The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-14
PREFER PIGS TO GIRLS"

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The members of the lower house OF
the Utah Legislature resent the re-
proach that in opposing the girls dor
mitory for the Utah University, choos-
ing instead to put up an animal Coli
seum' on the State Fair grounds, they
show preference for pigs as against
girls. 1T is rather an irksome reproach
to lay against man, to be sure, to say
that he prefers pigs to his daughters,
but there are some men built that way,
and others look upon tho question
from biased standpoint, perhaps hav-
ing no daughters and being large pos
SCISSORS Of pigs and piggish proclivities.
We venture to say to the Legislature
that In showing neglect Of or hostility
to the State University thoy nre invit-
ing reprisals which are likely to cost
them their political futures. In sup
port OF this proposition we may cite
the case Of the State University of
Wisconsin. That University, in its
early days, was often treated by the
Legislature with parsimony and neg
lect, This was so notorious, and was
so unjust, that the University was
driven for the protection Of its very
life to take hand in the legislative
candidates. of every Senate and AS
sembly district in the State; and those
legislators who had shown hostility to
the University found it increasingly
difficult to be reelected, and those
who were open, avowed friends of the
University had their political path
ways cleared. though no University IS
sue might be openly raised There
came to be, also, in very many commu'
mites Of the State, graduates of the
University who aspired to legislative
honors. These were encouraged by the
friends of the University, and as grad
yates of hat institution became more
and more numerous throughout the
State, their numbers aspiring to legis-
lative honors increased, and their back
ing increased correspondingly in all the
different communities, And so it often
came to be quietly a question for or
against the University within the
party lines, and candidates who were
known to be University men were the
men who would be nominated by both
parties in order to avoid a sharp and
severe side conflict at the polls. The
result was that after n while the Uni
versity came into practical dominance
Of the State. It is today a great po
litical factor in Wisconsin, and Sena
tor La Toilette gets his wonderful
strength and support in that State by
appealing to the University sentiment
and the University graduates. He him
self was one of the first to make use
Of the University sentiment and Uni
versity support in his political cam
paigns The result Of it all is that the
University OF the State of Wisconsin
is the powerful, dominant influence in
the State. It has justified it's promi
nence, also, by the immense service
that it is giving to every industry and
every good work. It's professors are
men of eminence in their calling, wei
known throughout the educational an6
scientific circles Of the United States
They are doing an immense work fol
the State, and doing it ungrudingly
enthusiastically, and with the support
Of the University sentiment in every
corner Of the State. Those who in the
early days Of Wisconsin were inclined
to pinch the University, to scorn il
and to let it work along on a starva
tion existence, did work for that Uni
versity that they little dreamed Of
when they forced the University tc
take an interest in the elections for it:
own preservation and for the goot
work that it felt it ought to do
Similarly in Utah, those who are dis
posed to sneer at the University, tt
put it on starvation basis, to deny II
The proper facilities for its develop
ment so that it can do the work that
it ought to do for the State, are liable tc
force it, not into politics OF course, fol
we do not imagine for one moment thai
the University or its graduates would
tolerate the idea of the University il
politics, but into inquiries for its owl
self-preservation. It's graduates in al
parts of the State will be apt to make
Inquiries of candidates for the Legis
Iature as to their friendship for or hos
tility to the University and will sup
port or DENY support as the candidate
are inclined to be fair or the reverse
Even this small entry into the election
field is not thing that the Univer
sity would choose to make But it i
evident that il can be forced into tina
field if the Legislature deliberately
continuously. meanly, and wantonl'
denies to the University the proper ia
cilities to do its work. Not that wo/ an
ticipatc any such action by the Uni
versity itself or by the regents of tina
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