New-York tribune., 1920-06-15
Hughes Speaks
To Daughters
College Class
Commencement Address Is
Made TO 348 at Welles-
ley: Gifts Announced, In
Guiding One of $5OO,OOO
Scores Arbitrary Power
Orator Also Denounces
Reign of Terror" in
Government Departments

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WELLESLEY. Mass, June IL. -
Charles Evans Hughes to day delivered
the commencement address to the
graduating class at Wellesley. of which
his own daughter was a member. Three
hundred and forty-cight young women
were graduated.
A feature of the exercises was the
announcement of the receipt of many
gifts to the institution, chief of them
$4,000 by the General Education
Board to make possible increased
salaries for members of the faculty.
President Pendleton announced that
many other gifts of money, rare paint
ings and other works of art, and col
lections of books had been made to the
college.
Mr Hughes, in an address on "The
PATRIOTISM of Peace" said that the ma
tion must avoid distorted view if it
is 70 appreciate the difficulties at
tendant upon the reconstruction period.
we must not fail to realize that the
great heart of the nation has not
changed in few months" he added
Impetus cf Wartime
Pointing out that the impetus of war
effort had been lost and that "com-
pelling motive" no longer existed. Mr..
Hughes said:
unless we have in peace time, that
dominant sentiment which prompts q
continuous and sef-sacrihcing devotion
to public ends, the sacrifices Of patriot
ism in war will have been in vain. Our
national ideals are neither imperialistic
nor racial They transcend all ordi-
nary national aims; they are not bound
up in anything short of establishing
and maintaining constitutional govern
ment as the sure base of liberty"
1T is spurious patriotism that is
linked to the triumph of any creed or
class. Or becomes the vehicle of bigotry.
The common good rooted in the essen
tial institutions of justice and indi-
vldual liberty--that is the national
ideal
I'VE have talked so much of free in
stitUtions that we are apt to think
that in this country they will take
care Oh themselves. Our recent and
current experiences should disabuse US
Of this, notion. We have TOO many evil
dences OF a readiness to take advan-
tage OF opportunity to establish auto
cratic administration The ease with
which abuses have arisen and have
been condoned should give us more
anxiety than wild utterances which
easily defea. themselves. The tendency
"a crave ana assert arDltrary power, to
use power-either economic or political
-ruthlessly, is more apparent with US
than devotion to the cause of liberty
Must Not Stifie Opinion
'The motto for democracy must be
Educate, educate, educate You can
find no other security than the intelli-
gence and conscience of the people.
But YOU cannot at once educate and
stifie opinion. There is hope in the
free air, there is tonic in confidence
IN the. ultimate success of what you
strongly believe to be true, but the pol
icy OF denying free expression Of po-
litical opinions is death to the Repub-
lie. for that expression is it's vital force.
The practice of putting large dis
cretionary powers at the disposal of
officers needs q curb. The patriot in
".esce demands government upon estab-
lished principles, and he should always
be ready 10 contest officialism and bu-
reaucracy, with its readiness to sup
press individual freedom by capricious
administrative action. and to install in
departments Of supposed free govern
ment what is nothing short of reign
Of terror"