Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1902-04-30
Shall Missouri Stoop to Read?

Have the trustees taken steps to
dccapitate the heretical professors
in the University who basely pro
posed to have some of the money
being distributed by Mr.. Carnegie
applied to the building of a beauti-
ful library for the youth of Mis-
souri,? If not, why not! Does
not former Gov. Stone demand
that these slaves to plutocratic ed
ucation be sacrificed on the altar
of pure and undetiled mossback-
ism.
The fact that Mr.. Carnegie is
determined to give away his money
for libraries for the benefit of the
people and that it will be applied
to the building of libraries some
where, cuts no ice. Perish the
thought that the youth Of Missouri
should be benefited by Mr.. Car
negie's money. or that the grounds
of our State University be adorn-
ed with the profits CT tariff pro
tected manufacture. Better that
the money be wrung from thin
pocketbooks of struggling farmers,
or the hard earned wages Of toll
Or the savings of clerks than that
the youth of the state should be
corrupted by viewing beautiful
building erected by tariff money,
or their hands tainted by handling
literature housed in the gift of a
protection baron. Let us be steep
ed in ignorance, let us be deprived
of al. books before we let one dol
lar pass from the greasy hand OF
Carnegie into the horny hand of a
builder of a library.
Let us go beyond this in show
ing our horror of the fell act of a
tariff magnate who darcs offer 4
library to the rock ribbed sons OF
Missouri. Let US vote condem
nation of all who receive MIR. Car
negie's library gifts and disfran
chise the people of St. Louis, Jef
ferson City, Sedalia and other
Missouri cities who have stoopec
to accept libraries from the canny
Scot.
But on second thought there il
a faint hope that Missouri may
save her pride and take a library
building. When the agents OF
plutocracy offered to defray tho
campaign expenses of the Demo
cratic party in Missouri it was
former Gov. Stone who agreed
that the reputation. honor and in
dependence of the party could b.
preserved without losing the ad
vantages of plutocratic aid, if The
"stuff' were given in the name o.
a good Democrat. Perhaps if Mr.
Carnegie would consent to give
the State University a library il
the name and by the hand of San
Cook, the offer might be accepted
| without sacrifice Of state dignity
and sovereignty, or the loss of fool
ish professional ads.-Post- Dis
patch.
The jefferson Club, of St. Loui.
has proven such a good thing tha
similar clubs are being organized
in St. Joseph and Kansas City
The Democrats are already on th'
run when they resort to Nesbi
law and the police forces to carr,
Missouri. They are laughing il
their sleeves now, but when Con
gress gives us force bill, which
will surely be the result, unless tn
obnoxious Nesbit law is repealed
the other fellow will do the laugh
ing. No man should be sent to tn
legislature who will not swear II
vote to defeat such measures. It be
hooves the good people of the stat
to ''gct together" and save Mis-
souri, from the humiliation. Thes
are stubborn facts, and they mus
be met and defeated.-St. Loui
Referendum.
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