New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Declares at Cornell That Ad.
v0cates of Violence Must
Be Stamped Out as Pesti.
lence by Law and Order
Fair Speech Is Upheld
Honest Criticism of Faults in
Government Needed, He
Says; Radicals Decried

ITHACA, N. Y, June 20,-Commem-
oratlve exercises marking the fftieth
anniversary Of the founding Of Cornell
University by Ezra Cornell were held
to-day in the university stadium. The
speakers included Governor Smith,
Chief Judge Frank H. Hiscock of the
Court of Appeals, Charles E. Hughes
and President Jacob Gould Schurman.
In his address Governor Smith made
powerful plea against allowing the
influence Of Bolshevism to spread in
New York State and said nothing would
be left undone to prevent a spread of
the radical ideas which, he stated,
were threatening the very foundation
OF the state. The radicals, he said,
could have their choice-"education or
the nightstick."
In his address, Mr.. Hughes said that
advocates of anarchy and violence
would be treated as pestilence, to be
extirpated as processes Of law and
order would permit.
There can be no progress unless
there is respect for the processes Of
orderly government" he said. against
all those who counsel violence and an
archy we stand united and resolute.
We shall settle no other question
until we settle that question. What
ever our differences, we propose that
they shall be determined by discus
sion and the ballot box and not bv
bombs. To- the would-be DESTROYER of
society, to every one who seeks to pro-
duce reign Of terror. to all the apos-
ties of revolution. there is but one an
swer, and that is that they will be
tlvltles ended as swiftly as the power
and processes Of the nation will permit.
preservation is the first law of de-
mocracy, and, with the broadest spirit
OF federation, we shall not for mo-
ment tolerate those who attempt the
life of the Republic"
Wants United Nation
This should be a nation of one peo-
pie and one language. owing allegiance
only to America, he declared.
Mr.. Hughes also said that while the
war had revealed deficiencies in the
educational discipline not only Of COL
leges, but of secondary schools, charges
that the universities are breeding CEN
tres OF dangerous doctrines and TO-
menters OF unrest are extravagant and
unwarranted. On the contrary. thew
are the strongholds of wise conserva-
tism, he asserted.
"lu mas been said that our colleges
and universities are breeding centres
OF dangerous doctrines and -fomenters
OF unrest. Such extravagant asser-
tlons and unwarranted generalizations
are most mischievous. 1t is one Of the
factors of safety in democracy, as has
been pointed out by close student Of
the history of civilization, that there is
against the tendencies of their own
time
1--WE have had abuses against which
liberal minds have rebelled. There are
better conditions which men who be-
lieve In rational progress desire to
secure. 1t is natural to find in our
universities those who are in opposi-
tlon to every attempt at exploitation
and the misuse of public privilege and
opportunity. But I predict that when
1t comes to a contest for stable gov
ernment and for the essentials of our
liberties the universities will be found
to be strongholds of wise conserva-
tism. 1t is in the universities that we
should find the intellectual independ-
ence which safeguards the truth, when
the truth is in the keeping of the
minority, and it is to the extent that
the pursuit Of truth becomes the ruling
passion Of our people that we may be
hopeful of the future.
Need for Americanism
"There is more need than ever for
the gospel of Americansm which
unites those of all race and creeds in
supreme love of country There is
no humanitarian or internationalism
which can ever be allowed as q sub
stitute for affection for our own land
Such a substitution means not helpful
ness to others, but elf-destruction.
The strong patriotic feeling height
ened by the war should become the
motive power of national endeavor,
which should bring us into helpful CO.
operation for the reconstruction of a
stricken world without injury to any
of our national interests"