Mr. Jerome's Talk.

Mr. William Travers Jerome, District Attorney of New York, spoke in Sanders Theatre last evening on "Political Conditions in New York and the Duty of College Men in Politics." He said in part:

The conditions of the boss rule in New York are typical of those in all large cities. The only way to free the cities of this evil is for men to work to overthrow the rule as forcefully as the bosses work to establish it. The present conditions of corruption are due to politics and hypocrisy. If laws even though wrong stand on the statute books, then the officers are in duty bound to enforce them.

What work has been done in the past for improvement has come mostly from College men, but they must participate still more in the future. It is their duty to enter into active work with determination and with a fighting spirit, for it is only through such work that salvation will ultimately come.