Show I The Professor and The Common People I I Ghost of the Past at the Wilson Feast lIE professor will find himself himsel unable to get away from it and only T TIrE THE an accurate though belated reco recognition of the damaging damaging- effect Mr Joseph W. W Parks Park's s exposures will have upon his political ambition could have induced Professor Wilson Vilson to administer the the- sort of counterirritant counterirritant counterirritant counter- counter irritant that he ha has attempted Even Eyen if Doctor V Wilsons Wilson's lson s 's ineffectual and and futile effort to discredit Mr Parks Park's intelligence and scholarship could have Leen successful among those in incapable pablo of connected thought certainly certainly thinly his other othor expressions of similar sentiments which he cannot deny since they are recorded for all aU the world to read would convict him of the authorship also of the statement which Mr l Park attributes to him Lest there be those whose mental processes arc are as impervious as the stone upon which constant dropping is necessary if an impression isto is isto isto to be made we once more publish the e expressions o of opinion made macic by bythe bythe the professor to in Mr Joseph Joseoh W. W Park of o Los Angeles a n graduate oC or Prin Princeton eton pupil and close friend of the Democratic candidate for dent M Mr Park declares that Doctor Wilson at the time the latter was professor of jurisprudence at at Princeton and Mr r. r Park was fellow in social science gave vent ent to him to the following statements of or opinion I AM OPPOSED TO THE TEE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE TEE COMMON PEOPLE SOMEBODY MUST DO THE DIRTY WORK OP OF THE TEE WORLD WHY SHOULDN'T THE TEE CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASSES BE BROUGHT UP TO DO THE TEE WORK THEm THEIR PARENTS ARE NOW DOING Unable at first to recall Mr Park the professor finally remembered remembered remembered him by looking him up in the records of the university Suddenly Sud Sud- denly his memory cleared and Doctor Wilson recalled Mr Park so well instantly remembered that he had once been obliged to reject a certain work which Mr Park submitted for a degree BECAUSE OF THE TUE UTTER CONFUSION OF THOUGHT The professor professor professor pro pro- fessor also marvellously almost magically recalled that this work showed that Mr Park ark could neither think nor comprehend and that HIS ms MIND WAS OF THE SORT THAT GETS NOTHING COR COR- Once more the professorial thinking cap was donned and the professor concluded that this is only I dare say ANOTHER INSTANCE INSTANCE IN IN- STANCE OF IDS HIS ENTIRE INABILITY EITHER TO UNDERSTAND OR INTERPRET ANYTHING One finds it difficult to believe that Doctor Wilson wrote that amazing letter Jetter It is more than probable that it was b by his advisers advisers ad ad- advisors visors who are and have been more closely in touch with the average c citizen and understand the repugnance with which sentiments like the above would be received Doctor Wilson should have havo known that Princeton publication and records show Mr Park to have been ofa of-a high order of scholarship and of intelligence the thc professor himself selected Park for the annual commencement debate coached him as one of the Princeton n representatives for the Harvard Ranard debate delivered to him a prize as 33 the winner of a contest in which Doctor Wilson Tilson had himself selected the judges among whom was Colonel Roosevelt Roose Doctor Wilson Tilson should have remembered remembered-it it is a pity the the records 0 of the university did not refresh his memory on this point also that also that be he highly recommended Mr Park for a faculty position in the Kansas t State Agricultural college in a n letter to its president which we ve published in ill this column yesterday verbatim and in full In that letter Jetter of commendation commendation com corn Doctor Wilson WilSin says of Mr Park that he takes pleasure in inC C testifying to HIS IDS ABILITY AND PROMISE AS A SCHOLAR declares de de- de- de clares dares that Park PaIk WON UNUSUAL DISTINCTION HERE AS A STUDENT STU STU- DENT then says I THINK HIM my A MAN MAJ OF UNUSUAL GIFTS AND CORDIALLY COM COMMEND END HIM TO YOUR FAVORABLE NO NO- TICE fICE Even i if the he preponderance of evidence did not substantiate fully the authenticity o of the expression which Mr r. r Park charges to his former preceptor and intimate friend the frequently repeated description by Doctor Wilson of laboring men as unprofitable servants which he lie cannot deny since it appears in his addresses as president of f Princeton and his comparison of the Pacific coast Chinese with their neighbors much to the thc