The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-22
ADANGER AHEAD, JEROMESAYS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY PLAYS THE
PESSINIST At DINNER.
wonders what the NOneIed interests
WIN DO to Roosevelt, and says He's
for Intolerance Based on convictions.

President Woodrow Wilson OF Princeton
University made his first aiterdinner speech
since his installation, al the eighth annual
banuue, Of the Society Of the Nayiiower
Descendants a, Delmouico's last night.
Hi. subject was the Responsibility of Being
Po.teritv." He said that the Pilgrim
Fathers applied old principles to new CON
dtions. a task which conlrontS the present
generation.
II IS rot hi. hreiress. he said, TO teach
mon how to succeed in money making,
bu, to rs,ric, them in the thoughts that
mon have found true and eternal and then
TO send hem ou to make their fortunes
District Attorney Jerome responded 10
the toast: Nothing" He took occasion
TO saw tina, President Wilson was evidently
a man with the ability to inspire. his pupils
because, speaking vulgar phrase, Mr.
Wilson had quits" The men and women
AZ the dinner laughed and applauded a
little. In the popular mind to-day Pnri-
tanism, Mr.. jerome went on to say, Is "on-
sidered svuonvmou. with intolerance: The
time was never SO ripe Tor the fooi-klller "a
to-day said he:
~, ar, irving To ar oCsc u grand opera
annette for education Of the POOR man Win
ON, tho means to enforce and provide ior
II In a race with viril" force education
means something. but education tha' pumps
full of knowledge and doesn't give WISDOM
j. an empty Word
The Philippines, Mr.. Jerome said, are
no more A. for representative government
than for membership in the Church OF ing
land Tolerance is liberty turned To license
The Pilel i'm Fathers had convictions and
were called intolerant. but he Mr. Jeroin'
wanted intolerance based upon CONVICTION
her than tolerance tased upon indlfer-
once.
presiden, Roo-evel,'s position i that ~
n whole man striving for the heterlne oi
conditions Bu, where WI thr, moneyed
interests stand in hie future II ~ l hsd
himself by his deed 50 strongly " thr near'-
of real men that h" cannot be pn' aside.
The real danger 10 s~'ietN AZ Irr>'ht
MIR Jerome said. is in the 10 kitty OF enforce
ment Of the law. Tho cultivation OF law
lessne.,s in community based upon the
application of tie suffrage may become a
dangerous thing and may become fatal
thing He closed with the declaration
that unless we get convictions upon which
we can base action before long, we would
be AT sea in the struggle which seemed 10
he port ending
Justice Goodrich, who presided, said
it was evident that Mr., Jerome was about
TO become a Republican:
The Rev DR. Ernest NJ. Stires said that
he didn't believe that Mr.. Jerome had
overes, mated the dangers OF the time.
As n sign Of the times |, was serious thing
iha, Young Americans should be expelled
IRON labor organizations for obeying their
counirvs call
Martin W. Li,tletou. who was the last
speaker. raid that he had never heard so
much disgruntled, misanthropic, indi.
ges'iblc complaining, without basis or
fact. az from the preceding speakers. lie
believed that under the organized form
Of government a'l tendency ia toward
progress He closed with an ,mpassioned
peroration upon tn" present and coming
glories Of the country.