The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07
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Eminent Educators Comment
Upon the Evils of Today
Yellow Journalism.

Upon the Evils of Today
Yellow Journalism.
The following are extracts made
from the recent addresses of eminent
men to the students of leading educa-
tional institutions. What Does This
Signify?"
Every age has its vices and its viz
tues. The nineteenth century has had
vices, all due to the same source. The
first vice has been that of acumula-
ton. Put men together and tell them
to look after their own interests and
push ahead, and each man will be
measuring himself by his accumula-
lions. The second vice is the lawless-
ness of self-will. We hear Of the
criminal classes. Can you tell me to-
day who belong to the criminal class?
Do the insurance directors who bought
stocks low and sold them to companies
In which they were directors at high
prices? Do the railroad officials. who
broke the law of the land and now
stand convicted? Do the coal carriers
who did by gentleman's agreement
that was against the law?"-Dr. Ly-
man Abbot. to Harvard University.
II believe that whenever it comes
to great crisis-policical, industrial
or moral-there Is enough of the spirit
of Christ in America to save us. But
though we have good ground for hope
we are very far short of having ground
for complacent assurance. That part
of our people which turns with avidity
to sensational accounts of robbery and
murder is not far removed from the
multitude that cried, mot this man,
but Barabbas!" That part which
looks to platform or press for appeals
to its passions and which seeks lead
err who can give voice to the prompt
ings of its own prejudices or emotions
has advanced little beyond the stage
Of those who clamored for the cruel
fixion. And that part of our people
which. though more respectable than
the first group and more enlightened
than the second, is nevertheless con-
tent to make prosperity in business or
politics the test of success and to give
all its thoughts to the attainment of
that great prosperity by any means
not too grossly inconsistent with re-
spectability or enlightenment does not
differ greatly from him who washed
his hands of the whole matter that was
the most momentuous in the worlds
history. Hadley, to Yale
University.
'The vice of the age is that men want
wealth without undergoing that toll
by which alone wealth is created.
Among the rich and we'll to do business
and professional classes grating"
has been SO common that the very idea
nj to1f
word and reproach. Financiers, cap
italists. corporations may be the most
conspicuous sinners, but equally guilty
is the merchant who cheats his Gus
toners. or the lawyer who shows his
client how to circumvent the laws, or
the scholar who glorifies his patrons
success in business, irrespective of
the methods by which that success was
achieved, or the preacher who transfig-
ures the truthless opressOr and robber
of six days into the exemplary Chris
tian of the seventh."-Dr Jacob Gould
Schurman, to Cornell University
"A spirit of unrest is abroad. not
only in our own land but in other lands
as we'll. That this unrest has been and
Is being used by ambitious men for
their own selfish ends, and for gain
by journalistic builders of emotional
bonfires is certainly true; but it will
not do to dismiss this spirit of unrest
with sheer on that account."-Dr
Nicholas Murray Butler, to Columbia
University.
I'VE are living in an age which is
stepped in the commercial spirit. Com
mercialisn has invaded every sphere
of human activity. The professions,
the arts, our social conditions as we'll
as our business enterprises are tagged
all over with the money label. The
typical man of the hour is he who
knows the intrinsic value of nothing,
but can tell you the selling price of
everything-from the conscience of
politician upward. What doth it
profit MANI has come to be the SUI
preme standard of success. What is
there in it for me?' is the test by which
the average man today estimates the
opportunities of life:"-Dr. Donald
Sage Mackey to Rutgers College.
"The evils complained of have come
about because, as a people, we have
drifted from the old standard of homes
ty and patient accumulation into a mad
rush for welth, for the piling up of
enormous fortunes in the shortest pos
sible period of time. We must be
brought back to the old moorings, not
by violence and unlawful methods, but
by calm and inflexible application of
law."-Theodore P. Shonts, to Drake
University.
1--WE are cursed by the worship of op-
portunity. "-Mayor Mcclellan, to I'm
ion University.
"The thing to do to raise up compe-
tition is to rehabiliate the corporation,
to purify it, to restore to it the charac-
ter and responsibility. that the people
may come back into the ownership of
the country's Industrial properties.
For until that is done all opportunity
for new competitive enterprises will
be in the hands of those who alredy
have monopoly of the field."-Judge
Peter s. Grosscup. to Chautauqua.
What is the meaning of all this?
What does 1t signify? What does it
tell us Of the condition of the coun-
try? What does it point to in the way
of reform and legislation? Are these
words merely words signifying moth
ing? Is 1t not something worth pom
dering upon that from so many plat
forms of so many great universities
thoughts such as these are expressed?
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