New-York tribune., 1905-11-05
YOUR GREAT LEADER. y
Term Applied to Jerome by DR.. Edward
Everett Hale.

Notwithstanding the fact that politics barred
rigidy from the platform Of the League for Po-
litical Education. Dr. Edward Everett Hale of
Boston in the course of his lecture yesterday fore
noon on Moral Forces before the league, took
occasion to refer to William Travers Jerome
your great leader and quote with aPproba-
ton from his speech of last week Thursday
1t was the opening lecture of the league this sea-
son. and the audience which gathered in the Hud-
son Theatre where all the Saturday morning ect-
ures will be given. greet the Grand Old Man
of Boston taxed the building TO its utmost On
the platform were the Rev DR.. William ". Hunt
ington, Dr. Thomas R. Slicer DR.. Henry A. Lefp-
ziger, the Rev. Robert L. Paddock the Rev Frank
Oliver Hall, the Rev. DR.. Minot J. Savage, the
Rev Robert Collyer and DR.. Thomas Hastings.
DR.. Hale began by saying: When child Is born
it comes from God That ehd may i've to be
seven years old. fourteen, twenty-one. When he
reaches the age of twenty-one give him the
right to vote How can we preserve the divine
right of God in him with which he was born?
Does the average live a pure life? Does
the average man seek justice in the courts? Does
the average want his daughter to be pure?
Does the average want his to be
'.'f cannot state this so well as it stated by
your great leader on Thursday night: You people
of New-York want your boy TO be good. You don't
him milksop. When your girl grows up
you want for her husband young man who has
faith in something-who turns out something.
Continuing Dr. Hale said that here IN America
we're too prone to speak as if the physical
are God and man.
Later in eulogizing the average man" and the
cG> aSepce democratic form Of government places.
in hNfH DTs.itale said: ..a.n , q. .a .oes..
The world needs good Eovernmen@ &nore than
It needs wise government. II is just as Jerome
says-you don't find virtue, truth and justice in
one class CT than in another. They do
not in those who have passed the highest
examinations. Mans instincts are hot less pure
when he supports his family on $40 week than
when he speaks six languages ana belongs to the
clubs. On this viii depend the success OF Our Re
public If arrange education that il falls
like the rain on the just and the unjust: If justice
IS so administered in our courts that neither
princes beggars can escape-then Republic
OF the republic of Domitian and Caligula The sue
formidable list Of persons killed and injured In
one month by eating adulterated food has
piled by magazine ne list of the dead in
cludes four persons who died from eating toadsools
mixed with mushrooms, three poisoned by candy
three by wood alcohol contained in lemon extract
and many by the substance in whiskey; four
infected by typhoid fever germs contained 10 ice
cream. twin babies poisoned by formaldehyde used
preserve milk and hundreds Of persons pol
soned by beer manufacture from glucose in the
manufacture of which sulphuric acid, made from
arsenic bearing mineral. mad been used Many
of these reported by health officers and
food commissioners in the various States in which
they occurred