The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-15
STRONG DEFENCE OF
 POLITICAL PARTIES
  A Successful Election I'm possible Without Them
 Says Root. IN DODGE LECTURE. Any Corrupt Political Ma chine Can be Put Out
 of Power.

Secretary of State Root delivered the second in the series of Dodge lectures in Iampson hall last night before an audience which was equally as large as that which greeted him on Monday night, and the applause which follow Cd his lecture showed that the warm feeling for the secretary has not bated In the least.
 The secretary will leave to-day on an early train for Washington, to re- tsirn again next week for the remain Ing two lectures of the course which Will be delivered on Monday and Tues day evenings, The social part of the visit will be carried out next evening when a reception-Will be given to the senior class at the Art school by President and Mrs Hadley The seniors will then be given a. chance to meet the secre- tary.
 Secretary Root took another horse back ride with his friend and host, day. The trip was out Whitney ave- nue and about the grounds of the golf club It was much enjoyed by the sec retary who is taking an opportunity during his visit to secure a rest from his strenuous duties at Washington.
 The subject of the lecture last night was '1rhe Function of Political Parties as Agencies of the Governing Body" He pointed out that a successful elec- tion of president would be impossible without the agency of the parties, and emphasized the point that no political machine, however corrupt can continue to exist if the people wish to put 1t out of power,
 He said in part:
 Secretary Roots Address.
 We have now reached a point where tho question is naturally suggested: How should the citizen take part in the government of his country? Given young American who has just com pleted his academic training and is about to begin his active life, and who wishes to do his full duty as a citizen In maintaining and improving his gov- ernment: where Is he to begin and what is he to do?
 To criticise is not to do the work. The preservation and development of civilization require affirmative forces; the real work of life is constructive; criticism is destructive.
 It is equally plain that for most men preaching to others about what they ought to do Is not 8 very effective way of helping along the work of govern mert. Mankind does not pay much at- tention to people who talk down at them from without about their duties, unless the instruction comes from some one who is already recognized by his own performance as having acquired the right to be considered a teacher. Occasionally man has some message to deliver of such weight and cogency as to impress itself upon many other minds; but such men are very rare and very far removed from the ordinary run of men. If anyone can express as much wisdom as President Eliot has put into some of his addresses, or can write such book as President Had ley's Freedom and Responsibility, or such a book as James Bryce's Ameri- can Commonwealth, or John Morley's Life of Gladstone, or can compose such orations as Edmund Burke's, he can make real contribution to the science, and therefore to the practice, of gov ernment.
 There are many people whose idea of duty is to assign duties to others, but for the most part their efforts are a mere waste of words. MT. Murat Hal- stead once told me how, being a young .neWspaper correspondent during the Civil war, he had felt moved to write a long letter to Secretary Stanton, giv- ing his view about the matters in which the secretary was engaged, and how, many years afterwards, the letter was found on the files of the War De- partment indorsed, in Stanton's own handwriting, 'M Halstead-Tells how the war ought to be carried on." At the time of our conversation, a long and ripe experience had taught the vet eran journalist the true character of