The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-09-21
PAYS.yRO0SEyELT TRIBUTE
DR.. Russell On American
Reverence for Law.
NOT ALL SOCALSTIC LEGISLATION FUTILE
Discusses The President From nany
View Points Lauds Him as Tles=
senger of Peace-American
Chosen People.

velt, fin which he was referred 10 as
white winged angel of peace" was
a feature of the address Of DR.. Isaac
Franklin Russell, of New York Uni
versity, before the American Social
Science association to-day. DIR. Rus
sells subject was, American Rever-
ence for Law" He spoke in part as
follows:
Behold our president. Aye, there Is
a man. What eulogy can overState
his virtues? The very defects Of his
temperament, which his critics are
quick to point out, his intense passion
for truth and justice and liberty and
right, his reSplendent patriotism and
growing enthusiasm for humanity--i it
is these that made him nope two
years ago when all the world despair
ed and enabled him to bring out of
the darkness and gloom that had fall
len on Manchuria the glorious light
Of the peace Of Portsmouth.
Il love toSee his picture every
where. They say he shot a man at
Santiago and when the orders came to
him to take hill, somewhere in the
whole field of San Juan, he did not
stop to ask its name, bnt promptly
drew his sword, rallied the Rough Ri
derS at his command, StOrmed the cit
adel and swept the SpaniardS from the
heights. How heroic was the gallant
Colonel then, a belted knight, indeed,
with spurs and eCaulettS. in army
boots and blazing uniform. But | love
to think of Roosevelt, not as a demon
Of war in Cuba. but as the white
winged angel of peace in Manchuria,
walking in quiet majesty between two
angry armies Of q million each, lined
up for murderous duel, diSputing to
the death the empire of the East.
Roosevelt in the history Of Russia and
in .the history Of japan is the most
majestic figure Of the century, and
heraldS to war-weary race the
dawning of the morning"
In direct relation to his subject.
American Reverence for Law" Dr..
Russell said:
Not all Socialistic legislation is fu-
tile. Many existing laws which Gre
ate and sustain mUnOpOlies should be
repealed: franchises belonging to the
people and entrusted to faithleSS and
defaulting corporations should be re-
turned to the people: vast estates
should contribute to the public purse
through progressive taxation of in
come and inheritance: eminent do
main should be invoked when neceS-
Sary to eXtinguiSh mOnopolies: the
life aud health of the people should 20
protected through the police power
and great municipalities that are large
consumers might well own their ice
plants and water, gas and electricity.
1--WE Americans are like the Purl-
tans of New England and the proph-
cts of old Israel; we feel that we are
the chosen people Of God-choSen to
teach liberty and self-government to
all the nations of the earth. Chief
among the rights of man recognized
by Americans is justice. Without
Justice we live under degraded deS.
potism. If We only grant justice to
he ignorant and laboring poor. we
can reduce our charitable contribu-
tions cne-half. Without justice aims
are a mockery. Bread and fuel doled
out by the millionaire in ostentatiOus
philanthropy from his store accumu-
lated by defrauding others, only en-
bitter the life of the poor. Decisions
of courts cannot be bought and sold as
merchandise, contract not t. sue is
void, and a mans righG to do justice
is priceless and inalienable.
''There are battles of liberty to be
vet fought, let us hope, not on fields
of blood, but in the arena of reason
The constitutional safeguards Of liber-
ty must be re-eStabliShed and strength
ened and the accumulatiOns of honest
industry must be sheltered from rapa.
ciouS raids, and the humble board of
the pcor and the funds held in trust
for the widow and orphan must be re-
leased from the grip of the CRATER.
America has in the past taught man.
kind many truths about the moral Or
der If the world; he future task may
be to teach, by precept ana example,
great lessons in the arts Of peace, in
the diffusion Of sound learning and in
the establishment Of justice among
men.
ga Roman triumph was the most
gorgeous of barbaric pageants. The
victorious general and his conquering
cohorts fingered outside the city gate
until the grateful senate voted the SUI
preme honor of triumph to the man
who led the legions. And then, for
man and delirious hour, the world
was his-the world Of glory, adula-
tion and applause, as the martial pro-
cession, with spoils and royal captives
swept mp the Capitoline hill, amid the
Intoxicating shouts Of the people. To-
day the Coliseum crumbles, the forum
is deserted and the Caesars are hand