The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-23

and control eXerted by millionaire
givers to great institutions of learning,
and as to one instance asks: why is
it to, be expected that the widow of
California millionaire, who made his
rapid pile out of cheap Chinese labor
and land speculation, should value per-
feet liberty of speech so highly as to
endure what seemed to her false and
pestilent announcements on the Land
and immigration Questions?
/ suppose his observations We're al
most entirely confined to the rich,
plethoric North. He says that ne
found little soreness" in academic
centers over this matter of millionaire
control by endoWmentS, and showed
that there is real danger. He says,
and he certanl-- writes like one we'll
informed of the difficulties and perils;
that "the tendency is to hnd
! safe men, who will find safe mate
rails, for sound handling. Teachers,
programmes, textbooks are all sub
iected to careful sitting. The process
is of course, somewhat PrecarlouS. In
several kept universities men of very
advanced views are members OF the
teaching staff indeed their presence
is commonly adduced as an answer
to the charge of millionaire control.
There must be moral, Intellectual
monetary independence. 1t must come
to that or there will be constant fric-
tion danger, vicious control. Things
/ will be taught that should be at once
rejected, and the morale of schools
must be sustained despite the fiag1tlons
manoeuVres and controlling influences
of the plutocrats. You can not teach
sounl political economy and genuine
' scientific methods under the supervi-
sion of men who have made their for
tunes by robber tariffs and monstrous
| blood-sucking trusts. Moral and
mental mutilation may easily follow
| such welding of power to the detrl-
ment of both life and character. The
true higher education must be main
tanned but not by a sacrifice of indie
pendence and character. There is too
much involved here to be either ignor-
ed or contemptuously dismissed.
The wise BritiSher near the end of his
able, thoughtful paper puts so much
insmall space, l must cite here and
j there:
! "Endowments of colleges proceed
I ing from vested interests will, in ef-
feet, be devoted to the defence of those
interests; and the cause OF educatlon
will suffer accordingly.
! 1.-The deceitfulness of riches is such
that it will induce colleges to con-
temptuous denial of this inevitable
chain of moral and economic causa-
ton. If then an individual
is degraded by charity, if his self-re-
lance and energy are Slapped by un-
earned and unmerited gifts, how much
more is a city or a nation injured II
she permits individual charity to do
for her what she ought to do and can
do for herself? - We can
not really get our intellectual efficiency
by the grace of millionaires.
Goethes tragedy of Faust is very
| long when you read the entire produc-
! ton, occupying over II, 900 lines. But
| this is really short when compared
| with Werners Sons of the Valley.
It's first part appeared in 1901. and the
next year part second followed. Each
part of the play, for such it is, is in SIN
acts, and the whole make small
octave of 500 pages. The subject OF
this play is the destruction of the Or
der of Good Templars. 1t is regard
! ed as an original production, but with
few incidents, and of but little inter
est 1t is said to be one gorgeous
wild phastasmagoria." An hundred
years ago it attracted no little con
siderat ton in Germany. 1t is glarlng
/ barbaric, -phantasmic. The author was
Young when he wrote it. He produced