Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-11
Chancellor Of Syracuse University Deliver
Sensational Baccalaureate Sermon,
EXECUTIVE ACCUSED OF ABUSING PowEF
Charge That Re Ooerces Senate and tn,
Courts
,RCHY WITHOUT THE NAME
Orator Says Mr.. Roosevelt Appeals to Long
Prepared Preiudioes,
GOOD WORD FOR BIG CORPORATIONS
Corporations Said TO ne Natural
Production OF The spirit of
the Age and Iudis-
peusRble.

SYRACUSE. N. Y. June 1O.-Chancellor
Day in his annual bsccalaureate sermon
today reafirmed his attitude toward large
corporations, saying they were the logical
result OF the great stride that the world
was making. He again issued a warning
against the assumption OF too much power
by the president and in referring TO the
reports Of conditions in packingtOwn
slaughter houses said that II the one
hundredth part Of what was printed was
true people would be dying by tens OF
thousands.
The sermon in part was as follows:
When senators and representatives receive
orders from the executive. when appeals TO
popular passion are made TO force them To
honest convictions are opposed, the govern
ment by the people and for the people
becomes a misnomer ana deception, IN
that hour we are monarchy without
the name
II is 20 be hoped that we are not SO
dazed and daft by an office that has grown
great with our greatness that II may he
permitted to set aside courts, senators ana
Recently pressure was brought by a mes
sage, the purpose of which the senator's
instantly understood and which evidently
was intended to appeal to the long-prepared
prejudices of the people
Is this the method OF legislation to which
this great nation has descendedg ls THIS
new way the best way to make our laws!
The people should awaken to the danger
that threatens representative government.
We have fallen into a scRndal-mongering
epoch. The foul harpies OF siander have
created a condition, and all the civilized
world is nauseated at the thought OF us.
and the respect of mankind. II will and
should cost our self-respect II We 90 not
burn out with the oaustic Of hot indiEn"-
tion this sore Of slander.
Munchausen Stories.
The scandal monger who drags the peopls
| through slaughter houses TO exhlnit IN
loathsome forms the 1000 OF nsn sneIr .topss
OF things that always must be onensiye
at best are mistaken agitators, especieIy
A man writes a book or publishes series
of magazine articles and makes trant.o
efforts to have condition OF frenzy ere. ere
to a people delirious. with the fever or
sensationallsn1. II what such scandal
| the people would be dying by tens OF
| thousands from the poisons of the meats
/ they eat. or the doctors are al mistaken
1 about the toxic effect OF such putrid things,
| B1t there are hundreds Of thousan6a
WHO never ask question or apply the
Tplest Tns anSSss 1sow 70 osnsT ae q saaivaant q
| the verdict OF a jury. and the people upon
this verdict pronounce sentence OF dam
nation.
Everybody BAD hut Accused.
This is the epoch we are In. Nothing
| is right Everything Is wrong. Every
body is bad except the accusers, Every
drawn into the Nth and siaAe of ,damna-
tion or the deadly firedamp Of suspicion.
! Committees are sent out to bring back
shocking things. and II they. come back
| without them others are sent Witn more
| sensitive olfactories. Those whose judicial
| temperament unfit them for hysteria are
| threatened with dismissal or branded as
remiss in duty. The people who wait for
both sides of the case are tools OF trusts.
How long can a nation endure such a
condition OF things? They threaten the
stability OF all Forms Of business and
create universal distrust Shall we publish
TO the world that we have no courts for
the correction of evils, but that We must
leave such things to magazine writer's and
makers of sensational literature and the
investigation of smelling committees who
are seeking things to condemn, and TO spe-
cal executive messages 10 be read by all
nations, while the protesting voice of the
accused for justice is overwhelmed and
drowned in the roar of popular frenzy and
sentence is pronounced by the ex parts YER
dict OF the press.
our hope is the solid. sober, Christian
substratum of intelligent thinking, which
ever has been and ever will be the secu-
rity of our institutions and the hope OF
our Land.