Ross Affair: Notebook containing D. S. Jordan's statement with exhibits and ptd. report of Committee of Economists

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I have long been aware that my every appearance in public drew upon me the hostile attention of certain powerful persons and interests in San Francisco and redoubled their efforts to be rid of me. But I had no choice but to go straight ahead. The scientist's business is to know some things clear to the bottom, and if he hides what he knows, he loses his virtue.

I am sorry to go, for I have put too much of my life into this university not to love it. My chief regret in leaving is that I must break the ties that bind me to my colleagues of seven years and must part from my great chief, Dr. Jordan.

San Francisco Chronicle,

Nov. 14, 1900.

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Exhibit I.

--copy--

Stanford University, Nov. 17, 1900.

Dr. Edward A. Ross,

Stanford University.

My dear Sir:

I enclose check for $2625.02, being the balance of your salary for the year which is paid to you now by direction of Mrs. Stanford. Kindly sign and return the accompanying receipt.

Permit me to say that inasmuch as your connection with the University ceased with the publication of your statement, you will understand the propriety of turning the direction of affairs in the Department of Economics over to the acting-major professor, Dr. Mary Roberts Smith.

Very trulty yours,

David S. Jordan

President.

Check and receipt enclosed.

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Exhibit J.

Copy of title page of "Honest Dollars", a pamphlet of 63 pages, illustrated by political cartoons, circulated as a campaign document by the Democratic party in the campaign of 1896.

HONEST DOLLARS

by

Edward A. Ross

Professor of Economic Theory and Finance in Leland Stanford, Jr., University; Secretary of The American Economic Assocition [sic] , 1892-93

Chicago Charles H. Kerr & Company, 56

Fifth Avenue

1896.

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Exhibit "K".

Contd.

AN HONEST DOLLAR IS

But this is not all. Even if you keep your job you gain nothing. If wages trail after prices, there are some things that trail after wages. House rent, fees of doctor or lawyer, taxes, all manner of salaries, the transportation charges for every article in the retail market - these remain on the former level after your wages have fallen. So that for everything the workingman gets from the classes, behind him he pays more than he ought to. We have only to remember that many of these payments are concealed in the prices of the groceries or dry goods he buys, to perceive that lower prices at farm or factory do not at once mean cheap groceries, or fuel, or clothes, or furniture for the working man. So that the wage-earner's interest, like that of any other producer, must always be not with the APPRECIATING gold dollar, but the HONEST dollar bimetallism will give.

The argument that the workingman can grow fat while falling prices are crushing the life out of his employer does not fit easily in the mouths of men who have always told the workingman that the only way to benefit him was by making his employer prosperous by a protective tariff.

We insist that this whole question is A MATTER OF JUSTICE - of simple, strict and elementary justice. The American wealth producer should not be the object of mawkish sentimentality or blubbering philanthropy. The bread poultics and little pills of charity he abhors. He wants NOT ALMS, BUT OPPORTUNITY. To the well-meaning men who offer him help, but deny him justice, he says - as said the sturdy Diogenes to Alexander: "Get out of my sunshine."

[PICTURE]

Philanthropic Goldite. "Well, my friends, I am sorry to see you this way. What can I do for you?" Producers: "Just get out of our sunshine,"

Another example of what Profs. Seligman, Gardner and Farnam, and 15 Leading Economists deem the proper expression of an "Economist's" mind and manners. From Ross's Honest Dollars, pp. 62, 63.

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Exhibit "K".

Cld.

From "Honest Dollars," by Prof. E. A. Ross.

This is what the Seligman Economists think a college professor should print officially. The Gold Bug is cutting off the boy's foot so as to make the gold-standard boot fit.

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