New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-02
YALE COLLEGE BOYCOTTED.

The Tribune has already expressed It's de-
cided ;isapproval of the conduct of the Yale
students on the occasion of the open-alr cXli-
btion of Mr.. Bryan on the NewIiaven Green
last week We were not unmindful of the
fact that all students at the beginning OF the
college year. when they have just escaped
home restraints and In the cXuberance OF
Youthful spirits arc ready for anything foolish
or miscellaneous in the way OF excitement. are
uncommonIy liable TO make themselves not
only ridiculous, but bowling nuisance. We
were also aware that in university towns the
citizens who are accustomed 10 be clbowed
round in the streets and kept awake nights by
these callow youths come 10 tolerate them UP
TO a certain point, not because they are living
on the ''ill-gotten gains of their fathers as
Mr. BRYAN stated IL tho other day rather
coarsely-bu. because their troublesomeness Is
for the most part harmless. and only due to
the freshness OF youth, which, after ALL most
of us like to scc-csppcially when they are our
Youngsters, and not somebody else's who are
making the racket. Then. too. In university
towns the older citizens are more rcconcied
TO these demonstrations because they have
seen generations of young fellows pass under
their observation and incur their ccrsure, who,
out Of all this grcenness Of the undergrad
uate period. ripened out into lives of useful
service 10 the community In politics, morals
and religion
The Tribune's disapproval Of the hilariy and
bounce and b,Imptiousness of the Yale boys
which the admirers of Mr.. Bryan complained
Of as though it were prcconcericd plan TO
prevent that gcntlcman's forcible presentation
OF his cause from being heard-was, in the
first place. general in its nature. and express
slye of the good sense and love OF order which
characterize nearly all citizens who have
passed the undergraduate period and are OF
voting age. Its disapprobatiOn was very
promptly expressed. are free to say. because
Of the knowledge that nothing was more de-
sired by Mr.. Bryan and the small rctiDue
who accompanied him in his passage through
"ihe ehemy's country than just such Inter-
ruptiOns from opponents, from which to manu-
facturc political capital for the champion or
'thc masses" against the classcs.' lie in
vitcd interruption when he told these fresh
young fellows with red blood in their veins
that they were living on the 'ill-gottcn gains
Of their fathers His purpose was plain. So
It was when at Hartford he described the
town as the seat of plutocracy, and by every
variety of insult TO the citizens and their bust
ness interests tried 10 provoke resentment.
The Tribune. as we have said promptly put
in its rcprobaton of the disOr'ierly conduct
Of the Yale boys The attempt to make CAPT
tai OUT Of il in the East n failure But
we observe that they are making the most Of il
I'm some parts Of the West-that IL 10 say. for
instance in the Indian Territory. where.
cording to a dispatch OF September 30. there
was o mass meeting of the CherOkees. Creeks,
ChOctaws and Sen noles ut which this resO-
luton was adopted:
Resolved, That we contemplate with deep re-
greet the recent insulting treatment of William
j. Bryan by students Of a college in the land
Of the boosted white mans civilization; and
we admonish all Indians who think Of sending
their sons TO Yale that association with such
students could but prove hurtful alike to their
morals and their progress toward the higher
standard of civilization.
~ first blush 1t funny that these peO-
pie, who have 10 vote in Presidential cleo
ton, and, so far as we can learn have never
sent student to Yale College, should sprunt
up in this altogether unexpected way and boy
colt the college because some of the college
boys pranced round on the edge of an Open-air
political show and hndered a Presidential
candidate from telling the great secret Of
finance which is in charging the volume of
the currency by coming dollars out Of a
cheaper commodity than gold 1t seems funny
and incongruous, but when one stops to think
n moment 1t isn't so by any means For these
Chcrokees ChOctaws Greeks and SeniinOles, il
they do not remember It themselves, inherit
the memories Of time when the earliest in
habitants Of this country were prosperous and
happy with q currency which passed from