Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-08
ATTACKS PRESIDENT
CHANCELLOR DAY TERMS s. o.
MESSAGE "AMAZING BLUNDER."

Characterizing the Standard Oil message
of President Roosevelt as an amazing
blunder," and arraigning the acts of the
executive as savoring of a, dangerous form
of anarchism, James r. Day, chancellor of
Syracuse University. In a letter issued at
Syracuse n. Y, yesterday defends the oil
trust and expresses the belief that the peo-
pie will not accept unproven charges from
even the President.
There are two forms of anarchism,"
says DIR. Day. The late practices of our
President are of the more dangerous of
these two forms. That form of anarchism
for which William r. Hearst stands is
harmless in comparison with that which
takes on the form of our institutions and
laws and does unlawful, unjust and tyran-
nical things officially. The first can do lit
tie because his cloven foot is instantly
seen whenever he steps. But anarchism
clothed with official authority is covert,
deceptive and perilous in the extreme. The
press and the people who applaud it In the
official form shudder at 1t Hearstism.
They shudder at the lesser evil. They ap-
plaud the only form of anarchism that
really threatens our republic.
"AnarchiSm, which among anarchists is
comparatively harmless, is not so when we
adopt it into the administration of our gov
eminent The President OF the United
States has positively no right constitution
ally or morally to attack corporate bust
ness or private business by name judges
who decide cases in opposition to his views.
There are regularly constituted methods
ana processes OF our country, national and
state, for the correction of evils in cor
porations and courts, and also for the
rest and punishment Of criminals. 1t is an
anna ztng blunder for our President to depre-
ciate the properties of the country, like
those of the New York Central railroad,
Standard OIL, the sugar and other corpora
lions by an ex parte condemnation and by
sensational charges.
Condemned Without Hearing.
ut is an amazing blunder for our chief
| executive to ride into the Senate with a
roundup of the commercial interests in
which hundreds of thousands of people
have their investments. which threatens the
permanency of great corporation interests,
before hearing word which the repre-
| sentatives of these vast interests may have
to say for themselves.
at Is an amazing blunder for the Presi-
dent to exceed his constituted rights and
the judicial functions Of his office and at
tack the integrity of the decision of a Judge
in popular interview, he did the other
day, If our federal courts are to act indie
pendently and without fear.
The regular process of law for the cor
rection OF courts cannot be ignored and set
| aside by personal attack of the President
without peril. The President should be the
| first man to recognize and respect this prin-
| ciple.
"Anarclhsm in the White House Is the
most perilous anarchism that ever has
threatened our country.
The Senate made an amazing blunder in
| applauding an ex-parte and passionate ap-
| peal upon an incomplete, immature and I'M
| proved report from young man who had
| been seriously discredited In a previous
l al nF ant,a II, L. tv<1
1T Is amazing that there was not instant
| inquiry by the Senate for the accused and
| demand which senatorial character and
| dignity should suggest always. that time
be given for the hearing of the other party
before this highest legislative court of the
land. 1t is an amazing blunder' for Con-
gress and for the people to sit supinely by
and see this startling overriding of sacred
Individual rights, the peoples rights, with
O protest.
"Wickedly Misrepresented."
IT have no financial interest in the Stand
ard OIL or the Sugar Trust or the great rail-
ways, but an intimate acquaintance with
some of their managers and the methods Of
| their business for twenty years. wickedly
misrepresented again and again In muck
rake magazines and the yellow press. forces
me to the conviction that the President
has been deceived and has done men as
high-minded and true as he processes to be
a great injustice by his amazing blunder.
Should 1t have not occurred to the Presi-
dent-and why does it not occur to the
President?-that these men are accused of
indictable crimes and are liable to heavy
penalties under the law. Have We reached
| that state OF anarcfdsm when a President
of the United States can send citizens to
| the courts bearing the stigma OF his con-
domination and with their cases prejudged
and practically determined by his verdict
rendered in a proclamation? The worst
criminal has right to fair trial. One
must collect his senses and question himself
vigorously to make sure that he Is In Amer
| lea. where the people rule by constitution
| and law, and not in Russia in the palmy
days of the tyranny, when men were sent
| to Siberia upon common fame when the
cars word made law.
'Is Il possible that the press of this coun-
| try has come under the spell OF the big
| stick and II to surrender our institutions
| to the impulsiye rue of a magnetic person
atty? Has the frenzy OF muck-rake writ
Alaof I'M