The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-22
MAYOR COUNSELS GRADUATES
TORDHiM GIVES HIM ANOTHER
DEGREE OF LII. ID.
lie Tells tho Class Of 'OS That Public Place
Is Not the Garden Of the GOds-There
Is Real Disease OF Greed. but Quack
/ Remedies, lie Says, VIII Not Cure II.

hdSO -. hCS'cbah iSSVi'ON WV
degree of doctor Of laws from 81. Johns
College at Fordham at its sixtieth COM
inencement yesterday afternoon. This Ia
the first time that a Catholic institution
in this city has SO honored Mayor in office.
Mayor Mcclellan also made the address
10 the twenty-one graduates OF the univer-
sity. He said in part:
Mayor McCiellan's Address.
You are standing to-day where I stood
nineteen years ago. Let me speak to you
now a. | was spoken to then; let me try
to impress upon you some thoughts which
NAV influence your conduct "a Christian
gentlemen and citizens anxious for the
advancement and protection OF tho pubic
welfare.
know too we'll the work Of the gifted
md unsclhsh men who have guided your
college career to for one moment, think
that you would have been advanced to this
.tagc without understanding the mean
iug Of duty, and without having attained
just appreciation Of it's obligations
1t may not be your fortune to enter pubic
life ! am not advising you to enter 1t.
I,ihc place is not the garden of the gods
The prizes are few, the temptations many
and it has been said that even republics
can be ungrateful. In our country, too,
public men must endure, az matter OF
course. the bitterest detraction and the
most sclrrilo,s abuse. and the tenure Of
public ctfice affords no adequate pecuniary
Compensation for the able and honest man.
| am sure that | do not exaggerate the
Caen when .ny that almost anv other wav
!. an easier read to the stars.
But the duty upon which | am insisting
docs not nccess itate the adoption OF politics
.lnp,rt e a ssfe nublic opinion resulting
fr m the influenre Of patriotic men of lib
,ral education.
Iifeis full Of evils-some incident to human
nature and ever present, some peculiar
- time and place-all breeding ,inhappi-
ness in the world. The vast majority Of
men scarcely realize that anv previous
MOO wa, e,nr cnpre.set by most Of these
evils. or that ever before the remedies
nv sugrosteI had been tried and failed
only ,Ee e. rt,lnate few. trained IA YOU
havs been ,,nde- a system such as that from
which you issue are not confined TO the
r,lrces &C information Of their own I'M
cu,God rossarc,, nr Of their own limited
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Every age has its crop of pernicious
theories all,ring to the thoughtless, ex-
citing to the vicious but ALWAYS dan Rero,Is
IA the peace and happiness of the people.
II is pitiful To see men of unframed but
sometimes naturally strong minds rushing
With all the ardor Of earnest natures, in
enired by the plirest motives to the support
OF the rankest economic heresies Their
very sincerity of purpose enables them to
do infinite harm aud TO injure the interests
of the reople which they are Gcsirols TO
serve
The same fallaces revive again and
again but in each instance their supporters
are wholly ignorant that they were ever
advanced before. The scholar knows
tina. they are a. old almost as the race
itself that they have done their measure
Of harm to every age have failed cf their
intended purpose and have been aban-
Il, l,,-t hn, f,ll
Now and then -orne so-Rlled new school
ct sociology or politics or economies comes
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RrT REAL III $ TO RE RFMtplFp
If We are / o AVOID III our o"n country
repetitionS Of pages OF history that have
leen disastrous to other nations, We must
Cndcavor to effect the extiri alton OF their
causes, Every age has its evils. We have
ours But we must not expect that the
vices which have DESTROYED others viii r OF
o"stroy MS II We permit them TO endure.
our heset'ng SIN Is avariC". Our mad
r'i,h for wealth Is not an hore"' "Nort to in
crca'" the product, OF nature or IN" avalis
cf human effort, but hideous vic" Of ever
Increasing and lnsatiahle greed. Year
ny year we So" II invading the government
"lth eyer increasing audaciiy. Men cry
'.t against tainted money that has its
vi" record behind 1t. what we have TO
fear Us. money ~ii%l iaints which bra7enly
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