Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-05-19

The recent request made by the pres
ident Of the University Of Chicago for
an additional $5,000000 to be added to
it's endowment funds shows how costly
a thing great university is. This in
stitution is one of the youngest Of the
great schools of the country; it has al
ready received in endowments about
$12,000,O0O but yet there is an annual
deficiency Of something like 5000, 1000,
which is not provided for and has to be
raised from outside sources. To pro-
vide for this about $5,0O0,0O0 more
should be added to the revenue-pro-
ducing funds of the institution. The
University of Chicago is not in this re-
spect an exception to the general rule
in this country. 1t costs over ST 100000
annually to run Harvard University
and it's endowment is about $9,OOO,O 900.
Yale has funds aggregating $4,582, 900,
and yet the institution is poor and is
always pressed for adequate funds to
carry on its educational work. Column
bia, in the city of New York, has &c.
4O0, 1000 in funds, but it is restricted in
each Of it's departments by lack of mon
ey Some Of the other universities in
this country having large productive
funds are: Cornell, New York, $780,
600; Girard, Pennsylvania, $15,210,000;
Johns Hopkins, Maryland, 100000;
Leland Stanford Jr., California, &c.
100000; Northwestern, Illinois, So, 1885,
600; Tufts, Massachusetts, $1,7O0,OO0;
University of Pennsylvania, $2,422 900;
Vanderbilt University, $1,1OO,000, and
Wesleyan University, $1,172,O00. The
number of schools with endowments Of
less than 100000 are to be counted
by the score.
There is disposition to regard Texas
as one of the very backward States in
the Union. This impression may, in
some respects, be not altogether incor-
rect. But in many other respects Texas
has made progress. Especially in re-
gard to popular morality and in the
maintenance of law and order the State
OF the lone star is creating a record
that some Northern and Eastern States
might initiate with credit to them
selves. Some years ago the administra-
ton of criminal justice in Texas was
principally in the hands of the lynch
law courts. Great outrages were per-
petrated in the name Of humanity de-
handing redress for brutal crimes. But
society did not get better. The rule Of
violence did not bring peace and ODE
diemce to law. The mem Of advanced
thought and the friends of social order
in Texas found that In many instances
perhaps ia most cases in public VIC
lence-the peace officer OF the county or
city or town, as the case might be,
made no effort at effectual resistance
when a mob attempted to take pris
oner out Of his hands for the execu-
ton of summary popular justice. 1t
was then thought that Ii officers
charged with the custody of prisoners
were held ito a closer accountability for
the prisoners IN their care the rule of
violence might be brought to an end or
at least restrained. The Texas Legis-
lature, therefore, passed a law which
perpetually disqualified for office-in
effect DISTINGUISHED sheriff, depu-
ty, constable, police officer or jailer who
should permit a prisoner to be taken out
purposes. 1t is a matter of official rec
ord that since the enactment Of this
law not a single lynching case has oc-
Cured in the State.
The wisdom and unwisdom Of self
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