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Show PARKER CRITICIZES , 'COLONEL ROOSEVELT Brandt a. Treasonable Former President'. Presi-dent'. Plan to Interfere In Anthracite. Strike i New Haven, Conn., June 16. "Something Is -radically wrong In the, mental process of the electorate or else patriotism Is at Its ilast gasp when, with hardly h whisper of protest, pro-test, a retired chief executive may brag to .representatives of the people of his treasonable scheme t olntrude on stato rights and violate1 otherwise the fundamental law by establishing a military "receivership over coal mncs pending a strike, admitting without a suspicion of decent shame that he had well considered that his offense might be Impeachable if com mitted Impeachable, of course, only because the acts planned would have been unconstltptional and lawless," said Judge Alton B. Parker of New York, once a candidate for the presidency, presi-dency, In addressing the graduating c'ass at the Yalo law school today. Continuing ho said: "Our forebear?, clear of hetid and far of sight, anticipated Just such vicious vi-cious attacks by those In power and sought to Insuro to us a government of laws nndtiiot of men,' and through their w lsdom such a' government Is 011-s for h Httlo vigilance." True partlotlsm, tho speaker said, la the o.nly brand that will produce real citizenship and It Is freo from selfishness and shorn of pyrotechnics. pyrotech-nics. True patriotism, Judge Parker declared, de-clared, Is tho only foundation on hlch suck Borvlco can rest, "not the oratorical typo that loves the flamboyant flam-boyant peroration and tho applause of the crowd." |