BEER AND THE STATE UNIVERSITY.

REV. J. M. O'BRYEN.

THE St. Louis Republic of April 18, states
that Adolphus Busch has donated $5,000 to complete
the Parker Hospital, and by reason of such
gift the operating room is to be called the Adolphus
Busch Clinic. The hospital is a part of the University
of the State of Missouri. To receive this money
from this prince of brewers this writer believes 
would not only be a lasting shame and disgrace to 
our chief school, but to every right-thinking citizen
in Missouri. It looks as it were a part of a 
general scheme to debauch and defile every institution
in the land with the wretched slop of the
brewery, and bring every good thing down to the
low level of the miserable swill of beer and rum!
The curators and managers of our State University
cannot afford to accept this money and erect with
it a monument to beer, to stand forevermore before
our sons and daughters, not to invite them to 
noble deeds but to remind them of the vilest beverage
and the lowest appetites outside of the bottomless
pit. We feel sure President Jesse and the faculty
will protest against the reception of this donation.
It looks like "hush money" and a bribe at the
same time to a public conscience already greatly 
weakened in this direction. If the money has been
accepted, it ought to be at once raised by public
subscription and paid back to the donor. One of
the leading business men of Chillicothe, and a patron
of the university, writes me to request the 
ADVOCATE to open such a subscription list and to
put him down for $50 for the above purpose. Certainly,
with the grand history and noble work of 
this great university it will not sell itself for this
mess of Hessian pottage and become before the 
young manhood and womanhood of our State and
of the entire West only a bulletin board for Busch's
beer.

SHELBYVILLE, MO.