The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-23
sWENssON ON P0PULIsTS.
He Draws a Parallel Between Breid-
enthal and Lewening.


President Carl A. Swensson of Beth
any college at Lindsborg. delivered a
lecture at the Swedish Lutheran church
last night to a large and appreciative
audience After the entertainment DR..
Swensson wrote the following inter-
view for publication:
The situation in Kansas is growing
better, said he. I'VE are becoming
more satisfied and more decent The
Kansas hen and the Kansas COW are
doing wonders for US just now, and the
good work has just begun. Cattle and
wheat are in good demand, and COM
mand very fair prices. The whining
epidemic of a general complaint has
about spent its force, and We are slow
ly but surely becoming normal again.
The fad epoch has seemingly come to
an end, and it will be fair, glorious
Kansas once more.
Don't ask me about the Populists.
Every body knows the sad, mOurnful
tale of the famous would be refOrmerS,
who are now at the we'll known Kill
kenny cat game among themselves.
There are two kinds of POpuliSts: those
who try to do the right thing,as far as
their hght gOeS-limited enough at best
and those who are as INSCRIPTIONS a.
they are unfnforrned. Breidenthal be-
longs 10 the better class; LeWelIing has
branded himself as the worst one of
them all. Ny old friend DOster is Won
derfully tame, il seems, and even H. b.
Kelly seems to be hankering after his
old pastures. The PODuliSt party has
never had the characteristics of per-
manency and it never will 1t is spor
adic, and after a While it will be the
Republicans and Democrats as before.
We viii probably have to fight fusion
a couple of times yet. After that the
phenomenon of Popocracy in union
with Democracy will belong to the
past.
Il believe the agricultural college
deal to be the most bare-faced shame
ever perpetrated in the name of alleged
reform in the entire history of the
a fgc1 F7G
lists are aVOWed enemies of a thorough
education, l am told, but to have a
board of regents depOse a splendid
corps of instructors and a magnificent
president, just because they would not
swear by the POpOcratic gods. is Moth
ing less than bIaSphemy against the
freedom of thought and conscience, and
a mOnStrOSlty- happily unheard of hith-
erto in the annals of Kansas politics.
President Fairchild is an ideal educa-
tor, man of fine intellectual attain
ments, a successful organizer, and
strong in executive ability He is an
honor to Kansas, and has succeeded in
making our agricultural college the
second best of its kind in America
don't know his successor, but from
what 1 have heard of him, and now
know of the regents, he is not the man
for Kansas. We are going crazy on
political economy. In no other science
is the difference between a beautiful,
sentimental theory and its practical OPP
Grafton in the cold, unfeeling everyday
life of today, as great as in political
economy. Newfangled. young, untried,
Inexperienced theorists are consequent
~ very dangerous as instructors in that
and kindred branches in our colleges
and universities I feel that our agri-
cultural college has received a terrible
backset.
AN agricultural college should de-
serve its name. That is its first duty,
so fully recognized by President Fair
child and his associates.
1T is to be deplored that the Popu-
lists, directly and indirectly drive so
many good and able people out Of our
young state Good, Intelligent. consci-
entiOus citizenship is the sine qua non
of our future prosperity.
Yes, Kansas is getting its share of
the plums, distributed by the Mckinley
administration. Ny feeling is that the
Republican part of our Kansas repre-
sentation in Washington knows its
business thoroughly. The results speak
for themselves