The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10

the State 20 enlarge its campus indefinitely.
Or TO tax the endowment funds OF a college
in real estate, while the beneficiary of such
taxes has a mortgage on every square foot
OF real estate In the commonwealth. Is not
an act Of bad faith merely. IT is simply BAR
We may have slept on our rights or en-
dured our wrongs too long &c ever be re-
that act of 1861. which constituted one OF
the private colleges a State University, and
wnlSh has already absorbed more than
S.uvc.op wrested from unwilling taxpayers.
with a. prospect OF more and more every
succeeding year. with nothing 10 show for
IT but the saving of barely As cents a week
to each student, and moi even that 20 those
whose travelling expenses are enhanced by
going 10 a remote part OF the State. but We
certainly can elect a Legislature and a lieu
tenant governor that Will not perpetuate
the great wrong OF committing the inter-
ests OF our schools 10 a State Board in
whose election the people nave not a
word 20 say. even through their representa-
tives in the legislature. the principal MEM
spirit. is where he is through a board OF
trustees that he and others equally indie
pendent OF the people elect-an endless
chain machine, you see. the president elects
the trustees that elect the president 10 q
second lucrative Office. that elects the trus-
feels education in The State. It's lobby in
the Legislature of 1899 would not allow
a bill TO pass which simply proposed 10
authorize the taxpayers OF Marion county
to tax themselves in the interest OF a local
educational institution the indianapolis
University, while IL taxes the whole State
without asking whether IL may or not. The
people can endure. If they must. the hnan-
cial burden this great wrong imposes: they
can appropriate that quarter million as the
beginning Of enlarged plant that is 10 cost
more than a million: they can enlarge the
campus to any size the fancy of the trus-
tees may demand, though the other colleges
of the State may not enlarge theirs at their
own expense, without paying tribute TO the
octopus on all above a limited number OF
0D1 4Aax 49, >aAnA tho nfneA
nance fund TO any conceivable amount with
out any loss of se~lf-respect. but they cam
may not tax itself in the interest of a local
school because that school threatens TO in
terfere with its domination. nor can they
tolerate the bad faith of the State towards
the colleges of the State which the I'M
broken policy of the State for ffty-one
years had made a necessity without q sense
sfandard OH trust. the Sugar Trust.
earth more domineering than this school
trust. and by 80 much as the moral and in
teiiectual interests OF a people are superior
TO the commercial and material IL Is more
TO be detesteG than all of them
On the conclusion of DIR. Goodwin's re-
marks the following resolutions. offered by
DR.. Lasby. were unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That we accept the facts and
figures set forth in the paper as Substantial
y srue sh IN i every resRsc'ii o anu en "a n ws te,
the paper.
Resolved. That we approve the sugges-
ministerial associations and the district and
annual conferences of the State TO the
question, and ask each to take such action
as will most effectually correct the wrongs
set forth.
Resolved. That We respectfully invite
are engaged in maintaining colleges 10 CO.
operate with us in seeking relief from the
wrongs inflicted upon the colleges of the
State b. the present policy of the State.
along the line suggested by the paper. or
any other line that may be agreed upon"