Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-02-21

IL, is oSIlIQdC6u, EIIlOS0 SplclluiU EpTOuuGIS,
as DR.. Hadley claims. of his civiliza-
on-sustaining universities, and the
country stands aghast at the corruption
there found and is struggling desperate
! ly to wipe out the shame Of its exis-
tence. s. HI
The senators as a body have so i'm
properly conducted themselves, have
been so untrue to their responsibilities
and duties, have so taken the part of
| the corporations against the people, have
been so corrupt in the practise of pur-
| chasing their seats and in acting as the
| secret agents of great corporations. that
one of the greatest reform movements
of the day is to purify the senate by
means of popular elections.
The senate is one of the best illus
| trations we can have Of the hopelessness
! Of expecting thoughtful care Of the peo-
pies interests to emanate from college,
| bred men.
And the higher courts, DR.. Hadley's
| pride, whose constitution and manage
ment he says are especially the work
of men trained in the universities for
| advanced, enlightened and self-sacrific-
| ing devotion to the public weal-here is
| what famous men have said and are say
| ing of the courts and the judiciary.
A century ago Thomas Jefferson said,
| 1.-THE judiciary of the United States is
a subtle corps of sappers and miners
| constantly working underground to I'M
| dermine the foundations of our confed-
| crate fabric" One-half a century ago,
| Lincoln, himself a lawyer and knowing
whereof he spoke, criticized the supreme
| court SO severely that Douglas accus-
ed him OF attacking the entire judiciary.
| Roosevelt has flung the word 'fossiliz-
! ed at some of the federal and state
! judges and recently declared that GER
| tain decision of the supreme court was
| a blow at decent citizenship Presi-
| dent Taft, himself a lawyer and judge,
| has repeated again and again his COM
plant about the delays of the courts and
stated that "They bring a blush of
! shame to the cheek of every true Amer
| ican." Mr.. Bryan, than whom no other
man in the country has a greater fol-
| lowing Of enthusiastic friends and be-
| levers, charges that the supreme court
has entered into a gigantic conspiracy
| by virtue Of which it has been turned
over to the trusts and he declares that
! he can prove his statement by evidence
lldL WOuIu CO1lV1CI LII d Ci1I1lIldl court
| and, whether he be wholly right or not
| such a statement from a man for whom
| more than six million voters have voted
| three times for the presidency, shows
! what a pitiable standing DR.. Hadleys
| university courts have in the estimation
| of the people.
Mr.. Allan Benson says, in Pearson's
magazine, "Around the neck of every
| living American is a chain, fastened at
| the end to a group of tombs. The tombs
are those Of the long dead justices of
| the U. S. supreme court'-Dr. Hadley's
| university graduates, and La Toilette
| speaks scathingly OF "Our Judicial Oil
garchy' which must please DR.. Hadley
| for he says that is what the colleges
were founded two centuries ago to pro-
duce.
The foregoing are but a few Of the
now almost innumerable evidences of
| the trend of public opinion and the dull
est ear may catch the murmurs of a
| mighty people gathering to offer protest
against that which Dr. Hadley says his
| universities have been laboring two hum
| dred years to accomplish and to demand
| that laws shall be passed allowing judi
cial recall.
After two hundred years of the unhin-
dered grinding out of lawyers who have
taken possession of the courts as you
desired, DR.. Hadley, how do you like the
popular response to their enlightened
and self-sacrificing rule?
A word, now as to the second head of
the doctors discussion. He writes '"The
| university has established standards of
professional success in private business
which lead men to do what the public
| needs instead of merely trying to make
| money for themselves"
Ye Gods!- and the university presi-
| dents, throughout the land, of whom Dr.
Hadley is notable example, are among
| the highest salaried men in any branch
Of the public service-almost universal
| ly more highly paid than even the gov
ernorys of the states where the univer-
| stiles are located-than the state SUI
preme judges anu are, in themselves an
ever present and living example to their
students as to how much can be wrung
in taxes from a suffering people if you
| do the wringing by calling yourself an
educator and public benefactor?
And listen, fellow citizens! He is al
so telling us that the doctors, lawyers
and civil engineers, turned out in thou
sands every year by the universities at
the expense of the people, are examples
| for us to study of men who are setting
standards for US by faithfully serving
the public needs but not endeavoring
to make money for themselves thereby
| do you follow the doctor here? Is he
clear? The country at large seems to
| have formed ideas strangely different
from those so expressed by DR.. Hadley,
| but, If, perchanse, you are inclined to
agree with him, anyone of my readers,
then look around you in your own COM
munity and indicate by his name any
university graduate who is thus sacri-
| ficing his hope of worldly gain on the
altar of public service
| AS to the standards set by the univer-
stiles in public morals, sounding words
| OF alarm come from many sources R.
| L. Crane, man of great wealth and in
fuence, an extensive employer of labor,
denounces the universities in millions of
widely scattered pamphlets as hot beds
OF immortality and vicious habits and
President Taft, in a public speech con-
corning the charge, was able to but feeb-
~ combat the allegations-more ex-
! planning and apologizing than entering
a denial. Woodrow Wilson has uttered
grave words of warning and censure
along the same lines and serious appre-
hension and alarm have been expressed
by many in high places and situated so
as to know the facts. What is said of
the failure of the university men to get
near to the people and to live up to their
ideals is but natural result of their
life and training in the university it.
self which have been along the lines up
| held by the traditions of the mast AS