Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-24
YALE PRESIDENT.
Speaks Of the Danger of
the Many Trusts.
PROVE BAD FOR COUNTRY
SelfiShneSS is at the Bottom of All
These C0mbinatiOnS-Our Colonial
Policy Should be Like That of
Great Britain.

New Haven, Conn. June 24.-President-
elect Arthur Twining Hadley delivered
his first speech since he was made the
official head of Yale, before the gradu-
ating class of the Hill House high school
of this city, and made a profound impress
sion. Prof. 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. If we are to handle mill
lions we need more arithmetic than when
we handle only hundreds. We need more
languages if we are to deal with foreign
nations. We shall need to read more if
we are to understand the condition. the
attitude and the manner of thinking men
of all classes. 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 races.
We are governed by public sentiment.
We read of abuses by trusts. That phrase
has far greater significance than m
who use it realize. When a busine gets
so large that it is necessary to monopo-
lie. the man who turns it about 50 as
to further his own ends seltishly abuses
his trust and is just as much a wrong
door to the public as the man who de
liberately robs the widow. And where
men prefer party to country and the in
terest Of their district to that of the coun-
try; where men look upon Imperialism as
a means to enhance their own interests
as against the benefit Of the races involv-
ed, it is a grave wrong.
England has a policy which we may
we'll initiate. Her public men find their
forte in the advancement of the whole,
not as they did 100 years ago, when they
went to India to grasp and gather up d
fortune. They now go to do good to In
dia and build up the great Indian empire.
If you want ar object lesson from last
years events of What l mean by this
esprit de corps in public service, consider
the work of our navy as compared with
the different record of the army. Tn the
navy each officer is as eager for dis
~tinction and promotion as in the army,
but each considers himself a part of a
whole. and the glory is greater han any
which he as an individual can gain. In
the army the scramble for commissions
wrought much havoc and the record of
that bvanch is not equal to that of u
magnificent fighting navy.
We are very far from the ideal in prac-
teal politics, but it is toward this that
we must make our way. The alterna-
tive is destruction. The nations whose
rulers I'VE made sport of them for their
own arrogant gain have gone to pieces.
BY what means, then. shall we
purify our politics? Civil service
reform may be disputed as to
it's practical workings, but the idea
which it contains of public office as a
! public trust must prevail. And 1t must
prevail within a generation now that We
have embarked on an imperial career.