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Show Jibbings of College Professors. The recent utterances of President Elliot of Harvard respecting the dangers dan-gers and degradation of trades unions is naturally exciting much comment. With unerring periodicity some of our prominent educators seem as naturally to write themselves down asses as the seasons are to come and go. We have the irrepressible and hopelessly idiotic Triggs inveighing against the matchless match-less heart-reaching songs of Longfellow and advising a board of control for poetry poe-try and novels. The contempt for his jibbings has barely passed when President Presi-dent Elliot of Harvard takes up the cudgel against trades unions, because they undertake, to work as few hours, produce as little as possible and in return re-turn therefor demand the highest compensation com-pensation obtainable. A mind logically enough construed to see that two and two make four could detect the deduction deduc-tion to be drawn from organizations of capital by the assertion of this dogmatic dog-matic all. Railroads all corporations that exist for the purpose of making profit on an investment have a fixed rule rendering the least service in the most convenient time for them, for a I maximum charge. Competition among ' employees as well as the natural desire for gain drives them to secure the longest long-est practicable hours of service, with a maximum of production for a minimum of payment. It is a strange education which teaches that the accomplishment of these results are in the interest of mankind when sought for by capital, and dangerous to the race when promoted pro-moted by labor. Such ridiculous utterances utter-ances are what give color and support to the opinion of the crusty old man who was asked to indorse a scheme for establishing, a new college. "Yes," he said. "Yes, colleges are good. There's a lot of sense in them, too. Young men, when they go to college, take a little sense with them and they leave it there." The Pessimist in Goodwin's Weekly. - |