The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-06-03
DIScRIMINATES AGAINST
CATHOLIC PROFESSORS

Before he left New York on his Wa%
to his native Scotland Andrew Car
negie established a $4,000. 600 fund for
the purpose of providing annuities for
college professors incapacitated from
further performing their duties. AL
though he did not expressly say so. ne
has taken good care that no professor
who spent his days in teaching in
Catholic universities and colleges shall
ever obtain any of these annuities. The
twenty-five trustees whom he has APP
pointed to invest and administer the
fund are all Protestants. and include
the president of a Presbyterian college
in New Jersey. the president of a Bap-
list college in Chicago and the presi-
dent of a Methodist college in WiScOn-
sin. The letter in which he lays down
the conditions under which the annui-
ties are to be given contains. it is true,
this sentence: The fund applies to
the three classes of institutions named.
without regard to race. sex, creed or
color But this seemingly broad
minded statement is contradicted by
the sentences which Immediately fol-
low it: I'VE have, however, to recOg-
niZe that state and colonial govern
ments which have established. or main
ly support universities, colleges or
schools, may prefer that their rela-
lions shall remain exclusively with the
state. | cannot. therefore. presume to
include them. There is another class
which states do not aid, their constitu-
tions in some cases even forbidding it,
viz, Sectarian Institutions Many of
these established long ago were truly
sectarian, but today are Tree 10 all
men of all creeds or of none-such are
not to be considered sectarian now.
Only such as are under control of a
sect or require trustees Cor a majority
thereof officers, faculty or students, to
belong to any specified sect, or which
impose any theological test. are to be
excluded" Commenting upon these
conditions, the Catholic Citizen of Mil
waukee says that Princeton Univer-
sity, the Chicago University, Lawrence
College and many of the other insti-
tutions which obviously are to share
your benefaction have no Catholics or
Jews on their boards of trustees. They
limit their faculties to Protestants. All
perform the functions of sectarian the
illogical MISUNDERSTANDING train
ing Methodist, Princeton Presbyterian
and Chicago Baptist ministers The
Catholic University of Washington,
which admits students of all creedS,
has now or has had heretofore, Pro-
testants in it's faculty &c. G. Carroll d.
Wright, as professor of economics) 1t
is virtually limited in its board Of trus-
tees to Catholics but the Catholic
University which is no more sectarian
than Princeton University, is, under
the Interpretation which your exclu-
sively Protestant board of trustees will
give your benefactfon, substantially
excluded therefrom. Mr. Carnegie. is
this fair? As man of broad views,
with many millions. why have you per-
mitted a sectarian DOGGY to dictate
your policy? The fallacy of the po-
sition taken is illustrated in the as
that what is broadly Pro-
testant is non-sectarian, because there
are sects in Professionalism, but what
is Catholic is sectarian because there
are no sects in Catholicism. The idea
as carried out establishes religious
test No Catholic professor need APP
ply. '-Pittsburg Observer.