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here. One looks on in amazement at the pa- 

 tience, courage and self-sacrificing spirit of this 

 small minority of the people. My daughter puts 

 it: " Majorities rule but Minorities lead the 

 world;" and I would add that when the majority 

 overtakes the minority, it will still be in the lead. 



I am persuaded that this happy condition is due 

 largely to exceptional freedom of thought and ex- 

 pression not only in general society but among the 

 instructing bodies of the two great Universities. 

 In no other public institutions that I have known 

 are the workers accorded such latitude of speech; 

 even the students are permitted to speak " right 

 out in meeting." Autocrats, big and little, may 

 muzzle the Press for political, financial and per- 

 sonal reasons but as long as the higher institutions 

 of learning are free, civilization will go forward. 



The leading newspapers of this State, I regret 

 to say, are very generally muzzled. You have no 

 more than subscribed for one than you wish you 

 had subscribed for the other because none of them 

 give you the facts. Not only are men and meas- 

 ures grossly misrepresented by paid correspond- 

 ents who must obey their Masters' orders, but the 

 editorials are often unfair and misleading and 

 sometimes positively untruthful. There are per- 

 haps only three newspapers of influence which may 



