New-York tribune., 1894-04-07
won by one vote only. II was - IN I, IN favor
or the New York man

won won oy one vote only 1t was IL TO IL in favor
or the NewYork man.
ME the college boys were discussing the ad-
ilssloh oi toe delegate from the Metropolis Law
school ex-senator J. Sloat Fassett ex-Congress-
man Roswell q. Horr and Charles Emory
smith, Of The Philadelphia Press" reached
mere ana were met by a committee of citizens
ana college men, and escorted 70 the Yates
d noHSe. United States Senator Frank His
COCK ana eA-State Senator Francis Hendricks
WeIe among those who met the party at the
railroad station. Mr.. Fassett. Mr. Smith and
Mr.. Hor' tonight were entertained at dinner
10 the ArmOry, where they made vigorous Re
publican speeches. Mr.. Hou, having been i'm
Rhode Island. was called upon to say something
about the Republican victoIy in that State
CHARLES EMORY SMITHS REMARKS.
Mr. Smiths speech was as follows:
The college student is for the most part right in
his poItlca. Instincts. lie lives in the healthy at
nOsp"efe OF Amer. can ACTIVITY lie mingles "ltn
men men as vel as vita books. lie hods the fresh
iervor OF youth and has not been incrusied win
abstract theories. lie in the white light Of the
dium If old eeonomSies' In spi;e' of;entimss Of
false teachings. in Spite of natural respect even for
and steadfast Young. arden: AMI eii;nu:ias;c.
with saving sense and worthy aspirations the col
publican in very sympathy.
But what Of the Professor? How happens it that
the impression about him Is so different? How
happens It that he is so widely associated in the
pubic mind with false doctrines and with danger;
| have 10 doubt that large majority viii be
great body of American teachers And yet is it not
true that in the public thought college instruction
is largely identified with free trade propagandsm
and that the Professor is regarded as a visionary
theorist who is all wrong ON living issues measured
the universal designation of Professor" Wilson
who goes from the college chair to make taLh
sized in that cynical ana peppery Professor
Everett. who advances from the schoolroom to
Congress to oppose everything that Am rcan ehu.
cation should favor, and sustain everything that
The popular Impression grows out Of the fact that
the departments OF political economy are largely IN
the hands Of doctrinaires and that few aggressive
professors have made great noise They assumed
IN 1872 to speak in the name OF American educatlol
to whom can never refer except in terms of per
sonal respect. came forth to repeat his previous
emerged from their scholarly retreat and united in
a manifesto assuming TO instruct the American peo-
culture. The professors of political economy stepped
in their abstract theories. advocated the British
system instead Of the American system Not only
did this group OF men undertake to teach the duty
proceeded to Defy particular candidate as the
bOdment Of all wisdom and moral heroism and pub
lie virtue as an Oynpian above all mortals and all
parties in whose superior presence all political di-
visions should be hushed before whose oInnlscience
omnpotence even Democratic perversty must yield.
They We're in strange association IL was the
unnatura. alliance OF the Professor with the dema
gogue. 1t was the unholy union of culture viii.
charatanism. with Populism. with socialistic dis
content, with reactionary Solid South and with
corrupt Iammany Hal The unnaIiowed combna-
dent and Congress For more than yrar v have
The results written in the deepest depression.
distress. humiliation and disaster which the country
has suffered for half a century They are burned
into the consciousness of every American. And
now. in the light of this practical lesson in the
Of these vivid and blis;cring experience.
turn 10 these professors who have claimed
superior authority as instructors in public duty
ami policy and want 10 put direct question. J
want to ask them-you. hOnOrcd President Eliot Of
Harvard: you. respected eighteen professors of Am
herst; you. accomplished Prof f'ssor sumner. OF Yale
j want to ask you to vlndIcate and justify your
selves II You mercy before the tribunal Of
public opinion but in the forum Of your own under
standing and conscience for the f0,se TIA chings
which have been exploded in unparalleled calamity
and for the blind idO1try which been shattered
IN National shame and humiliation. There IS no
escape from this arraignment and condemnation.
Yes. the Professor Is on trial His mistaken los
ana his deuslve standards have b,el sub
jected to the practical test He must either Justify
himself in the Hight OF the crushing experiences
which have come with the accep:anc. OF his teach
inGs. he must acknowledge his error and change
his instruction. In the fac OF the living truth VIII
mistake without discreditinC himself teacher
and mDairlng the value and force II his influence in
every direction. Let him readjust hms f 10 IN we
atons Of practical experience Let the college IA rul
ties have The broaiest and truest and most vital
Americanism. Let them be what they ought to BE-
the surest buwarks Of American civilization and
progress Let the teaching OF political science for
the American youth recognize American conditions
and standards. In n word. let the Professor be
sound and true TO American instincts the earnest
and ardent Undergraduate who redeems American
education from the reproach Of being recreAnt TO
American principles.