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also receive and receipt for any mon
eys sent to him.
Dr. B. L. Paine, F. M. Hall, M. J.
Waugh, Henry B. Ward, A.- Ross
Hill, J. I. Wyer, L. A. Sherman, Lau
rence Fossler, Lewis Gregory, John H.
" Humpe, N. K. Griggs, S. H. Burnham,
Alexander Berger. ..".
F. M. HALL, Chairman. .
J. I. Wyer, Secretary.
- FIRST NATL BANK, Lincoln,
Treasurer and Depository.
Nebraskans generally are proud of
our state university; proud of its
chancellor and professors; proud of Its
students. The national government
has not been niggardly in Its help
although one might wish that more
land had been given to endow educa-
- ticnal institutions and less to build
up a railroad oligarchy. The legis
latures of Nebraska have as a rule
given to the university with Jess hig
gling than is custoinary in making
- appropriations. Have we reached the
point where it is necessary to seek the
aid of a more powerful tax-collector?
Is it possible that a state which has
been advertised far and wide as so
wonderfully prosperous that it can
buy 1200,000 of .Massachusetts bonds
is nevertheless so poor that it must
beg two-thirds of a building?
. Have the sick and poor of Lincoln
so increased under Rooeeveltian pros
perity that university organizations
alone require a hundred-thousand dol
lar building in which shins may be
toasted while the condition of the
freezing and starving poor may be
discussed?
.. Easter services were held in some
thing less than forty different places
In Lincoln last Sunday are university
students barred from participating m
the services at any of these places?
, "Receptions, interviews, s ociaLgatk
erings and meetings of all sorts"
"not inconsistent with the spirit of its
foundation" are doubtless a valuable
aid to university progress. But what
sort of a' meeting would be "Incon
sistent?" .Would "the spirit of Its
foundation" be violated if some fine
day at one of those meetings "of all
sorts," the speaker should take occa-
, sion to denounce Standard Oil meth
ods? ..... i;..:r- .
. ..The whole question brings vividly
to mind the vigorous language of Dr.
John Bascom of Williams college in
his address before the Minnesota
teachers' meeting, and later in his
jdebate with The Outlook.
."Is the president of a college us
ually the chief, figure in such a trans
actionat liberty to solicit or to re
ceive the gifts of a millionaire whose
moneyj is known to have been wrong
fully secured?" inquires Dr. Bascom.
"Such an act seems to me to be cen
surable and mischievous. My critic
thinks, with equal decision, the re
verse. The question is one of imme
diate moment.
"The first affirmation by which the
criticism is made good is that such
. gifts cannot be rejected without first
establishing a standard of business
morality, and that there is much va
riety in these standards. This state
of things, instead of being a reason
why the head of an educational insti
tution may be without a standard of
business morality to guide his own
action and influence the action of
others, is the chief reason why he
should carefully frame and constantly
defend such a standard. It is not our
calling to give guidance where no
guidance is needed, but where it is
- needed. We frame principles for the
very purpose of correction.
"The second supporting considera
tion is that, if such a standard is set
up, it is Impossible to apply it in
specific cases. It is Impossible for
boards of trustees to determine whe
ther wealth offered for public use has
been righteously earned. But the
question is, whether money that is
known to be unrighteously acquired is
to be solicited and accepted. The way
in which the wealth of the Standard
Oil company has been gained is no
, . torious. Articles, bocks, the reports
of congressional committees for thirty
years, have made it so. No Intelligent
man can plead ignorance. If I should
say to my class, 'Monopoly is in it
self a great wrong and can only be
established In connection with many
other wrongs,' and one of the students'
should ask, 'How about the Standard
Oil company?' and I should respond,
'I know nothing about the Standard
Oil company,' I should escape the sus
picion of being a fool only-by the sus
picion of being a rascal. The answer
is the same as that given before. It
is the duty of the man who guides in
struction to frame standards and to
give them correct, concrete applica
tion. This is his function. It is a
novel principle in morals that, as one
does not know all things, he need give
himself no trouble to know anything;
that because one does not see distinct
ly the obstacle on the horizon, he may
stumble over the stone under his feet
- "The question is easily settled. The
proper, time to express an opinion Is
before the gift is completed, while
there is still ' freedom of action on
both sides. Say to Mr. Rockefeller
and to the public, as the transaction
Is a public one 'I utterly repudiate
your methods and then see how large
a gift will be received. If a presi
dent should say at an annual meeting
of alumni, 'The college has secured
another large sum from Mr. Rockefel
ler, but as there is a general feeling
against, his methods of business, I
must improve the occasion to remark
that the. Standard Oil company is a
heartless monopoly and that its offi
cers have done more to debauch busi
ness morality than all the thieves be
hind prison bars.' The alumni would
look in all directions for an exit from
the cruel dilemma put upon them,
searching for it with as much eager
ness and jostling as men manifest in
escaping from a burning theatre. Mum
is the word, the1 best word, and the
only proper word, in such transac
tions. "Let us cast off the works of dark
ness and put on the armor of light.
