The Goose-step: A Study of American EducationSinclair, Upton
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The Goose-step: A Study of American Education
Sinclair, Upton
Education -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States
In addition to these seven, there are two wealthy corporation attorneys,
one of them counsel for the Catholic Church, and for the grafters who
were put on trial in 1910; a Catholic priest who is a close adviser of
the archbishop who runs the San Francisco school system; and the wife of
Sartori, one of the largest bankers in Los Angeles, who, as I happen to
know, helped to finance the concession-hunting expedition of Vanderlip
in Kamtchatka. These are the appointed regents; and in addition there
are some who hold ex-officio—the Governor of the state, the Lieutenant
Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, etc. These do not matter, being
merely machine politicians, selected by Mr. Crocker and Mr. Fleishhacker
and two or three others in private conference, nominated by these
gentlemen’s newspapers, and elected by these gentlemen’s checks.
Besides the state government and the university, and their own banks and
railroads, Mr. Crocker and Mr. Fleishhacker control for the interlocking
directorate a vast network of gas and electric companies, street
railways, land companies, and power companies. The recent development of
water power has made this the dominant industry of the state, and the
means whereby the other industries are subordinated. Mr. Fleishhacker is
president of the Great Western Power Company, and of the California
Electric Generating Company, and a director in the Northwestern Electric
Company; while his attorney, Mr. Earl, also a trustee of the university,
is vice-president of two of these concerns. Eight other regents are
active directors of such power companies; and we shall see shortly how
they use their university as a propaganda department against power
development by the state. Mr. Foster, the Duke of Marin, is president of
the ferry company, and a director of the United Railroads of San
Francisco, which has been a leading agency in corrupting the city for
the past twenty years. Mr. Crocker is a director in the committee which
is now trying to reorganize these United Railroads, after the looters
have got through with them. We shall see how these gentlemen use their
university as a strike-breaking agency for the benefit of their street
railways, their ferries and their gas and electric companies.
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