The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-03
RANCOROUS HATE.
That Drove President Andrews
From Brown University.
Is PillOried Before Public Opin-
ion by the Faculty.
THEY ISSUEA PROTEST
That the State Where Roger
Williams Fled
To Secure Freedom of Speech
and Thought
Should Have Shrunk in Its
Petty Meanness
TO SUCH A DEGREE
That Gold Dictates Opinions In
stead of Brains.
Seems to Be a StandOff Between
Kansas and Rhode Island.
Kansas Pops Fire Fairchild, Il.
I. "Plutes'' Fire Andrews,
Which Shows How Spiteful All
Partisanship Is.
That Gold Dictates Opinions In
stead of Brains.
Seems to Be StandOff Between
Kansas and Rhode Island.
Kansas Pops Fire Fairchild, r.
/. "Plutes'' Fire Andrews,
Which Shows How Spiteful All
Partisanship Is.

letter addressed to the corporation Oh
Brown university by members OF the
faculty of that institution, is the laleSe
development of public interest IN reIa-
ton to President Andrews reslgnatloh-
The letter was mailed today to trustees
and fellows and to some 80 lay and reg
ular members of the faculty.
In substance, the address says that
the resignation of President Andrews
followed as a direct and natural conse-
quence of the action of corporation OF
June II, and that Brown university now
stands in an unfortunate position.
IF we are not mistaken the letter
states, more is involved than the ex-
igencies of a single institution or the
fortunes of a single educator
''Recognizing that the corporation has
not been alone in thinking and saying
that DR.. Andrews freedom of speech
ought to be restrained, we beg leave to
combat the proposition, wherever and
by whosoeVer maintained, that official
action leading to restrain his express
sions on public affairs is justified on the
lower ground of pecuniary necessity
and advantage; and it lacks all justifi-
cation when considered from that high
er point of view from which the educa-
tionaI institutions of a great country
ought always to be guarded
If income be a fit criterion then Dr.
Andrews is entitled to be regarded as,
in a pecuniary sense, the greatest bene-
factor Brown university ever had. More
than half It's income is beyond doubt
due to him and his laborS. If restraint
of President Andrews cannot be justi-
fed on these lower grounds of pecuni-
airy results, still less defensible does 1t
appear when viewed from higher
ground. The general arguments for
freedom of speech it is not necessary to
repeat, least of all, in Rhode Island,
81 icrI0f to n l7Q or
260 years been cherished with peculiar
jealousy. If the resignation of DR.. An
drewS is accepted, the burden and the
stigma fall on his successor. 1t would
stamp the institution in the eyes of
the country as one in which freedom
of thought is not permitted, when 1T
runs counter to the views of tie com
munity or held by those frezr, whom
the college expects financial support
Reference is made to the Getails of
the corporation meeting at which Pres
ident Andrews was requeSed to forbear
in the future from the PRONUNCIATION of
his free coinage of silver views, and it
is declared that it was not intended to
have the vote OF the corporation made
public.
private and individual remonstrance
is one thing it is declared by the fac
uIty But action of the sort described
by the body which appoints presidents
is, we submit, very different thing. 1t
is opened to the gravest objections, and
rests upon a theory which,if extensively
our educational institutions-the theory
that the material growth of a universi-
ty is of more Importance than inde-
pendence of thought and expression on
the part of it's president and profess
sors. and that boards of trustees have,
as such, the right to suggest limitations
upon such Independence.
''It is not to be believed, and we are
far from believing that this theory in
all it's amplitude was present to the
minds of your honorable body on the
occasion named and distinctly accepted
by them. But the logical connection
between that theory and the concert
action taken is, on consideration so
plain that it has found a complete lodg-
ment in the public mind to the manifest
injury to the university that we re-
spectfully beg you to take again into
consideration the principles involved at
your ensuing meeting to take that ac-
tion which can alone relieve Brown un-
iversity from all suspicion of ilIiberaI-
ity bias
The letter was signed by the most
prominent men connected with the un-
iversity, including Benjamin F. Clarke
J. Franklin Jameson, Henry B. Gard
ner, Hermon c. Bumpbus, Courtney
Lar gdon, John M. Manly, Otis E RAN
dali, George G. Wilson, Edmund B. Del
abarre, ]. Irving Manatt, Walter c.
Bronson, Walter G. Everett H l.
Koopman, Carl Barus, Henry P Man
ming, Hammond Lamont, John E. HILL
James Q. Dealy, Walter B. Jacobs
Charles F. Kent, Edward G. Burnham
A. Def Palmer, Jr., Albert D. Mead and
Louis F. Snow.