Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-11
PROPERTY NOR
 LABOR TO RULE Vice President Marshall Says Neither Should Con
 trol in U. $.
UsURIoUs PROFITS
Speaking to Students at University Of Maine, He Stresses Duties 0f Young Men in Affairs of This
 Government.

Orono. Maine. June 10.-Vice Presi- dent Marshall addressed a clas Of lze members at the commencement exer' cises of the University of Maine to- day and in turn received the non orary degree of doctor of laws. The vice president dwelt upon the necces' sary education for a young man tax ing up the business of life.
 Slight knowledge will not enable the young man to assume the man agement of life's affairs" he said "In the irrepressible conflict between labor and capital he cannot assume that either property or labor IS everything without tending to esta3- fish a peon class in America or an oligarchy of wealth. Complete know ledge may convince him that it will be better for the republic to be con- trolled by neither of these classes.
 "Then and Now."
 "In 1850 we had republic where labor was satisfied, where respect for religion and reverence for law and order and sincere attachment to the constitution was strong. In that year the proportion of the an- nual wealth created in the country by the joint efforts of labor and capi7 tai was one-fourth of labor and three-fourths to capital. Sixty years later, the proportion had changed to less than one-fifth to labor and more than four-fifth to capital. This dis proportion, to my mind, has much to do with our present disconteat
 "Usurious interest is no more, but usurious profits has taken it's place" he continued, and followed it with the declaration that the young man in assuming leadership must create a public opinion and develop moral sentiment against usurious profit as against usurious interest
 States Lasting Rights.
 The vice president subscribed to the doctrine of states rights Subjects which formerly were purely of state cognizance, he said, have become of common interest between the states, and the doctrine of states rights must be supplemented by the doctrine of states duties. The duty of the state. said the speaker, referring to control of corporations, is to place in office vigorous officials who will hail OllcuutIo lllO COul L duu VluulCdtC the honor of their states laws instead of elevating into office men who wait for the general government to devise some plan to prevent the evil and punish the wrong doer.
 "If states rights are to be pre- served the young men of tomorrow must take up up this cry of states duties; otherwise our pleasing vision of Uncle Sam as patriach, a gentle man with beneficient smile on his l face toward American manhood striv- ing for success. will chnge to that l of quack, doctor placard, When Others Fail, Consult Me-
 'Old Order Changes"
 "The old order of education has changed" said MT. Marshall in con- clusion. "It furnished a philosophy and taught men that happiness was not in his material surroundings, in | position or power, but in his own purpose and conduct. The humanities l have been forgotten in the rush for | the success. Our institutions of higher learning may not be expected to furnish philosophic view of life but they can be expected to ins;iil into the minds of young men inte!iec- tual courage. am visionary enough to believe that intellectual courage combined with honesty, will solve whatever social and economic prob lens may arise."