The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-09
TO COLLEGE MEN
SHOULD BE THE FRONT FILE TO
 REPEL ANAROHY'S ATTACK.

Stirring, Patriotic Letter sent Out by the
 American Republican College League
 In the Supreme Test of National Great
 ness the College Men Will Stand in the
 Gap-Campaign of Manhood, Not Money.
 WilliamstoWn, Mass, Oct Sired B. Whitney, Williams '97, sent out to-day to the college men of the United States letters, of which the following is peal to college men:
 The American Republican College League.
 Office of F. S. Whitney, department chairman of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
 Williamstown, Mass, Oct. & 1S96
 To All American College Students The national executive committee of the American Republican College league wishes to present the objects of the league to the intelligence, judg- ment and patriotism of all college stu dents and earnestly awaits the ap- proval and assistance of the American student body.
 For several years previous to the or ganization of the league the opponents of the republican party freely claimed that they were securing the greater part of the college men. While this was not admitted by republican lead CTS, they did realize that their party was not getting it's fair share of the 1 educated and naturally progressive young men of the colleges.
 The principal reason for this condi- 1 tion of affairs was that while engaged in their studies students failed to per ceive the actualities of life through lack of daily contact with the world of busi- l ness and reality, and therefore they were thought to be more willing to ac- cept as true the free trade sophistries cherished by a few theoretical and un- practical college professors.
 | In order to give an emphatic denial 1 to the imputed lack of republican sen 1 timent and enter a vigorous protest against the teaching of doctrines so H. | logical and un-American, college men unsolicited formed league. Cruel ex- l perience has sealed the fate of demo- cratic free trade in favor of republican protection and reciprocity, and now new issues are presented to be com batted by educated, practical men.
 In no campaign since the civil war has so grave a responsibility rested upon the republican party. Under the banner of the democratic party dema- l gogues are seeking high offices upon a platform at variance with the princi- pies of sound conservative American ism. A chaotic mass of falsehood de- | ceit, dishonor, fiatism, repudiation and anarchy is euphemistically called a declaration of principles. Free silver, ] though an oppressive and repellent idea in it's present form, might receive at l tention in the calm deliberations of the 1 American people if it were presented in 1 proper form and by honest and sincere | advocates, but educated Americans must internationally oppose it when i burdened down by the forces of social and political disintegration in the form of a brutal assault upon the honor and purity of our courts, the impeachment of national honor and the annulment of moral law.
 James K. Jones, chairman of the na- LiOndl Qe1nocTaIlc committee, mas lS- sued an open letter to the students of the United States, appealing to college l men 'in the name of education" to form a National League of College Bryan i Clubs" The American Republican | College league appeals to all students who believe that their intelligence has ibeen challenged and their patriotism in suited by the Jones letter, to form &C., tive club to oppose all Bryan clubs. l Rational grounds may exist for diff | ferences concerning money, but not morality. The political situation is now one of manhood and not money. | When moral sentiment is the supreme test of national greatness all educated men should take an active part in the defeat of a party of national dishonor | and social disintegration.
 In New England, at least, Bryan | clubs must not be formed in the col leges so all students are urged to form republican clubs at once and send names of officers and number of mem- bers to the department chairman, A. R. c. League, Wililamstown, Mass.
 FRED B. WHITNEY,
 National Committeeman American Re-
 publican College League.