The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-28
JUMPS ON
ROCKEFELLER
EX-PRESIDENT OF WISCONSIN
UNIVERSITY SCORES CHICAGO
UNIVERSITY.

Dr. John Bascom, formerly president
of the University of Wisconsin, who is
attending the Wisconsin State Teach
ers association convention, made a
sensational attack upon John d. Rock
efeller and the Chicago university in
an address this afternoon. He said
mo money that is 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
| turn money that has been made at the
expense of the community into the well
fare of the community. The faint of a
bad temper win cling to it like a favor
in an unclean infusion
THE present contention OF men over
riches is like the lighting OF dogs over
bone. The victor limps away under
blind Instinct, buries his bone, and
| then forgets It, Bones have not even
| nourished the dog-life wasted upon
| them. The glory of a reality accom-
plished, the beauty of a day that has
not yet dawned, these are the enthu-
slams of the teacher, and into these
eternal terms he must translate all hui
man experience
/ As this was apparently aimed at the
/ Standard OH magnate he was asked for
. / an explanation, anu ne saul
Certainly | meant the Chicago uni
versity and its acceptance of the gifts
from John d. Rockefeller. When an
institution founded and maintained for
the benefit and education of the youth
of the public accepts money which has
been gained i'm direct defiance of laws
and principles laid down by that pub
lie, Il vitiates it's influence ON the minds
of those students upon whom il is Its
duty to exert a good and moral inilu-
ence.
Therefore, I say that money ill-got-
ten. 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 tc
the colleges and to the communities at
large He gained his money according
to the rules which We're recognized by
the publio and by a protection which
the public afforded him with its full
consent. and though l do not believe II
ought to have given that protection
still it made his gains perfectly lawful
Therefore the same stigma cannot 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 law, both ethica
and statutory and being in defiance OF
such laws one who accepts the profits
from such practices accepts portion
at least, of the responsibility of th'
acts whereby they were gained.
81 never go near the divinity schoo
of Chicago university without wanting
to tell them what ] think of their ac
cepting money made by the undersell
/. ing of poor men, crowding them out o
business and Immediately raising th'
price of the very wares which you vii
not allowPdther men to sell, accepting
1 say, this money out of the ruin o
= good and honest tradesmen, and trylnI
to train young men to the preaching o
the gospel with this money, and unde
the Influence of such men. For If yol
accept that money you are under obi
CATION, and so under the influence o
the donor. The basic principle of tn
whole thing is wrong
| Dr. Bascom is now living at vii
lamstOn Mass.