The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-10
DAY ARRAICNS
 THE PRESIDENT Bitter BaCcaIaureate DeIiv- cred by Chancellor
 of Syracuse. CONDEMNATION SWEEPING Men Branded as Guilty by Chief Executive Before
 Trial. COURTS TRAMPLED UPON Autocracy the Most Tyrani- cal the World Has
 Ever Seen.
COURTS TRAMPLED UPON

syracus, N. r., June Commence
 ment exercises at Syracuse university
 were ushered in to-day with the bac-
 calaureate sermon delivered to the S62
 graduates by Chancellor James R. Day
 in Grouse college hall.
 Chancellor Day said in part:
 Whether you are to be an added force
 and helpful to your times or a failure
 will depend upon how clearly you dis
 cern fixed conditions and appreciate the laws of progress. There are laws
 of progress and there are arts of pro-
 gress. And you must distinguish be-
 tween the laws and the arts and not attempt to put either into the place of the other. The laws are of God. The arts are of men.
 Our condition to-day is the result of an attempt upon the part of our millennium makers to set aside the principle of Christ that the wheat and the tares shall grow together and to force by legislation an order of things unnatural, unreasonable and impossi- ble The great hosts of the people are in one common confusion. No one of them seems to be of sufficient com- manding ability and influence to as- sernble the public mind and give 1t a new constructive direction. There is no difference in political parties, each clamors that it is the author of the otkers doctrine of agitation. Elements which hitherto have been considered dangerous assert proud claim to being the creators of this amazing disorder of things which they declare Is the high noon of socialism and the bright est hope ever known of emancipation frcm the tyranny of government and capital The distinction between the executive, judicial and legislative order is disappearing in a form of oligarchy named commissions, with an autocracy at it's head as tyrannical and supreme as the world ever has known; in- trenched an hundred fold by flying the banner of democracy and claiming to be devoted to the salvation of the peo- pie from the conditions of their own prosperity. The constitution Is a mere elastic band to hold the states in com pact at the adjusting will of the chief executive.
 Judges are rebuked, the inviolability of the courts is trampled under foot in the name of the people. Judges ap- pointed by the president are sitting up- on cases in which he already has pass ed his opinion. While judges and jur- ies are waiting to render decisions, but before they can do so, commissioners try the same case in the absence of the defendants and send forth their verdict to the people as a prejudgment and the newspapers are the court of final resort Messages are sent to con gross branding men as guilty before they are put on trial. Other men are published to the country by executive authority as undesirable citizens" when they are about to be tried for their lives and when until now they would have had the presumption of in- nocence, whatever the indictment, until found guilty The laws are taken out of the hands of congress and the legis- latures and put into the hands of com missions, subject to executive appoint ment and executive pleasure. Cabinet meetings are held to tell the commits sions what to do.
 The democracy of this great republic is rapidly becoming a farce and gov ernment ''by the people, for the peo- pie" a by-word.
 From our own state, which by the absolute concession has just abdicated its representative government and leg islative responsibility to the governor, to the national government with its numerous commissions, all subject to the will of the president, we are under an autocracy with it's oligarchic com missions.
 And ours is a government by com- missions. It is not possible to welcome you to the institutions of Washington and Jefferson, of Lincoln and McKin- ley. You are to go out into one of the most confused state of things known to an intelligent and self-governine people in recent times, and the infatua- tion of the people is a burning fever for which the only antifrebile is an ap- | palling disaster, financial and political, | from which there is little hope of es- cape. For, the present movement, as Judge Wallace has told us recently, is a mad race between the political par ties to secure votes by demagogid | The infatuation is a well | nigh universal epidemic, The sowing to anarchy and socialism has brought |
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