VOL. XVI., NO. V ESTABLISHED IN 18Si PRICE FIVE CENTS LINCOLN. NEBR.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1901. THE COURIER, KHTKBKO IN THE P08TOFFICE AT LINCOLN SECOND CLASS MATTER. PUBLISHED EVEBY 8ATDRDAY the tierce determined p'oneers. to whom the intervening Utali desert was something to be crossed and then ESIK GOflRIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO brided- There a.e two opinions now about the right to import coolie labor. -BI- fornia accessible, would not have disappointment to tiis friends in Ne- bcen built by Hamlet California braska that he should have sacrificed would still be fifteen hundred miles his notable career in Stanford unlver- overland away if it had nob been for sity out of sympathy for a manwln.se career and speeches do not appear to me to merit sucli a sacrifice. Profes sor Howard would be more than hu man if the worship of his students Office 1132 N street, Up Stairs Telephone 384. SARAH B. HARRIS. Editor Subscription Rates. Per annum il 50 8ix months 1 DO Rebate of fifty cents on cash payments Single copies 05 which followed him to California and In the time of the construction of the lias grown to California bulk there, first through 'line between" the east should'not react upon him. Wliat-he and west there was but one. In the said to Ills class in the French Revo luxurious recitation room, or under Union after the resignation of Profcs the cool arcades of Stanford unlver- sor Ross had been accepted, indicates sity the untrammeled study of the that Professor Howard has lost a part California pioneer's hand-to-hand of his former sense of proportion and struggles with a marketable legisla- values. Otherwise to a class of under ture is an academic temptation to graduates he could not have criticised which Br. Ross yielded, all the easier the trustees or management of the in because the beneficiaries of Stanford stitution of which that class was a character part. The Cocrikr will not be responsible.for vol antary communications unless accompanied by ratarn postage. Communications, to receive attention, must tto sUrned by tno fall name of the. writer, not merely as a gnarantar or good faith, but for vablieation if advisable. 1 9 OBSERVATIONS. Stanford. The trouble at Stanford is aug mented by the jealousy which the foundation of the university excited. It has been an increasingly successful rival of the university of California and the vicissitudes which it is now passing through are, I fear, enjoyed by its enemies. Senator Stanford's human desire to immortalize the name of his only son induced him to found a separate institution instead Of bestowing his wealth upon a uni versity already established. Regret for the youth born to an unlimited in heritance, a poignant realization that the posterity he had hoped for, the family he had thought to found, was a futile dream; this as well as a de sire to help other boys to an educa tion induced Senator Stanford to at tempt the foundation of a university. No human desire so universal and tenacious as the one which actuated Stanford. The pyramids were built for the same reason. That his seed object to the monumental of the university. The trouble at Stanford will induce other millionaires to pause before they leave their gains, which the students are sure to be taught are ill gotten, to a university. A present able, tall dumb spire in a landscape garden cemetery, where the mounds are leveled, where a faithfully sprink led, green turf shines responsively througli the summer, and where even the inveterate lecturer's voice is still, is a wiser investment. In a cemetery there is peace, and the dead who lie there have gone to trial. They will not be tried over and over again by professors who need illustrations of wickedness for their lec'ures and by undergraduates, who are taught that every rich man is a robber, and that the competitive system is the code of pirates, and that excepting for the few socialists who have founded Lomes or settlements or written bcoks, or re signed from lucrative jobs all the men and women who have lived and labored according to the competitive rules sinned grossly against their fel lows whom they hired and bossed. Prof. Geo. E. Howard. There can be but one opinion in re gard to Professor Howard's distinc tion as a historian, and his ability as a teacher. There are teachers and teachers. Occasionally there is one whose lips have been touched with a coal, who can concentrate the gaze of should perish and his name be forgot in the land to which he had jour- fifty or a hundred idly rolling eyeballs and sociologists in the country, Touching The Courier's editorial of three weeks ago. Professor Howard says in a letter to the editor: "Ihe charge that, Dr. Rt;ss has ever at tacked or criticised Senator Stanford in his class-room is entirely false. It arose in the lie of a boy employed in the office of an interested lawyer in San Francisco and it ws repudiated with indignation by the alumni body of that city in formal assembly. Dr. Jordan has not publicly accepted or rejected the charge. In fact, it was, at once, dropped by the enemies of Ross; and lias no credence here. It is not now mentioned unless cretly. It is astonishing that the State Jour nal and The Courier should have gone to lower extremes in repeating false charges and disregarding all the ad mitted facts, than perhaps any other newspapers in the country; and I have some five hundred clippings on the Ross case. Of course, you must have been misled. From enclosed clippings, events since November may be traced. Ross' statement of Novem ber 13 i absolutely accurate (reprint ed on page .'