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Show GREAT PERIL TO THE COLLEGE. We are compelled, with much reluctance re-luctance to revise In part the judgment we expressed on Friday with regard to the troubles in the Agricultural College a I 1 .' iga n. What repaid In condemnation condemna-tion of the absurd claim that the State University hand Is In the trouble, and that the University Is attempting to "crush" the College, of course stands there Is nothing whatever in that hys-t hys-t rlcal nonsense. But it seems evident that there is an attempt to retire President Kerr, through political and hierarchic motives and pressure. He has not been sufn-' Clently subserlent to the local church and party bosses, and must go. If they cah carry out their programme When a member of the Board of Trustees, and a Mormon member at that, a bishop In the church, Will state this openly, as Bishop Owen did to the pupils, pu-pils, there Is no longer room for any doubt about it. Bishop Owen said: "Politics shall cut no figure In this college while I am a member of the RnArH tor-,rv-r rrlitrlnti cHll nut figure here while I remain. This Is a Stale Institution, supported by the Nation Na-tion and the State, and it must be kept free from these Influences " That Is precisely the 'view that every honest-minded citizen must take on this question. That it was the view of half of the six trustees present was evident in the fact that three of them stood by Bishop Owen, and voted to proceed with the organization and work of the Board. That it was not the view of the other three was manifest from their refusal to organize and proceed upon those lines, and from their silence under Bishop Owen's merited and Just rebuke. John A McAllister, another of tho Trustees, endorsing Bishop Owen's remarks, re-marks, proceeded to say; "I approve of your methods and these expressions of loyalty for President Kerr The old members of the Board feel as you do about President Kerr. He was speaking speak-ing to the students, who were cheering for President Kei r, and of their mottoes mot-toes expressing lldellty to him I say nothing about the new members, they not having had a chance to ote""yet' but you are not kids, you know what Is going on. If any member of the faculty fac-ulty obstructs the progress of this College Col-lege we propose to get rid of him. There Is no one so great but we can spare, him. The school must go forward, and therefore there must be union in the faculty " This is even more significant than Bishop Owen s remarks, with regard to the actual cause of the trouble. It emphasizes the point that there is an effort to Inject extraneous Influences into the control of the Agricultural College These extraneous Influences are primarily the domination of the bierarohs with special regard to the upholding of the polygamous cult, and partisan politics. it has not Infrequently been Bald that there are enemies of the Agricultural Agricul-tural College in this State, but we have heretofore denied this, feeling that every well-wisher of the State must necessarily be a friend of this College. But now it actually seems that there ure enemies to the College, and that three of them are on Its Board of Trustees. Trus-tees. They wish to engraft polygam ous Mormonlsm upon that Institution, and Republican partisan politics In all fairness, we wish to warn these enemies ot the college that they are-about are-about to do Irreparable damage to It If they can carry out their purpose. The National appropriation for the Experiment Ex-periment Station was once put In Jeopardy Jeo-pardy because polygamlst was President Pres-ident of the College, That appropriation appropria-tion will certainly be permanently withdrawn If the polygamlst sentiment Is engrafted upon the institution. And with that done, and partisan politics also dominant, the College will speedily speedi-ly become the contempt and scorn of all good citizens The trustees who are apparently committed to this folly and destrut tlon should abandon the error of their ways at once or Governor Cutler Cut-ler should a 11 upon them to resign the plat cs they misuse. |