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Show GOV. HADLEY IN I ACADEMY LECTURE Herbert S. Hadley, the brilliant young goernor oi Missouri, ad-dressed ad-dressed a large audience at the Wfc-1 Wfc-1 ber academy last eening. In addi-t.on addi-t.on to being the first Republican governor ot Missouri, Mr. Hadlev has the distinction ot being the youngest governor ever elected and is also a figure of national prominence He Is a native of Kansas and, last night sov---ial aseo oi sunflowers were in evidence evi-dence on the speaker stand, while a large number oi layhawkers, members mem-bers of the Utah-Kansas club, were seated in a body in the audience. The governor truly kept up to bis reputation as a public speaker, getting get-ting his auditors In a good humor bv Btatlng that ho was really delighted to reach a Republican community after af-ter traveling o.er so manv miles of : Democratic territory, ana then he told I several humorous stories that were I thoroughly appreciated He soon got down to business, however, and, drawing from his fifteen vear3 experience ex-perience In public life, he held un-. un-. divided attention for nearly two hours. I He began with a defense of poll-lbs poll-lbs and politicians, saving that corrupt cor-rupt public otflclals were the exception excep-tion and not tho rule, popular oplu-ion oplu-ion to the contrary, that hcre one read of the corruption of an official offi-cial or set of officials in one part of the country, ho did not read of the good act of hundreds of officials throughout the .nation Politics, he sn:d, contained aa much of the spirit spir-it of disinterestedness in personal tain aa any other line of endeavor Largo political parties are necessary because the victorious governing body should represent tho majority Ot the people. The government of ;tne 1 nited States has been unable at any time to injure the liberty of ai sinirle individual. We have no hered. ' ItBry governing class and in no country coun-try could such a change of governmental govern-mental power have been made with as little turmoil as the one recently consummated in our own republic , The great questions of the day were1 discussed in detail by the speaker In speakinc: of the trusts and the futile efforts of the courts to dissolve them, ho said that they reminded him of a South American resolution as the dissolved one day and combined again the next. He also quoted the ideas of: William I. Rran and Theodore Roosevelt on these and other qucs tlons. The question of transportation, the speaker said, was the most important question now before the American peoplo and that the method of punishing pun-ishing by imprisonment the persons guilty of breaking the rebate and other oth-er interstate commerce laws, had been very effective. Probably the most interesting question ques-tion discussed bv Governor Hadley was the social problem. The Importance Import-ance of this great problem was at once brought home to his hearers by his statement that one-tenth of the people In this great nation do not get enough to eat and that one-twentieth of the population own one-fourth ot the wealth. He said the fact that the Socialist party was the only one that had Increased Its vote at the last election. 40H American cities havlngi Soriaiist officers, seventy -five of whom were mayors, and that thero was one Socialist congressman, is giving the lawmakers cause for thought. The present laws of taxation made the burden heav on the poor and light on the rich In the Industrial life of the I'nitcd States more people are killed each year than there were killed in each year of the Civil war. It is time that the human machine Is placed on an equality with the inanimate ma- , etiine and be given proper care and sood working conditions. The fact; thai phllanthrophy is no atonement for ill-gotten wealth has been madi erv clear in the past few years. So-, legalism, however. continued the speaker, is not the solution of the problem Judicial procedure must be corrected and the lawyers must get busy in th making of the aeoessarj reforms. I In speaking of the punishment of criminals, he said that only too often It was the offense that was punished , and not the offenders His experience experi-ence In noting the condition of the men released from the large peni- I 1 tentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri, I lhlch he cited as an example of a 'general condition throughout the country had made plain to him that a change in the system of prison regulation regu-lation was necessary, because a sys- tern of punishment that does not Im- ; proe a man Is no good. A man must be Improved physically before he can improve in any other way Tn Jef- 1 fersou City, the necessary reform bad 1 taken place The inmates ha,i hecn given better food, good shoes 'and flothes and were required to keep 1 themselves clean. Governor Hadle complimented the officials for the fine conditions existing ex-isting at the rtah state penitentiary which he had visited In company with! Governor William Spry. In closing, he said that eternal vigilance vig-ilance was the price of good government, govern-ment, that we need a sense of duty ; in the reverence of our present laws I parlor politicians are not nee. led but I that men and women of good, sound I sense ar necessary for unselfish, of- itf ficlent public service. W The speaker was introduced by lrov E Cowles, chairman of the ft lecture committee, and a pleating solo W was sung by Scott Taggurt. k9 |