The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-10-12
COLLEGE PROFESSORS AND
TRUSTS.

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politicians to discredit the college pro
! fessors in their view of the treatment
proper, and yet there is no other class OF
men giving attention to this subject sc
diligent in their research or so honest IN
their purpose. They have proceeded as
all men do who work intelligently. &c
learn all the conditions upon which the
existence of the trust rests, and dlstln
guish which are inevitable and which
forced, among these In short their first
work was collection of facts. CLASH
fcatiop of them SO that their tendencies
and origin may be apprehended thus
furnishing the practical politician with
basis upon which to work if he is hon
est in his ayowed purpose to correct the
evil which he insists is sapping the life
blood of the country.
Almost everything of value with ref
erence to trusts thus far developed has
come either through the college profess
sor or those whose line of work is SINH
lar to his
Why do people at the beck OF politi-
clans, cry down men working i'll the in
terests Of the general public who have
no selfish interest in the outcome of their
work unless il be the intellectual pleasure
attendant upon investigation, and in
evolving a system which will conserve
individual rights? fpeople are interest
ed in the prevention and destruction of
dangerous monopoly will they persist in
declining the services of those whose
not governed by Interior motive? Must
"a man have thirst for Office as commits
sion to act for the peopley Is disinter
ested and intelligent inquiry an imperti
hence in the opinion of those for whose
benefit inquiry is instituted?
Leaders of political parties rejoice
when evils are either existent or threat
ening as an opportunity is thus furnish
ed to appeal to the people, and offer
of devotion to their inter
ests. Could anything be denounced with
more apparent sincerity and with such |
evident purpose of immediate destruc-
non with given opportunity, than the |
abolition OF the pass during the cam
)aign of 1882 Those on the stump re-
5retted the time spent in sleep because
{ was an interim during which pass
abolition could not be successfully pros
'cuted. When the time came to re-
leem promises made with vehement
of sincerity, indeed they
we're declarations burning with desire,
{ was an extremely difficult matter to
ecure any action at all on the abolition
# the pass.
. 1t is SO with the trust. 1t is not "A
LANCER to be averted but IN issue to be
worked The candid. sincere men who
re carefully working out a means
whereby the dangers of the trust NAV
'e obyiated without detriment to lines
i business legitimately conducted. are
ainted as Intermediates and theorists.
ncapacitated to aid the people because
hey believe more in thoughtful line of
elton than III buster.
The people themselves are responsible
br the existence of demagogues as they
ecry those who do not assume that role
lille making heroes of men Of words.
And yet our form of government is the
roduct of centered and quiet thought.
he men who framed it We're politicians
hen the word politician was SYNONYM
statesman Their method was that
he college professor now employs. Our
,rm OF government AS it came from
leir hands was the crystalization of the
Sperience OF centuries. 1t was the work
the student of history abetted by the
IAN of affairs. There was no purpose
carrying an election present to pre-
ant the free exercise of judgment
he men were free from bias The man
ho did most to shape the form of gov
whose adoption was later secur-
| through the machinery of politics un-
linted by corruption, was student of
overment and not known as politician.
he germs of pr ogress in industrial lines.
governmental growth, in everything
to human happiness CT
over have sprouted under the rays of
ne students lamp The orator is only
he complement of the student He may
e both in herself, but rarely The str
ent is honest; the orator not always SO.
NE student is thorough and safe; the
rator not often SO. If we glorify the ,
tudent more and the orator less we shall
'e following safer path than by revers-
ne this order.
SENATOR DENNET has announced that
le is not . candidate for the republican