The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-11
WENT AFTER ROOSEVELT  Speech c Chancellor 'Day.
 SAYS AMERICA IS MONARCHY
 Country Suffering an Epoch of Scandal Mongering.
 Calls On Students of Syracuse Univer- sity To Weigh Things and Not Re Carried on By Hysterfa.
SAYS AMERICA IS MONARCHY

syracuse, N. Y., June 10.--Chancellor Charles R. Day of Syracuse University Tn his sermon to the graduating slass today discussed the matter of great corporations and the powers of the ad- miuistration.
 When senators and representatives p said Chancellor Day, receive orders from the executive; when appeals to popular passion are made to orcethem to action to which their sound iudg- men and honest convictions are op- posed. then government by the peo- pie and for the people becomes a de- ceptfon. In that hour we are mon- archy without the name.
 Tt is to be hoped that we are not so dazed and daft by an office that has grown great with our greatness that 1t may be permitted to set aside courts. senates and congresses.
 Recently pressure was brought by a message, the purpose of which tine senators instantly understood and which evidently was intended to ap- peal to long prepared prejudices of the people
 lis this the methodf of legislation to which this great nation has descended Is this new way the best way to mako our iaws2 The people should awaken to the danger that threatens reprs- sentative government.
 Harpies of Scandal.
 we have fallen into scandal mongering speech The foul harpies of islander have created this condition and all of the civilized world Is nauseated at tho thought of us. It has cost us tens of millions of money and the respect of mankind. It will and should cost us our se1f-respect if we do not burn out with the caustic of hot indignation this sore of islander
 The scandal mongers who dras the people through slaughter houses 10 ex : bibit in ioathsome forms the food or their tables by exaggeration and Nun ehausen stories of things that always must be offensive at best. are mistak- en axitators and especially dangerous to us as a people at this time.
 "A man writes a book or publishes n series of magazine articles and makes frantic effort to reach condition oi frenzy created that will sell his foui smelling pages to a people deilrioIs with the favor of sensationalisrn. IT what such a scandaimonger 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.
 'sBut there are hundreds of thou sands who never ask a question or apply the simplest analysis to any cnarge. A scare lihS III O ySAi" RoPN. Is equivalent to the verdict of jury and the people upon this verdict pro- nounce sentence of damnation.
 ''This is the epoch we are In. Noth- 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 fire damp of suspicion. Committees are sent to bring hack shocking things and if they come back without them others are sent with more sensitive olefactoriesl Those whose judicial temperament un- fit them for hysteria are thre7tened with dismissal or branded as temiss in duty. The people who walt Tor 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 mag azine writers and makers of sensation al literature and the investigation Of smelling committees, who are seeking things to condemn, and to special eX- ecutive messages to be read by all na- tions while the protesting voice of the accused for justice is overwhelmed 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 stolid. sober, Christian substratum of intelligent thinking, which ever has been and ever will be the security of our institutions and the hope of our land"