The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-14
BITTER 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
b~accalaureate sermon before the grad
uatjng class yesterday discussed the
matter of great corporations and the
powers of the administration.
When senators 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 judg-
ment and honest convictions are OPP
posed, the government by the people
n for the people becomes a misnomer
n 4 deception. In that hour we are a
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 rpo of which the SEN
ators instantly understood and which
evidently was intended to appeal to
long prepared ~prejudices of the people.
People Should Awaken.
"Is this the method Of legislation to
which this great nation has descended?
Is the new way the best way to make
our laws? The people should awaken
ITO the danger that threatens represent
ative government. We have fallen into
a scandal mongering epoch. The foul
udTpleS OIL SldllueI ldNe Cledleu d Collul-
ton and all the civilized world is
nauseated at the thought of us. II
has cost US tens Of millions of money
and the respect OF ankind 1t will
and should cost our self-respect if we
do not burn out with the caustic of a.
hot indignation this sore of SANDER.
THE scandal mOnge who dragS the
people through slaughter houses to eX-
hibit in loathsome 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
q book or publishes a series of maya
zine articles and makes frantic efforts
Ito have a condition of frenzy created
that will sell his foul smelling pages to
a people delirious with the fever of SEN
s]ationalisln. If what such a scandal
monger says were an hundredth part
true the people would by dying by the
tens of thousands from the polsons 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 who never ask a question or APP
ply the simplest analysis to any
charge. A scare line in Il yellow pa
per- is equivalent to the verdict 81 a
Jury, and the people upon this verdict
Everybody Is Bad.
This is the epoch we are in. Moth
ing is right. Everything is wrong
Everybody is bad except he. accusers
Everybody seems TO be on the verge OF
being drawn into the filth and Slime
Of damnation or the deadly hredamI
of suspicion. Committees are sent ou'
to bring back shocking things, and Il
they come back without them others
are sent with more sensitive oltac'
tories. Those whose judicial temper
ament unfit them for hysterla arr
threatened with dismissal or BRANDED
as remiss in duty. The people who
wait for both sides Of the case are tool:
of trusts.
How long can a nation endure sucl
q condition of things? They threatel
the stability of all forms of business
and create universal distrust. Snail w
publish to the world that we have NJ
courts for the correction OF evils, bu
that we must leave such things t
magazine writer's and the makers Q
sensational literature and the lnVest1
cation of smelling committees who ar
seeking things to condemn, and to es
pecial executive messages to be rea'
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 ex parte verdict OF tn
press?
Our hope is in the solid, sobe1
Christian substratum Of lntell1gen
thinking which ever has been and eve
will be the security of our institu
tons and the hope Of our land