Show 1 T The e Moving Finger Writes Etc 1 j i 1 are many things of which B. B H. H Roberts Roberta knows a great deal deril and we wei r l' i t THERE I frain from from printing a li list het t of them because of f our kindly feeling for 01 him hinl the there e eare little and again our ow interest lD in his Ins are things also of which he knows very welfare intervenes to prevent appending g the list Hat Among b these latter however er is IB whether Professor Wilson did or 01 did not express to JO Joseph eph I W. W T. T Park of Los Angeles Angele sentiments which show him utterly unfit for the office of President thoroughly out of sympathy with the great mass of the people and a complete pedant and I prig about abou t whom hom the tIle walls galls of his little world pressed so closely that ho he saw nothing b beabou be- be be beyond yond ond the point of his unhandsome chin In k his is speech at the Salt Lake theatre where whole he performed on Saturday night filling his usual amusing but always futile pre-election pre date Mr l Roberts declared that th the e p professor said nothing ng of the sort because The fhe Republican Herald is is the 1 o only newspaper that has published publish d it and because the professor has denied it a and because the Associated Press has not carried it upon its wires wires These three reasons may seem ample to the provincial Roberts wisdom but they cannot withstand withstand with with- stand the facts Considering them seriatim Nearly every Republican or Roosevelt newspaper in inthe inthe the United States has published them which of course Mr r. r Roberts could not know the remarks were made in 1897 and inasmuch as the Associated Press ha handles only current news and neat neither her the history of the past nor the campaign material of any party that news g athe g association has carried nothing about it And concel concerning 1 ng Dir Mr Ir Roberts' Roberts other reason it s1 suffices to remark that the professor not being so great greata a fool foal as he looks loops and desiring g to be President has denied it We Ve have no doubt that Dr Wilson Vilson would deny V his Prin Princeton eton addresses on labor his diatribes against the pioneers and his fulsome praise of the Chinese in his his his' History of the American People People People Peo Peo- if he could Although it is not important whether Dr Wilson in 1897 said to his favorite pupil Dir Mr Park those disgusting remarks which Mr rr Park attributes to him hun unimportant tant because he has expressed the same sentim sentiments ts in his writings and in his Princeton Princeton Princeton Prince Prince- ton addresses we addresses we will rehearse the matter for the benefit of Mr Roberts whose pre pre- election activity V of two Iwo and four years ago and aid his precipitate subsidence afterwards are being duplicated Im m I this year I Joseph W T V. V Park of Los Angeles a graduate of Princeton and the fellow in social science at Princeton in 1897 when Dr Wilson Vilson was professor in jurisprudence some weeks ago received a letter Jetter from the V Woodrow Wilson College Mens Men's club asking g him as a graduate of Princeton to contribute te to to the Wilson cause Mr Park replied that I he lie would not do so inasmuch as he considered the professor unfit for the presidency I 1 dency because of certain sentiments entertained b by r the professor and expressed b by Y h him t to Mr Park while they were together at Princeton in 1897 These sentiments were as fo follows II 0 WE II I do not believe in Democracy the Democracy the rule of the many I believe in aristocracy I racy racy- the racy the rule of the few but I wish an aristocracy of brains not of wealth I disapprove of the Chautauqua idea the attempt to give a smattering of culI culture culture cul cul- cul- cul I ture to everybody which results in securing conceit without knowledge I AM OPPOSED TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE SOMEBODY MUST DO THE DIRTY WORK OF THE WORLD WHY SHOULDN'T THE CHILDREN OF THE WORKING CLASSES BE BROUGHT UP TO DO THE WORK THEIR P PARENTS RENTS ARE NOW DOING The rhe incident was first called to the attention of Professor Wilson Vilson in Chicago a city in which we confess confeS'S the circulation of this newspaper to be somewhat limited A At first the professor couldn't remember Park at all Then it was called to his attention attention attention at at- in New Jersey probably again by The Republican Herald then it came to the notice of Democratic national headquarters at New Nev York and once more The Herald Herald- Republican scores This is a remarkable s quence of event events to which we e pause to call the attention of our advertising patrons evidently they are getting their moneys money's wo worth B By this time Mr Park was being so wide widely quoted that Dr Wilsons Wilson's memos memory im im- im- im proved And he wrote this letter I DID NOT AT FIRST K AT ALL but I have looked him up in the records of the university and anti r recall call him now very clearly I remember having been obliged to reject a certain work which he submitted for a degree BECAUSE BECAUSE BECAUSE BE BE- CAUSE OF THE UTTER CONFUSION OF THOUGHT IT SHOWED THAT HE COULD NEITHER THINK NOR COMPREHEND HS HIS S MIND WAS OF THE SORT THAT GETS NOTHING CORRECTLY I should not like to believe the man de deliberately ib false faIse It is only I dare say another instance o of f his entire INABILITY INABILITY INI IN IN- I ABILITY EITHER TO UNDERSTAND OR INTERPRET ANYTHING Let us ns pause lause again to emphasize and recall a few facts about Mr r. r Park aih This iman man of such singular mind was graduated graduate 1 from Princeton Dr Wilson selected him m for the annual commencement debate Dr Wilson risen coached him as the Princeton representative rep rep- for the annual debate with Harvard the professor delivered to Mr Il Park Pail Parka Paila a substantial prize won by the latter in a contest in which the professor himself se se- selected selected selected the judges of whom Theodore Roosevelt w was s one Mr lr Park Parr won a fellowship in Princeton and one in the University of Chicago in a wide nation-wide competition And now we pass on to the following which h speaks for it itself elf and of which ireless no ire noless less than fifty important newspapers in in inthe th the e United States have printed facsimiles Princeton New Jersey 18 May 1897 President Thomas E E. Will Kansas State Agricultural College r r My Dear Sir I understand that Mr Joseph W. W Park is is a candidate for far a position in your faculty and andI I take pleasure in TESTIFYING T TO 0 HIS ABILITY I AND PROMISE AS A SCHOLAR HE WON UNUSUAL DISTINCTION HERE S 'S I i AS A STUDENT and has held in r our fellowship social science during during- the present year I THINK HIM A MAN OF UNUSUAL GIFTS AND CORDIALLY COMMEND COM COM- i- i f MEND HIM TO YOUR FAVORABLE NOTICE Very sincerely yours r I i WOODROW WI WILSON LSON f. f In 1897 when they were vere friends Dr Di Wilson Vilson regarded regard g d Mr l Park Pail as a a man luan of t unusual gifts of ability and promise e as a scholar as one who had won unusual t r distin distinction tion as as a student nt In 1912 when t the he professor or wants to be President he only l remembers Park as a man of utter confusion tf of thought one who ho could neither J 1 i think nor comprehend with a mind of they the sort Bort t that b gets ets nothing Y correctly and I that sho showed ed an entire inability either to understand or to interpret anything Charity and a close observation n of Mr i Roberts in iu a few ct campaigns 1 g impels us lis l to assume th that t he lie knew nothing of the In matters s here set forth Like Ille evel every Y other v victim ct of garrulity who fancies himself an an o orator rotor he pays pay close attention to the garments I. I iI in which he clothes his thoughts and none nOlle at all to th the entity which those ve verbal garments gar ar- ar ments cover coyer r Two ewo ye years rs he declared t that hat the I ago Republican I l party part titi was s insincere in in urging local option locaL option and aud predicted that no legislation would follow Yet Republican m r officials have haye handled ed the time matter so well that Mr Ir R Roberts Roberts' obey is party did not even mention L the liquor question in its state platform this s year I 1 I |