Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-01
y AND MORALS.
} OF COLONEL HENRY WAT.
oN AT THE UNIVERSITY.
|ociai telegram to sno DIspasob.l

. hstcn 70 the speech Of Colonel Henry
before the two literary socicties. Mr..
~, chairman of the conference COM
these socictics. in q few words intro
Wa,teson. His theme was .Mopey
~" and for On hour he ne,d the atfen-
e assembly. showing that money as a
sht TO be anything elsc than source
TnK AppREss.
Wasterson said; am afraid you win
NC hcterodcx when tell you that am
10 talk 10 you of Virginia, the mother
nor ye. of konfucky. vireinias first
YET oi the fnir aud sunny South, and
love - we'll. ! wish 10 talk 10 You
2 wroie country: 20 consider ia gram
its dangers. It's lights and It's shades,
'nus 70 snow 10 you young sailors who
fntefing upon the voyage OF life some of
p 10 be avoided and some Of tho break.
pc passed. All OF you l hopo are
rss epd ns ono who has reached tho
mtiocsan. ] think I may say some
,ch<uE the voyage You are beginning.
kme sne map OF North Of America "a an
pc spcaker painted IN eloquent words the
outlines OF this grand upnntry which
. the homo OF the north STARS aud whose
saoros arc heated by tho rays of a
pun. Casai's eye neyor rested on euch
y and Nhpoicon's dreams failed 70 catch
re 80 grand. Then turning 10 the people
frd the national greatness OF this char,r-
IA there 10 anything, ne asked. 20 mar
Hiy Of this picture, 20 obsirucf the march
empirc. les, ] Thick there is; Canada
kico--Canada, the retreat for those who
kney but poor morals, and Mexico the
bome Of some who are destitute of both
nd morals. But ho looks forward TO tho
ansda and Mexico will both wish TO be-
Ht OF our own great country.
ALL ABOUT MONEY.
a material age. All want money. Ali
beir castles In Spain. All long for their
come IN from India and dream OF how
>ney would be expended. But money Is
ktive. "A man With a hundred-thousand-
Income and with a hundrod-and-ifty-
ec-dcllar lot Of wants Is very poor mnn.
b II fnll Of delusions as well as illusions
kry u as ycn may. Money is the first ma
ping we seok. IL is the piston-r0d which
the engine Of this great system OF ma
fU business Bacon may call IL the bag
virtue. but IL IL very necessary baggage.
truo that the men whose business 10
eeen TO ifnbibc some OF the metallic
y OF the money they handle.
Dc up some OF tho maxims of tho day
Fed that they were misleading; how
Vgatned after proves but the ashes Of the
fruit. We succeed, but the satisfac-
ch We sought comes not with 10. Web
~ Clay In their old age regretted that
tf their success but created new wants
4ere not satisfied. The material thing ON
ve TX our eyes as the desiderstum after
Dry thing from which We would shrink
pat know 1t as it is.
pg again TO the "Canada tourists" rs
had a sympathy for those men who were
leave for Its retreat. n sympathy which
not repress and would not II he could.
pest Of their class he found IN the pious
nembers who used his sanctuary as n
his fraud. who add hypocrisy to his
A NATIONS DANGERS.
out q nations sins and you know that
dangers" Don't look Is Europe, bnt TO
country, and see II there be any there
berit our attention.
Dt the race question Of the South. That
Mon about which | have no theory. IL is
Rbor question, nor the question OF free
elections. These are problems which
Dst themselves. Then, with gInie, he
not tho tariff question. That, too, has
b OF its Importance. At election times II
d out on the stump at tho bustings, but
of IL " steadily diminishing. l am
no single issue dividing the people.
so LITTLE DANGER.
was never time when there was so
hger Of the Questions which are inac.od
The issues which divide them are trifes
air compared 10 those which the past
n century mas tbtu DtDuFut loTNdfu.
refcrred 10 the tests which our Govern
n stood In tho shocks et the civil war;
Constitution had survived this, and the
Reconstruction, and OF nov electoral
The. change OF the Government from
4 Of one patty who had held IL for
bf a century 10 othor hands.
LOST ART.
ahie poverty has become ono Of the lost
then polluted 20 the Swiss Republic as
I.ff tf....s,
resident receives but mere pittance,
hey Was rneans, not ab object. He paid
BIZ tribute 10 that little mounfain-bred
IS the happiest, proudest and brnvest
J, the world, aud hest suited 10 Illustrate
lt side OF Goidsmith's coupict:
fares the land 10 hastening Ills prey
wealth accumulates and men decay
TnE NATIONAL CHARACTER.
own country the money standard must
aced 80 high, the moral standard so low.
py effect must come from the improve
{be national character. our country Is
ng worse; II II getting better. We are
Prs OF tue greatest country on the globe.
the most perfect system of government
forld, 10 which oil nations ere being
VIC have nothing from without 10 fear
zlfaig), ana within wo have but two great
TIE DANGERS.
6e the lust for money, the other the
harry spi.jt.
inen. seek not money as an end. II does
happine-s. the greatest speech that
bare ever wrote is that which he put INTO
Snd shoals Of worldly honor, and found
.1ofiteth nothing. Hear Woisoy as he
Crom well, "Cromwel, charge thee cast
bbiiion, for by that fault fell the angels"
lni character IL the chief thing in life.
u az long as you I'VE, young men. All
condary. Nay yonr iives, your characteis
purifier IN tho hshs o' NO" ana per-
MAGAZINE MEDAL
conclusion of this address Mr. William
eornton, chairman OF mo faculty.
iorwaiI anu uonnyheu t,,,, Sur, ,u RneSd.
%n. " ua . .,,,pe ~ the bis,b character
s,e.,a, ,s.'trh ,Sc,e- suhmitied. and while
40 ey,i.ics on, !. Bacon and Essex we're
.',,,i..s =. ,,a nSi1a ~ se,,s moi without
nblo ,sfort that he had won. Two other
named and tse Black bacillus" ana
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n tho students sccie,y 70 give, anu u -
N. Collins Denny opened ne exervises
Ayer and Mr.. Vockriii theh inaeo h'' "u-
welcome.
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