The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-25
EMBREE REPLIES.
Shows That DR.. Murlin of Baker
Is Unfair.
Mrs. Chrisnlan Didn't Want
Money to Go to Baldwin.
HASN'T BEEN A SUCCESS
Institution Is Least of State
UNCONVENTIONAL Schools.
Not to Be Blamed for Wanting
Chrisman Request.
HASN'T BEEN A SUCCESS

To the Editor of the State Journal
In your issue of yesterday you have
a dispatch from lola, Kan, the seat of
the South Kansas conference now in
session in which it is stated that DR..
Murlin, president of Baker university is
endeavoring to have the conference
take a stand in favor of Baker univer-
sity and to that end that he has asked
the conference Ito ratify the action OF
the Kansas conference held at Junction
City last week in regard to Chrisman
will matter"
Then follows a statement to the effect
that the MIS- Chrisman money is to go
to Baker university in case the univer-
sity of Topeka does not become an es-
tablished fact within ten years from the
date CT her death which occurred April
II. 1900.
The fact is that in case the Universe
ty of Topeka is not established within
ten years from the date above given
then the Kansas conference will be call
ed upon to. designate the institution or
institutions who are to receive it and
that Baker university is not mentioned
in the Will.
man verbally declared to d number OF
persons of the highest standing that she
did not want Baker university to have
any part OF her money. Deposltlons as
to this will be taken at once for use at
the proper time if il should ever become
necessary.
Farther along the article charges the.
subscriber with bad faith n the pres4n-
tation of certain matters in controversy
to the board of bishops. Ihe Dad Ialtn
is DR.. Murlin's.
Then follows a statement which is I'M
true. If DR.. Murlin is its sponsor either
in the dispatch to your paper or in
statements attributed to him before the
South Kansas conference or any OF It's
committees or anybody else by saying
or implying that the Kansas conference
in its session at Junction City passed
resolution against the esta bllshment OF
any other college or university in this
territory then he states that which was
not done and he knows it.
If he will say that he very much de-
sired that such a resolution might pass
and that he did@al that he could to
procure its passa ge resorting to methods
which are not common among gentle
men but that the conference by a large
vote indefinitely postponed all action
upon the subject he will then be within
the lines of exact truth.
Briefly ittmay be said that Baker uni
yersity is an old institution with an
honorable record in point of students
and the quality of work done but that
it is badly located and from a financial
point of view has never been a success
Its equipment is meager, its endowment
small and its outlook not encouraging.
Comparing relative strength it is the
least of the UNCONVENTIONAL schools and
after having lived forty odd years
largely upon collections from the
churches and upon the generosity of
preachers who in many instances gave
to Baker what would better have been
reserved for their families after they
were dead and gone it still finds itself
practically destitute in the midst of a
field. where other like institutions better
located are growing rapidly
Under the circumstances it was only
human to desire the Mrs. Chrisman
money and to experience a great temp
tation to get it if possible but nothing
in the circumstances or the will or any
where else can justify the policy of OBJ
struction, and general antagonism of
Mrs. ChriSman's expressed purposes
which has been the resort of DR.. Muir
lin for the past six years and now is
beginning to come to the surface en- |
abling the people to see and understand !
for themselves the true nature of the
controversy.
Meantime let me add that without
any flourish of trumpets the trustees Of
the University of Topeka are quietly |
and industriously at work to consum- |
mate a plan by which the city of To- |
peka viii become more than it now is
an educational center and by which the I
of the state in general will be /
greatly benefited. No appeal, educa- I
tionally speaking, has ever been made (
either to the MethOdiSts of the state or /
it's citizens upon any broad and COM |
prehensive scale and Judging by her
history in other matters it is fair to I
presume that when such appeal is made /
Kansans will respond with their usual
Iiberality. A. S. EMBREE.
Weekly Bank Statement.