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Show I I Kerr Should Be Removed i . . The Herald, the Democratic organ of President Kerr of tho Agricultural college, had a savago editorial on Monday mainly directed at James H. Anderson and E. H. Calllster. Those gentlemen have a right to feel complimented compli-mented because tho Kearns Democratic-Republican organ abuses them. That alone Is prima facie evidence that they are honest, respectable men, but what they have to do with the disgrace and public condemnation which President Kerr has brought I upon the Agricultural college is a mystery mys-tery comprehended only by the ablo(?) editors and managers of tho Herald. The Herald says: "In all tho various efforts to oust President Kerr and install a political management there has not been one word of criticism crit-icism of the president's ability as an Instructor or as an executive; there i has been nothing but praise of his personality and tho results ho has 1 achieved In the Institution render successful suc-cessful criticism impossible." Seldom does ono seo so many absolute ab-solute and utter falsehoods crowded i Into so small a space. President Kerr has been publicly- and privately criticized crit-icized both for his management of tho institution of which ho is tho head and also for his personal actions in connection con-nection with tho Institution. Truth among other things has made the following fol-lowing charges against him and stands ready to prove each and all of them: President Kerr's great aim, and ho has been very successful therein, has been to destroy tho usefulness of tho Institution as an agricultural college. Agriculture has been relegated to tho back ground; moneys which were appropriated ap-propriated by tho legislature for specific spe-cific purposes for tho advancement of agricultural branches have been under un-der President Kerr's rule, diverted to other purposes. President Kerr's management man-agement of the Institution has been extravagant ex-travagant and wasteful In tho extreme. He asked the late legislature for an appropriation of $240,000 for tho maintenance main-tenance of tho institution for two years. He wanted to make tho institution insti-tution a university not an agricultural college. The legislature made tho amount ?120,000. A few years ago tho cost of -maintenance was only ?12,E00 .1 a year. Since Mr. Kerr has run it tho cost of maintenance has increased to ?G5,000 a year and thero Is but a slight increase in tho number of students. There is indisputable evldonco of extravagance. ex-travagance. Tho college is no longer a college of agriculture, which It was Intended to be. and for which tho state maintains It. Wo don't mean by this that it is not necessary and proper to teach in an agricultural college subjects that are necessary to a proper understanding of the. scienco of agriculture, but that agrlculturo and tho subjects pertinent thereto should been given little or no consideration and tho timo and money spent on other branches of learning Is altogether wrong and a perversion of tho object for which tho agricultural agricul-tural college was established and Is maintained at tho exponso of the state. President Kerr has been tyrannical and overbearing In his relation to tho professors under him to such an extent ex-tent that no self respecting man can hold a position under him In tho col-lego col-lego and retain his self respect and dignity. President Kerr has succeeded succeed-ed In driving away its most ablo and most" faithful Instructors, particularly In tho purely agricultural departments. depart-ments. Ho plotted and schemed to accomplish ac-complish that very thing. President Kerr has been for years a pernicious politician and has descended descend-ed to tho tricks of a ward politician of tho most objectionablo typo and built up a Kerr political machine. Ho has played double and stuliflcd himself him-self again and again. Ho deceived and to uso a common expression, "fooled" tho present governor and thon put his tongue in his cheek and laughed at him. Ho is tho man who is to blamo for tho present plight in which tho Agricultural college is found and if ho Is permitted to contlnuo his past and present' policy tho next legislature will beyond a doubt wipe out tho institution in-stitution as an Agricultural college and reduco It to tho level of an ordinary ordi-nary high school. And who can blamo the legislature for so doing unless un-less it fulfills tho purpose for which It was created and for which It Is maintained and which it has not dono under President' Kerr's regime. President Pres-ident Kerr and tlioso who arc supporting sup-porting him arc tho worst, in fact tho only, enemies tho collcgo has. President Presi-dent Kerr should resign and if ho won't resign ho should bo discharged. ft Tho present state of affairs Is intolerable. in-tolerable. The deadlock in tho board of trustees it appears cannot bo broken as long as tho personnel of tho board remains as It Is at present. Governor Cutler has tho power and it Is his duty to end this stato of affairs af-fairs even If ho has to call for the resignation res-ignation of every member of tho board and appoint others. Tho business of tho college Is at a standstill nnd quick and dccislvo action is demanded. Wo again ask tho Herald what James II. Anderson nnd E. II. Calllster hnvo to do with all tills? How aro they to blamo for the misdeeds of President Kerr? Wo would nlso inform tho Herald that James II. Anderson hns more brains than all tho editors and manager.1 of tho Herald put together. As a newspaper man ho could give them cards and spades and beat thorn at' their own gnmo. As men of executive exec-utive ability and men of affairs either Anderson or Calllster hns forgotten moro than they over know, nnd nl though neither of them aro applicants for positions as Instructors in tho Agricultural Ag-ricultural collcgo or olsowhoro either of them could perform those duties in a manner superior to tho editor of tho Herald. Mcantlmo wo suppose Calllster Cal-llster and Anderson will have to steal Into tho city and county building by tho collar door after dark lest tho valllant editor of tho Herald appear and literally kick them out. Again wo say tho governor should end this muddlo and end It' right. Tho only right way Is to dispense with tho services of Mr. Kerr. |