The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-06-14
BITTER ATTACK ON
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Chancellor Day Of Syracuse
University Calls Him q
Monarchist.
FOR GREAT AWAKENING
Claims President Appeals TO Popular
Passion TO Force Senators and Rep
rsssntstivss to Act Against
Their Better Judgment.

Syracuse. y. Y. June i?.-chanceiior
Day. OF Syracuse university. I'm his
baccalaureate sermon before the grad
uating 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 sound judy
ment and honest convictions are OPP
posed. the government by the people
and for the people becomes n misnomer
and n deception. In that hour we are n
monarchy without the name.
1T In To be hoped that we are not
10 daxed 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 n
message. the purpose OF which the sem
ators Instantly understood and which
evidently was intended TO appeal To
long prepared prejudices OF the people.
People should Awaken.
us this the method OF legislation TO
which this great nation has descended1
II the new way the best way To make
our laws? The people should awaken
to the danger that threatens represent
n scandal mongering epoch. The foul
harpies OF SANDER have created n condi'
ton and all the civilized world Ia
nauseated at the thought OF us. IL
has cost IN tens OF millions OF money
and the respect OF mankind. IL VIII
and should cost our self-respect IL We
do not burn out with the caustlc OF u
hot Indignation this sore of Islander.
1.-THE scandal monger who drags the
people through slaughter houses To ex-
hibit In loathsome forms the food OF
their tables. by exaggeration and Nun
chausen stories OK things that always
must be offensive ut best. are mistaken
Agitators. especially dangerous to US
as n people nj this time. A man writes
book or publishes a series or maya
cine articles and makes frantic Efforts
TO have n condition OF frenzy created
that will sell his foul smelling pages To
n people delirious with the fever OF sen
satIonailsm. II what such scandal
monger says were an hundredth part
true the people would by dying by the
tens OF thousands from the poisons OF
the meats they eat or the doctors are
all mistaken about the Toxic erect OF
such putrid things.
but there are hundreds OF thou
sands who never ask n question or ap-
ply the simplest analysis TO any
charge. A scare line In yellow pa
per' In equivalent TO the verdict OF n
Jury. and the people upon this verdict
pronounce sentence OF damnatipn.
Everybody % Bad.
ing H. right Everything is wrong.
Everybody II bad except the accusers.
Everybody seems TO be on the verge Of
being drawn into the Nth and slime
OF damnation or the deadly hredamr
OF suspicion. Committees are sent out
TO bring back shocking things, and II
they come back without them Others
are sent with more sensitive olfac-
tories. Those whose judicial temper
amcnt UNIT them for hysteria are
threatened with dismissal or branded
as remiss I'm duty. The people who
wait for both sides OF the case are tools
OF trusts.
How long can n nation endure such
n 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 nc
courts for the correction OF evils. but
that we must leave such things &c
magazine writer's and the makers OF
literature and the invesu-
CATION OF smelling committees. who are
seeking things to condemn. and TO es-
peclal executive messages to be read
by all nations. while the protesting
voice OF the accused for justice In over
whelmed and drowned In the roar OF q
popular frenzy and sentence Is pro-
nounced by the ex parte verdict OF the
press?
"Our hope In In the solid. sober,
Christian substratum or intelligent
thinking which ever has been and ever
will be the security OF our institu-
lions and the hope OF our land"