Show NEW PRESIDENT C condemns trusts supports imperialism and criticises criticizes the army new now haven conn june 24 president elect arthur twining hadley delivered his first speech since he lie b became the head of yale before the graduating class of the hill house high school in this city and made a profound impression prof hadley attacked trusts praised the navy and criticised criticized the army he lie said in part the currency interstate commerce foreign relations the aftermath of the late war and the era of colonial expansion which Is a strong possibility are only a few of the grave questions which our national executive must solve and must solve speedily what Is the new education which we must have in order to meet these greater and wider needs it we are to handle millions we need more arithmetic than when we handle hundreds we need more language if we are to deal with foreign nations wa shall need tal to read more it if we are to understand the conditions the a attitude and the manner of thinking of alien races this is essential to a fair and correct judgment of foreign affairs their habits of thought must be known to us it we are to handle and deal with those races but on the other hand too much study of the machinery i of government m Is positively datri detrimental mental to correct training for unless we have an exceptional teacher the pupil Is I 1 likely to be overwhelmed with too much machinery and get but little of 0 the spirit that drive excellent as the constitution sti ution of the united states Is and proves itsel fit Is not because of it per se and andoor our free press that this country la Is self governed and ion on the whole well governed we are governed by public sentiment we read of abuses by trusts that phrase has far greater significance than many who use it realize when a business gets so large that it is necessary to monopolize it the man who turns it about so as to further his own ends selfishly abuses his trust and is just as much of a wrong doer to the public as the man who deliberately robs the widow and where men prefer party to country and the interest of their district to that of the country where men look upon imperialism as a means to enhance their own interests as against the benefit of the races involved it Is a grave wrong england has a policy which we may well imitate her public men find their forte lathe in the advancement of the whole not as they did one hundred years ago when they went to india to grasp and gather up tip a fortune they now go to do good to india and to help build up the great indian empire it you want an object lesson from jast last years events of what I 1 mean by this esprit de do corps in public service consider the work of our navy as eom compared pared with the different record of the army in the navy each officer Is as eager for distinction distinct lon and promotion as in the army but each considers himself a part of a whole whole glory Is greater than any which he be as an individual can gain in the army thel scramble for commissions wrought much havoc and the record of that branch Is not equal to that of our fighting navy we are very far from the ideal of practical politics but it ls toward this that we must make our way the alternative Is destruction the nations whose rulers have made sport of them for their own arrogant gain have gone to pieces by what means then shall we purity t our politics civil service reform rn may ay be disputed as to its practical workings but the idea which it contains of public office as a public trust must prevail and it must prevail within a generation now that wo we have embarked on an imperial career al |