Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-24

MIR. Justice Brewer OF the law faculty was
called upon to respond to the next toast, which
the president announced was Unknown laws
of corporations" Justice Brewer spoke wit
tilv and eloquently and his remarks were loudly
applauded He not. he said. so fortunate
as to be an alumnus He belonged to another
church. Something had been said. he remarked,
about the brighter future of she university.
He thought a good subject for toast was
the as vet unreached possibilities of educational
corporations. He made eloquent reference to
the powers that had been developed that were
daily exercised by the educated BRAIN
He referred to the material wealth
and advancement of the world. 1t
was in the educational institutions OF the
land that the responsibility for the future
largely rested. Measuring the future by what
the past has accomplished may tlev not See
brighter things for this and for all unlversitiesf
He drew an eloquent picture of the future with
all the grand development it promised, and said
that in that picture one of the majes forms
on the canvas will be the Columbian University
under the guidance Of its distinguished presi-
dent, Dr. yelling.
REPRESENTATIVE WILSON.
THE Proposed School of Politics and Public
Economy was the text which the president set
for Representative W. L. Wilson, honored
member of the Alumni Association. MIR. Noyes
remarked as he announced the toast that 1t
referred solely to the school which ought to be
established in connection with tine university,
and that there was no intention to suggest II
connection between the exigencies Of politics
and the alleged public economy which GRIP
pied the District appropriation bill Mr.
Wilson spoke earnestly and eloquentvt
He said that his interest in Columbian Uni
versity might be judged from the fact that
he had turned his back upon the silver de-
bate i'll the House to be present at this gather
ing. The president of the association. he said.
had enumerated all the endowments bestowed
Nv vet
toast he had seemed to grumble at an Cpportu-
nifty Congress now offered OF studying economy.
The only trouble with the university was
that she lacked little pin money to take ad-
vantage of the rich opportunities offered her.
He regretted that ne could not respond to the
invitation to give . million or so to the uni
versity.
The hardest thing &c run in this world, the
speaker said a free government Ii 1t
were not true there would be grea. many free
governments
1t had been more then once said that WASH
ington and jefferson perfectly understood the
| fact that only by familiar understanding by
the people OF the principles OF government.
could the experiment they had urdertaken be
| successfully carried out. He spoke OF the
value of education to the citizen. In
| q republic it needful to educate
| the people everywhere up to the per-
| Torrance of the duties thrust upon them.
| The test of free government. he said, came when
1 a question: dCSuioSy "a Juo6Ah'hs'
| political and scientific knowledge to answer
| was submitted to the votes of the people for
! settlement. He need not point, he said, further
| than debate now going on in the House OF Rep-
resentatives to show how dangerous it may he
| To submit to the popular suffrage some ques-
tions bound to arise in government. II was
upon these great questions OF taxation and
| finance that the people OF this country were to
| decide, and upon their decision depended
their prosperity or otherwise. There had been
a rapid and great adaptation OF the universities
to the needs OF the people. There were
springing up schools for the study oil
politics and political economy, for teaching
| patriotism in it's highest and broadest sense.
/ Where could such a school be established with
| more prospect of fruitful results than here IN
| the capitaR
There were two theories Of government-the
paper theory in the books and the actual work
| ing of the government, when they could stand
| in the presence Of the great machinery OF the
government itself. In his experience he could
| say the very disillusion that students would
have when they came to view the machinery oil
government would be Of great value.
One of the most useful things that they would
learn is that the government is nothing but
the average intelligence Of the nation.
The prosperity of the country itself Is to bS
| achieved by the individual efforts of the people
They themselves must work out their owl
| prosperity and leave it to the government Il
| pre- serve their freedom.
Rev. DIR. J. II. Cuthbert read poem writer
for the occasion. entitled 1.-The Garden of tn,
IIesperdes," which was most heartily ap
plauded.