Have no fellowship with the unfruit
ful works of darkness, but rather re
prove them. Certainly these precepts
should meet with some recognition in
a divinity school and in a Christian
college, so-called."
Dr. Bascom's criticism was aimed at
privately owned colleges where sec
tarian instruction is given, but it ap
plies with no less force to a state in
stitution. In fact there is even less
reason why a state university should
accept largesse from grand seigniors
of the Rockefeller type. Another cent
added to the price of gasoline and
kerosene would soon collect the "Tem
ple Fund" from the pockets of Ne
braska people. Do we need an ad
junct to our new revenue law?
Charles Q. De France.
CALLING NAMES
Mr. Theobald Continue DU Criticism
Accuses Capt. Asbby of Plagiarism
Editor Independent: When I penned
my letter to you of 30th March, the
latest issue of The Independent which
I had seen was that of the 12th
of Marph. Had I had your issue of the
19th before me (since received) I
would hardly have deferred so much,
as I did, to Mr. Ashby's treatment of -Value.
For now I perceive not only
that his argument is confused and dis
ingenuous, it is egotistical- and dis
courteous. - Allow me to select som bf :
the epithets which he bestows up6n
those economists and other writers on
money, with , whom he finds r himself
unable to agree. Here they are:
Jackasses; semi-idiots, sacriligious,
imposters called professors of politi-;
cal economy (especially .. including
Aristotle); charlatans; parrots; ignor
ant; peurile; childish; infantine;'
priests of chaos. And here is his opin
ion of himself: He alone has "la
bored enough to devote the necessary
labor and wearing toil required to
wrench from the jaws of chaos a real
knowledge of the thing called Value;
no one of them (the writers on mon
ey) ever labored enough to discover
that which when pointed out is patent
to all" namely, that (according to his
view) money was invented in order to
levy taxes!
Without stopping to examine this
discovery, which Mr. Ashby, with so
much labor, has wrenched from the
jaws of chaos, I submit that a writer
in his frame of mind is not so fully
qualified as he might be, for discuss
ing the intricate questions which
form the subjects of his essay. Po
litical economy has engaged the at
tention of the most profound thinkers
whom the world has ever produced.
Plato, Aristotle, Paulus, Badaeus, Co
pernicus, Sir Isaac Newton, Locke,
Hume. Neckar, Ricardo, Thornton,
McCulloch, Bastiat, Mill, and Herbert
Spencer, are only a few of the vast
number of illustrious persons who
have written on value and Inpney. To
call such men jackasses, semi-idiots,
charlatans and priests of chaos, can
not hurt them, nor their reputations;
it can only hurt him who throws such
stones; and it has hurt Mr. Ashby so
much in my estimation that I shall
say now of him what courtesy re
strained me from saying too plainly
In my previous letter, namely, that
the only portions of his otherwise in
coherent and wholly mistaken essay,
are those which he has filched, with
out acknowledgement, from one of
the very 'class of writers whom he
treats with such lofty contumely.
Mr. Ashby says that "none of them
(the writers on money) ever delved
into the dark quarries and with drill
and dynamite blasted out the truth
that the thing properly called money
is not a coin, but a (legal) device"
that is to say, no one ever made this
discovery until Mr. Ashby did. The
fact Is that he took it bodily from
Alexander Del Mar's "Science of Mon
ey," and now wishes . his readers to
believe that the discovery was his
own. Del Mar did not blast it out;
he discovered It in the monetary his
tory of Greece and Rome; he did not
find it necessary to explore dark quar
ries, with or without dynamite, but the
laws of the ancient republics. There
he found it and without more ado he
put It straightway into print for the
consideration of modern students. : .
Mr. Ashby's view, that money is an
"institution" (of law), a device," a
"mechanism," is not the only thing
taken from Del Marr' even the phras
eology is copied. The very words will
be found In his works on Money and,
so far as my reading goes, in no. other
works. Chapter IV. of Del Mar's
"Science of Money" is even heaued
"Money is a Mechanism."
Of course it may be a mere coin
cidence that Mr. Ashby should have
worked out the same idea; but, as I
said last week, he never worked it
out of his own premises: for it has no
relation to them. The inference that
he plagiarized it, is therefore very
strong. Add to this that the phras
eology Is identical; and the plea of a
coincidence will fall rather flat
As xor Mr. Ashby's contention that
money was "not created for any other
purpose" than making tax levies,
though I consider the assertion of no
consequence, one way or the other,
I would recommend him, before mak
ing it again, to study that very Aris
totle whom he affects to so much de
spise. The Stagyrile was twenty-two
centuries nearer to the creation of
money than is Mr. Ashby; and he evi
dently knew something about its or
igin. His account of the matter can
hardly be destitute of Interest; and
may afford a new impulse to the Ti
tanic labors of the latter.
The economical theories which di
vide the political parties of today are
to some extent the result of differ
ences which arise from the meanings
attached to economical terms; and no
one is competent to discuss them who
is not at once thoroughly versed in
history and a master of style. In
neither of these respects do Mr. Ash
by's writings commend themselves to
my admiration. On the contrary, Mr.
