The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-23
EDWIN ALDERMAN
 ORATOR OF DAY
President of Virginia Speaks
 in Pennsylvania
PARTISANSHIP WAVES
Danger of Government Developing Into States Socialism-Dual Prob lem of the Future-Great
 Need of Democracy

Philadelphia, February 22.--Edwin Alderman. president of the University of Virginia. was the orator at the University Day" celebration today. held under the auspices of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. His subject was The Problem of Democracy"
 Referring to the anniversary of Washing tons birth and speaking of contributions to this countrys pro gross made by Washington. Lincoln and Lee, he declared Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia were tied together by many un- breakab1e bonds of common ancestry, common glory and common tragedy.
 Valley Forge and Germantown loom back to Gettysburg he remarked. Washington was the richest man of his day and the most public spirited I believe it was a belief in many n heart that democracy was the final and triumphant form of human society; and that power rests in fitness to rule; that you can trust men if you will train them; that the sole object of power Is the public good, and that service to the republic is glory quite sufficient In itself
 Less Partisanship
 Have you ever thought how much
  there used to be, even when we were boys? Think of that spectacle in Wash ington, of President Taft and others and the democrats working together for reciprocity and the peace treaties Think of President Taft appointing Ed ward Douglas White, a Confederate sol- der and democrat and a Roman Catholic, to the chief justiceship of the United States. Was there ever a greater blow in the face of combined partisan ship and sectaranism than that?
 "All about us are heard voices of those who think they see the way. and who are beckoning men to follow, but new dan gers face us even as we leave the an cient highway and attempt to cut new paths, for in endeavoring to make it pos sible for democracy as we understand 1t, and a vast indnstrialism as we have de- yeloped it, 10 live together Justly under the same political roof we have plainly come to a point where there is danger of our government developing into a system of states socialism.
 Dual Problem
 erhe leaderships of the future, there- fore will have d dual problem. One Is to protect the people against privilege and to preserve for the people the ancient guarantees and inestimibale advantages of representative government recognized Dy fTdnklln. lHe1e never bdS Dttn hour, since the birth of democracy, when 1t sought man so passionately and so willing to trust a man with such confk dence and hope This demand for peIS sona leadership Is marked by the passing of the vogue of sentimentalism and emo- tionalism for c, nmerciaism Men are becoming too sophisticated for blind trust in names and symbols.
 "The supreme need of nations life is this coming moral struggle for leador- ship, the seeking of men whose eyes are clear to see the whole blessed truth about things as they appear: who have courage for any fight; who will not fater before any difficulty nor swerye backward. nor be rendered fearful. Such men must have place in their hearts for plain men who bear heavy burdens in the shadow of the world, but they must so love justice as to be able to use it to the rich as well as to the poor.
 Come Whom Needed