The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-01
| NEW REASON FOR ANDREWS
RESIGNATION.


Il has been pretty. Thoroughly UNDER
stood that the prox:mate cause of Pres
ident Andrews resignation from Brown
university was the views he held on
the silver question. But it seems that
this was not the case. if the Chicago
lnter-Ocean is to be believed. 1t has
made a great discovery regarding the
causes why Andrews was compelled to
resign. 1t says. discussing some COM
ments by the London Chronicle on the
case:
President Andrews was dismissed. we
are told. because he warned his coun-
trymen against the growth of great
monopolies. The simple fact of the case
Is that the trouble grew out OF his ex-
IRENE advocacy Of free trade and his
strong leaning toward free silver.
Brown is situated in the very center of
manufactures. Little Rhode Island is
great only in its manufactures. and al
most within stones throw are Connec-
ticut and Massachusetts. For several
years President Andrews political
economy has been a cause of irritation
to some Of the trustees. and then his
monetary views were still more obiec-
tionable. although not as extreme. The
surprise was that he held on so long.
In the correspondence between the
advisory and executive committee of
the corporation of Brown university
and E. Benjamin Andrews. no refer
ence whatever is made to the latters
views on the question Of free trade or
protection. but the committee does
make explicit mention of "a leading
issue in the recent presidential election
and which is still predominant in ma
tional politics, namely. that Of the free
coinage of silver as legal tender at a
ratio of 16 ounces of silver to of
gold" That was the issue between the
trustees of Brown university and its
president. and nothing. else.
But supDosing the issue had been
President Andrews views on free trade.
would it have been any less narrow.
any less bigoted, and less mercenary,
for the board of trustees to have forced
him 10 resign because of his views on
that question than because of his views
on silver? Not the least in the world
The scandal of the thing is that an
American university VIII let mercenary
motives dictate its educational policy
and say what views on certain sub
jects its president shall or shall not
have. Brown university deserves to be
held in contempt forever and a day.
When the Inter Ocean SAYS that the
trouble mainly grew out of President
Andrews advocacy of free trade. it
states that which is false. and that it
cannot but know to be false. Its motive
for making the statement is to divert
attention from the real cause. and
nothing more. 1t, as a good Republican
journal. knows that the administration
is coquetting with silver through a BIZ
metallic commission, and it is anxious
to do all in its power to aid the scheme.
This Andrews case has made the silver
issue prominent, and has served to
show as nothing else possibly could,
the bigotry of those who, in the presi-
Dental campaign, opposed free silver
and supported Mckinley and the single
gold standard. Hence the Inter-Ocean
desires to divert attention from the
facts in the case.
This attempt of the Inter-Ocean to
substitute a false for a true reason. is
one of the most barefaced we ever en-
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