! of the Courier). 1 know this from documents some of which have not been published, and from the substance of Dr. Jordan's conversa tion with me on the cening of that day wherein he admitted the truth of every detail of Ross' statement. It is a clear case of punishing free speech. Ross' private character is ad mirable and irreproachable. He is one of tee ablest, most original economists You neyed and which he had conquered, on himself, and Howard is such a are entirely mistaken as to bis being was bitter to the old forty-niner. The man and lecturer. Besides the lesser wild-eyed.' He is a calm and earnest fulminations against the vanity of a gifts of memory and concentration of thinker. He has been one of the most man, and woman wlio thought to make effort, he lias, the un teachable, uuac- popular professors, greatly beloved of a monument out of a'university quirablegiftof inspiration. Heclas- hjs pupils, though severe in his re ignore the primitive instincts which si ties and outlines a complex subject quirements. After Dr. Jordan began animated the nomad's breast before into simplicity and breathes life into to shift his ground, and to try to be lt, so that to a class, which has been with him, say six months, the study of early German institutions or Ro man law seems the only vital and genuinely fascinating subjects in the the pyramids were, and which still itir to the depths the strong man who lias gone out to meet the world with his bare hands, served it, and made a mighty wage. Such men are seldom fog the real issue, he accused Ross of breach of confidence in making the statement of November 14. This he retracted to Ross and then sent me a letter dated November 17 (four days -scrupulous. They have bright pierc- curncu'ura. Having been fortunate after Ross' statcment)saying, ! wish, ing eyes, with a light of their own enough to hear Professor Howard lee- after convention with Dr. Ross to like the fabled jewels that lit up cav- ture for four years I am glad of the withdraw anything I may. have said, ems deep hid from the sun. Stanford opportunity totestify to thesoundnoss implying that he had knowingly used used the tools he found fitted to his of his instruction and the dynamic confidential material, or in any other hands. The railroad that made Cali- power of his inspiration. It is a great way violated personal properties in making his statement." Is this not by implication an admission of the truth and fairness of that statement? Is it not also by implication an admis sion that the commercial influences, mentioned by Ross were probably the real influence, determining Mrs Stan ford's action? On Wednesday eve ning November M, Dr. Jordan tohJ me that lie believed tiiat certain men of San Francisco.hud intluenced Mw. Stanford to take an unwise course. George R. Howard." Professor Howard's letter is printed here, in order that those who read the editorial lie refers to may read hl side of the eac, as conspicuously placed .vs the criticism. jc jC Book-Jearninj. It is generally accepted that learn ing acquired from books is more worthy, of respect than that acquired: from the experience of accomplish ment It is a far cry from the mid dle ages, when to write, was only the mean accomplishment of a clerk, to the beginning of the twentieth cen tury when nearly every one can roart and a few can spell and some can take a language apart and put it together again correctly. For four hundred years the profession of scholar ha been growing in dignity. We have not progressed from the feudal con tempt of the man who works with hi hands The laborer is now as lie was when he belonged to the soil, a bind. Kdward F. Adams; editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, says in regard to the Ross incident in Stanford univer sity, that uIn the second place there is here exhibited the degrading conception of a univer sity professor as a common hired mau. Sucli men as Ross and Howard do not receive favors from universities. They .confer them. They are not de pendent on any one university for "their living, nor do they owe to any university their standing in the world.' This paragraph correctly estimates the arrogance of the scholar towards an ignorant world.- Other men, outside of umversitiesmustearnr their living under all the conditions of a competitive system in active and unrestricted operation. A brilliant,, learned man like Professor Howard or Professor Ross, who is occapyisg a. life position at the head of a depart ment of history or economics is not influenced by competition and the effect of his isolation-from'the-systca) which circumscribes thaactiotns and speech of other men is apparent in the defiant resignations at Stanford. Among other virtues the competi tive system teaches consideration and toleration for all men and their opin ions. Every man, is after all, no more than "a hired man." He serves, and hiservicesare paid for at the rate established by commercial rules. He serves ; the. public, a corporation, or one man, it does not matter wheth er it is one man or uiany. He serve, from the time he begins to earn hi