Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-06-28
WHY They DEFEND
REASONS some COLLEGE PRESI.
DENTS DEFEND TRUSTS.
DR.. James r. Day, Chancellor of the
Syracuse, N. ", University, Has
Excellent Reasons tor His Defense
OF Standard Oil, and the Allied
Trusts.

DR.. James r. Day, chancellor of Svra.
cuse New York; University, took it up.
on himself to issue statement in which
he bitterly assaied President Roosevelt
because OF his recent message relating to
Standard Oil. Mr.. Day said: "There
are two forms of anarchism, The late
practices OF our president are of the more
dangerous OF these two FORMS" He also
said that "Anarchism clothed with Off
cial authority is covert, deceptive and
perilous in the extreme"
Below are extracts from DR.. DAYS
statement:
Anarchism which, among anarchists,
is compai atively harmless is not so when
we adopt it into the administration OF
our government. The president Of the
United States has positively no right,
constitntlonally or morally, to attack
corporate business or private business by
name. or court judges who decide cases
in opposition to his views.
There are regularly constituted meth
ods and processes OF our country, nation
al and state, for the correction of evils in
corporations and courts and also for the
arrest and punishment OF criminals. 1t
is an amazing bunder for our president
to depreciate the properties OF our coun-
try, like those of the New York Central
Railroad, Standard Oil, the Sugar and
other corporations, by an ex-parte con.
demnation and by sensational charges.
1t is an amazing blunder' for our chief
executive to ride into the senate with a
roundup of the commercial interests in
which hundreds of thousands of people
have their inyestments, thus threatening
the permanently Of great corporation in.
terests, before hearing word which the
representatives of these vast interests
may have to say for themselves"
DR.. Day also said: "Anarchism in the
White House is the most perilous anarch.
ism that ever has threatened our coun.
try"
Or the day following this statement,
DR.. NJ. NJ. Parkhurst. a Chicago clergy.
man belonging in the same denomination
to which Dr.. Day claims allegiance,
cago Record Herald, made this state
ment:
"Within the past sixty davs I have
been at Syracuse University and was
shown about the place by DR.. Day, who
contided to me certain plans for the ex
tension OF the college. He designated
| various buildings, rs recollect, and said
Standard Oil money had built this one
and cash from railroad and sugar inter
ests had built that.
"1f memory serves me, he said that
something like $780, 900 had been given
the university recently by the corpora
tions which he is defending in his attack
on President Roosevelt. He told me he
hoped, or expected, to get about million
more, and mentioned various structural
additions to the institution which he was
desirous of making"
DR.. Parkhurst was asked if he had OBJ
tained other evidence of the educators
alleged affection for the "money kings"
and in reply he said:
ayes, heard number OF interesting
things that did not expect to relate.
was told that the board OF trustees of the
university expected to retain Chancellor
Day because OF his influence among
wealthy New Workers. | was informed
that the chancellor would remain at the
head OF the school at an annual salary OF
81 900, and at the end of stipulated
period would he pensioned for life on
half salary, providing his program of ex.
tension were fully carried out. In other
words, the chancellor was to complete
the work OF rebuilding the university
with the money OF his millionaire friends,
and when he had finished was to be
given life pension"
Comment is unnecessary, but it may
be observed that if these great corpora
tions were required to obey the law
there wonld be no subsidies for educa-
tional institutions and no generous pen
sions for sycophantic educators. No
wonder DIR. Day, of the Syracuse Uni.
versity, regarded as anarchism in the
White House" the presidents patriotic
demand that the Standard Oil trust be