New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
CUP TO YOU" CRIES JEROME
REPROBATES COLLEGE MEN FOR CIVIC
INDIFFERENCE.
SEES A TENDENCY TO DETERIoRArE IN
THIS ADMINISTRATION, AND HITS AT
LOWS EXCIsE POLICY AGAIN.

Personal Responsibility was the theme of
District Attorney Jeromes speech TO the mem
bers of the Delta Epsilon Club OF New-York at
the Hotel Manhattan last night. About hun
dred members Of that fraternity were present
at the annual dinner. and the District Attorney
was the guest of honor
Charles Evans Hughes acted POSTMASTER,
and in introducing Mr.. Jerome described him
"the distinguished mentalist, the quiet, unob-
trusve laborer who has enriched our language,
polite and impoIite. He is all things to all
men, if by any chance he can jug one of them.
He says to one of his deputies. Come" and he
ccmeth to another. John Doe' and he doeth"
District Attorney Jerome said in part:
have said these things that are near my heart
so often that l come to doubt them When you
winch y" are near Your heart You come to doubt
even your own sincerity. And yet have no rea-
advanced % during the campaign It's different
talng TO me man on the OUTSIDE. VINO mas no & oath
enforcement of law about which the only ques
pie of New-York have put it up to a certain group
OF men TO take the oath of Office. It's pretty
solemn thing TO stand up and say, SO help me
Sod end when man has said il, if he Is a man;
that it's put up to him pretty hard.
don't think any of YOU would accuse me of
clair' n j.. that my function was to pour oil on
troubled waters and then TO SET fire to it. And
was oil Of vitriol But the people you have put IN
cism. but the trouble is that people nave no Feaii-
bring with them believe that there is a tendency
to deterioration even in this reform administration
and the only thing to Keep the administration ac.
tive Is the keen, eager and searching criticism of
The trouble to-day is with the educated men who
sit around clubs drinking cocktails and crtticizing
under the impression that thereby they discharge
their whole duty.
IN the heart of every educated man the motto
noplesse obge' controls the relations to the body
What have any of US done for the country? We
say patriotism is not dead when men shoulder a
the work TO secure an honest election? What ap-
peal to the imagination is there In the primary?
All that was needed 10 secure a fair count in the
last election was fifteen hundred people TO watch
the polls. There thirty thousand college men in
New-York City, and vet il was necessary 10 pay
to secure the services OF twelve hundred men in
an election where Enoney used fer cor
rIpt purposes tsG = ay election the last
twenty yearE- /: 'E6I6 the sort cf men colleges
give w tO-Ga', y that's the class CT Harvard
Yale. CoiTmbiG and Cornell are scadng out God
put back the days when poor struggling col
leges like Dartmouth Williams and Amherst
turning out men who
The vital fundamental thing is to bring home
the sense OF personal responsibility for existing
its not merely up 10 Low Fornes CroGt and me
but it's up TO you. Your duty is not done when
you cast vote for a reform admnistration, and
Coli Club. II don't do what 1 ought. people
give me ne TIE devil but II | do what is risht they
next election play golf all day.
II advg ANYTHING ii to say l. Is that there i no
is not mine not anybody elses. but your own.
Not until you come to feel that your, education
anything worthy the name Of truth.
The Rev. Dr. Ezra s. Triple. Francis NJ Bur
dick. starr J. Murphy and the Rev. DR.. Cort-
Iandt Myers We're the other speakers. Nearly
every college in the country was represented at
the dinner.