The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-14
MUST AVOID A DIS
TORTED VIEW-HUGHES
Address Given To-day at Wellesley
College Commencement
Exercises.

Wellesley, Mass, June A. Charles
y. Hughes, in an address at the Well
esley college commencement exercises
to-day, cautioned his hearers that il
an appreciation of the difficultie:
which have accompanied the period aft
er the war ''we must avoid distorted
view and we must not fail to realize
that the great effort of the nation ha.
not changed in few months. His
subject was ''The Patriotism OF
Peace"
He contrasted the unified efforts OF
wartime with "the absence of com.
pelling motive" and "the rush of com
petitive interests" that have followed
Unless we have in peace time" he
said, that dominant sentiment which
prompts continuous and self f-sacrific
ing devotion to public ends, the sacri-
fees of patriotism in war will have
been in vain. Our national ideals are
neither imperialistic nor radical They
transcend all ordinary national aims !;
they are not bound up in anything
short of establishing and maintaining
constitutional government as the sure
base of liberty.
lit is a spurious patriotism that is
linked TO the triumph of any creed or
class or becomes the vehicle of bigotrv.
The common good rooted in the essen
tial institutions of justice and indi-
vidual liberty-tliat is the national
ideal
"Wc have talked so much of free
institutions that we are apt to think
that in this country they viii take care
of themselves. Our recent and cur
rent experiences should dsabuse us of
this notion. We have too many<Ryi.
dences of readiness TO take advan-
tage OF opportunity to establish auto
cratic administration. The ease with
which abuses have arisen and haze
bean condoned should give us more
anxiety than wild uttersnees which
easily defeat themselves. The tendency
TO crave arbitrary power, to Use pow
er-either economic or political power
2 ruthlessly, is more apparent with US
than devotion TO the cause of liberty
at is in the orderly processes of
government that is,
of law-with power so nd
justed as to secure protection from
putting Of principles and rules sane
toned by the people in the place Of
tyranny, that we find the security Of
liberty. Who ever seeks to subvert
these orderly processes is the enemy
against whom at once the entire pow
nr of organized society should be di
rected.
"There is. however, great difference
between pre-empting the orderly pro
,esses of government and the attempt
10 repress political opinion with which
se do not agree. II is precisely be
,ause lilsrty must have its institu.
lions: because liberty can only con
tinue through organizations securing
npop the basis of accepted
principles, that the institutions of lib
,rty are hopelessly defective and mad
,quate II they do not provide the
means for the adaptions which each |
must have to guarantee its
reedom.
"The true method is to trust the |
ruth and find the remedy Does a
grievance exist II IL does not. then
how that il does not If il is ex-
limit il to the facts. To |
he degree that il exists search for
he remedy II wrong remedy is
proposed. expose IT, II the remedy pro-
osed is worse than the grievance, dem
nstrate IT,
"The motto for democracy must be
ducate, educate. educate You can
md no other security than the intel
igence and conscience. of the people
tut YOU cannot at once educate and
tihe opinion. There is hope in the
rec air, there is tonic in confidence in
ltimate success Of what you strongly
elieve 70 be true but the policy of
enying free. expression of political
pinions il death 10 the republic, for
hat expression is its vital force.
''The practice of putting large dis
riminary powers at the disposal of
fficers needs no curb The patriot in
eace demands government upon es
ablisbed principles and he should al
avs be ready to contest offieialism
nd bureaucracy, with its readiness to
lppress indisidua freedom by capri
ous administrative action and rs in
tall in depart ments of supposed tee
overnment what is nothing short Of a
,ign OF terror"