Would Menace Education

Children of Western farmers, says the Chicago Times-Herald, children of business men i'ruin all parts of the JNIiddle States and the West, who attend the great universities and colleges of their home states and those in the Kust would, it is declared by educators, suffer materially by the election of Mr, Bryan, ïhe triumph of fice silver, by all advices at hand, would mean a serious blow to the cause of university aud lege educaüon. Northwestern university, Cornell, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan and otlier prominent iustitutions of iearning Live voiee to their fears as to what free silver would do with the magnificent endowments they have received in the past frora patrons who believed that the United States would always be for a sound currency. "The chief cause of the trouble the country has been experiencïng in the last two or three years," says conservativo President Rogers of the Northwestern university, "is due to a want of confidence oceasioned by the f roe si hor agitation. Prosperity will return whou that specter hus been laid to rest. For that reason, although I liave been a Democrat in national politics, I expect to vote for Mr. McKinley." Seata ui learning in all parta of the country are agitated by the fear that a Populistic government, headed by Mr. ,Bryau and represcnting a depreciated currency, will diminish the value of college endowments by at least one-half, if uot more. "Anything which disturba the nimity of business," says President Adinis of the University of Wisconsin, "or if the industrial aud commercial world ■aimot fail to have a bad effect on the ;reat institutious of learning." The election of Bryan ma y deal a leathblow to the educational asiMrations of hundreds of thousands of young men and young womeu in this country. It may mean the closing of hundreds of email colleges and schools, and . would leriously cripple the usefulness of every )ig university as well. It meaus nothing nore nor less than the reduction by oneïalf of the incomcs of those educational nstitutions which rely upon their endownent funds ior maintenance. The same s true of . every charitable institution similarly sustained, but the effect of a fi'ee silver policy upoñ the universities, colleges and semiuaries would be feit more keenly.