Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-25
Yes. Let us Be Fair.

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Colby, where no State aid is given
kennebec Journal.
That members of the Maine Legis-
lature ms4 not be deceived or misled
by the above extract from the kenne-
! bee Journal of Monday, whose editor is
n graduate Of Bowdoin college, the
Commercial asks them to remember
these things:
I. The University of Maine has as
good a right to teach Latin and Greek
US any college in Maine.
. Such has had no tendency to cur
tail the attendance at Bowdoin, Bates
or Colby, as the classes at those col
icges are now larger than they have
been in former years.
3. No State aid is given the Uni
versity of Maine but that which the
State is by contract legally bound to
give. No part of the fund from the
general government can be appro-
priated for the erection or maintenance
oe the necessary buildings at Orono.
This point is well understood by the
legislators of Maine and has never
been denied.
Let the Bowdoin editor of the Ken
nebec Journal be fair.-Bangor Com
mercial.
| Does the Bangor Commercial think
it is flair" to clip an item from the
news columns of the Kennebec Jour
nal and reproduce it in such way as
to give it's readers to understand that
it was an editorial utterance on our
part?
| TN ;ol. ha r.i q
would have it's readers understand was
written by the "Bowdom editor of the
Kennebec Journal was written by
cur general legislative reporter and
lappeared in his news report. 1t stated
plain news fact without comment and
without opinion. The writer is not a
graduate of any of the Maine colleges,
and has 70 prejudices in favor of one
or the other. He is however, as fair
a man as ever did newspaper work
about the State House during legis-
Iiative session.
Inasmuch as one of the members of
the Journal firm has a son in the pres
GIfl IulllOE CLASS dl lilc VI
Maine, 1t might naturally occur to the
thoughtful citizen that there would
be no special desire on the part of
this paper to say anything or
do anything to the prejudice of that
institution; even if it had ever been
, it's custom to say anything to the
, ! o. Of hn =
tional institutions of our State.
We suspect, that the real purpose of
. the Commercial in the editorial above
, quoted was to secure the insertion OF
: it's 1-2-3 in the columns of the Ken
= nebec Journal. 1t is a very clever
l strategy-not infrequently resorted tc
2 by shrewd editorial writers-and we
= are willing to grant the Commercial
5 whatever measure of satisfaction il
: may have in the success of the ruse--
| even though it's editorial reached us
too late to have any bearing upon the
f legislative debate.
l Yes, the editor of the. Journal is g
!. Bowdoin graduate. Moreover he takes
f cheerful satisfaction in saying thai
2 he is proud of his alma mater. II
l the fifteen years, however, that he
tjhas edited this paper, he has nele 'yc
written one line to the disparagemen
= of any of the other colleges of oul
e State. He has recognized the noble
p 1 hat of Thorn ic doing
: how much it all means to the intellec-
tual advancement of the community
= It has been his aim to promote, in ev-
e cry possible way, the interests of all OF
them. He has gathered about him il
the work of the paper men from EACH
a of them. A year and half ago, al
s scented on the active staff of the Ken
e nebec Journal. Three of them are sc
represented at the present time-oul
Bates man leaving our office to accept
fine position as the telegraph editor
of one of the Portland dailies, which
position he still retains.
: The "Bowdoin editor of the Kennebet
i Journal" has moreover, maintained
t correspondents at all four of the
4 Maine colleges, and while it has
e featured" none of them this paper
4 has devoted in the total more space tc
e the exploitation of their affairs thar
e any other daily in the State.
The Journal does not look out upor
the colleges of Maine in any narrow
or jealous spirit. Thank God there is
: ample work for all of them to do-ant
V in doing it they merit the hearty Goo
speed of every man-wherever he may
: have been educated-who has at hear
the highest interests of our grand ole
State.