| Show THE r E REPUBLIC REP Professor ProfEsor Hadley Addresses Students Std 1 of California University Berkeley Cal March 23 Charter day was as celebrated here today the occasion being the anniversary anni anal ver ary of f the founding Of of the university sity siy of California The faculty faculty in caps and gowns assembled at a am m mand and marched across the college col ge cam car campus pus to to the gymnasium where the ex en exercises e were held The oration was ivan VA de delivered oraton livered lvere by President Arthur ArthurT T 1 Had Hadley Hadley ley of Yale Y le whose subject was Gov Government ov nt by Public Opinion n President andley Randley said in part There are two theories of demo dem democratic cratic cratie government the individualist 11 which relies reles on the self interest of the various citizens acting independently ind p j and the socialistic which relies rel s main mainly mainly ly h on the votes of those citizens act acting actIng ing lag as a body Neither has proved wholly satisfactory o I I being an inadequate support for political and moral order i and an evil worse than J that it undertakes un to cure we must go back to the true principle of or I based on public senti sentiment meat ment This Is a phrase which h is often used but generally misunderstood Whenever a large number of people i want wat a thing we hear her It said aiU lah that there is a public sentiment It in tIt Its favor or s This is not necessarily true Even ven the tile 11 fact that a majority ma maY may mar be b willing to vote ote for a measure does d es not prove prose that It i has ha this basis bais The desire delie de ir may be simply the th out outcome outcome outcome come of widespread personal interest Much though not all of the objection to trusts Is based on the fact tAct that the th critics do not own them that they find f d themselves at the w wrong wong mg end o of oe certain certin transactions Instead of at the right end If ir I jt s man mun In believes bell ves that a e trust tJ is A bad bar thin and n nr w would refuse r f se to countenance its pursuits ts if he h e were their I beneficiary he can call cail cl 1 his opposition to them by the honor honorable honorable honorable able tub title of public spirit spirit And it may be lit added that most of the actual re me reform form in trust abuses has ha been thus I mad made from Inside by the of ot t their owners owner The social and nd political instinct mankind is so strong that stong people are led Jed under instruction Ins to do things thing which are against their own personal convenience and even against their own interest in order to sub serve the needs need of the community Public senti sentiment sent ment nent is the name given to the th feeling which gives effect to these virtues of patriotism The question queston is often ofen asked aked what constitutes the essential mark mart of a gen gentleman gentleman teman as a distinct from the accident of gf birth and of clothing and of speech 1 1 I believe it is to be found foud in the read readiness iness in ss to accept trusts even when they the theare are personally personal disadvantageous the readiness to subordinate admans a amans manson own convenience and desires to Ic f a social code The code may be a good one or ora ora r a 3 bad one but it I Is an authority which the gentleman man of his own free Tree will 1 without waiting for anyone to compel him to waiting accept it it To the extent that he does dos this he not only proves himself himsel a a a gentleman genteman but proves himself capable of In this sense ense I believe beleve that the tle great body of the American people are re gentlemen and are therefore capa capable capa ble bie of The possibility of maintaining democracy is due d e to the fact that Increased readiness to accept burdens has gone hand handIn j in hand hand with wih increase of commercial i Ian and an d political power It I Is for the young men who are ae just growing up to carry 1 Into the larger worlds of business and legislation J S sa ton the spirit which will personal convenience to collective tire tive honors In this development of the th principle of political trusteeship lies Ues the hope of the republic for its fu future f U ture tur i I |
