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SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 3, E. M. 3(X) (A. I). 1900.)
NO. 17.
Life, Truth and Fable.
means by which our parties a d place a true and free higher educa
m inister their governm ents. W hile tion upon an independent, im p ar about those lim ited and pesky“ text
BY 8. W. WETMORE, M. D.
B ut under one m onster
m editating upon the doubtful de t i a l and effective basis. And yet it books”.
S tate U niversity these abuses would
sirab ility of this future for educa
< * T ife is real, life is e a n e s t,”
seems to he adm itted by all th a t soon become m onstrous lim itatio n s
j|_J 1 hough th e graire m ay be th e tion we m et a co n trast still more such a basis is one of the greatest
goal ;
questionable in a Republic; to wit: and most difficult questions of the of monopoly. In ste a d of the social
I>ust thou a rt, to d u st r e tu r n e th ,”
ization of cu ltu re,th ere would arise
M ight be spoken of th e whole.
Some friends who had been incom ing century and of a rejuven
an educational monopoly, of which
T hen, w hile life is a t th e z e n ith ,
picknicking upon the park and ated Republic.
( hina furnishes the great model —
E arn est work should be o u r aim ;
W ork for T ruth and R ig h t th a t seem eth grounds of the C erm alite Rom an
S h a ll we build up and overtop
Slow to conquer, h a rd to gain.
Catholic U niversity at M ount A n the Roman Catholic In stitu tio n by not a t all desirable, tolerable or
possible in a Republic.
gel, only five miles from Silverton,
M h a t is m ore divine th a n science,
a m onster “ U niversity of Oregon,”
C ertainly, then, we m ust find
T au g h t in N a tu re ’s regal lore?
seemed to be alm ost overwhelmed with unlim ited funds and appli
Facts and tr u th s need no reliance,
some other way for our popular ed
by its present and promised future. ances?
They have p ictu red w orlds of yore.
The Republic has need of ucation to flower out a t the top. As
For
it
is
to
be
not
only
the
g
reatest
W hat is m ore ab su rd th a n fable,
a f ommon School, but as much or in every m atter in a R epublic, the
Given as a fact divine?
educational building on the Pacific more need of a public and secular
people m ust find or make th eir own
None bu t those w ith m inds u n stab le,
I h an to m s, m y th s and faith com bine. Coast, but in the U nited States, u n higher education.
remedy, so in th is case they m n st
less it is exceed by its co unterpart,
"L ife is real, life is e a r n e s t,”
The trouble is th a t a S tate can found and m ake th eir own U niver
Life s too sh o rt to m ourn an d grieve the great R om an C atholic U nivers
sity, or ra th e r U niversities.
Sadness fills th e h e a rt th a t v e arn est
ity a t W ashington, D. C., which not run a higher education because
A fter p h a n to m s th a t deceive.
There seems no great difficulty
has taken the place of the great such education m ust be free , as
in realizing th is p o p u lar plan. The
E v o lu tio n ’s g reat conception
N ational an d Secular U niversity Prof. E rnst Haeckel well pointed
Opes th e eyes of p riest an d pope,
L egislature would pass a general
W lilie th e clergy lack perception,
which W ashington designed and for in bis “ Freedom of T hinking and
Science, T ru th and R ig h t will cope.
T eaching.” Our Republic is most 1 niversity and L ib rary Law, u n
which
he
left
a
large
p
art
of
his
for
—[ I ree th o u g h t M agazine.
u n fortunately but an o th er nam e for der w hich such in stitu tio n s could
tune to have erected there.
G overnm ent by P arties, who use it be organized and conducted upon
B ut one wing of this collossal
U niversities of, for and by th e
and a l l of its institutions,as a m eans m eans to be furnished by the pro
building of th é W illam ette valley
People vs. U n iv ersities of the
F or such of these Uni-
for their and their followers’ sup m oters.
has been erected, and th a t seems to
5 ta te and Church.
port and aggrandisem ent. No State versifies as were purely secular in
astonish every beholder.
The U niversity w ithin th eir reach can organization and conduct, ap p ro
foundation walls (ten feet in th ic k bp politically free. Nor can it be so b a tio n s m ight be m ade or allowed
BY T. B. WAKEMAN.
1 rofeseor of Sociology an d Law a t th e ness), as they gradually advance,
n ^ n ta lly or religiously. F or the to he m ade, impartially , by th e
L iberal U n iv ersity , a t S ilverton,
show
p
lainly
th
a
t
the
tw
enty
m
il
O regon. L. U. O.
P arty who runs the S tate and state, county or city in which it
lions of dollars back of them al
country m ust run its higher educa m ight be situated.
