| Show HUGHES PLEADS FOR p f i f.- f. I LIBERTIES JF r y U 1 Jr J. J PI platform Platform Horm of Peace Is Defined De- De i fined in Address at ata J l. l rK We II t 1 Wellseley seley v Sw a t p ESLEY Mass June June 14 Charles Charles' E E Hughes in in an address at I 1 th Wellesley college com commencement t i. i Si 1 exercises exercises today cautioned his hearers l that th t- t f it 1 an appreciation of ot the cliff cliff- I j which have accompanied the k- k period per distorted after the war we must avoid distorted view and we must not faili fail fall i to to realize that the great heart of ot the nation nation- f. f has not changed In a few months His subject was The Par Patr Pa- Pa r tr of Peace S I I contrasted the unified efforts sv of ot wartime wartime with the absente absence of a f s c compelling motive and the rush of competing interests that have followed foll fol- fol lowed l ved 1 U Unless fess we we have in peacetime he saldo sald o that dominant sentiment which prompts prompts' a continuous and self- self v Sacrificing devotion to public ends th the sacrifices of ot patriotism In war war will win have been in vain Our national ideals Ideals' are not bound in anything j i t. t 4 short sheriff of establishing and maintaining constitutional government as the sure base of liberty I SPURIOUS PATRIOTISM r tt ibis spurious p patriotism tri that Is to the triumph of ot any creed or or- class or becomes the vehicle of V. V The common good rooted In f the essential institutions of justice and i individual liberty that liberty that Is the national ideal Ve We have talked so so much of free institutions that we weare are apt to think that the they will take care of them- them selves Our recent and current experiences ex- ex should disabuse us of this I notion We We have too ma many evidences of ot a readiness to take advantage of opportunity to to establish autocratic administration The tendency to crave and arbitrary power power- to use power ruthlessly ruthlessly- is more apparent with us than devotion to the cause of liberty FREEDOM OF OPINION must be The motto for democracy educate educate educate continued Mr Hughes You can find no other security than the intelligence and conscience of the people But you cannot at once educate and stifle opinion There Is hope in in the free fir air ir there there is tonic fn in n confidence in ultimate success or what yo you strongly I believe to be true but the policy of ol i of poll political denying free expression expression- I opinions is death to the republic for I that expression Is its vital force CURB BUREAUCRACY I The practice of putting large large- discretionary discretionary discretionary dis dis- dis- dis powers at the disposal of officers ers needs ti a curb The patriot In I peace demands government upon P es established principles and he should j es-j I always alwa's be ready to contest and bureaucracy with its readiness to suppress individual freedom by I capricious administration action and to to install in departments of a supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed free government what is nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing short of a reign of terror President Ellen F. F Pendleton announced announced announced an an- that Wellesley had received from Charles E. E Goodspeed of ton his Ruskin collection said to be and from unsurpassed in this country countr the general education board a promise prom prom- Iso ise of toward an n endowment prom prom-l fund lurid of of ot which the Income in income income In- In come is to be used In providing permanently per per- permanently for increased Increase salaries I |
