New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-04
SPEECH DISAPPOINTING.
Not q Cheer for Parker on Ne1c-
UaUeH Drre.
IDT rELreRAeH TO raE rnrarSE.I

three thousand men, women and children Two
hundred Yale students lent their strenuous barI1s
to the applause and drove the frost partly out OF
the air There room ia the rear OF the hall
Tor many more people While the meeting
proper was gratifying to the faithful Judge
Farkers speech was g. great disappointment
he did NOT have anything to say IN refCtatiou q
MS former statements which have been proved
untrue. The address follows.
For a number of years now have been deliver
Ing course OF lectures at The Albany Law school
bright students of the iSdn yoaSS o 5 wi59 1 5nse %
course in that same %nen !Hns @ I my law
perhaps inaccurate i "a t,f @ SLGTbs & b 4 y IS
anything else to a kinds act Of a relt tg5r %
Chief Judge church Tbt reCoIIectIorS 3 ~ ~. s,T
ms ms ready sympathy helped me gave the motive
~ were yesterday standing before that great jurisJ
slbilty of making an effective presen, alton OF nv
clients cause. AT the moment I rose % begin my
diyIIntns my diihculty bowed and said. Now We
annesrs5 &c T,- ~, a. s ~ ~ "a BUSINESS as
friendly act and kindly tone plunged into The
my case mad been Won. IS good fortune would have
IT, and the chief judge haG written The opinion. In
the many years have been on the bench. I'm hard
~ a case , mas q yo..ns man appeared iq court IEst
10 discharEe The debt owe q bt 1s b 1,' a b
young men coming into court as he treated ne In
my own experience / can recall no Stronger Illus
tration OF the truth OF the saying that The good
1t has become fashion during recent years to
the strenuous fife Not content with our uni
versal activity IN industry our work in the con-
quest OF continent, and the effort 20 spread cur
popular ideas into all the world. and thus maks
looking toward wa freadem iG and opPortGnfy Sfe ea
clUsion seems to have been reached that SOMEHOW
had an efficient army Of brave soldiers well com
that we have been able 70 resist the onslaught of
the savage. 70 ward OFF foreign aggression; end 70
not seen= . satisfy. vs. mus. &c strenuous. nos
and for permanence bat NG We must 6 b Strenuous n
adventure. for personal glory, and even in looking
shall he active IN every moral and religious
movement IN everything that can promote educa-
these apparently, do not assure real progress
50 We are invited to turn aside from these INTO
" tE'se hnes OF aeuvJE ana ad d-entu[e which sfnacS
ol me DrusaoeS ana ana OF tne ti.ae When the Toa1ei
cas- was tne onIy nome IN Which human beings
could be fairly saI~ to have right &c live.
COLLEGE STUDENTS STRENUOUS.
vited TO become strenuous A little investigation -
knowledge serves 10 show that the college student
has always beeu But In what direction? He
has been devoted TO his studies. as our scholar
Nor has this .aS5v.ty been limited to ths few it
me e0untEE. But ihe student has NOT a1eounJeq U
TO himself as virtue, bur as duty. something
s9crces to enaE ' him no b. bsfter fGrs fo5 Ths
duties OF life. and TO himself
This ACTIVITY goes even further untH ind ths9
fourth i nov third again almost a a'.I-Eilllns5{
which can Yield sufHcient money 70 carry them
throush their college course whether academic O.
energetic able young men. who belonged to fani-
% les In & %ncn +i ms p9 pTb rd 5' sjzb, ~ fSsir
country great jUrsts and lawyers greet phys' 'ars
toHs into whatever part OF the world they have
gone and upheld our honor They have gone forth
ness enterprses and to play strong and eftective
How much greater activity IN this respssct is
u
was period when sports were more untveTsally
successfjl rivalry in these has been shown in every
S lsTteT h5 Gt rne } The N, ri, HIS of f5cie1sv in
sGholaTShiP IL has nc not mage oyI ,b y3@gns @ men men
10 act that / car ,hipk Of is more important
than the FIRST vote. In great majority OF cases
II attaches man for all Jne to one Of he P9h5t
the frst vote should be wisely cast. The RESPONSE
or carelessiy done Pardon me. therefore. for
venturing the suggestion that if YOU have not al
consideration in the few DAYS remaining before tho
paroles and see whether one. more than the other
aims 70 do the grsaes. good TO 'he greatest Uunl-
fault indeed both of them have from time 70 time
%eIi as omitted to 10 tR,rgs thew oaSf, 10 aaTs
done. But many as these faults ere they viii not
one Of them possesses In the largest measure t6at
spirit upon which republics alone can thrive
There was nothing in Judge Parker's address
TO warm the heart. The only thing appIauded
life was strenuous. % one could tell whether
the Roosevelt idea or Psrkers utterance was
the particular thing that pislsed
But OF all sad things i'm the - a trf-
Umphal march, the drive Of Parker from thu
New-Haven Railroad station 10 the musis han
was the saddest- The story is not complete
without IT, IL was wrenching as the sob OF
child. as solemn funeral Il was the
dUlIest and grayest segment IN the mosaic day.
There not a single cheer for Par
ker from the time he left the station TN
he got 10 the hall and he rode half a rni,s
through the principal business streets One
man in froat OF the First National Bank swung
his hat but no sound escaped his Hps- Il
seemed - il every was afraid OF waking
up the baby.
Colonel y. G. Osborne. OF The New Haven
Register" introduced the Judge The Yale men
led the cheering which lasted exactly one and
a half minutes
About three thousand people shook hands with
the Judge after the speech In carriage he
rode through the college grounds. bowling re-
peatedly 10 the salutes OF the students. His old
CoOred EsOpus cOaChman, now living here.
greeted him. So did blond woman. who tried
TO kiss him. But the Judge was "On." and
she reached out her arms 20 embrace him hs
pulled down her hands and passed her along
:.No Hobsons for the Judge" muttered one OF
the football squad The apathy all along the
route was too much for one whitehaired old Re-
publican. He got box when Parker drove
BY and. shaking his finger at the silent Demo-
Gratis. said;
didatsP I'm a Republican and Roosevelt man.