EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Gentlemen, Now that both Democrats and Republicans of this college have met together and sent out to the nation their respective vouchers for the fact that Harvard with her many sins is in the right side in this campaign, we can question the propriety of pushing Harvard into a political squabble. The Democrats arrogantly asserted some ten days ago that all right minded Harvard men were with them. Surely they had a goodly company of Harvard's tons.

Last Friday evening Dr. Hale showed us how every Harvard man in years gone by had been "in the right side" in national difficulties. He was pleased to see that today Harvard's sons had put themselves to the front of a movement for a "government by the people," i. e., control by the Republican party. Although Judge Hoar opened his speech by deprecating that Harvard should appear as a partizan, yet he continued, "If it has got to be done, I at least am glad to see that she is 'on the right side.' " And then he goes on to make athoroughly partizan speech-perfectly in place for campaign stimulus, but as much out of place when it comes under the name of Harvard, as were the laughable assumptions of the preceding week.

Three at least of the speeches made on Friday night compare the present struggle to the crisis of twenty-five years ago. Harvard was on the right side then; ergo Harvard will vote the Republican ticket Tuesday next support the party of "moral principles." In this manner the Republicans assumed the Democratic arrogance with equally amusing arrogance.

This form of reasoning is pardonable under the enthusiasm generated by a crowded political meeting and a brass band. But it is worse than bad taste for either party to claim Harvard as a protecting Deity in a quarrel which no sane man a week from election day would regard as having the same moral weight as the Rebellion. How the honorable Democrats found out so conclusively that old Harvard men from 1636 to the present era would have voted for Cleveland and Tariff Reform can be referred to the same source that inspired the assertions of Friday night.

The Tariff Reform Club sinned first and sinned with more baseless assumption than did the Republicans.

I would not seem to sniff at political earnestness on the part of Harvard men. Let duty to our country is but one of the duties (perhaps the highest individual one) taught us by our Alma Mater; Mind, it is duty to our country not to the Democratic or Republican parties. Every man has ample opportunity to join oue or the other of the great political parties either in Cambridge or in Boston. It is a matter of individual judgment alone to which one he gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something more than whether Grover Cleveland has maintained his party pledges or whether Free Trade was sent to the earth by a devil to a snare to England and the United States. It is true that Harvard has been always for the best for the country and it is equally true as Mr. Lodge stated, her shield bore these matters and not one of them was a special invitation to either political party. It would hardly be too severe to call it sacrilege to use that grand hymn of Harvard nobility to spur political enthusiasm. Fair Harvard is the inspiration of a wider feeling than campaign semi-truths an inspiration that will be the same when the questions of the present have been chilled by one party or another.

BIS IRATUS.