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Show has gained his dollars he looks about him for a way to get rid of some of them. He decides that he will endow a university. Is there a motive other than his liberality? We see his money in the coffers of that institution. What is the result? The command is silence." Dr. Bascom hues to the line of truth in his denouncement of the oil trust king and his methods. His utterances are in line with The Telegram's comment com-ment of yesterday in. connection with Rockefeller, the Beaumont oil fields and the Standard man's shrewd scheme by which he stifles hostile public sentiment through million-dollar donations to certain cer-tain colleges. That a censor is in control of the institutions in-stitutions . endowed . by Mr. Rockefeller is a statement state-ment that will be denied only in endowed college circles. It was only six years ago that Prof. Bemls, of the sociology department of the Chicago" university univer-sity lost his chair because of too free criticism of monopolists and their ways. A college that accepts money from the oil king, knowing well the conditions condi-tions he imposes, must be woefully in need of funds. The price ,of Rockefeller's gifts is silence. In other words, some of these richly-endowed institutions occupy oc-cupy the same position in the educational world as the subsidized newspaper that bribe-taker of the press does in the journalistic field. SUBSIDIZED COLLEGES. pr John Bascom, former president of the University Uni-versity of Wisconsin, now professor of sociology in ' Williams college, does not like John D. Rockefeller r Mr Rockefeller's University . of Chicago.. Last . he told the Wisconsin Teachers' association that "the Hps- of every professor in the University nf Chicago are sealed." In Chicago on Monday he 0 ... i wsh to repeat that the professors are si-Pnced si-Pnced In the East it Is considered necessary to r2Lh political economy and sociology in every large frnititntton of learning. How are professors at the hicazo university to do this? They have accepted 11 a man's money and, in fairness to him and them-i them-i T thev must not tell the young men and women x ;me to their school how their benefactor W d Ms dollars. Understand, I am not attacking frTinckefeller' personality. I do not even know . . Jr 1 do know his reputation in the business timi 1 And I also know that h has done more to fos- r -nrnerclal monopoly than any man that now tcr coinmcrci corporatJon lives. " ii it dealt-liberally with its weaker t!.r.t he rolcsTu . &ealtem fairly with them? r - : ;cnts i Fifst Rockefeller gaine(J ' ' t H? money in freight rate discrimination. ' f'ueezed the smaller fellows out of busi-, busi-, r- i-ed them when necessary deliberate-' deliberate-' j Now, what are we to think ot ' ' - - j in that manner ? Now that he |