In this way every im p o rtan t cen
n a very able an d rem arkable ready devoted to this in stitu tio n , is tion so as to offend no im portant
Address m ade by Prof. F ra n k not sim ply a boast, but a realizing sect of Philosophy, Politics or R e ter of population in the S tate, and
Strong, the P resident of the fact. It is a fearful crystalization ligion; or so as to directly support every other S tate in tim e, would
! niversity of Oregon,* th a t learned and fortification of superstition.
the I arty and Religion in power. have its own free and independent
advocate of higher education gave
T he third fact for m editation is In a word it m ust be indifferent Secular U niversities under the con
(he following bit of history as the th a t all of the greater universities and good for nothing, or partisan . trol only of general laws and the
key to its future in Oregon and of the country are now under Pro Instances of this are too frequent wishes of its patrons, stu d en ts and
other states.
testan t church influences — really, already. The nearest to a Free parties interested, instead of one
“ free higher education came first . though not avowedly,— absorbing Scientific In stitu tio n , at W ashing m onster monopoly of higher educa
‘I wish you to notice th a t th e m illions of dollars every year, and ton, D. C., p a rtly under U. S. con tion,we m ight see such U niversities
first free schools in A m erica, w ith asserting a P ro testan t m onopoly trol, nearly lost one of its ablest dotting the land as centers of le a rn
one exception, were a public high and control of the higher education professors upon Catholic com plaints ing and culture, and reaching the
school and a public college, and of the co u n try — as far as any it has.
th at he was too free with “ evolu people with libraries aud public
that public higher education took a
I he first thought th a t grows out tion”. Even in K ansas the State lectures, the good effects of which
stronger hold, an d - is of older
growth than free p rim ary educa of these im m ense facts is th a t no Colleges are cleared at every politi would be inevitable. J u s t as the
tion. I wish you to notice fu rth er church or sectarian m onopoly of cal reverse, and we have direct in private schools are giving way to
that Oregon is one of the 16 States the business of providing a higher form ation th a t the outed professors the public schools, the sectarian
io which the people specifically tax
universities would g rad u ally be
themselves for the support of a education for our people can really were not paid. The “ higher” edu
do it. 1 hey can, to begin with, ed cation conducted on such system s rivalled or perhaps superceded by
state u n iv ersity .’”
evidently become d istin these universities “ of the people,for
( Following th is train of thought, ucate only a few of the well-to-do would
the speaker m entioned other his- people, and them only so far as to guished for w ant of altitu d e,m o ral the people and by the people” , be
•orical facts of early education in m ake them good Catholics, or Pres ly, in tellectu ally and in every other cause beyond the im m ediate reach
America, concluding with the sta te
sects, politicians and monopolies of
byterians, or Episcopalians, or way.
ment th a t since th a t tim e, nearly
an y kind.
41 ’ states and territo ries have been M ethodists, etc., etc. Such educa
I he difficulty is in the very n a
Can not we send to our L egisla
a,hled to the list which have uni tion is not “ higher” in any proper ture of the education th a t is to be
versities founded or supported by sense of the term ; it is dwarfed, sec- “ h ig h er” , because to he such a t all, tu re those who will give the people
the state, and the to tal fixed prop tarian and p a rtia l; besides it is only
a t least an o p p o rtu n ity by general
it m ust be absolutely free and in
erty of these universities is now
limited to a few for w ant of m eans constant co-operation and yet em u law for a Republic of Letters, oy
♦R5.000,000.
to give it a general extension. To lation, with other institutions, and th eir own free and secular universi
1 his means th a t the higher edu-
get over this lim itation of m eans, indeed with all of th e thought and ties of higher education an d cu ltu re?
ca inn of our S tate and country is
the S tate is invoked and even im progress of the world.
Public
to fall into the hands of th e politi
portuned to go into the business of schools are lim ited to special ru d i
cal parties, p artizan s and bosses
W hen L u th e r left the Rom an
the higher education by establish m entary and in stru m en tal know l
wh »are to determ ine our political
ing a S tate U niversity of its own, edge necessary to all; and so prop Catholic church and adopted the
f'Aiire. Our N ational and S tate
or patronizing the more or less sec erly are un d er state, or ra th e r dis m otto, “ L iberty to investigate” , he
• ’ it u t in n s are n o w o n ly th e
tarian universities by special dona trict, m anagem ent, and thus close sounded the d eath -k n ell of every
lan
the C h a rities M eeting at P ort-
orthodox church th a t should after
’’ap. 14 last, rep o rted in th e Ore- tions or indirect favors. We sug to the people. But even here some
. nan of J a n . 15.—th re e colum ns.
gest th a t neither of these plans can difficulties creep in — especially w ards spring up outside the ju r is
diction of the pope.—[G raves.
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