Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-23
SOME YALE 0UTGIvINGS
Productions In Connection With
Late Celebration.
NOTABLE GRAFTON AND POEM.

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| Justice Brewer Discusses the Prob.
! lem Of Popular Government, Touch.
Ing Upon the Prevailing Tendency
Toward Consolidation and Concen.
tration-Stedman's Commemo rative
Ode to Yale.
Among the most notable productions
at the recent bicentennial celebration
OF Yale university were the commem-
arative address by Justice Brewer of
the supreme court of the United States
and the poem by Edmund Clarence
Stedman entitled mater Coronata."
Touching upon the problem Of popu-
lar government, Justice Brewer said:
1.-THE structure Of popular government
in this republic towers above the hori-
zon of the world great and strong, and
yet the question Of its permanence is
not settled. Its possibilities Of good
are greater than ever before; yet it
lives under new conditions and faces
new dangers.
"These various causes are operating
in our midst to produce wealth, consol-
idation, Capitalization. The rapidity
and multitude Of mercantile transac-
lions are seen in colossal fortunes, in
gigantic undertakings, in enormous
financial consultations and corre-
spending organizations of labor Local
self control is giving way before the
pressure for centralized power The
town meeting is supplanted by the
state legislature, while the latter in it's
turn is yielding to the expanding pow
er Of congress. Political parties are
largely under the management of boss
es, and the whole great forces of indus
try, business and politics seem passing
under the dominance Of single central
control.
us this centralizing tendency an
tagonistic or helpful to the republic?
Is it consistent with popular govern
ment? Apparently it is antagonistic
against the republican thought Of
Of right; each man ruler and
equally sharing the responsibilities and
powers Of government. Forms may
not be changed. Power seldom cares
about forms it seeks the substance of
control Many and insidious are the
temptations which attend the efforts
Of power to centralize and establish
itself; wealth and its offer of luxu-
ries, sweetness of officeholding, popu-
lar applause, even though manufac-
tured and purchased. He who stands
n the center has these and thousand
other strings reaching to every side Of
he surrounding circle.
You cannot stay this movement to-
ward consolidation and Capitalization.
t is natural evolution. The CONNER
.ial spirit is taking advantage of the
wonderful facilities given by steam
md electricity. Injunction against
strikers will not stop it; legislation
against trusts will not. Attempting to
stay the movement Of its chariot
wheels by injunction or statute is lu-
lacy compared with which Dame
'artington's effort to stop the Atlantic
With a mop was supreme wisdom. APP
zeal must be taken to the great court
# public opinion, whose DEGREES are
irresistible. In that court every man is |
ounsel and every man is judge. That |
curt may not stay the movement, but |
will control it. 1t can make the move |
nent with all the wonderful things at |
ending 1t subserve the higher thought
1 ennObling the individual.
"Who shall lead and guide in that
curt? Not the demagogue. appealing
or selfish purposes to ignorance and
rejudice. In the opening hours of the
french revolution Mirabeau reused the
abble in Paris, and the reused rabble
7hirled social order into chaos, provok-
ng Nine. Roland's dying words, 20
liberty, what crimes are done in thy
anne" We want no Mirabeau here.
We turn to the educated lover of his
ountry, the one who believes in her
ut keep pure and is filled cvermore
18th the thought that true service of
be public is the greatest glory of man.
w look to hilsrin that court for the
reservation of the liberty of the indi-
idual against the threatened domi-
ance of wealth and organization, to
,vigorate the so called generalities of
le Declaration Of Independence and
} fill the land with such spirit of in
ependence and liberty as shall give
ew emphasis to the grand old song.
AMERICA, the Land of the Free We
ok to him in that court to exterminate
le assassin and to put an end to
narchism, so that nevermore in the
istory Of this republic shall the sad
DRY be told that during forty years
1t of seven men elected to it's highest
fce three perished by the hand Of the
ssassin.
Here. then, is my answer to the
ader Of the organization. The Or
lnization may need only one trained .
its workings-an always reliable
g in the machine-but the republic
,eds something larger, stronger,
'ander: something more than a cog. I
needs the educated man and that
lucated man to whom organizations