The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-25
But Professor Hadley Severely
Scores the Army.
FIGHT FOR COMMISSIONS
WROUGHT HAVOC IN THAT
BRANCH OF SERVICE.
Yale's New President Delivers An
Addres, In Which He Refers to
the Recent War and Speaks of
Our Colonial Career - An Attack
On Trusts.

New Haven, Conn, June 24.-Presi-
dent-elec: Arthur Twining Hadley de-
livered his first speech since he was
made the official head of Yale before
the graduating class of the Hill House
high school of this city, and made a
profound impression Professor Hadley
attacked trusts, praised the navy and
criticised the army. He said, in part:
THE currency, interstate commerce,
foreign relations, the aftermath of the
late war, and the era Of colonial eXpan-
sion, which is a strong possibility, are
only a few of the grave questions which
our national executive must solve and
solve speedily. What is the new educa-
ton which we must have in order TO
meet these greater and wider needs?
IF we are to handle millions, we need
more arithmetic than when We handle
only hundreds. We need more Ian
guages if we are to deal with foreign
nations We shall need to read more
if we are to understand the conditions,
the attitude and the manner of think
ing of alien races. This is essential to a
fair and correct judgment of foreign
affairs. Their habits Of thought must
be known to US if we are to handle and
deal with those nations.
But, on the other hand, too much
study of the machinery of government
is positively detrimental to correct
training, for unless we have an eXcep-
tional teacher. the pupil is likely to be
overwhelmed by too much machinery
and get but little of the spirit that
drives it. Excellent as the constitution
of the United States is and proves it
self, it is not because of it, per Sc, nor
because of our jury system and our
free press that this country is self-gov-
erned, and on the whole well governed.
We are governed by public sentiment.
Attack On Trusts.
I'VE read of abuses by trusts. That
phrase has far greater significance than
many who use it realize When a bust
ness gets so large that it is necessary
to monopolize it, the man who turns it
about so as TO further his own ends.
selfshly abuses his trust and is just as
much wrongdoer to the public as the
man who deliberately robs the widow.
And where men prefer party to
country and the interest Of their district
to that of the country, where men look
upon imperialism as a means to en-
nance their own interests as against
the benefit of the races involved, it is a
grave wrong.
England has a policy which we may
well initiate. Her public men find their
forte in the advancement of the whole,
not as they did 100 years ago when they
went TO lndla TO grasp ana gather UP d
fortune. They now go to do good to
India and help build up the great Indian
empire
IF you want an object lesson from
last years events of what I mean by
this esprit de corps in public service,
consider the work of our navy as COM
pared with the different record of the
army. In the navy each officer is as
eager for distinction and promotion as
in the army, but each considers him
self a. part of a whole glory that is
greater than any which he as an in
dividual can gain In the army the
scramble for commissions wrought
much havoc, and the record of that
branch is not equal to that of our mag
nificent fighting navy.
I'VE are very far from the ideal in
practical politics, but it is toward this
that we must make our way. The alter
native is destruction. The nations whose
rulers have made sport of them for
their own arrogant gain have gone to
pieces.
by what means, then, shall we puri- |
fly our politics? Civil service reform |
may be disputed as to its practical |
workings, but the idea which it con- |
tains of public office as public trust |
must prevail. And it must prevail |
within a generation, now that we have |
embarked on an imperial career"