Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-09-14
We want far-sighted wisdom and

We want far-sighted wisdom and
not shOrt-sighted folly. We want
leaders and not obsequiOus trimmers.
We want the clear head, controlled
by the moral purpose of an unselfish,
worthy and noble ambition.
We want statesmen and not dema-
gOgueS. We want the dauntleSS and
intrepid courage Of moral conviction
and not the shrinking and nerveless
cOwardice of a conScienceleSS and
false expediency.
We want liberty and not license.
We want the reign of law and not Of
passion. We want rule, but not the
despotic tyranny of dictatOrial ruin.
We want the protecting aegis and
mighty potency of great, peaceful
and benign self government and not
the furious and frenZied writings Of
an envenOmed, blighting and blood
thirsting anarchism.
In a word, we want government
that shall be distinctively character
lied by the full and practical rec0gni-
tion in all their sublime amplitude
and supernal moral splendor Of the
fatherhOod of God and the brother
hood of man.
And all over, throughout the length
and breadth of this conSecrated and
lood-bought land of our pilgrim sires.
we want written in characters of per-
manent and living light, that immor-
tai truth:
"We live in deeds, not years,
In thoughts, not breaths,
He lives the most
Who thinks the most,
Who feels the noblest
And acts the best"
On yonder hillside, there now peace
fully sleeps in his dreamless rest one
whose regal life was an ideal emdodi-
ment of the truth of those golden
words.
Realizing that the integrity and
perpetuity OF our free institutions de-
pended alone upon the virtue and in
telligence of the people, in prayer and
sublime faith and almost single
handed and alone, he here planted
the foundations of that noble insti-
tuition Of learning which Is now his
proudest and most enduring monu-
ment.
Through successive and weary
years of the deepening and darkening
gloom of the almost hopeless financial
prostration of YanktOn College, with
complete, unseltish, and sanctified
devotion on her sacrificial altar, DR..
Joseph Ward offered up his own very
life blood till, at last, the children of
her, the cradle Of whose infancy he
had rocked, with mute and stricken
hearts, followed his hearse.
His interest in all that ennObled his
fellow men was as wide as humanity.
Conspicuously identified with the
earliest steps taken to wisely frame
the organic law of our state, wearing
the white flower of an almost blame
less life, his pure and unsullied fame
will be forever inseparably linked
with that of this young and imperial
commonwealth which he so much
loved and so highly honored.
One of the most precious jewels of
our city and state which in his earth
ly life constantly felt the moral up
| lifting of his royal nature, the name
of DIR. Joseph Ward will shine on with
serene and undimmed splendor for
ages after the memory Of the most
brilliant but unscrupulous politicians
| of his day and generation shall have
| perished in a nameless and hopeless
oblivion.
To men with such credentials OF
true nobility of character, may be
safely and wisely entrusted the con-
structive work of the upbuilding Of
all that is best in our state and nation
and then will there be ultimately as
sured the approximate realization OF
that lofty destiny, of that ideal indi-
vidual and national life so beautifully
foreshadowed in the prophetic vision
Of the inspired singer in the words:
"Ring ont the feud Of rich and poor,
Ring in redress tc ali mankind.
| "Ring in the nobler modes Of life,
With sweeter manners purer laws
"Rng out the want, the care, the SIN,
The faithless coldness of the times.
"Ring ont false pride in place and blood,
| The civic al ,nder and the spite.
| Ring in the love of truth and right,
| Ring in the common love of good.
"Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
| Ring out the narrowing lust OF gold,
| Ring out the thousand wars OF old,
| Ring in the thousand years OF peace.
| "Rng in the valiant man and free,
| The larger heart, the kindlier hand,
| Ring out the darkness of the land,
| Ring in the Christ that is to be-"
| South Dakota State Fair.
For the above occasion the North
Western Line will sell excursion tick
cts to Aberdeen and return at hall