The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-09-17

they sect their well-paid attorneys in the
United States Senate, and at length they
stretch their hands over the colleges,
which it is easy to capture by examples
of generosity. Thus their design is to
prevent any effective action which shall
in any way weaken their authority or
undermine their position. Their object
cannot be mere wealth making, for they
already enjoy wealth beyond the dreams
of avarice. Apparently their intention is
first to convert the United States into a
powerful oligarchy over other lands.
X 1t is reserved for the free West
to dismiss from academic service tried
and competent teachers at the bidding of
rings of mil1ionaires who will not hear
one single criticism or questioning of the
Justice or necessity of their doings, or of
the character and tendency Of the trusts
they have built up with the aid and at
tie expense of the pnblic. The divine
right Of Kings is to be succeeded by the
divine right of millionaires, who are to
run everything, including the American
Senate and the conscience and intellect
of university professors 1t is none of
our duty to say how the American people
should deal with the portentous growth of
that money power which overshadows the
institutions of the republic. But we think
that the rich men of America are reveal
ing such deadly plot against all genuine
public freedom that, unless we are mis-
taken, the opening years Of the new
century will witness an outburst in the
West which will amaze the civilized
world"
The London Chronicle has this to say
on the same subject: "This dismissal of
DIR. E. Benjamin Andrews from the pres
idency of Brown University, Providence,
R. l , is the most serious blow yet struck
in America by the capitalist oligarchy
which threatens social, economic, and
intellectual liberty in the union, and we
do not wonder that the case has attracted
attention in the United States Senate.
1t is assumed everywhere i'll
| America, where the subject has been
under keen discussion for some time, that
DR.. Andrews has been dismissed from the
presidency of Brown University because
of his heretcal financial views, and be-
cause he, like so manly other wise men,
sees the growing menace to American
liberty of the trusts and syndicates, and
has warned his countrymen against them,
and has also advocated public ownership
Of big monopolies which have passed out
from the stage of possible economic com
petition The rich men, who
have already so largely controlled the
American pulpit i'll the large cities, seem
to have made up their minds that il
would also be we'll to get hold of the col
leges and universities where the study Of
economics and political science is far
mole widely extended than it is in Eng
land. All the institutions of the republic,
from the Senate to corner grocery in
prairie town, are to be managed by the
owners of the big nlonopolies-tha
seems to be the idea entertained by these
magnates; and consequently the univer-
sites, as being the places where the mind
of youth is formed, are to be captured
one by one. That this will rouse a most
bitter feeling first, and a dangerous insur
rectionary movement next, is absolutely
certain. A people who abandoned their
seats Of learning to the control of rich
men themselves neither cultured nor
caring, as rule, for culture) would de-
servo to lose their liberty-would, as a
matter of fact, soon lose it.
'We anticipate, therefore, the rise of
great wave of opinion in the United
States against the pretensions of the mo-
nopolist class as dagerous to freedom.
From the economic point of view that
movement will, unless we are mistaken,
lead to the substitution of public for
private control of the big trusts. and
ownership by the public of some forms of
monopolies. From the academic point of
view, it will lead probably to the substi-
tuition of state for private colleges and
universities, as i'll several of the Western
States already is the case"
[Even the English papers are noticing
with no little establishment the coarse
audacity and high-handed way this money
oligarchy is attempting to carry things in
this country. Aud it should be observed
that the Republican party is the main
political medium through which it works
The oligarchy used Cleveland and his
contingent of the Democratic party as
long as he was in power but held at the
same time its tight grip Oh the former. II
has the gold Democracy in its grasp, and
that element is in fair way to secure
Maryland.
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