New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
CHANCELLOR DAY WARNS.
DenOunces Government By Commas-
siOnS-CriticiSes President.

SiOnS-C1ticiSeS President.
! Syracuse. June a-Comraencement exercises &C
! Syracuse University were ushered in to-day with
the baccalaureate sermon delivered TO the Soz
graduates by Chancellor James R Day In Grouse
College Hall He 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 discern fixed conditions and appreciate
and there are arts Of progress. And You must dis
tmguish between the laws and the arts. and not
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 70 set
aside the principle of Christ that the wheat and
the tares shall grow together and TO force by leg
islation an order OF things unnatural unreasonable
ana Impossible The great hosts OF the people are
IN one common confusion No one OF them seems
10 be of sufficient commanding ability and infiu-
cCs 10 assemble me puIT9 Inlnd ana giSe u new ~,
political parties; each claors that It IS the author
which hitherto have been considered dangerous as
seIt proud claim to being the creators OF TINS aaz
high of socialism and the brightest hope ever
eminent and capital The distinction between the
executive judicial and legislative order is disap-
Fearing in a form of Olgarchy named commissions,
with an autocracy at its head as tyrannical and
an hundred1old oy nyinS the banner OF GenlocraCy
and claiming TO be devoted TO the salvation or
perity The Constitution is a elastic band to
hold the states in compact at the adjusting will OF
Judges are rebuked. the inviolabity of the courts
Judges appointed by the president are sitting upon
cases In which he already has passed his opinion
cisions. but before they can do so. commissioners
and send forth their verdcts TO the people as q
prejudgment and the newspapers are the court or
/ ing men as guilty before they are put on trial.
Other men are published to the country by Execu-
about to be tried for their lives and when until
now they would have had the presumption OF innO-
cence whatever the Indictment until found guilty.
The laws are taken out of the hands Of Congress
missions subject to Executive appointment and E,-
ecutive pleasure Cabinet meetings are held to tell
The democracy OF this great Republic is rapidly
for the People e. a b ?'7S mo
From our own state, which by absolute con-
cesston has just abdicated its representative gov
eminent and legislative responsibility 70 the Gov
commissions all subject to the viii of the Pres
!dent we are under an autocracy with It's oil
And ours is government by commissions It Is
Washington and Jefferson Of Lincoln and McElIn
ley You are to 90 out into one OF the most con-
self-governing people in recent times. and the in
fatuaton Of the people is q burning fever for
financial and political from which there IS little
Judge Wallace has told US recently is mad race
between the political parties 70 secure votes by
universal epidemic The sowing to anarchy and
hatred OF government and Gods social order Willis
the ranting cant of tainted money is reviving an
The blind leaders Of the blind have not seemed
age nor to regard constitutional limitations or the
Inherent rights Of the people as guarded by these
limitations, although within few days a sign
apprehension IS awakening. Six billions OF
shrinkage IN the properties of the people IN few
months, the immense losses that have come 10 the
/ savings of small holders the uncertainty and dis
trust in all forms of bushes. seen too late.
costly warning Of the danger of riOtOus impulses
and demagOgiC policies in commerce and trade.
Again the old lesson of the tares and the wheat -
being enforced. How far ii viii be needed by
Cet vanity and prejudice, which are the most I'M
I yielding OF all human traits, We dare not hope or
You have come to times that will call upon you
| for positive and constructive thinking. II
VIII be unusual opportunity 1t is to be hoped
| that you Will not be borne by the currents or
/ q strenuous tnfatuatiOn, but that you Will stand
firmly upon those principles which formulated
/ by fathers in Constitution. Magma
/ Charta, and which have been indicated in the
There Will be evils in the world for correction.
/ but they summed up under human nature and
| human ignorance. The greatest teacher the world
has known has taught US that the wheat and tareS
| wisdom has stood for centuries II the latest at
/ tempt reverse this teaching and tear the tares
! up and not the wheat succeeds We may safely pro-
/ claim a
J We must not be deceived. There evils that
! pertain TO that evil which is radical IN human
| nature AMI which Will yield only 10 the regenera-
! ton of human nature IL Is folly TO attempt 70
make the world pure by changing It's forms OF
/ business or by selecting approved TO super
wise the business OF the world Do not join your
/ selves 70 such tinkers.
Appreciate the Magnitude Of your times Re-
move not the ancient landmarks which fathers
have set Contend for the separate. inviolate,
sacred rights of the three departments of our gov
eminent. Remember that the greater the ship the
7 taip must he. Seek to make the land righteous by
being righteous. Be sure that you are as big as
3 the age before You try 70 mend II Little men
cannot mend q grea- age
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