Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-01-03

his article lately published IN Youths
Companion which he begins by a
brave blare Of trumpets heralding the
rather astounding statement that the
university men Of our country have
captured by divine right nearly all
of the highest Offices in the land from
time immemorial. Presidents,
senators, cabinet members and prac-
tically all Of the incumbents Of the
benches in the higher courts have
been university graduates, he asserts,
almost without fail.
Yes, even, by calling railroads,
coal and iron mines and oil wells
"Public Utilities" DR.. Hadley has
sufficiently distinguished them so that
he may proudly assert that the SUI
perintendencies Of all such organiza-
tons are being gathered in continu-
ally by these eminently qualified un-
iversity men.
He states that Harvard and Yale
decided, in 1701 and 1907, that there
should be created within their sacr d
halls general mandatory Of rul-
ers, both of State and Church and
that they have been at the business
for over two hundred years without
once closing down for repairs, or on
account Of failure, and that their
trade mark is all that is needed to
guaranty satisfaction to an anxious
mankind looking for rulers.
Then, in the midst Of this article,
he casts in the still more amazing
statement that, without our realizing
it for all these two hundred and odd
years, the same university graduates
have been serving the public without
thought Of money, or hope Of gain
that by some mysterious power Of
alchemy, this nobility Of purpose and
action is instilled into the brains Of
these students during their passage
through these aristocratic education
al mills.
The worthy doctor states that uni
versity and college men have always
been found (nobly) willing to take
public Office and sacrificing them
selves on the affairs Of their coun-
try's needs by becoming Presidents,
U. S. Senators, Chief Justices, Cab
met Ministers and Superintendent
of all Public Utilities and that they
ask for no reward las a rule) save
barely enough to maintain life in
their august bodies in order that they
may still further advance the public
veal.
But then, if so, why the sequel to
the learned doctors tale, wherein he
relates, with such deep pathos, aided
by a touching little poem, the alleged
fact that the university inventors and
reform leaders, explorers and dis
coverers die in poverty and neglect
while the clever chaps, with no nobi-
ity, nor zeal for the public in thei,
souls, make off with the spoils.
Well, if the tale of woe be true
isn't that just what the doctor says
the university men are trained to do
to glory in, to suffer and die forq
But, is it true at all? Do you be.
lieve it? Or is it some fantasy Of
the dear doctors brain?
Let us recapitulate the subject un.
der the three heads the writer has sci
forth for US.
Our Presidents-Well, we would
almost be willing to give to the uni
versities the seventeen they claim, i:
they will give us, as they must, ou1
great common school presidents
Washington, the Father Of his Coun
try, priceless possession of a race
Jackson, the brave fighter and sterl
decent citizenship" President Taft
himself lawyer and judge, has re-
peated again and again his complain
about the delays Of the courts AM
stated that "They bring blush O.
shame to the cheek of every tru
American" Mr.. Bryan, than whom
no other man in the country has j.
!greater following Of enthusiastic
friends and believers, charges tina
the supreme court has entered int
a. gigantic conspiracy by virtue O
which it has been turned over to tn
trusts and he declares that he cal
prove his statement by evidence tina
would convict in a criminal cour
and, whether he be wholly right o
not, such a statement from a man fo
whom more than six million voter
have voted three times for the presi
dency, shows what a pitiable stand
ing DIR: Hadley's university court
have in the estimation of the people
Mr.. Allan Benson says, in Pear
sons magazine, "Around the neck o
every living American is a chain, fas
tened at the end to a group Of tombs
The tombs are those Of the long dea'
justices of the U. S. supreme court
DIR, Hadley's university graduate
and La Toilette speaks scathingly o
"Our Judicial Oligarchy" which mus
please DR.. Hadley for he says tina
is what the colleges were founde
two centuries ago to produce.
The foregoing are but a. few of tn
now almost innunooroh1o o1,;dnnooc n