Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-23
SILVER MEN ANGRY
Discussing the Enforced Resignation Of
President Andrews.
Senator Jones of Arkansas and Eek.
press Their Indignation.

The free silver people in Congress are
expressing great Indignation on account
Of the forced resignation Of President An
drews Of Brown University. They ap-
parently feel that there is some capital to
| be had in making President Andrews ap-
pear in the light of a martyr to his con-
victions.
Senator Jones OF Arkansas, chairman o.
the democratic national committee, spoke
of the forced resignation OF President An
drews as a persecution.
1T u.s." he said, of piece with the gen.
eral policy of the gold party to stifie free
speech. They have muzzled the press ano
have endeavored in every way in theiI
| power to prevent our side of the question
getting fairly before the public.
THE persecution of President Andrews is
of piece with their policy of prescription.
II is a new thing in the politics of this
country. and such policy would not have
been tolerated nor attempted at any time
should serve as warning to the people
OF what they are to expect from the geld
party in this struggle"
Ex-Representative Towne chairman of
the silver republican national committee,
was hot in his denunciation of President
Andrews forced retirement.
The enforced resignation Of President
Andrews of Brown University" he said,
Gently appeared. of the gravely significant
fact that the gold standard and it's cognate
influences, having taken possession of the
physical assets of the country, are moving
toward absolutism in the realm Of the edu-
cational and formative forces that build
up public opinion and in the end maintain
institutions. 1t is one thing to plumber
the producers of the world
ut Is a thing that has been done fire.
quently in human history. though never
before on the scale of these modern days
nor with the same certainty. dispatch and
safety. But nothing in the worlds annals
approaches the splendid audacity of the
conception according to which it is hoped
to educate mankind into a glad and rea-
soned preference for its own spoliation
and enslavement.
Think of 1t. This organized selfishness
first devises a cunning scheme whereby 1t
can, by concealed and noiseless but certain
and pftiless operation, ceaselessly abstract
a growing increment from the produce OF
the toll and sacrifice of other men ana add
1t to its own store; next, the process Is car
ried on until the wealth of the world is
gathered into few hands, and they not
the hands that made it; and them just be-
fore the suffering masses Of mankind may
be supposed to be in danger Of sue
cessful revolt, the newspapers and maya
zines are gradually suborned, and,crowning
achievement in the history of selfshness.
schools are built and colleges endowed
with prodfgal liberality by the benefciar-
les and managers of the system for the
purpose of teaching a science inculcat-
ing as faith, and propagating as men
tai habit, the awful principles that justify
an approaching money unit and trust
monopoly of enterprise. Prof. Bemis was
compelled to resign from Mr.. Rockefeller's
monopoly university at Chicago for sim
liar reason.
"An over this land today are bright men
in the service of educational institutions
who bear about with them truths they
dare not teach. The friends Of liberty and
light ought to put their mites together and
found Il university of truth. great center
of free and fearless inquiry and honest
exposition where sincere men could con-
tinue to utter, to generations not wholly
lost, the natural promptings of the neart
and the true conclusions of the mind.