The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-11
BRANN's ARTICLE.
The Text Of the Publication Whicn
Caused the RucnS mt waco.

Caused the Rucns mt waco.
: To the Editor OF The Post.
,. notice that the daily papers have giveI
: very full accounts OF the troubles wnici
we're caused by the article recently writ
! ten and published by the Iconoclast, bn'
none Of them have printed the offendinf
article itself. ask, therefore, that you
print 1t in The Post. and hereby enclose to
you. Texas
The following from the Iconoclast is
what caused the Bay .nf students TO assd VI
Editor Brann:
II note with unfelgned pleasure that. &C.
cording to claims of Baylor University, IL
opens the present season with larger
| contingent OF students, male ana leipaie
than ever before. This proves that Texas
Baptists are determined to support It at
any sacrifice-that they believe II tt.ter
| that their daughters should be etoosed 10
Its historic dangers and their sons con
demned to grow up In Ignorance than inat
| this mandatory of ministers ANA Mag
| dalenes should be permitted 10 perish. IL
| Is devoutly hoped that the recent expose
| OF Baylors criminal carelessness will nave
| beneficial effect--that hencefo.th oranan
| girls will not be ravished on the premises
| of it's president and that fewer Young ladv
| students will be sent home encicnte. The
| 1conoolast would like to see BAYLOR UNI
versity $50 called) become an honor TO
Texas instead Of an educational eye-sore.
would like to hear 1t spoken OF with rev.
orence instead of sneeringly referred to bv
men u bout town as something worse than a
harem. Probably Baylor has never been
SO bad as many imagine, that the JOINT
keepers have been mistaken in regarding 1t
as a rival, that the number of female stu
dents sent away to conceal their shame
has been exaggerated; still IMAGINE tiaN
both its morale and educational advan-
tagcs are susceptible of considerable inl-
provement. The Iconoclast desires 20 see
Baylor veritable pantechnieon OF learn
ing-at least place where the careidl siu-
dent may acquire something really worth
emembering-instead OF Dotheoovs Tan
girls) halls, Squeeritic graft to relieve
simple Baptist folk of their hard-earned
Doodle by befuddling the brains OF their
BARNS with miscalled e1ueation. Cnfti
t,mately there is more brazen au1ckary in
our sectaran colleges thdl was ever
dreamed of by Cagliostro. The faculty of
such institutions Is usually composed of
specifically educated people who know
even less than Is contained III the text
books. AS a rule they are employed be-
cause they will serve at n beggasly rrice.
but some times because their EMPLOYERS
are themselves too ignorant to properly
pass upon the qualifications o. others. OF
can not estimate a mans ip.uileet BE- the
length OF his purse. by the auiodnt OF
money he has made and saved: but Il. is |
quite safe to judge mans skill in lis |
vocation by the arnoint OF salary he can
command. am informed that there Las |
never been a time when the salary unid |
the president of Baylor university ,.Xceed- |
ed S200O per annum--about half that of |
good whisky salesman or advertising solio- |
itor for second class newspaper. Ii such |
be the salary of the president what must |
be those OF the ''professors?' I imagine |
their salaries run from about $40 a month |
up to that Of a second assistant boohkeeper
In fashionable livery stable. judging by
the salaries which they are compelled to
accept. doubt II there be member Of tie
Baylorian faculty, including the president.
whc could obtain the position Of principal
of any public high school in the State.
People can not impart information which
they do not possess; hence 1t Is that the
graduates of Baylor have not been really
educated, but rather what the erst whlo
MI. Shakespeare would call "olapper--
clawed. There is no reason, howe Ter. whv
the institution should be in the future so
intellectually and morally Improbable as
IN Inc past. Change is the order CT the
universe. and as Baylor can not very vel,
become worse 1t must of necessity become
better. 1t will have the unswerying SUM-
port on the lconoclast in every earnest ef
Iort 10 place Itself upon higher edpca
-ioiai pane, to honestly earn the money
y pockets as tuition fees. | am even Will
ny 10 conduct night school f,ee of
~ curing three months IN the wear
or the instruction Of its faculty. n each
member thereof will give bond not 10 seal
oetter paying situation elsewhere ne
soon as ne learns something. In anv event
'non nayior can send me a yalediotoripp
tesn IRON ITS walls who Is better in
, otNieu than the average graduate of our
q ~ sohoois, III give 1t thousand del
ars as evidence OF my regard and har {
IS much annually thereafter to enen,,rn as,
~. IN the pursuit of common sense i
regret that my Baptist brethren Ers ,
IayueI ana Cranfill. Burleson and Car {
OIL should have cotton into sldtefn, ,
h hu unchristlan snarl over so pjtiful |
MI, Ing US bayior's $4,000 presidency-that
hey should give to the world su,h , fsss G
rant imitation of lot of cutthraat rnra :
eherates out for the long green. 10 ono !
an that Hayden and Cranfill are .a,i,s
uout each other In their Respective pn,sr.
"a, ue,ahd presume thai it is-.,hen r
,roa, oush. 10 be In the penitent;arv y
.s,,' gu please to remember that va arc o
esins as guardians eff morale as ey !,
mpies Tor mankind-as people ont ~ VII
ne original sin has been soaks-d 81 ~ :,
''np.st pool and whose paps are liIlea ~ .
ne pursuing point with The min, ~ ~,
Van Van kinuness. II you must bite and ,rr,tcb =,
ne ne brace of Kilkenny cats. wny I'M y
Ell eai aont you sneak quietly into the woods :
l,ta nsns u out instead of exhibiting YOUR q
s'o IN Jaekassegie to the simple peon,. y
Dallas and McLennan co,'n,ia puopss o.
Hereby bringing our blessed church int o ;,
Gadzooks! II you snleneiie Viz IL
earted Old buffers don't sand your b.nds II
nu take fresh grip ON your Cbristisn u
parity IN resign my position As s chan el
o ,n, Vi .he baptist church and become n AZ "
! 'r nron osaet, Ia Just be coferdammed ~
iurch whose educators. preachers ana vi "a, d dt
IFS are forever hacking away Mt each u
ner gozzies with hand Ak ana slinsin
'me IKE lot of colcred courtesans pl