The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-11
DAY BREAKS AGAIN.
He Criticizes Roosevelt and Defends
the Meat Packers.

Syracuse, n. Y. June 1-Chanceilor
James r. Day, Of Syracuse university,
in his baccala ureate sermon before the
graduating class 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 appears 70
popular passion are made to force them
to action to which their sound judgment
and honest convictions are opposed, the
government by the people and for the
people becomes a misnomer and de-
ception. In that hour we are mon
archy 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 Il
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.
rs this the method of legislation to
which this great nation has descended?
Is this new way the best way to make
our laws? The people should awaken
to the danger that threatens represen-
tative government.
we have fallen into a scandal
mOngering epoch. The foul harples OF
SANDER have created a condition and
all of the civilized world is nauseated
tens of millions of money and the re-
spect of mankind. 1t will and should
cost our self-respect II we do not burn
out with the caustic of a hot indigna-
/ ton this sort of SANDER.
THE scandal monger who drags the
people through slaughter houses to ex-
hibit in loathsome forms the food OF
their tables by exaggerations and
stories of things that always must be
offensive at best are mistaken agitators
( q oEuepiaIlXY DANGEROUS a neO-
/ pie at this time.
"A man writes book or publishes a
series of magazine articles and makes
frantic effort to have a condition OF
| frenzy created that viii sell his foul
smelling pages to a people delirious with
the fever of sensationalism. If what
such a Scandalmonger 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 mistaken about the toxic
effect of such putrid things
But there are hundreds of thousands
who never ask a question or apply the
simplest analysis to any charge. A
scare line in a yellow paper is equiv
alent to the verdict of a jury, and the
people upon this verdict pronounce sem
teI1ce Of damnation.
This is the epoch we are in. Nothing
is right. Everything is wrong. Every
body is bad except the accusers. Every
BODY seems TO be on the verge Oh De1llE
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 others are sent
with more sensitive powers. Those
whose judicial temperament unfit them
for hysteria are threatened with dis
missaI or branded as reniss in duty
The people who wait for both sides OF
the case are tools of trusts.
How long can q nation endure such
action of things? They threaten the sta
bility of all forms of business and ere
ate universal distrust. Shall we publish
to the world that we have no courts for
the correction of evils, but must leave
such things to magazines and makers
of sensational reports and investiga-
ton Of smelling committees who are
seeking things to condemn and to spec
ial executive messages to be read by all
nations, while the protesting voice of
the accused for justice is overwhelmed
and drowned in the roar of a popular
frenzy and sentence pronounced by the
ex parte verdict of the press?
Our hope is in the solid sober, Chris
tan substatement of intelligent think
ing which ever has been and ever will
be the security of our institutions and
the hope of our land