f EBfcTJARY 4, 1904.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
WASHBURN COLLEGE
Ur. S-mpion Commtnti Upon th Rcnt
. Soppretsion of Fr Speech at
ThU Institatlva
Editor . Independent: President
Roosevelt's unconstitutional action in'
dismissing a government clerk for ex
ercising her constitutional right of
free speech Ins found recent reflection-
in the cowardly suppression of a
socialist club by the trustees of
Washburn college, Topeka, Kas. This
was not the first infringement of aca-
.demic freedom in this country. Col
lege professors or presidents in Rhode
Island, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Cali
fornia had been dismissed or threat
ened with dismissal because their
economic teachings or views did net
happen to please certain wealthy pa
trons of the institutions in which they
gave instruction. But the Washburn
college case is, the first instance to
., come under the writer's observation,
In which free speech has been denied
a student body. In this , case, there
was no charge of violation, of college
rules in the formation or conduct of
the club. The Ideas advocated by the
members simply displeased certain
gentlemen who had contributed to the
financial support of. the college, and
upon their demand the club was sup
pressed. The writer holds no brief for social
ism. Some ofthe socialistic proposals
may be for the good of society, and
some may not. So far as the present
issue is concerned, the only questions
to be asked are these: First, does Lhe
propaganda contemplate anything im
moral or unconstitutional; and, sec
ondly, is slander, libel, or violence
employed In its promotion? If these
questions can be answered in the
negative (and there is no evidence to
the contrary in the present case),
then socialism, whether in or out of
educational institutions, merits toler
ation, and public .sentiment should
demand toleration.
In all agos, and under all forms of
government, colleges and universities
have been schools of democracy. From
their -walls have issued influences to
prumble governmental absolutism
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every clime . the university has stood
between the people and the aggres
sions of the throne. The odious doc
trine of German lese majeste is far-
reaching, but it does not cross tne
sacred threshold of Minerva. In the
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The United States, less than any
other nation, can afford to tolerate
such an action as that at Washburn
college. The martyrs of 177C did not
die in vain. The constitution writers
of 1787 did not write in vain. Free
snrerh is the fountain of American
political rights. Obstruct it, and you
nvite the revolution or the empire.
Man was constituted a free being, and
any institution, whether, it be an
American college or a world-empire,
denies that freedom at its peril. The
victims, of repression may perish, but,
ke Samson of old. they win pun
down the temple with, them. ;
The action at Washburn college was
not onlv un-American, but short
sighted, as "well. Whatever truth
there be in socialism will derive new
strength from the tyranny of Wash
burn col ece. The suppression -or me
socialist club will probably do more
to advance socialism than the club it
self could have done. The socialists
will find the incident a blessing in
disguise. Injustice always proves a
boomerans.
The writer recommends to the trus
tees of Washburn college, in their
subserviencv to the arrogant money
nower. the indignant protest of Cas-
sius, in "Julius Caesar":
. And this man
Is now become a god: and Cas&ius is
A wretched creature, and must bend
his body
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
Why, man, he doth bestride this nar
row world
Like a Colossus, and we, petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep
about .
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at some time are masters or their
fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our
. stars.
But in ourselves that we are under
lings. -
Now, in the name of all the gods at
once.
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar
feed
That he is grown so great? Age, thou
art shamed.
Rome, thou nast lost the breed of
noble bloods!
Rather than suppress free speech,
it would be far better for Washburn
collece to renudiate the patronage of
men so un-American as to oppose free
speech. Better would it be for Wash-J
burn college that not a cioiiav do aau-.
ed to her endowment, not a scholar to
her- roll, not a brick to her wans,
than that she pollute the shrine of
learning: and desecrate the aegis of
American liberty by such vandalism.
But it is believed that a policy oi
freedom and Americanism would bring
Washburn college to no such pass as
this. Let Washburn college have the
courage to proclaim that within her
walls, humble though they vbe, and
humble though they remain, the fire
on the altar of free speech shall nev
er be extinguished. Let her do this,
and the writer believes that there is
enough Americanism, even In these
commercial, Imperialistic days, to re
plenish her treasury not less than
gratify her spirit, and Increase her
honorable rank in the educational
world. It always pays to be a man
ami an American.
JOHN SAMPSON.
Washington. D. C.
Boom That Beck
Editor Independent: Ono of the
grandest articles ever written was
that contributed by Kpeed Moaby to
the Henry George Edition of tho Ne
braska Independent. It Is one of tho
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Now, I brn from the dully rapf.ra
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Amsterdam, N. Y.
(The Independent regrets that it
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quiry addressed him there would
bring a prompt reply. Associate Edi
tor.) DISASTER AND DESOLATION
Death . Holds High Carnival in the
News Columns of American
Journals, aud an
EPIDEMIC OF CATASTROPHES
-;'
On Land, On Sea, On Railways, In
Fire, In Flood, In Mines
Prevails.
Rarely, If ever, has a new year In
America been ushered In with so much
frightful misfortunes and such awful
fatalities to human beings as this
goodly year of our Lord 1904. Open
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Chicago, rromptly following came the
loss of half- a hundred, or more, sea
going passengers in the strait of San
Juan de Fuca, Before we had our
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throughout the land that a hundred
human beings were lost in railway
wrecks. Typhoid' fever in a Pennsyl
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ty. A Pennsylvania mine disaster
closes the recitation of horrors with
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Isolated incidents along tlvi highway
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