Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-30
Former President of Wisconsin
University Makes Sensa-
tiOnal Address
DR.. RAscoM SCORES OIL MAaNATE
Says Nothing But Harm Can Come of
Use of Money Wronsfully Taken
From the People-EviI in I'll Gotten
Gains-Resards Carnegie From a
Different View Point.


Bascom, formerly president of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. who is attending
the Wisconsin State Teachers Assoeia-
ton convention, made a sensational at
tack upon John d. Rockefeller and the
Chicago University in an address last
evening. He said:
mo money that 10 obtained at the
expense of the people can ever be used
for the good of the people. There are
no trusts in the intellectual world, and
no corners in the kingdom of heaven.
/ doubt the power of any university to
expense of the community into the well
fare of the community. The faint of a
bad temper will cling to it like flavor
in an unclean infusion.
1.-THE present contention of men over
riches is like the fighting of dogs over a
bone. The victor liinps away, under a
blind Instinct. buries his bone. and then
forgets 1t. Bones have not even nour-
ished the dog-life wasted upon them.
The glory of a reality not yet real. the
splendor of q work not yet accom-
plished, the beauty of a day that has
not yet dawned, these are the enthusi-
asm of the teacher. and into these eter-
nal terms he must translate all human
experience"
AS this was apparently aimed at the
Standard Oil magnate he was asked for
an explanation, and he said:
Certainly l meant the Chicago Uni
Yersity and its acceptance of the gifts
from John d. Rockefeller. When an
institution founded and maintained for
the benefit and education of the youth
If the public accepts money which has
been gained In direct defiance Of laws
and principles laid down by that pub
lie, it vitiates It's influence on the minds
of those students upon whom 1t is its
duty to exert good and moral infiu-
ence.
: wherefore, I say that money ILL
gotten, that is, at the direct expense of
the people. can never be used for the
benefit of the people. ! do not feel the
same about Andrew Carnegie's gifts to
the colleges and to the communities at
large He gained his money according
to the rules which were recognized by
the public, and by a protection which
the public afforded him with it's full
consent, and tho I do not believe 1t
ought to have given that protection,
Still it made his gains perfectly lawful
Therefore the same stigma can not be
attached to them as to the enormous
gains made by the Standard Oil Com
pany. The practices of the latter are
directly contrary to Jaw, both ethical
and statutory, and being In defiance to
such laws one who accepts the profits
from such practices accepts portion,
at least of the, responsibility of the acts
whereby they were gained.
IT never go near the divinity school of
Chicago University without wanting to
tell them what think of their accept
ing money made by the underselling OF
poor men, crowding them out of busi-
ness and Immediately raising the price
oil the very wares which you VIII not
allow other men to sell, accepting, l
say. this money out of the ruin Of good
and honest tradesmen, and trying to
train young men to the preaching of the
gospel with this money, and under the
influence of such men. For IL you ac-
cept that money YOU are under obli-
cation, and so under the influence OF
the donor. The basic principle OF the
whole thing is wrong."
DR.. Bascom is now living at Wtli-
iamston, Mass.