The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-03
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To Editor of Journal and Courier:
 In these days of bubbling altruism,
 when university presidents just drip
 with ethical advice, aGnonishing young
 men not to follow in the footsteps of
 those who have gone before in the bus
 mess world, just for the sake of tra-
 dition, if by following such tradition
 you shock your highly sensitive univer-
 sity conscience, but to live on q higher
 plane and do things according to the
 dictates of your conscience, thereby
 helping the world to appreciate high
 CT and more ideal life, 1t is strange that
 the sOrdid and corrupt public has these
 self-same ideals and practices them as we'll as breaches them, It has them so strong that 1t doesn't wish to touch money that has been made in a way that is morally dishonest, no matter if the money will help a few when it has been taken questionably out of many.
 It doesn't inquire into the question as to whether the money has been made
 within the law, for if it becomes satis- fled that it has been made in ques- tionable way it wants none of it to start any movement which In any way has to do with high morals. It would seem as though these golden sayings of
 the shakers of the wicked plum tree
 only meant their sayings to apply to the money you make wrengfully and keep and do not intend them to apply
 to such money if you give it to a uni- xyaV4cifXy n fOItnH Q nhdffs nYa ntIfnnl thought.
 In other words, don't the universities
 say this, taking both their words of wisdom and actions: Make your mon ey as you please, keep out of jail--and If
 on your piratical voyages through the world you kill and ruin a few, never
 mind, just think that you will be given
 an opportunity to give some of your hard earned and honest money to some alchemistical, esoterical and impecca-
 ble professors who will rub their hands together when they hear the melliflu-
 ous sound of the coin, tell you what a great man you are, how much your money will aid in helping to uplift young men, let you walk behind them in their grand yearly pageant and gaze upon their beautiful and undenIable marks of education, and then perhaps, l if you have given enough, bestow a
 few degrees upon you, not because you have money, oh, no. but because of your kind, honest and philanthropic nature and your unquestionable great ness and high character. Tn time, if things go on as they ought to, and our
 plane of living gets higher you will be
 permitted to give larger amounts and receive decoration of the collar.
 While there is no doubt that if the | universities receive money, no matter 4 if it were made in selling the people wood alcohol for whiskey, or selling in- ferior rum for Medford rum, because of the fact that it is going to do good to a l few young men or women, and because
 of it's passing through the hands of ed , ucators it thereby becomes refined and purified and is in fact, born again, so I long as there is a slight question in . the minds of some of the sordid public as to tile advisability of building churches and founding institutions of learning with money that has been made in a questionable way, wouldn't | it be well at this time to get a little | money that is unquestionably and un- deniably pure and innocent? We be- l lieve it would and that there is no bet
 ter man to start such 8 movement than that immortal son of Yale, that sincere