Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-11
THE PRESIDENT SCORED
CHANCELLOR DAY DEFENDS COR
PoRATIoNs IN A SERMON.

Chancellor James r. Day made an attack
on the muck rakers.'' defended the beef
trust and scored the President in his bacca-
laureate sermon before the graduating class
Of Syracure IN. W University yesterday.
His thrusts at Mr.. Roosevelt in the stand
ard Oil fight were recalled when he said:
1T is to be hoped that we are not SO
dazed AID daft by an Office that has grown
great with our greatness that 1t may be per-
mitted to set aside courts. Senates and Con-
gresses.'
Chan ce1lor Day said in part:
The magnitude of our country and the
immensely of Its interests of about all
kinds are both our glorious opportunity and
our danger. Great cooperative interests
are not the product of human avarioe nor
of grinding Indifference to popular rights.
No one study our country, to say moth
ing of the world. to every part of which we
now are vitality and intimately related. and
not see in vast corporate endeavors a simple
and plain proportion
Belong to Logic Of Events.
They belong to the logic of events. How
could we have brought the iron from the
mountains of Pennsylvania, wrought into
the steel of a thousand utilities, or the oil
from our valleys. hasvested the wheat
and corn from the western prairies, or put
a tracery of railway across the continent
in every direction, or launched upon the
seas steamships. one of which costs millions
of dollars. IL men of nightly executive abil-
ity had not combined their genius and their
fortunes in cooperative endeavor?
Surely 1T must not be assumed that the
hundreds of thousands of men of this coun-
try who represent its billions of investments
and it's corporate commerce are traitors to
mankind. upon whom of determination
must be made. They are not buccaneers
and marauderS.
A Whirlwind of Suspicion.
And it is a thing altogether perilous at
atime of such disturbed conditions with re-
gard to government and property and So
cial state to SOW careless to a whirlwind of
suspicion and hate. the forming of which is
already far above the horizon.
IF we cannot govern ourselves intelli-
gently by our representatives our govern
ment will follow the slippery downward
path of all oligarchies.
1T is to be hoped that we are not so
daZed and daft by an office that has grown
great with our greatness that it may be per-
mitted to set aside courts. Senates and Con-
gresses.'
eff it be thought by some of you that con-
ditions do not justify our fears, I refer you
to the threatened. and openly threatened,
fate of congressman who have dared to be
true and brave in their representative char
acter. Why should our senators be forced
beyond their own convictions in a given
case?
Recently pressure was brought by mes
sage, the purpose of which the senators in
stantly understood. and which evidently
was intended to appeal to long prepared
pre1udices of the people. Is this the method
of legislation to which this great nation has
descended? Is this new way the best way
to make our laws?
The Words of Demago
"Evey man must set himself against the
class and mass spirit. They are the words
of the demagogue. The wealthy must have
the undisputed possession of their lawful
wealth. And the man who tolls with his
hands must have a wage that will secure
to him the sanitary comforts of his home,
the education of his children, the self-re-
spect of his family and the courage and
hope that make man a useful member of
society.
I'VE have fallen into a scandal-mongering
epoch. The foul harpies of Islander have
created a condition. and all of the civilized
world is nauseated at the thought of US. 1t
the respect of mankind 1t will and should
cost US our self-respect II we do not burn
out with the caustic of a hot indignation
this sort of SANDER.
1.-THE scandal-monger who drags the peo-
pie through slaughter houses to exhibit in
loathsome forms the food of their tables by
exaggerations and MunchauSen stories OF
things that always must be offensive at best
are mistaken agitators. and especially dan
gerous to us as people at this time