The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-22
WHERE WE ARE AT

Now we have the real dope. AS our friend, Professor
Aber, would say, this is right off the bat" The following
letter, anent the consolidation proposition, was brought tc
the editor of The Muscular, Yesterday afternoon, with the
request that it be published. There was a. friendly talk in
with the receipt of the letter, but its student
writer stood pat upon his desire to have it printed. 1t is
unique among the many strange letters we have received
1t is sui generis to the extent that we feel it should have
apart from the ordinary run of correspondence and
therefore, we put it here. Surely it is worth reading. Ii
is sure to have influence in shaping public sentiment re-
.arding this important question. We make no comment
upon it, whatever, except to state that the diction and the
spelling are the writer's own; they are given exactly as he
handed the letter to us:
AS a student of the University of Montana I should like to have a
, nnnn P%e in ns your paper aest to make in "a a few remarks about . things
a You st nrs1 in in viii stas an editorial nr al commenting tlsn favorably o consdi
at nee evidently s.a after receiving instructions from or boss9 ?
aaggaannst 1T it. az Then 5n's yeu have nS tn the g g "O to }" remark ma G n a . great v sntesa of
tenant w Enter s%y N or w tw n ,osn Hh @!Se to u SUPPORT 5p 1te the that nnn former r me IS se he
a %1 bad d F1n G f%r people pei "a s" wno nve t 1' glass ss0 s sou sy t to throw e stnts st Is
understand esi that na1ns you were wei" % nc s, a democrat e~tn then motives motives of obvious
21Gyer wa "a ,a turned ned down by the o FePuoleans you thought it wen to
fine a speciman of a progressive a a donkey is of a Missoua belle.
faculty of the University; by trying to car them mt silence,
You ask what shall we call this plan for consondation~ 1t really
call it the bone-head plan, for in that ase every n would know it
70" come out @t in n Issue and a that this is the plan of the
a Ama1gamated sheet against the plan. Really you do not rate the
way. You had better g 0 back to you old scream of Progr@sivisn
ant the Deer epuL' for yu are no success on n the theme.
Please do not mssunderstand me to mean that you are a success az
an aposteo of Progre&ivism either for everyon knows "a all vou
are interested in is your boss You did no. car two cents about the
success OF III party, but only for our salary. You talk nov of
oSaty to tn University of Montana, try to pick a quarrel ove
nanes Really arguments are absurd. especially when we all
know how much your loyalty amounts too When president Duniway
tut the matter of tn ut in the appropriation to Montana by the
State Board Of Examiners before the chamber If commerce. what
did they do? Nothing. What did you do? Nothing. What did Mr..
Evans do? HI made a big noise n day in the Assembly and then
shut up and did nothing. That is what we always expect OF him. 3
The chamber OF omnorc wants all they a gel ut OF the Univer-
sy, but when it m to fighting for it, the faculty are left to
q la while the chamber ofco commerce and the Muscular calls them
dow fr trying to get a real University
Now what is The use of buffng any longer? The Chamber of Com
meTe, trtN eight OF hen nave 20 on record n h matter is I'D
to the legislature. If they turn down consolidation it will 500 he up
to tn people Then it will be no use to bluff n longer for the peo-
pie will have found you out. n fact they found % out long ago
o hay to hold your job. But please remember that some of us
are not from Mi@oula and are n favor of a Greater University of
Montana even tho it cannot be called is o call it the University
Of M1sSoula 1t would De a good plan or OF and the Chamber of
commerce u. renernbe that o ae Tot the whole state of Montana,
n thai tn faculty members are not supposed to be serving Won
but he state Oft Montana. President Craghead is not the creature If
the mar of Commerce. He is the head OF the University of the
whole state of Montana. A University which VIC all love, faculty and
Sth"ehtS aIke, IN winch We are trying o make a real Universty
OF claim to believe in free speech n then try to prevent fna
speech " misrepresentng everything that the affirmative side of
TINS question haVe to offer. You not only misquotc and isreprescn
nut % throw mud at lei whom o know are too much the gen
of the od-time political campaign This vas not Intended IS a
pnnteal campaign, III a campaign of education Yet the Chamber
or Commerce of Missoula and the Editor o the Muscular SET them
seleVes up Is Judges in the matter, and inform the faculty of a Uni
Verslty that they had better keep still If University men have no
r'ht to discus matters pertaining to a university then I for m
would like to know who has?
The students nave tried to keep still, but W e can no nrer re-
main silent if the Muscular persists in its dirty methods Of intimida-
MISSOURI, January q, 1913. A UNIVERSITY MAN.