The sun., 1910-10-06
THE NEW NATIONALTSW
A Protest and an Appeal hy the TAT.
James q. Garter That Are Now TIm.h

To rHE EDIIon OF TIE SUN- Sr Won.
der IL there can be found n finer defen,s OF
Judges honest but fossiliyed Of mind
reply more moderate and more profound
to Theodore Roosevelt and his attacks on
the foundations OF republican government,
in the interests Of himself and the .pirtt
and needs OF the times than the folloNins
words Of James Coolidge Carter They vs-s
delivered ten years ago at the hftieth ann.
versary OF his class at Harvard After con.
trasting the influences on public life In ths
middle OF the nineteenth century With fha
Influences that dominated IL at its close Mr
Carter said:
AR President. what has become oi N. spi-,
the philosophy the ideals which held such arm
control q, the middle OF she cenmry' Discredi,ni
81 least. " not dismissed. must he our confrs,o,
And what have ~e In their place can calm Aas
Just answer 10 this question avoid the adr-l,slo,
that our society. both In thought and acton. !,
under the control OF an enormous pressure q
material interests which hold In dis.isln any an
peal to the universal phnciptes Of truth and -iget'
And these results have been reached Or sr, A..
fended not by appeals TO reason. N uuh n
science or TO history. but BY the assertion tat
there are irresistible tendencies 10 which ne r,u.t
not only yield but which we must support ana
urge forward because they are irresisube and
those who deny their recutude and strursi.
against them are sugmauEed - Impractical tbso
Against this abandonment Of reason sad
morals. this substitution Of brute force OF olnf
fate In the place Of truih and right ! utter q
humble protest I am no devotee Of the past o.
believer In the nnaIity of any past solutions II
human problems. either In morals or politics II
may be well that the changes In human afalrs and
especially such portentous ones as chal
leaging the attention of mankind. may r.quir.
revision OF Old theories. Nations have thsir
duties ss well a. individuals which must b.
performed 81 whatever sacrinee of inoonsist.nt
opinions. This great nation of ours undoubtedly
the Ghttering EeneraIites Of the Declaration of
even republican government Itself.
But before We discard the .ong accepted theore.
of the past let US be sure that they have fulhled
their funeton and require revision. Let then
stand uuul neU ones. reached IN . reverent Effort
10 md out what is Hus and right have bssa
aaeertained and established, and meAnwhile 1T
the pressure Of ma terial interests. the denuneia
ton of politicians and the clamOrs Of yellow Jour
nalism be set At defiance.
And do not these closing words have a
TiEhtful an appeal TO the press. which hes
done so much for human liberty. and At -
tremendously In the rush and roar OF news.
paper ofiices a. they do In the quiet atmos-
pbsrs Of classic hallsP
! appeal 70 you. Mr. President and trust tnsi
you and your SUCCESSOR altar you will ses toh
that truth. Truth In science. truth in morals truth
In politics. truth when eHied from the mArssi.
place. the legislative hail. the pulpit or the 70.
trum. shall md . refuge and . sanctuary hsr-.
here where OF old an altar Vas coasecraied 20 her
service. where from old she has had her arm. aaf
her chariot: here where her name has FOR oenr
RE. stood emblA1oned. where q priesthood % ths
great and good have for centuries deuyerri h--
orAcles. here iet truth. liberty and iusuee BE- bet
In ever increasing honor. nd assert the svsfAs Ing
Supremacy % me moral over the material World
y B PETTENCtiL. Jr
NEW HAVEN, Conn Octobers