The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-10
INTELLECTUAL EDWARDS"
Is Way Vice President Marshall Desig-
mates Some People.

0rono, Me-, June l0.-Vice- President
Marshall delivered the principal address
here to-day at the University of Maine
commencement exercises. He dwelt upon
the need of education for the young man
taking up the business of life. The vice
president said in part:
Slight knowledge will not enable the
young man to assume the management
OF life's affairs. In the irrepressibe con
! fiict between labor and capital, he can
not assume that either property or labor
is everything without tending to estab-
| lsh d peon class in America or an oil
garchy Of wealth Complete knowledge
may convince him that it will be better
| for the republic to be controlled by nei-
| ther of these classes.
'Tn 1850. we had a republic where
labor was satisfied, where respect for.
religion and reverence for law and order
and a sincere attachment to the eonsti-
tuition were strong. In that year the
proportion of the annual wealth created
in the country by the joint efforts of
labor and capital was onefourth to la
Dor and three-fourths to capital. Sixty
years later. the proportion had changed
to less than one-fifth to labor and more
than four-fifths to capital. This dispro-
portion, TO my mind has much to do
with our present discomfort.
'Usurious interest is no more, but
usurious profit has taken its place
When our statutes regulating the rates
of interest were enacted, the laboring
man, generally speaking, was a skilled
laborer. He could produce a completed
article. The advent of machinery took
from him his tools and put them in the
hands of capital. Money no longer is
borrowed by laborers to enable them to
carry on their trades, but money is
crafty, aad instead of loaning itself to
the laboring man, it is now buying the
laboring mans machinery, constantly
enhancing its own profit thereby and
constantly decreasing the laboring mans
share of our produced wealth. The |
young man in assuming leadership must |
create public opinion and develop a |
moral sentiment against usurious profit |
as against usurious interest. Evidence
of disposition on the part of corporate
wealth to accept this view is not lack
ing Hdit ttIt tiihb thC AhAN
roads of the country would welcome a
permanent five per cent. or six per cent.
accumulative profit in exchange for their
greater profit and the doubt, risk and
abuse which come with it.
THE doctrine OF states rights is now
seldom heralded save in opposition to
needed reforms. | must subscribe 10
the doctrine, but | realize that subjects
that formerly were purely Of state cog
nizance have become of common inter-
est between the states apd that the doc.
trine of states rights must be supple
mented by the doctrine of states duties.
ITO control our corporations, it be-
comes a states duty to place in office
vigorous and honest officials who will
hale offenders into court and vindicate
the honor of their state laws instead
of elevating into Office men who will
luietly sit by and wait for the general
government to devise some plan TO pre-
vent the evil and to punish the wrong
ioer. To conserve our natural resources,
{ becomes a states duty to adopt
system for the wise and economic use
If the resources and the prevention of
private control by greedy spectators. J
II StdtC iIShlS dit W bt pftStENtus
he young men of tomorrow must take
Up this cry of states duties; otherwise,
,ur pleasing vision of Uncle Sam as !
gentleman with beneficient o
mile on his face toward American man I
rood striving for success. will change to \
hat of quaek doctor plaearded, When n
'thers fail, consult me- II
I'VE Americans are not dishonest, nei- I
her at heart nor intellectually; but / e
I'M fearful that many of us are intel +
ectual towards. When getting on in t
olives us with our consciences and with
he laws of the land, we do not fight the s
'attle ont with ourselves. We throw u
ourselves into the arms of the law and l
emand absolution from sin and protec- &
ion from punishment. The law, of s.
ourse has defined neither fraud nor G
ishonesty with that degree of certainty il
1hich places our proposed conduct with e
n its terms. a
"The old order of education has iC
hanged 1t furnished philosophy and Z
aught men that happiness was not in j
is material surroundings, in position or II
over, but in his own purposes and con- q
uct The humanities have been for u
oJlen III IHe Tusn Tor the successes.
ur institutions of higher learning may p
OF be expected to furnish philosophic y
lew of life, but they can be expected to y
lstll into the minds of young men y
ltellectual courage. | am visionary W
1ough TO believe that intellectual cour- a.
ge combined with honesty vii solve n.
hatever social and economic problem ~
ay arise. May this institution send no -
IAN into the world TO be leader in h.
lought who is too cowardly to fight er- -
,r and too timid to embrace truth" q;
The honorary degree of doctor of laws a;
as conferred upon Vice President Mar 4;
lall. The graduating class numbered dr
o. ~ ~
of
MRS. PANKHURST ESCAPED. DIR