discredit of the latter which is written into his His History ry of the American People would warrant belief in the above IL It 14 IS 4 for 41 T 4 in fn n r- r 1 1 J H U L. L f 4 1 r uJ V. V t LUU WHICH distinguished him as a n college professor an and later later as a college president His associates were men of culture of erudition of education they were coldly analytical like himself They dealt purely with abstract cs s matters of theory not of practical concreteness Tile The conditions which faced imperial Caesar held more of interest to them than the problems problem of the present day The common people of America their hopes am ambitious and fears were figuratively impaled uj upon m the pin under the microscope that they might be he dispassionately studied The professors professor's attitude towards to his fellows has been one of t curiosity rather than sympathy As a student of sociology he lie has al always always al- al ways been greatly interested in J informing himself as to the causes which underlie our social system more keen to know why why- things are as they are are than to discover how they can be improved He lie is a dreamer rather than a doer an idealist not a practical man of affairs Doctor Wilson Tilson naturally logically and without consciousness that I I there was anything reprehensible about it would seriously innocently and honestly consider that the children of the tho working classes should be bo brought up to do the work their parents are arc now doing That opinion did no harm so long as he was only an educator for he lacked Jacked entirely the power or influence to it in bring about or t to suppress sup sup- press the breast of one workingman the of stirring ambition for something some some- I thing better belter for his children But sentiments which be may merely amusing in the professional theorist become distinctly menacing when held by tho the man who may be President of the United States His opinions opinions ions then become something to 10 be reckoned with because his ideas govern the legislation of this great country for the next neAt four years may tho the man roan who is commander chief of the United States army and can send it against the people from whose ranks it is I recruited if he so desire becomes a n living breathing danger inasmuch as he regards the ingmen ing- ing men and women of the United States as ns unprofitable s servants It t is characteristic of the Salt SaIt Lake Tribune that it should blunder blundel into the tho defense of the professor sor at tho the moment that the wires wore carrying evidence that made a defense impossible Even though the tho Tribune pretends to be most learned about those things concerning which it knows lea least t we would suggest that it return to water vater cress and I other kindred subjects It knows probably little about those either but fewer people will notice it the members of the Ladies' Ladies Home Best Bet Way I WHILE y Industry association deserve deser commenda commenda- to Boost Boot tion and assistance in their efforts to toP P Products Product i boost Utah beet sugar by lectures and demon demon- we should like to call to their attention of Utah I the fact that those of them who are of voting age I may boost still more effectively one week from next Tuesday without either lecture or demon demon- Men who are ire conversant with the tho sugar business in Ut Utah n declare that the reduction of th the tariff sugar to a revenue basis free freo or trade altogether will vill destroy the industry in this state as competition o. o 01 oil an equal basis with foreign sugars is impossible because of the high prices the Utah farmers receive for their beets and the high paid to employees in sugar factories wages The Thc encouragement of home in industry is s one of the tho best st tasks to which Utah women can address themselves The three great home in industries in- in of Utah arc sugar wool ool and null mining and nn Democratic a vie vic 1 tory means the withdrawal of the thc protection which has enabled those industries to attain c their present prosperity and importance If IC the women of Utah will assist by their votes otes to prevent pre the election of Democratic Democrat c a done more to congressmen and a Democratic President they ther will ill have 0 encourage and ana advance homo home industries than possibly accomplish by leet lectures and they could ures an demonstrations lions effective as t these Lese undoubtedly ly meI are me I g I Canned Cannell goods according g to a member of the he Illinois Groc Gr leers leers' ens' ens rs' rs association ll cheapest l form o of food Wholesale fl I t they hc are arc fc fId d. d J Perhaps pro pro- t l x- x i t t t p of JI JItU tU- tU |