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7 ANTI-KNOCKERS' EDmONJ
jldAL Edition No. 7 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JON1S 7, 1105. P,,,.,, r., M
I Kerr Should Be Removed
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 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
upon the Agricultural college is a 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 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
' achieved In the Institution render suc
cessful criticism impossible."
Seldom does ono seo so many ab
solute and utter falsehoods crowded
Into so small a space. President Kerr
has been publicly- and privately crit
icized both for his management of tho
institution of which ho is tho head and
also for his personal actions in con
nection with tho Institution. Truth
among other things has mado the 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 ap
propriated by tho legislature for spe
cific purposes for tho advancement of
agricultural branches have been un
der President Kerr's rule, diverted to
other purposes. President Kerr's man
agement of the Institution has been ex
travagant and wasteful In tho extreme.
He asked the late legislature for an
appropriation of $240,000 for tho main
tenance of tho institution for two
years. He wanted to make tho 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
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 evidonco of 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 agricul
tural college was established and Is
maintained at tho exponso of the
state.
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President Kerr has been tyrannical
and overbearing In his relation to tho
professors under him to such an ex
tent that no self respecting man can
hold a position under him In tho col
lego and retain his self respect and
dignity. President Kerr has succeed
ed In driving away Its most ablo and
most" faithful Instructors, particularly
In tho purely agricultural depart
ments. Ho plotted and schemed to ac
complish that very thing.
President Kerr has been for years a
pernicious politician and has descend
ed to tho tricks of a ward politician
of tho most objectlonablo typo and
built up a Kerr political machine. Ho
has played double and stuliflcd 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 In
stitution as an Agricultural college
and reduco It to tho level of an ordi
nary high school. And who can
blamo the legislature for so doing un
less It fulfills tho purpose for which
It was created and for which It Is
MMHMHHra
maintained nnd which it hns not dono
under President' Kerr's regime. Pres
ident Kerr nnd tlioso who arc sup
porting him nrc tho worst, in fact tho
only, enemies tho collcgo has. Presi
dent Kerr should resign and if ho
won't resign ho should bo discharged.
The present state of affairs Is in
tolerable. The deadlock in the
board of trustees It appears cannot bo
broken as long as tho personnel of tho
board remains as It Is at present.
Governor Cutler hns tho power and
it Is his duty to end this stato of af
fairs even if ho has to call for the 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 havo to
do with all tills? How aro they to
blamo for the misdeeds of President
Kerr? Wo would also 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 exec
utive ability and men of affairs either
Anderson or Calllster has forgotten
moro than they over know, nnd nl
though neither of them nro applicants
for positions as Instructors in tho Ag
ricultural collcgo or olsowhoro cither
of them could perform those duties
in a manner superior to tho editor of
tho Herald. Mcantlmo wo suppose Cal
llster and Anderson will hnvo to steal
Into tho city and county building by
tho cellar door after dark lest tho
valliunt editor of tho Herald appear
and literally kick them out.
Again wo say tho governor should
end this muddio and end It' right. Tho
only right way Is to dispense with tho
services of Mr. Kerr.
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HOW BARNEY LOST A FRANCHISE
Ogden, Juno G, Tho benign face of
Bill Is wreathed In smiles these days,
ho having succeeded in knocking out
Barney Mahler on his franchise for an
Inter-urban electric railroad. There is
a great' story behind all this; an un
published narrative.
Evoryono in Ogden knows that
while hundreds of bushels of potatoes
aro fed to cattle by farmers north of
us, wo hero havo to pay heavy prices
because tho farmers aforesaid cannot
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got cheap rates to tho city. What Is 'Hi
true or potatoes applies to everything Iffl
olso grown by tho gontlo agricultural- flj
iBts. Everyone knows Hint tho con- H
struction of an inter-urban lino moans jM)
tho reduction of freight rates from j 3
both tho north and tho south by the .' 9
railroads, thus giving Ogden people ' WS
n chanco for their whlto alloy. They , Wi
also know that tho construction nnd I '
operation of such a lino means a ro- Ej
duction In passenger fnrcs nnd a gen- K
oral bonotlt to tho public. I fnl
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So when it was proposed by Barnoy ffffl
to construct a lino through Ogden, IB
connecting us on tho north witli Lo- ' ifi
gan and all Cacho valley, and on the , jjjjl
south with Salt Lnko nnd all or that ' HI
valley, pcoplo up hero wcro elated. jj
Tho dawning of n bettor day appeared ' jjjflf
on tho horizon. Wo felt good. That fl
expresses It. Among thoso of us who , fc
felt good was no less a personage ' !5J$
thnn Hon. Fred J. Kiosol. Fred was jsK
elated. Ho was for tho rond. Yah. i jM
Ho boosted for tho road, ho rooted for ', M
the road, talked for tho road, IBB.
dreamed of tho road. t K
Now Fred Is, among other things, ; If
president of tho Union Depot com- B
pany. j B
Tho railroad pcoplo that is tho ' fl
boys who work for tills chap Harri- l fl
man, who got so mad at tho, mooting j B
of tho Equitablo LIfo tho othor day ) JR
ho couldn't talk but simply yolled: a B
"Wow, wow, wow," and who Is ro- '' M
ported to havo qulto a bit to say in j K
tho mntter of running tho Oregon M ;
Short Lino and tho Union Pacific, jftj
heard about Fred's nctivity and tho J Bj
llrst thing Fred know ho wns being ra
counseled with. Of courso no man Iff ,'
knowoth tho oxact languago used, but ,( K"'
then it Is fair to prcsumo that tho j' KJ !
conversation was something llko this: J!'l(
"Now, Mr. Kclscl, you aro tho pros- i 1$ ;
Ident of tho Union Depot company and f PJl
you know Mr. Hnrrlman runs trains hB j
Into that depot; you also know that Efl
to permit of tho construction of an Bj
electric lino from Salt Lako City up Ijj
hero and from Cacho valloy down m
hero, moans competition. Why tlioso K
follows will cut rates right In two. fjj
Thoy will shavo passongor rates down
and wo will havo to tako off our local j ji (
trains and wo will not bo ablo to do !H
any local freight business and that flpjf
will causo us to loso money and Mr. '?$
Hnrrlman will not llko It. You j Mm
wouldn't do anything to hurt Mr. mg
Harrlman's feelings, of courso. No." Hi
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