The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-11
Have Fallen IntOS Scandal Mon
gefing Episode Which is
Aauseating the World
TELLOW SCARE LINES
ACCEPTED AS VERDICT"
II Committees Fall TO Report Things
Shocking Enough Others With
More Delicate Olfactorles
Are Sent.

Syracuse, N. Y, June 10.-Chancellor
Jamse R. Day of Syracuse university, in
his baccalaureate sermon to the gradual
ing class today, discussed the matter of
great corporations and the powers of
administrations when senators and rep
resentatives," said Chancellor Day, ''re-
ceive orders from the executive, when
appeals to popular passion are made to
force them to action to which their sound
Judgment and honest convictions are OPP
posed, then government by the people and
for the people becomes a deception. In
that hour we are a monarchy without the
name.
'It 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 sem
ators instantly understood and which
evidently was intended to appeal to long
prepared prejudices of the people
People Should Awaken to Danger.
'Is this the method Of legislation to
Is this new way the best way to make
our laws? The people should awaken
to the danger that threatens representa-
tive government.
I'VE have fallen into scandal. monger-
ing epoch. The foul harpies of slander
have created this condition and all of
the civilized world is nauseated at the
thought of us. 1t has cost us tens of
millions of money and the respect of man.
kind. It will and should cost us our self
respect II we do not burn out with the
caustic of hot indignation this sore Of
slander
1.-The scandal mongers who drag the
people through slaughter houses to ex-
hibit In 1oathsome forms the food of their
tables by exaggeration and Muncbausen
stories of things that always must be
offensive at best, are mistaken agitators
and especially dangerous to us as a people
at this time.
Creates Condition of Frenzy.
"A man writes a book publishes a
series of magazine articles and makes
frantic effort to create a condition of
frenzy that will sell his foul smelling
pages to people delirious with the fever
of sensatonalism. If what such scan
dal monger says were an hundredth part
true. the people would be dying by tens
of thousands from the poisons of the
meats they eat or the doctors all are mis-
taken about the toxic effect of such putrid
things.
But there are hundreds of thousands
who never ask question or apply the
simplest analysis to any charge scare
line in yellow paper is equivalent to
the verdict of jury. and the people upon
this verdict pronounce sentence of damna-
tion.
Everything Is Wrong.
This is the epoch we are in. Nothing 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
fire damp of suspicion Committees are
sent out to bring back shocking things
and If they come back without them 9TH
ers are sent with more sensitive olfac-
tories. Those whose judicial temperament
units them for hysteria are threatened
with dismissal or branded as remiss in
their duty. The people who wait for both
sides of the case are tools of trusts.
Threaten Stability Of Business.
How long can a nation endure such a
condition of things? They threaten the
stability of all forms of business and
lish to the world that we have no courts
for the correction of evils. but that we
must leave such things to magazine writ
ers and makers of sensational literature
and the investigation of smelling commit
tees who are seeking things to condemn,
and to special legislative measures to be
read NY all nations while the protesting
voice of the accused for justice is over
whelmed and drowned in the roar of a
popular frenzy and sentence is pronounced
by the ex parte verdict of the press.
"The hope of our people Is In the solid.
sober Christian substratum of intelli-
gent thinking. which ever has been ard
ever will be the security of our institu-
tions and the hope of our land
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