Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-07
MCCLELLAN AT CORNELL.
New York Mayor Scores Socialism and Paternalism in Government.

New York Mayor Scores Socialism
 and Paternalism in Government.
 On Tuesday evening at Ithaca, Mayor George B. Mcclellan of New York addressed an audience made up of the faculty. trustees and students of Cornell and leading citizens or Ithaca On "The Political Tendencies of the Age.
 The mayors address was received enthusiastically. The mayor re- fused to talk politics, saying that he thought both Governor Hughes and himself were out of politics long time ago.
 MT Mcclellan spoke of the great wave of social unrest sweeping around the world which marks a concerted movement of lawlessness and anarchy" saying in part;
 'The real menace to the world, as we know it, is the men who sin cerely help and urge the cause ot socialism. They may be roughly dl- vided into two classes-those who honestly believe in socialism, who hope that some day in the near fu- ture the state will be the one owner of capital, the one employer Of la bor, and who contemplate with equal calmness the abolition of pri- vate ownership of property and the destruction of the family, and those who while not believing in socialism pure and. simple think that the so- cialistic wave is so strong that it cannot be checked, but only con- trolled."
 The speaker told of the progress of socialism in Europe. Of the move ment in this country he said:
 Tn our own country the social istic movement has spread broadcast the doctrine of paternalism in gov- ernment. Its general acceptance is one of the most astounding phenom- ena of modern times. The popular faith in the power of government to right all wrong is almost pathetic in it's simplicity, and would be rather admirable were it not so utterly fu- tile. During the last few years we have legislated on almost every con- ceivable subject in almost eveR conceivable way. We who we're once the least governed of nations are in fair way of becoming the most governed"
 The mayor referred to the develop ment of the government commission and said it might well be a question whether the spirit if not the letter of the constitution had been violated in clothing the commissions with almost dictatorial powers.
 MT Mcclellan then had something to say about politicians: t--
 We have no end of men in public life who are ready, by stroke of the pen, to solve all the problems of hu- manity from corporate dishonesty to the Brooklyn bridge crush. It is but a poorly equipped public man or very retrograde newspaper that has not a whole stock panaceae for ev- cry human i'll.
 No man should enter politics with the hope of pecuniary reward. There is no such thing as honest graft Salaries are small and the continuity of office-holding so uncertain that the life of an honest politician is one of constant self-sacrifice. Moreover, our journalistic and political ethics are such that the honest man who accepts office In this country must ex- pect from the beginning to the end of his term to wage one incessant strug- gle to do his duty. He must expect constant and capricious criticism, constant and unmeasured abuse. He must expect to have his motive im- pugned, his every action misrepre- sented and misunderstood.
 Less than four years ago the peo- pie of this country elected as their chief magistrate an honest and con scientious man. They knew what he was and what he represented. They knew his ideals. his hopes, his pur- poses, and had they stopped to think about the matter at all they would have known what to expect from his election. Now that the inevitable has occurred, instead of accepting 1t those who few months ago were loudest in his praise are the most in their denunciation. ItI is not so long since that those who disagreed with him ran the risk of being charged with lese majeste by the very newspapers that now even question his honesty of purpose.
 The mayor concluded with some advice. which was, in effect, to de- eide what was right and then stick to 1t. ''If the United States" he said Ifs to embark on an era of disregard of law and order. an ignoring of property rights and the rights of in- let us do so knowingly and not in ignorance. If We are to seek out destruction let us do 1t in cold blood and with our eyes open. Let us pray, as did Ajax, Destroy us, but destroy us in the light" e
 THE DYING BASE BALL FAN.