Evening star., 1901-10-23


| changing the conditions of the great prob
lem of popular government
| Ihese various causes are operating In
| our midst to produce wealth, consolidation,
CONTAMINATION. The rapidity and multitude
| OF mercantile transactions is seen IN colos-
SAL fortunes, in gigantic undertakings in
l enormous financial consultations and cor
responding organizations of labor. Local
| seI-controi is giving way before the pres
| sure tor centralized power. The town meet
ing is supplanted by the state legislature.
| Wnlie the latter in its turn is Welding to
;oa, imJ eapanoihs as power OF Congress. Polit-
| Ical parties are largely under the manage
| ment OF bosses, and the whole great forces
OF industry, business and politics seem
/ passing under the dominance of single CEN
trail control.
| The Centralixfag Tendency.
L. is this centralizing tendency antagonls-
| lic or helpful to the republic? Is Il consist
eht with popular government? Apparently
Is antagonistic; against the republican
thought Of equality Of right: each man a
ruler and equally sharing the responsible
lties and powers of government Forms
| may not be changed. Power seldom cares
| ABOUT forms, 1t seeks the substance of con-
| troi. Many and insidious are the tempta-
centralize and establish itself Wealth and
| IT'S offer Of luxuries; sweetness of office
| noiding; popular applause, even though
| manufactured and purchased He who
| sano other strings reaching on every side
| of the surrounding circle
| You cannot stay this movement toward
| conSol1dation and centralization 1t is a
natural evolution. The commercial snirft
bis taking advantage of the wonderful ia
| clltles given by steam and electricity In
| Iuhcton against strikers will not stop it:
| iegislatlon against trusts will not At
| tempting to stay the movement of its char
| lot wheels by Injunction or statute is lu-
macy compared with which Dame Parting
Ton ION enort to stop the Atlantic with mop
| was supreme wisdom Appeal must be
taken to the great court of public opinion
| whose DEGREES are irresistible. In that
court every man is counsel and every man
| Is judge. That court may not stay the
| movement. but will control 1t. 1t can make
| the movement with all the wonderful things
| attending it subserve the higher thought of
| ennobling the individual.
| Educated Men to Lead.
| Who shall lead and guide In that court !?
Not the demagogue, appealing for selfish
purposes to ignorance and prejudice. We
| turn to the educated lover of his country
the one who believes in her institutions
who would not destroy. but keep pure and
| is filled evermore with the thought that
| true service Of the public is the greatest
| glory Of man. We look to him in that
| court for the preservation of the liberty of
the Individual against the threatened domi-
| nance OF wealth and organizations; to in
vigorate the so-called generalities of the
Declaration of Independence and to AN the
| land with such spirit of independence and
| liberty as shall give new emphasis to the
| grand old song. America, the Land OF the
Free We look to him in that court to
| eXterminate the assassin and to put end
| to anarchism, so that nevermore in the his
| tory of this republic shall the sad story be
| told that during forty years, out of seven
men elected to its highest Office, three per-
| ished by the hand Of the assassin.
| Here, then is my answer to the leader
| of the organization. The organization may
| need only one trained in its workinss-an
| always reliable cog in the machine-but the
| republic needs something larger, stronger,
| grander-something more than a cog. 1t
| needs the educated man. and that educated
| man to whom organizations and individuals
are simply instruments to subserve the
/ higher interests and glory OF the republic.
| So it is that in these days of tremendous
material activities there fs, as never be-
| fore, the need for educational institutions
filled with the spirit Of devotion to the pub
| lie service. America needs Yale"
List of Recipients of Degrees.
Following is a list of the honorary de-
grees conferred by Yale University today
| and the order In which the candidates were
presented:
LID:
John Harvard Biles, professor Of naval
architecture in Glasgow University.
John Shaw Billings, director of the New
York Public Library.
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University of Tennessee.
David White Finley, professor Of the
practice of medicine in Aberdeen Univer-
sity.
Hollis Burke Frissell, principal of Hamp-
ton Institute.
Jacques Hadamard. adjunct professor in
the faculty of science at the University Of
Paris.
Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution.
Albert Abraham Nicholson, professor of
physics in the University Of Chicago.
William Osler, professor OF medicine in
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Henry Smith Pritchett, president Of the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology.
Ira Remsep. president Of Johns Hopkins
Ogden Nicholas Rood, professor of phys
les in Columbia University.
Wilhelm Waldeyer, professor Of anatomy
| in the University of Berlin.
Frank Carter, for many years president
of Williams College
Horace Howard Furness, editor of the
Variorum edition of Shakespeare's works.
Basil Lanneaw Gildersleeve, professor of
| Greek in Johns Hopkins University.
william Watson Goodwin.
William Watson Goodwin, professor of
Greek literature in Harvard University.
Caspar Rene Gregory, professor Of New
Testament exegesis in the University of
Leipsic.
william Rainey Harper, president of the
University of Chicago.
Charles Lustis Harrison, provost of the
University Of Pennsylvania.
John HAY, Secretary of State.
John Ireland, archbishop Of st. Paul.
John La Fargo, president OF the Society
| of American Artists.
Charles Eliot Norton, professor of the
history of art emeritus, in Harvard Uni
versty.
Francis Landey Patton president Of
Princeton University.
Henry Goldman Potter, bishop Of New
York.
James Ford Rhodes, author Of the history
of the United States from the compromise
of 1850.
Knut Henning Gesselius Won Scheele
bishop Of Gotland and a member Of the
Swedish parliament.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the
University of California.
Lift. D.:
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, for many years
editor Of the Atlantic Monthly.
George Washington Cable author of "Old
Creole Days and other southern stories.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, author of
''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
"Innocents Abroad and other stories.
Richard Watson Glider, editor Of the Cen
/ la,n~