The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-15
ATTACK ON
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Chancellor Day Of Syracuse
University Calls Him a
MonarchiSt.
FOR GREAT AWAKENING
Claims President Appeals to Popular
Passion to Force Senators and Rep
resentatives to Act Against
Their Better Judgment.

Syracuse. N. Y, June 12.-Chancellor
Day, Of Syracuse university. in his
La~ccalaureate sermon before the grad
uatjng class yesterday the
matter of great corporations ana the
power of the administration.
when senator's and representatives,
said Chancellor Day, receive orders
from the executive, when appeals TO
popular passion are made to force them
to action to which their sound judg-
ment and honest convictions are OPP
posed. the government by the people
and for the people become q misnomer
and a deception. In that o we are IN
monarchy without the name.
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 permitted to set aside courts.
,senates and congresses.
Recently pressure was brought by "A
message, the purpose of which the SEN
ators instantly understood and which
evidently was intended to appeal TO
long prepared prejudices of the people.
People Should Awaken.
rs this the method of legislation to
is the new way the best way to make
our laws? The people should awaken
to the danger that threatens represent
ative government. We have fallen into
u scandal mongering epoch. The foul
harpies of SANDER ave created u condi-
llOIl ana an lHS ClNlilLeo WoIio Is
nauseated at the thought of us. IL
has cost us tens of millions of money
and the respect Of mankind. 1t Will
and should cost our self-respect If we
do not bum out with the caustic of u
hot Indignation this sore of SANDER.
The scandal monger who draSs the
people through slaughter houses to eX-
hibit in loatllsome forms the food of
their tables, by eXaggeration and Mum
chausen stories OF things that always
must be offensive at best. are mistaken
agitators, especially dangerous to us
as a people at this time. a man writes
n book or publishes a series of !naga-
Zine articles and makes frantic efforts
to have a condition of frenzy created
that will sell his foul smelling pages to
a people delirious with the fever of SEN
sationalism. If what such a scandal
nlonger says We're an hundredth part
true the people would by dying by the
tens of thousands from the poisons of
the meats they eat or the doctors are
all mistaken about the toxic effect OF
such putrid things.
But there are hundreds of thou
sands VINO never ask a question or APP
ply the simplest analysis to any
charge. A scare line in a yellow pa
per- is equivalent to the verdict # a
jury, and the people upon this verdict
pronounce sentence of dafnnation.
Everybody Is Bad.
.N IlllS Is llC tIoCli W. = ~ N>o'i-
ing is right. Everything is wrong.
Everybody is bad except the accusers.
Everybody seems TO be on the verge OF
being drawn into the filth and slime
of damnation or the deadly tiredamp
of suspicion. Committees are sent out
to bring back shocking things, n ii
they come back without them others
are sent with more sensitive olfac-
tories. Those whose judicial temper
ament 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 nc
that we must leave such things to
magazine writers and the makers OF
sensational literature and the investi-
cation of smelling committees, who are
seeking things to Condemn, and to es-
pecial executive messages to be read
by all nations, while the protesting
voice of the accused for justice is over
whelmed and drowned in the roar of &
popular frenzy and sentence is pro-
nounced by the OK parte verdict of the
press?
Our hope is in the solid. sober.
Christian substratum Of intelligent
thinking which ever ha been and ever
will be the security of our institu-
tiOnS and the hope of orr land"