The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-24
ADDRESS ON THE
TRUE AND FALSE
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler
Chief Speaker at Univer-
Sity of California.
CHARTER DAY CELEBRATED
GREAT CROWDS PRESENT IN
SPITE OF RAIN.

Berkeley. Cal. March 25--Charter day,
the forty-seyenth anniversary of the
foundation of the University of California,
was celebrated here today. Despite the
continued rain. great crowds thronged
Harmon gymnasium. where the exercises
were held Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia university, New
York. was the speaker of the day, and his
stirring address on True and raise De
moCracy." was listened to with great IN
terest Exercises began at o clock ana
We're opened with an invocation by Rev
Father insolvency Of Oakland. President
Wheeler of the University of California
reviewed the financial affairs of the uni
versity and mentioned those from whom
private benefactions have been received
during the last year. lie then introduced
DR.. Butler of New York. who was greeted
with fervent applause Dr. Butler said:
Or. Buffers Address.
'.The socialist propaganda. never more
seriously or more ably carried on than
now, is an earnest and sincere attempt to
escape from conditions that are burden
some and unhappy. Despite its most i'm
perfect interpretations of the economical
significance of history and its ringing the
changes on a misleading theory of class
consciousness. this propaganda makes an
appeal to our favorable judgment because
its proclaimed motive is to help the mass
of mankind No just man can quarrel
with it's aim, but few readers of history
or students of human nature can approve
its program. What is it that socialism
aims to accomplish by restricting liberty
in order to promote economic equality? 1t
seeks TO accomplish what it cOncelVes TO
be just economical and political condi-
ton.
Aim of Socialism.
AT bottom and without special refer
ence to immediate concrete proposals SO
cialiSm would substitute for individual IN
itiatiVe the collective and corporate re-
sponsibility in matters relating to prop
erty and production, in the hope OF there
by correcting and overcoming the evils
which attach TO an individualism run
wild. But we must not lose sight of the
fact that the corporate or collective re
SDonsibility which II would substitute 1oF
individual initiative Is only such corpof-
ate or collective responsibility as group
of these very same individuals could eX-
erciSe Therefore socialism IS primarily
an attempt to overcome mems Individual
imDerfections by adding them together
i'm the hope that they will cancel each
other This is not only bad mathematics.
but worse psychology In pursuing d
formula. socialism fails to take account OF
the facts Out of the people il would con-
stitute "a mob. in fOrgetfulness that the
mob led or unled. is the most serious foe
that the people have ever had to face
Even Rome Failed.
,"The Roman republic conquered every
enemy but its own vices With the warn
ing written large across the page of ms
tory. what is the lesson of Rome for
America
Tho United States is i'm sore need to-
dav of an ariStOcracy of intellect ana
service. Because such an aristocracy does
not exist in the popular consciousness, We
are bending the knee IN worship OF the
golden calf of money. The form of mon
archv and its pomp offer valuable for
10 the worship of money for its own sake
4 democracy must provide itself with a
foil of its own and none is better or more
effecrive than an dristOcracy of intellect
and service recruited from every part OF
our democratic life.