The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27

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"Now, let US go down into Missouri. |
There is a college down there called |
| Drury College, situated in Springfield, |
Mo-, in the Ozark mountains. Missouri |
was a slave state few years ago, and
they were not awake to the subject of
education. They have walked up now.
! Drury College was started by a m sSion !
airy of the name of Drury from Olivet. |
They struggled along for few years,
! in debt, begging, their teachers not
| paid, and all that, and | said to them;
! Now, here; you raise $16O,000 for en- |
! dowment-1 make all do something
and | will then add $4,000 to that sum-
| They went to work and raised it quite
readily. Now, the college is full to over
! flowing. SO | told them the other day.
! You go to work now and build coll
/ lege building. Build a good one, with
some rooms for the sciences separate
! from the others. Build it to cost $50, 900. !
| You put in $4,000 and I will cover it
with another $25,000,' and the president
/ is working on the proposition now.
Nov let us travel 400 miles to Colo
/ RADIO Springs. About thirty years ago
/ l camped one summer with the Ute In
dianS, and there was nothing but lit
/ tile hamlet there. A missionary started
an academy and college there, and he
worked and dug and toiled, but they
| didn't get along well. By and by there
came along the right fellow, a bright,
smart, young fellow Of the name of
/ Sloculn-President Slocum-and had
confidence in that young man. l be-
! lieved that he could make that college
worth something. I said to him. 'Slo-
cum, you raise $15000O, and I will pay
you $4,000 down.
He thought while and finally
thought he couldn't do it. There were
rich men all around there-12 million
aires on one street in Colorado
Springs-what are they saving their
money for? Saving it to ruin their
boys and girls, and carry them to the
devil. 1 said to them, Work three
years if necessary, to raise $150 000.'
They sent me a bound and printed
book, and in that book there We're 1000
names-the name of every individual
who contributed toward that $150,000. 1
have it now. I require it. And. then,
I required from the three best business
men of Colorado Springs evidence that
they have raised the $4,000 and have
the money in hand. No getting around
it. They must come right up to the
business mark Now what have they?
They have a perfect crowd of students.
They come 300 miles with their packs
on their backs from the mountains
and the plains, and they crowd in
there, eager for an education-and they
get it.
Nov, let us go about 600 miles fur
/ Their. Let us go to the Pacific coast,
about 20 miles from Portland, and find
a place called Forest Grove, where
George Atkinson, an old school mate
Il of mine in Vermont, went so years ago.
Il He Travelled around by the Horn and
was six months in getting there. AS
soon as he was properly settled down
he started an academy, and in few
years a college, and that has had the
same trouble all the way through-in
debt, teachers not paid, people sick of
being begged for the college. I wrote
to President McLelland and said; Here,
in memory of George Atkinson, my old
schoolmate, and in memory of Mr..
Marsh, who was president for many
years. and died there, 1 will give you
$4,000 if you will raise 100000 They
undertook to build a college building,
and they got it about so far and there
stopped. I said: How much money
will 1t take to make that building com
plete?' They replied $4,000. l sent them
g. check for $4,000, and they put that
building in fine shape. They held
jubilee in July, and l have a detailed
account of what took place there. They
are about the happiest people on the
face of the earth.
"Now, is that not a good way to use
money? If you can find any better
WOQlNl llhS " nave yOlA LGIl HE dDOul IL
But we must hasten on. Let US go 300
miles east, and we come to Walla
Walla. Now, what is the history of that
college? Marcus Whitman, one of the
greatest missionaries and one of the
noblest men that ever walked the earth,
went there in 1912 with his wife. They
| crossed the mountains, taking the first
wagon over the mountains. They set
la H. 1t. I
an Indian school, and it was prosperous
and fiouriShing.
That old missionary, Marcus Whit
man, found that the British were plot
ting to seize and hold the territory 1t
was no mans land at that time. No one
knew whether the British or the Ameri-
cans owned it. There was a magnificent
empire up there, comprising Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho, and that shrewd
ana patriotic Marcus Whitman saw
that it was a country of great value,
with it's mighty forests, fertile plains,
its lofty mountains, it's mineral treas
ures. In the dead of winter he, with his
pack mule and guide, Travelled 1000
miles to Washington, d. c., and when
he got there his hands and face We're
frosted, but his head was all right. He
went before President Tyler and found
that Webster was about trading the
whole country off for some fisheries off
the coast or Nova Scotia.
Whitman said: / am not here for
office; l am here to tell you that that
is magnificent country, and it belongs
to the United States, and we must hold
it Oh replied Webster, it can never
be settled; there is not even a wagon
trail i have taken a wagon over the
mountains, and l took my wife along
with me, so / know what | am talking
about, 1 came here for the purpose of
/ saving that pOnOfTXr said
The next spring he took 1000 people
from St. Louis, Missouri and Illinois,
and he took 1000 cattle with him over
the mountains. He settled in that beau
tiful country.
The British were jealous of that smart
man, and they melted the Indians to
kill him. They did kill him, but he
left another good missionary behind
a man of the name of Eels. The best
monument to be erected to Marcus
Whitman was to build a college in his
name, and such a college was built
costing $4,000, a very ordinary build
ing. After struggling along for a few
years they We're perfectly stranded
mortgaged for $4,000 They appointed
a new president q magnificent fellow
of the name of Penrose. [ had written
, them that I would give them $4,000 if
they would raise $150,000 They did not
make a move. The new president came
into my office one day and said his
name was Penrose, the president of
Whitman College. He said they were
$13,500 in debt. and that there was a
mortgage on the building, and that he
didn't see how it was possible for them
to raise S150000 And said he. we
can't live without it,. / then sat down
and wrote my check for $13,500 Now
, said /, send that out and pay the
teachers and clean it all up