East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-11

students, who frankly and even in
solently draw the social dead-line
against other students, Whether they
reduce the average of scholarship,
encourage INSTRUMENTATION and look
leniently upon certain more or less
serious excesses, need not now be
discussed But that they cultivate a
spirit of exclusiveness and habit of
suobbishness is hardly to be denied.
Their influence on the schools as a
whole is bad and upon their own
members is not good They have no
place in the public schools"
With that criticism this paper is in
full accord. The spirit of the fra
ternlty is not one of democracy, 1t
is spirit of caste and snobbery The
worst feature is that the organiza-
tions are usually upon such basis
there is no good reason for the ella
ton felt by those who hold MEM
bership therein. The aristocracy is
not an aristocracy of merit. A fra
ternity is too oftern a place where
pebbles are polished and diamonds
dimmed.
In colleges and universities the
situation is somewhat different be-
cause in a college there is room for
rivalry between fraternities and such
competition at times produces
wholesome results. Yet even in the
institutions of higher learning the fra
ternities constitute a serious problem
and there are many who feel they
afford poor training for citizenship in
republic.
Certainly fraternities and sororities
have no business in connection with
nigh schools They tend to arouse in
the minds of youthful students opin-
ions that are frequently not justified
by the facts and which tend to unfit
rather than prepare them for the
real business of life.
~SO~eSS
Gov. Wilson could not ask for more
generous opponents than Mr.. Taft
and Mr.. Roosevelt,
Giving Wilson who have surrender
The Issue. ed to him the issue
of tariff reform, says
the New York World.
Mr.. Taft's vetoes have made it i'm
possible for him to pretend to favor
any revision of the tariff that IS not
acceptable to the beneficiaries Of
tariff extortion. Mr.. Roosevelt at st.
Louis relegated the tariff and the
cost of living to the category of mi
nor isues.
We do not blame Mr.. Roosevelt
for desiring to subordinate the tariff
and divert public attention from the
issue. His own tariff record is even
worse than Mr.. Tafts During the
two terms that he was in the White
House he was one of the stanchest
defenders of all the iniquities of the
Dngley schedules. He never lifted d
finger in behalf of tariff reform. His
record as a stand-patter is as bad as
nf A11ripb or Cannon
Although he processes to have en-
ancipated himself from his former
evil associates, he is in no better po-
sition to discuss the tariff than he
was before. Tariff reform would
strike at his campaign fund. The
products of Perkins Harvester Trust
are protected by the Payne-Aldrich
schedules. The products of Morgan's
Steel Trust are protected by the
Payne-Aldrich schedules, and it is
the Morgan-Perkins interests that are
filling the Roosevelt campaign chest
The progressive republican move
ment began in a demand for honest
tariff revision. Mr.. Roosevelt has
now succeeded in sitting it.
Voters who are satisfied with the
present cost of living should suppor
Mr.. Taft or Mr.. Roosevelt. But vot.
ers who want the tariff revised fol
the benefit of the consumer should
vote for Woodrow Wilson.