The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-18

eternal principles of true human success.
Our citizenship cannot with safety barter
away values of character which heritage
far more than rich mines or fertile fields
or splendid fortunes.
IT would make emphatic that in
stinct for law, the handmade of liberty,
which marks the early times and later
growth of our people. Our colonies in
no small part came to this western
coming or not, all magni1ed at once the
SOCIAL law and its sanctions. And lib
erty increasingly must be best secured
In allegiance to law. Here at James
town was the house of Burgesses for
the making and administering Of law
for the common good. In New Eng
land at once the town organization was
formed, with is laws of good order and
righteousness. New Jersey was no diff
ferent. But the quality of the state,
the clement of strength and promise
was not so much the law enncted or the
laws enforcement, but the law re-
speeding and the Inw-abiding spirit of
tho men mud women who mnde the
state. One of the grnvest perils that
confrOnts our land today is the counter
spirit. the disresDect for law even
among the presumed honorable society.
To meet such evils that now bodily
threaten us, new law is sometime sug-
gested, and sometimes the clearer,
swifter, stronger execution of the other
law. And with such suggestion find
no fault.
s'TO meet immediate demand of any
urgent evils of our times some new
law mny be needful. and surely more
enforcement without fenr or favor Is
s~uoremely In point. Law TINT will di-
rect and Will really protect the welfare
of communal life against the Ill of In
dividuaI license Is necessarily. laid
view and in the larger dealing with
the case 1t is the spirit of disregard for
law that must disturb us, and that, by
all possible social and moral force, mus
be checked. that the trend of the times
be again to the moral stamina that
feels the imperative need of law and
does not view its evasion MS fair. or it's
transgression as trivial. In It's way it
Is an individual problem to be wrought
out. the social salvation being In the
ultimate personal regeneration. The
power Of the public law must rest finally
on the popular reverence for law.
And / would make emphatic the zeal
for education that has marked our nation
from its start. Schools and colleges were
from the earliest times a hope and a
dotted the land from Virginia TO Massa-
chnsetts. Here In this southern colony the
movement for q college started but a dozen
years after the jamestown settling. a
ond colonial college. honored William and
Mary, Massachusetts, boasts the still
earlier Institution, Harvard; Connecticut
boasts Yale, close following. New Jersey,
as l have said, had her two colonial
foundations, Princeton and Queens, now
Rutgers. Rhode Island. New York, Penn
sylvania, New Hampshire, each laid its
foundation of the higher learning. From
these halls came great forces for the maxi
ing and maintaining Of the State. Through
the years the States have greatly mag
nified the parts the school and college
bear In the ordering of the land.
Long ago John of Nassau, urging free
schools In the Netherlands, declared, This
Is the greatest and most useful work you
could ever accomplish for God and Chris
~tianity, for the Netherlands themselves"
From the first address of the first presi-
dent of a colonial college l quote: 'Edu-
cation, he says, is the Improvement of
the human mind for the proper discharge
of our several duties toward God, our
selves and our neighbors. Who, he says,
are the men fit to make good and whole
some laws for an emplre-only men OF
integrity. who have laid the solid foun-
dations of education and improved them
judieially searching the laws of nature or
nations and the histories of empires. Our
forced their continuing recognition OF such
truth by the substantial and eyer-inereas-
ing support Of education from It's earliest
or highest planes. In the training thus
of onr multitudes lies In no slight degree
the pledge of our nations stability.
And yet again l would make emphatic
with the instinct for law and the zeal for
education the spirit Of religion. In 1907
the pioneers at once were led in worship
by one ordained to sacred service. Today
the eolony's monument that survives is the
tower of a church. Just now Il most dis
tinguished assembly has gathered ut Brun-
ton Church, near by, TO honor the place
wealth fulfilled their service of religion. All
long the colonies the zeal of Gods house
was the first zeal Of the people, In New
JERSEY we visit with devoted reverence
early shrines of the faith at Bergen and at
Tennent and ut Shrewsbury, and scarce
can count the towers the fathers have
feared In the fear and love of God. To
one whose conviction as the issue of all
this is deep and strong no apology seems
needful for the present urging of such
spirit as vital to our national integrity and
welfare.
Talk as we may about law and law
enforcement and the law-abiding spirit,
without tho rplirinng nunIftV of the pa finn
and of the men who make the nation it
is all doomed to wasting and despair.
Talk as we may about education, universal
out the life and leaven Of religion ii will
prove vanity, a blind leader of the blind
into the more g~rievous pitfalls of material
ing Americas future there Is no dnrker
cloud TO nverarch with the rainbow of
his hope thai the seeming widespread dis