The San Francisco call., 1904-11-04

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enthusiastic audiences greeted Judge
Parker to-day on his only visit to the
State in the campaign, and in several
other places through which his special
train passed he was given rousing i'm
prOmptu welcomes. The principal
speech Of the trip was in this city to-
night, the audience being mainly COM
posed Of Yale students. Judge Parker's
subject was The Strenuous Life
The meeting here was the great
est yet held in Connecticut. When the
special train bearing the Judge and his
party, the candidates for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor and special
committee Of prominent Senators ar
rived at the Union station several
thousand persons were gathered to
greet the candidate. He was driven
through the crowds TO the Hartford
Club, where the Town Committee was
the host at dinner.
The meeting was held in the opera
house which was filled long before s
o'clock, the hour set 10 call the meeting
10 order. All entrances were blocked
before the time the candidate was
driven TO the opera-house and admit.
tance was effected with the grestest
difficulty.
DISCUSSES MANY ISSUES.
Local State issues furnished the first
subjects OF discussion by the candidate,
after which he took up a number of is
sues that have formed the topics of
other addresses. One subject was
taken UP which was Of considerable in
. Ierest-the development Of the Ameri-
can merchant marine, and close otten-
ton was given the Judge. Militarism,
tariff. trusts and other issues were dis
cussed in order. Concerning the siren
uous life." he said:
II has become 4 fashion during recent years
to exhort cur young men to lead what has
been called the strenuous life" Not content
with our universal activity and industry our
work IN the conquest OF continent and the
eI0rt 10 spread cur popular ideas into all the
world and thus TO make ourselves an example
On ana opportunity the conclusion seems 70
have been reached that somehow we had over
looked something
We always had an efficient army Of brave
soldiers Well commanded II has been suff-
cient Tor our needs that we have been able to
resist the onslaught OF the savage, 10 ward off
foreign aggression and 10 settle our own in
ternal troubles but this does not seem TO sat
isiy We must be strenuous. not alone in all
things which make. for good. for safety and
dor permanence. but We must be strenuous ia
adventure. for personal glory and looking
ior night II Is apparently not enough that
We shall be active in every moral and religious
movement. in everything that can promote edu-
eaton ana lne dtSclpline OF our youths. these
apparently do net assure real progress So
We are invited to turn aside from these into
those lines Of activity and adventure which
smack Of the crusades and of the times when
the moated castle was the only home IN which
human beings could be fairly said to have
right 10 live.
Even the students in our colleges have been
invited TO become strenuous. A little investi-
cation or knowledge serves 10 show that the
college student has always been so. But in
what direction2 He has been devoted 10 his
studies as our scholarship and our universal
education attest. Nor has this activity been
limited 70 the few; II has permeated the
masses, Il has been heritable Of the country
seI az virtue, but as a duty-something he
cWel 70 the society in which he found himself;
10 his parents, who perhaps, were making
great sacrifices 10 enable him TO be better fit
ted for the duties OF life and to himself
This activity goes farther until we
IND that in all the great colleges Of our coun-
try now q fourth now a third now almost
cne-half willingly and cheerfuliy take up any
KIND Of employment which yield sufficient
money 10 carry them through their college
here IN Yale have known strong energetic
able young men who belonged 10 families in
which this process has gone through sew
eral generations They have furnished 10 their
country great jurists and lawyers. great physi-
clans. eloquent divines. who have carried our
traditions into whatever part of the world
they have gone, and upheld our honor
They have gone forth to found new communi-
70 play strong and effective part in our life
How much greater activity in this respect Is
demanded by our times than we now show7
But even II there were this greater demand
there never was a period when sports were
more universally practiced, or when they Wer-
more perfect This success has not been pur-
chased by inef1ciency in scholarship II has
not made our young men swashbucklers In