
cellOr MacCracken touching the right
sort of education for young men, and the
ideal OF propriety and manliness which
! should be set before them, are there
| fore of some Importance. 1t is well
for the public to learn exactly the moral
! standard and example of manly char
;tcter which he has adopted, aad will
hold up for the study and imitation of
young men. Now they have that in
formation, and fathers and mothers can
decide accordingly whether they wish
their sons to be under the influence of
such an ideal and such a rule of con-
duct as that now publicly avowed by
Chancellor MacCracken for himself
and his college.
This ideal and this rule of conduct
he finds in Dr.. Parkhurst and his vile
and disgusting methods. He would
teach young men, whose education is
intrusted to him, that deceit is praise
worthy, if they think their motives are
right in practising it. He advises them
to incite crime in order to detect crime.
He iustities them in prowling about the
streets at night. and sneaking into
places of disreputable resort under dis
guise, for the purpose of hiring and
alluring the abandoned to display of
their depravity. He is for drinking
with them and dancing with them.
lnferentially he encourages young men
to proceed 10 any extreme of vice
themselves if il can be turned to profit
for detective ends. However licentious
they may be, he teaches them that they
are excusable and laudable if their
avowed purpose is the punishment of
whom they themselves sin. He holds
up before them the lewd and debauch-
ed detective as high and noble type
OF manhood. The principle that the
end justifies TIE means, and that evil
may be done nat good may ensue, he
prociaims as "a rule which young men
should adopt for their guidance in life.
Parents who wish their sons to re-
ceive this sort of education, will know
now wEere TO send them: and if they
desire to keep them from the contaml-
nation Of vicious and licentious aban-
donment, they know now that they
should keep them from the college: or
nominal university, over which Chan
cello- MacCracken presides. If they
want them to be sneaking hypocrites,
insufferable cads, spies. false pretend
ers, treacherOus, dOuble-dealing, caves
dropping, keohole listening, licentious,
reckless, and Shiny social reptiles, they
will put the boys under his teaching
and influence at the University OF the
City Of New York. If they want them
y
will send them elsewhere.
Honest and pure-minded boys, how
ever, Will not go into such associations
except under cruel parental compul-
sion. They will be ashamed to hail
from such college. They despise a
''telltale." They abhor a sneak. They
Ioathe the doctrine taught by DR.. Park
hurst and accepted Chancellor Mac
Cracken, that the assumption of good
motives justifies avile and unspeakable
deed. When the heart is fresh and I'M |
in youth, it revolts at such a |
teaching; but its healthy impulses may |
be overcome and destroyed by perni- !
cieus education and debased ex-
ample.
DIR. Parkhurst has poisoned the youth |
ful spirit of at least one young man, |
and now Chancellor MacCracken has |
set out to spread the contagion by |
holding him up as an example for imi- |
tation among college boys generally. |
Rather than that they should receive |
such an education in debauchery, de- |
ceit, and dishonor. it would be better
that boys should be left uneducated af-
ter they have passed from the nursery,
and the pure and lofty example and
Drecept OF their mothers.-N. I. Sun.