The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-18
ROOT LAYS LABOR
OUTCRY TO DRONES
Boston Police Denounced by
Speaker at Constitution
Celebration. Z
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NATIONS NERVES HIT
Everybody Wants to Do
Something Else" He Says,
Analysing Unrest.
NATIONS NERVES HIT


The 1874 anniversary OF the Consti-
tuition of the United States was cele-
bruted last night throughout the nation
under the auspices of the National Sc
curity League and other patriotic soa
oieties, but perhaps nowhere did that
celebration sound more striking note
than In Carnegie Hall.
There Eiihu Root presided and gave TO
the thousand persons who filled the big
auditorium concept OF the essential
fairness of Americanfsm as witnessed
by. the Constitution, He pictured the es-
sential document of the United States
NJ more than the embodiment Of an
IDEAL He described Il as the set OF prac-
teal rules whereby an ideal becomes
real He witnessed the timeliness Of its
application to present conditions in q
speech that bristled with cogent aphor-
ism and trenchant epigram.
Everybody" he said. wants TO do
something else. The people that cry the
loudest for labor do not want. to work.
The people that make the most noise
about the high cost OF living are crowd
ing the jewelers. shops.
Wherever the shoe Of the law pinches.
there is a loud cutlery against the system
Of Government Now. the Constitution
settles things, but II you wipe out the
rules SO that nothing il settled. and
everybody Is disputing about every
question as to how everything shall be
done. then there Is not peace or security
for anybody in living his life"
The meeting was opened BY an invo-
cation by the Rev. William r. Manning
of Trinity Church. Charles E. Ley
decker, president OF the National Sc
curity League, introduced Mr.. Root in
an address in which he pieaded that
every person present go forth as a mis-
sionary preaching the gospel which Mr..
Root would give them. 49,.
Address Warmly Applauded.
Mr.. Roots address was notable for
the applause which IL aroused. 1t was
not the applause Of persons who fling
themselves upon q patriotic catch line.
but each time that the speaker made
! one of his finely reasoned points there
would come n moment of hesitation as
It sunk IN and then handelapping and
cheers
Perhaps the sentiment which aroused
the greatest enthusiasm among Mr..
Roots hearers was the one in which he
followed Gen. Pershing in his definition
Of the relation Of Americanism to the
excellence of our troops abroad.
Mr.. Root. when he had finished his
own address, introduced Job e. Hedges.
and Mr.. Hedges In characteristic vein.
| appealed to his audience for O stricter
Interpretation of Americanism. =. The
Americanism that permitted Trotzky to
nourish his insane doctrines and to learn
his bloody politics in New York city. he
| said. was responsible for the loss of
thousands Of Russian lives under Trotz-
| kys direction. .,.~.e 1855.
| Mr.. Root said, IN part:
a hox, a.
| ing OF the Constitution Of the unipted
States by the members OF the convention
OF 1887. who framed 1t 132 years ago.
What is it? We are apt TO forget. We
have been free so long that freedom
Ii unnoted and hardly prized. Peace
and order have preserved the oppor-
tinity for useful and happy lives. have
preserved cafe ard contehted homes,
freedom of religion. freedom of thought,
| freedom OF speech, OF independent man
hood and womanhood which rules the
conduct Of ones own life so long that
we forget whence these blessings came.
They come by the system Of government
maintained by the resolute loyalty Of a
great people. When that system of gov
eminent fails, II 1t ever fails, when the
| loyalty of that people falls II II ever
fails, something else will come. We can
| not tell what II will be, but this we may
know: that the system of government
which has preserved our peace and order
and security and opportunity and growth
in prosperity and In grace win no longer
protect us.
There are several things to be said
about a written constitution--ssveral
haracteristics. One is that IL settles
things. There are many rules Of con-
duct which are not in themselves 30
important one way or the otner, but
as to which it is of vital Importance
that there be rules.
Nervous Reaction Prevails.
"All the world is now in a state of
nervous reaction. A very singular feb
rile condition exists. Everybody wants
to do something else. The people that
arc crying the loudest for labor do not
want to work. The people that make
the most noise about the high cost of
living are crowding the jewellers shops.
They raise 80 much trouble about pay
ing the baker, but there was never such
good business in cheap jewelry and in
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