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A DANGEROUS ARTICLE.
A recent leader in the Reviews department of the Kansas Review, regarding "Sectional Animosity," would not merit notice were there not danger that it might be taken by the state press as representative of student feeling here. A more contemptible piece of servility to southern barbarity than that shown by the article in question, could not be found. There are not half a dozen students who will subscribe to such snivelling sentiments. The editor of "Reviews" places the lynching of the negro cut-throats in Lawrence last summer side by side with the Ku-Kluxism of the South. A happier illustration of the utter dough-faceism of the writer's position could not be given. The people of Lawrence, seeing that the state laws are not sufficient for the protection of citizens, take the midnight assassins from the jail and mete out justice to them. On the contrary, the citizens of Copiah County, Mississippi, meet in public assembly and unanimously applaud the murderer of Matthews, who was shot in cold-blood for the sole act of presenting his ballot at the poles; drive the family of the victim from their home; and flaunt the execrable act aloft to the nation as a warning to any who may dare to vote independently in the South. At Danville, Virginia, a band of colored men were attacked, beaten, whipped and shot for exercising their right of franchise—a right which the nation claims to guarantee every citizen. To publish these outrages, the Review writer says, is "to stir up sectional hatred" and "should be deprecated by those who have the welfare of the country at heart". We are glad that such maudlin sentiments are despised by the great mass of our students. Were they not, we should fear for the life of the University.
student elopement, a young lady writes to ask how long it is proper to wait after leaving college before getting married. All inquiries of this kind should be addressed to our business managers with stamp enclosed.
Apropos of our remarks on the recent
COLLEGE SPIRIT.
We heartily agree with the correspondent in our last number in regard to the neglect of students in patronizing college affairs. This indifference to University matters is shown not only in those entertainments for which students are asked to pay a pittance, also in those which the management has provided without charge for their benefit. Our chapel lecturers have never been greeted with large audiences. This lack of interest was still more fully evidenced on National day. The programme prepared by the faculty was made up of the best speakers in the University and the exercises proved among the finest ever given from our rostrum. A full orchestra had been procured for the occasion. Every class had representatives on the stage. In addition to this, and in order that there might be no excuse for absence, the faculty made the day a holiday. Yet notwithstanding all this, a very large number of our students would not take the trouble to climb Mt. Oread. The same thing was also true of the attendance at the oratorical contest in the evening. Surely there ought to be among students enough college enthusiasm, patriotism and regard for fellow classmen, even if there is no appreciation of the exercises, to induce every one to be on hand at all entertainments under the auspices of the University.
Again the attention of the country is called to Kansas by the campaign in the Second District. The result will have great influence in shaping the platforms of both parties, as it will largely determine the position of the West on the tariff question.