WHITE RESENTS ATTACK ON STUBBS
EMPORIA EDITOR TAKES FLING AT KANSAN
The Governor Saw That Too Much Expenditure Would Be Political Weapon.
A communication was received by the editor of The Kansas yesterday from William Allen White in which the Regent expresses deep regret that the University publication should attack the recent action of Governor Stubbs in cutting out $10,000 of the University's upkeep and maintenance. The letter follows:
To the Editor of the Kansas:
I am sincerely sorry that you deemed it wise to attack Government Stubbs for his veto on the item for upkeep of the University in the maintenance fund. The amount taken out was not large, and so far, as he was able to learn—so he tells me—from the University authorities, the only matters affected are the proposed under ground conduits for electric wires; and other small items of that nature. Governor Stubbs exercised his veto in several items in other institutions, and while these items were small, not ruining over $50,000 in any instance, the aggregate was considerable, and if he had left an item in the University budget in his home town that was not absolutely needed to keep the University up to its high standard, he would have been justly criticised. Of course the conduits for the electric wires were needed. But so were scores of other things needed by the University and by other educational and penal and charitable institutions that they did not get. The appropriations were increased nearly a million dollars. The Legislature did all it could to keep them down, the Governor Award of the appropriation bills, item by item, and cut out every item that he believed could wait two years. Emporia, for instance, was trimmed a little with the others.
The truth is that the institutions of higher education have grown wonderfully during the eight years last past, and the University has led this growth. These eight years are the years during which W. K. Stubbs has been in politics. His friends do not claim he is responsible for the growth of these institutions; but being from Lawrence, he has had to bear the brunt of the fight for University appropriations. And while making this night in the legislature he carried other highly important enquiries to a successful issue under his leadership—a most difficult task with the weakest of the Legislature in 1903 the Legislature appropriated for the University $124,600 for 1904 and $22,300 for 1905, the first Legislature in increased the University appropriation to $297,000 for 1906 and $270,400 for 1907; during Stubbs third term the Legislature increased the amount appropriated to $367,414 in 1908, and $413,420 for 1909. In his first term as governor the University appropriation was $99,319 for the first year of the biennium and $544,622 for the second year. The Legislature this year made 39 appropriations as follows: $484,920 for 1912 and $564,456 for 1913. The total appropriations for the University since Stubbs went to the Legislature are printed below; they show a steady rise for the University. They follow:
Legislature of 1903... $397,000
Legislature of 1905... $569,600
Legislature of 1907... 780,803
Legislature of 1909... 823,255
Legislature of 1911... $1,019,370
Now Stubbs is no more responsible for these appropriations than are dozens of good men who worked with him in these long latures, and the tax-payers of Kansas who have sustained these men at the polls. For all appropriations for all state institution have been rising. The activity of the state are broadening, and properly so. But in the cam union of both states there are
Anyway about the increases in legislative appropriations. This complaint found expression in the platforms of all the parties, in premises of economy. It was manifest in the Legislature. The governor felt it; he believed he had a duty just as the Legislature had, to cut wherever he could cut, and still leave the institutions unimpaired.
Gov. Stubbs is a Republican he believes in his party and its wisdom. He saw what we all saw, that to leave a dollar in the appropriations that might reasonably be cut out, would be a weapon for the enemies of his party, and he believed, as all Republicans believe who have watched Kansas politics for ten years, and remember the Populus outbreak of the nineties, that to give a Democratic Legislature an opportunity to make the appropriations for Kansas, would turn the clock of progress back half a decade not only for the University, but for all Kansas institutions. So he cut to the bone, but with a friendly hand.
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Now it is neither fair nor kind for a University publication, representing as it must University sentiment, to sneer at a man who has never swerved in his loyalty to the University, when his best judgment guides him to a disagreeable, but in his honest judgment, a necessary task.
Respectfully,
W. A WHITE.
The Unitarian Church.
Regular morning service at 11 o'clock; sermon, "The Increasing Revelation;" the Sunday school at 12 o'clock; classes for students in social ethics taught by Dr. Carruth, in the German Bible taught by Dr. Newport; at the opening exercises Dr. Newport gives an illustrated address on "Art and Artists;" Young Peoples' meeting at 6:45 p. m.; topic, "The Woman Movement;" leader, Miss Florence D. Healey. All cordially invited to these meetings. F. M. Bennett, minister. Frank E. Wells and Anna R. Manley, student pastors.
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TABLE K.U. Loop Street Car Time Table.
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