New-York tribune., 1906-06-11
DAYATTACKS PRESIDENT
CHAMPIONS BEEF TRUST.
Chancellor of Syracuse University
SCOTS at Investigation.

Syracuse June lO-Chancellor Day of Syra-
University in his baccalaureate sermon de-
ltvered to-day, made another attack on what ne
called executive usurpation of legislative power
He said that the Senate was coerced by mes
sage from the President. which evidently was
intended to appeal to the long prepared pre1u-
dices Of the people" and was forced to action
against the packers which many of its body
condemned by the throwing upon it of the odors
of yellow press and turning upon it the riotous
shouts of unreasoning hate.
Not long ago the chancellor attacked the
President for his stand on the Standard Oil and
railroad Investigations.
In his sermon, Chancellor Day said
of its interests of about all kinds is both our
glorious opportunity and our danger. We have
must take them in the proportion in which they
have come TO us. We must measure up to them;
Great cooperative interests are not the product OF
human avarice nor OF grinding indiffeEence CO., 20
ments OF law with phenomena as unmistakable as
any law in nature.
forces over such tremendous areas and for such
e a scaSsr is t to of the e
ecptive ability and capital must come In and de-
veop them The inventor is helpless until these
The esonomist Of century ago had . no conGsP
Is not applicable to such magnitudes and their
No one can study our country. to say nothing
Of the world, to every part of which We now are
vitelly and intimately related, and not see In vast
corporate endeavors a simple and plain proportion.
They belong TO the logic of events How could we
Pennsylvania. wrought into the steel Of thou
sand utilities. the oil from valleys or har-
or put a tracery Of railways across the continent
in every direction or launched upon the seas steam
men of mighty executive ability had not combined
their genius and their fortunes in cooperative
If an individual had made your typewriter, it
tions and companies representing millions of money
in manufacturing machinery and skilled arusans
siS s5S the amazing methods Of promoting sales for
COMBINATION IN RAILROADS.
individuals once had the carrying trade of the
country Then you would have taken two days
travelling day and night by stage coach from New New
would have passed over the railroads. OF SIX o9 f1o
Utica 10 Syracuse and another from Syracuse to
Auburn You would have changed cars six times
the tracks You would have gotten from New York
TO Buffalo. A corporation takes you over the DIS DIS
only four stops and changes, for two cents & a
mile! The poor man owes more TO dhe &c R opnn
tunty work at good wages, or to work al All LOT
that matter The corporations wncR we best
friends That there evils TO be guarded against
perfect adjustments that of the largest results
10 tie greatest number and that 90 lLJusIIce 70
ton cannot be manufactured by legislation
Surely Ii must not be assumed tnaI tIe HuIluiSus
of thousands of men of this country VINO represent
its billions of investments and its corporate COM
determination must be made. They are not buc-
cancers and marauderfs .,;,o,. .. q time
n such disturbed Conditions with regard govern
met and property and social state 70 SON. S faT
of which is already far above the horiz0In. -,
our REPRESENTATIVES our government will follow the
slippery downward path Of all oiIgaTchIies re e
ho1le he public
solute independence of their representative charaS
70 no one except to those who have sent them TO
be their Representatives And they mus Isl pT pO
tive and those whom they represent, as have some some
OF the & notable h ay az 'e be To to
their constituents thousand times better con-
o Te son man matters n but who has the courage of his
honest convictions, which compel him 70 differ ana ana
10 so vote. than man whose agreement Is ser'ie
either 10 the Executive or 10 you,
RESPONSIBILITY OF LEGISLATORS.
To-day a great Congressman in Maine is threat
CONGRESSMAN Of this and men OF other states
because they refuse hand over their representa-
tive responsibility from the people TO the admin
They are the representatives of the people and not
Of the Executive, and by such representatives alone
do the people have yoice In the government. Z WmTn @
Senators and Representatives receive 0ruers lInn t
the Executive. when appeals TO popular passion
sound Judgment and honest convictions are op-
posed the government by the people and for the
Hal hour we are monarchy without the name.
Ii is TO be hoped that not so dazed and
greatness that it may be permitted to set aside
courts senatss and CONGRESSES Sc ,o ,bot conditions
do not Justify our fears. refer you 10 the threat
who have dared to be true and brave in their rep
resentative character. Why should our Senators
be forced beyond their own convictions IN given
case?
the purpose Of which the Senators instantly under
stood and which evidently was Intended int , to appeal
are a republic, why should men OF sehatorlal olS-
nifty and long experience in both the House and
ing of popular passion. be forced TO action which
many OF them condemned. by throwing among them
the OdOrS of a yellow press and turning upon them
the riotous shouts OF unreasoning hate and pref
uqee his THIS his is most If sTf t Which This
great nation has descended? Is this new way the
The people should awaken TO the danger that
threatens representative government.
Every man must set himself against the class and
mass spirit. They the words of the dena-
gogne MGthns promotes that sPrlt Ike attacks
nal Of property rights or OF those conditions which
rich must have the undsputed possession of their
lawful wealth. And the man who tolls with his
the sanitary comforts OF his home, the education
OF ms chdreh. the sei!respect OF MS 1amlly and
the courage and hope that make man useful
We have fallen into a scandalmongering epoch.
The foul harpies of SANDER have created a condi-
tion and all OF the civilized world is nauseated at
Of money and the respect Of mankind. 1t will and
should cost US our self-respect If do not burn
out with the caustic of hot indignation this sore
of slander.
The scandalmonger who drags the people through
slaughter houses to exhibit in loathsome forms
the food of their tables ny Congregations and
Munchausen stories of things that always must he
offensive al best are mistaken agitators and es-
pecially dangerous 70 US as people at this time
DANGERS OF sENsATIoNALIsM
man writes book or publishes a series Of
magazine articles and makes frantic effort 10 ba ~
condition Of frenzy created that will sell hie fo,,I
smelling pages 10 people delirious with the fa,,a
of sensationalism. II what such scandalmonoer
says were hundredth part true the people wnTT3Ii
be dying by the tens of thousands from the
of the meats they eat, or the doctors are ali mis-