The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-15
FUND OF ALUMNI
GROWING APACE.
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which is nodded into an assertive pub
lie opinion.
A Creator of Public Opinion.
at is in recognition of the force that
the school should exercise in the crea-
ton of a healthful public opinion upon
every question of public discussion that
the modern university enters upon the
broader plane of education. The day Of
mere scholasticism in the class room
as the beginning and end of a college
or university education has ceased. and
in it's stead teacher and scholar are
busy with questions of political and Sc
cial economy, the science of govern
ment, the problems of business ana ex-
periments of agriculture; in a word, all
the essentials which make up the du-
ties of practical citizenship. l hail the
new departure with a sense of profound
satisfaction, and for the increasing
force of our growing nation we must
demand that education enter into every
mans occupation: an education that
enables him to investigate, to weigh
and to decide.
but, to this wider field of under aking
there is one measure of protection upon
which the thoughtful citizen should in
sst at the hands of those who have 10
do with the control and policies of in
stitutions of learning.
No Tolerance of COciaIism.
There must be no tolerance of
the doctrine of the Socialist,
whether It take the form of
mere intellectual intoxicant or of a viz
ulent disease. No school can in justice
to the high duty which it owes to the
state and nation stand sponsor for doc
trines which demoraliZe the individual,
work harm to the public good and con-
travert the fundamental principles of
our whole social and political fabric I
am neither an alarmist nor a pessimist,
and yet 1 can not but feel the need Of q
strong assertion of a healthy public
sentiment in protest against the teach
ngs of even those who but make pro-
fession OF an intellectual socialism. In
the face of such perversion of true
economic teachings and the experience
OF mankind. no citizen who values his
sovereign citizenship should remain 81
lent when the demagogue and charl-
atan are preaching the doctrines of an
unwholesome and un-American unrest
| know of no more insidious foe to
American institutions, American tradi-
tons and American ideals than the
theories of the Socialist, which, if once
NHNJ Sl4Ohld pleRdll, WOULD TeuuCe nc
Individual to the merest nothing, par
alyze individual effort and disturb ev-
cry social relation.
In all the unrest which from time
to time has demoralized the ranks Of
labor, plagued the lines of business
and too often caused strife and blood
shed, not the least contributing source
of harm has been the preacher of So
cialism. who cunningly proclaiming his
doctrines of prejudice and spoilaton
of the dishonesty of prosperity, of the
unrighteousness of justice and the in
EQUITIES of the law, has deceived hon
est labor and engendered class hatreds.
AS against the agitator, / would set
the school master, and to him make
the appeal that he instil in those who
come within the circle of his influence
sturdy Americanism, which recog-
nlzes the supremacy of law, the power
OF the legally created courts of jus
tlce and the enforcement of judicial
DEGREES without fear or favor"