Del Mar's familiarity with history ap
pears m every page; while as to style,
his periods are both graceful and im
pressive. Nowhere in his works, for
I have studied them all with great at
tention, is there to be found the
slightest trace of egotism, or the least
discourtesy towards those from whom
he differs. If you would afford your
readers a treat, you jsboqld reprint his
chapter IV. ' on "Money is a Mechan
ism," or else chapter I., contra Mac
Lead, to the bottom of. page 78. There
is no calling of names there; yet Mac
Leod's theories arj handled with a
severity that might furnish a model
for Mr. Ashby; especially when he is
writing for journals as widely read as
The Independent of Lincoln, Neb.
JAMES THEOBALD (Populist).
Hackensack, N. J. . -(This
phase of Mr. Theobald's criti
cism, the associate editor does not
care to discuss at this time, further
than to say that Mr. Theobald, in one
instance at least, has singled out a
word and assumed that Captain Ash by
applied it to the economists.- On the
other hand, it is a fact that calling
names is not argument; yet there are
times when it seems necessary in or
der to arouse sufficient Interest Read
ers of The Independent will await with j
interest the trial of Captain Ashby for
plagiarism. He has been accused. Let
him defend. Associate Editor.)
THE MEAT GOLIATH
Wben a Pigmr Fiffbtc a Giant the Contest
May Kxclta Admiration bat It
iiaot Wat
While Teddy is telling the people of
the west how his brilliant attorney
general got an injunction against the
meat trust, Mr. Edward Uphanx
Adams in his inimitable way is ex
plaining how that octopus spreads out
its tentacles and gathers in the inde
pendent retail meat dealers. . The fol
lowing is from a recent article by Mr.
Adams:
"Rawson, the bitcher, has failed,"
declared Postmaster Jenkins, taking a
chair opposite Colonel Monroe and
bowing respectfully to Judge Sawyer.
"Flannagan just told me he saw the
sign up on the door of the Indepen
dent Market This Is a bad thing for
Lincolnville. George Rawson's a good
fellow and made a great fight, but
the meat trust was too strong for him.
I gave him all my trade. Flannagan
says he heard Rawson's liabilities
were $10,000."
Mr. Jenkins lifted his eyes cautious
ly and glanced at Lincolnville's bank
er. "Mr. Rawson's liabilities are nearly
$20,000," Judge Sawyer said, after a
pause. 'The matter was adjusted this
afternoon. The meat trust, as you term
the rival company, purchases the In
dependent Market Rawson has
pledged his property and hopes to
meet the claims of his creditors. The
new owners will open the market un
der another name and have decided
to retain Mr. Rawson as manager."
"Thus endeth the last chapter in the Af
history of competitive markets in Lin
colnville,' observed Colonel Monroe,
"it is less than a month ago, Jenkins
since you reminded me that competi
tion is the life of trade. You had just ..
purchased from Rawson a choice cut
of sirloin at ten cents a pound, much
less than the actual cost of the beef.
It was fun for you, but financial death
to poor Rawson. Neighboring towns
have long been in the clutch of the
enemy, but Lincolnville has had in
Rawson a David who dared wage bat
tle with the meat Goliath. He had
thousands; it had millions. The con
test was magnificent while it lasted,
but it was not war. Rawson had no
chance from the start For three
months we have reveled in cheap
chops, steaks and roasts. Now we
shall pay a war indemnity to the vic
tor." ""; ' ;
"I- shall be surprised if the meat
trust exacts exorbitant prices," said
Judge Sawyer, whose face bore a trou
bled look. "While they are victors
and have the trade at their mercy,
pruderce and business policy should
dictate moderation. There is a point
beyond which no successful syndicate
dare go." -
"I'm sure I don't know where that
point is," retorted the colonel, with
some warmth. "The patience of the
American people is as a fathomless
well. The coal trust and the oil trust
can find no bottom. We are whipped
and know not what way to turn. You
practically say as much when you ad
mit that your only hope is that' the
victorious meat trust will loot us with
moderation. If the history of this
trust be any guide you are leaning ori
a reed. .It has taken them two years
to suppress competition in Lincoln
ville and has cost them thousands of
dollars. Does a dog chase a rabbit
for exercise? By the way, Jenkins,
you said the other day that the men
who owned the railroad had a right
to charge any rate they pleased. I
suppose you have no objection to the
men who own the meat selling it at
any price they can get"
"There are good trusts and bad
trusts.'1 said Postmaster Jenkins, who
could offer nothing else. ; 1
"Yes, and there are fools and and
other kinds of fools,"' added Colonel
Monroe with unusual bitterness. "I
suppose a good trust is one which,
having reduced tin people to abject
submission, treats them with lenitv.
and a bad trust is one which in
dulges in the natural proclivities of all
tyrants."
The later speeches of the president
show that he is going to "stand pat"
and the strenuous one will hereafter
keep quiet and let "well enough
alone."
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