The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
INTELLECTUAL FRUITAGE.
Lecture by Judge j. S. Emery at the
Normal.


Lecture by Judge j. S. Emery at the
Tuesday evening Rev. r. Cordley intro
duced to the audience assembled at the
Normal gentleman whom it would not
be difficult to believe TO be his brother
so great is the general resemblance be-
tween the two persons. Judge Emery
of Lawrence, the party presented, step
ped forward and in a clear, agreeable
voice which was distinctly heard in all
parts of the room, delivered an address
On intellectual Fruitage," of which the
following is an imperfect abstract:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: This
presence and these surroundings seem
to prescribe my theme tonight and the
time determines its treatment. Your
invitation, Mr.. President, to address"our
students was a call so congenial to my
own taste that l made haste to obey.
Here is rapidly growing up one of the
best schools in the state, and am most
undergraduates. l take it for
granted you are all fitting yourselves to
be teachers, and to be teacher is to be
u student and q scholar in its broadcast
sense. The scholar is the favOrite of
heaven and if he only knows 1t, he is
the happiest of men.
Emerson aptly says: "The scholars
successes are the occasions of the purest
Joy of men-eyes is he to the blind,
feet to the lame, and ears TO the deaf"
The student who reads books merely to
know books is a tree planted only to
bear blossoms; but if he read books that
he may apply their wisdom TO life, he is
tree which is planted TO bear fruit.
Kansas has thrown the doors open to
all that they may become scholars it
they desire. Here the foot of the white
boy and the foot of the black boy are
| placed on the same step leading to the
| throne of power and influence. Our
girls and boys stand on the same plat
| form and each receives the same train
| ing as does the other.
| Joseph Cooke says: I'VE in the east
are watching with anxious eyes the pro-
gress of your co-educaiion of the sexes"
| They think it an experiment; we know
it to be success.
In earlier times the monks were the
only educated class and the only class
| which it was supposed needed educa
ton; but to-day everybody must be
educated. Everything at present Is
teeming with education. The newspa
| pers, the lyceums, the lecture courses
the Legislative assemblies and the courts
of law, all lend their aid TO our school
system
The press is great factor in scatter
ing and producing intellectual fruitage
To it the sta'c of Kansas owes its de
liverance from the curse of slavery
through it the heart of the state wa,
made pure and strong, Its frHitage j:
. | oosd g. hau
more fear of three newspapers than on
hundred Thousand bayoneIs." Kansas
has tonight three hundred and seventy
newspapers and periodicals. According
to Napoleon's reckoning they are NOR
to be feared than the army of Xerxes.
Our politics also yields its harvest o
intellectual fruitage and the question o
the future is to SO guard our polite
that we may reap the more plentifully
1t is said that TO the fact that we hay
so much land to the Individual do W
owe our present admirable government
The great Mississippi valley will on
time be filed with the homes of toilin
, millions, large cities will be establishe'
and built up, and where now roams tn
Indian and the buffalo, will be heard tn
busy hum of factory machinery. Fat
E tories are seminaries of vice, and who
: these large hot-beds of vice are forme
/. it will be harder TO control public opin
ion for good. Europe is pouring ont he
I thousands who come to our shores. The
/ cross the Mississippi and dash againi
p the Rocky Mountains like the angI
flood tide, only TO retrace their steps an
u spread over the valley of the "great fail
er of waters" On our action depend
o the future of the United States, wheth'
4 il shall be full Of contentment, joy, plea
ure and rewards, or full Of contention
; sorrow and beggary.
e To guide our future destiny our DO,
( need not become governors or senator
a They may mould public opinion in
better way.
!, Kansas is in the center of this gre
b union, and in the future when the gre
4, Mississippi valley viii be thickly pc
4 pied all will come up to Kansas as tn
used to go up to Jerusalem.
The audience was composed large
of students and the hall was just col
4 fortably filled. We are sorry that '
: are not able to present the lecture Is
: was delivered, as il was very logic
instructive discourse.
i The speaker made = very pungel
is wiselittle address to the students Il
Is morning for which he was roundly 1
at pIauded.
j. Gov. St John is announced as Q
III | next lecturer. Pc. DAGoatz.
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