Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-09

every profession and trade in the city.
Only few times did the President vio-
late the rule against Misunderstanding. The
| first occasion was when a white haired
| veteran wearing the uniform of the Grand
Army uncovered his head and extended
his hand. Some personal friends came
later and were also favored with hand.
shake.
The reception lasted an hour, after
which the President and his party, with
limited Number of guests, were escorted
to the breahfast-room. Here a large and
| beautiful table was ready. The table was
, q -Hass of flowers clustered around q
massive centa.= nlant, said to be over
one hundred years old. Palm -rees aad
potted plants were about the room In
great profusion. Tho scene was one OF
great beauty as the party entered. Elec.
trio lights, which had been concealed in
the leaves Of the palms and plants. LOW
burst forth in blaze Of light, and the ia
BILE was radiant with color and
light. The feast which followed was
elaborate for a breakfast, and was thor
oughly enjoyed by all present.
When the breakfast was nearly over the
Presidents health was drank by all,
standing. Shortly after half-past three
O'Clock the President and party started
for the City Hall, escorted by the vet
Grams of the Seventh and Twenty-second
regiments.
On the steps OF the City Hall two hun
dred girls from the grammar schools and
thirteen from the Normal school well
coined the President. The two hundred
grammar school pupils met him at the
foot of the steps and strewed flowers in
his path. The thirteen from the Normal
school awaited him at the entrance to the
City Hall, and there one of them, Miss
Anna A. Abrahams, a beautiful girl of
sixteen, stepped from her place in the
line of girls and addressed the President
as follows:
Mr.. PREsrDENr-Through US, their repre-
sentatives, one hundred and eighty thousand
scholars OF the common schools of the City of
New York, sixteen hundred and fifty students
OF the Normal College and one thousand STU
dents OF the College of the City OF New York
extend to you their cordial welcome. 1t is, we
think, appropriate that the great common
school system, which Is to q large extent the
outgrowth of Washington's repeated recon-
mendat:ons to the newly-born Republic, should
be represented in the public celebration Of his
Inauguration first President of the United
States. Washington was too far-secing, as q
statesman, not to perceive that true liberty
He keenly Felt that upon the intelligence OF the
people depended the fate Of the young Nation,
and repeatedly urged, not only education in the
elementary branches, but the establishm ent of
higher institutions of learning-even going so
far as to recommend the endowment of Ma
tional university. His attitude toward the
higher education Is clearly expressed in his let
ter to the president ami faculty of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, in which he SAID: Il am
fully apprzed of the influence which sound
learning has on religion and manners, on gov
eminent liberty and laws. con-
ceive hopes, however. that we are at the eve of
Il very enlightened area. The same unremit-
ting exertions which under all the blasting
storms of war caused the arts and sciences TO
flourish in America, will. doubtless. bring them
nearer to mat urity when they shall have been
sufficiently inyigorated by the milder ways of
peace"
This great Nation has followed WashinSton's
advice; it has established common schools; it
has founded colleges and universities; and to
these above all it owes its progress in arts and
sciences and its success in peace and war.
Long ago Aristotle taught that no state is
secure whose children are not reared in perfect
with her institutions. This is just
what the vast popular American education has
Approaching the equity and
Justice of our Constitution, how can we fail to
honor and obey its wise provisionse Thus
thoroughly imbued with love of country. the
american teacher, as well an the American
mother following in the footsteps of Mary and
Martha Washington. creates and fosters in the
hearts of all committed to her care that same
noble patriotism that swells her own heart.
Lowell says that the PuritanS were the first
avg vers who clearly, and enforced
practically the simple, moral and political
ruth that knowledge was not aims to be de-
pendent on the chance charity Of private men
on the precarious pittance of a trust fund
'ut n sacred debt which the commonwealth
wed to every one of her children.
Admirably, then, has this commonwealth full
HE'D her duty, for to-day the highest education
S within the reach of the humblest OF our little
mes, for which the men of former age had to
truggle n their lives. This day one hundred
ears ago beheld the rising of the sun of one re-
ublic, the very beginning of n Nation, which,
hough poor, weak and divided entered with
aith. hope and courage upon the fulfillment of
Is high deStiny-the demonstration OF mans