Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-02-25

manhood ana womanhood then filing
every avenue of life, what fruitful
harvest of minds and character is given
to the press out of which to create,
mould, and direct the public opinion of
the land"
Touching the power Of The press, he
went on: "The editor should be i'm
bued with the noblest, purest, and
most patriotic motives. for it is within
the power of united press to break
down, or build up, any or all of the in
stitutions upon which our government
rests. 1t can harmonise labor and cap
ital. It can build up or destroy the
pu bile school. 1t can make strong and
enduring the constitution and the laws
which spring therefrom. or it can make
a shield to wrong-doing, corruption, op-
preston and even death. 1t can in
crease or decrease intemDerance and its
kindred vices; it can protect the sane
tity of the home or destroy it. 1t can
hold up or crush equal political rights,
freedom and religious liberty. The
press can imperil every right and
strengthen every wrong. 1t can snatch
the sleeps clothing from the wolf and
tear the dove-like mask from the re-
morseless vulture, expose the cloven
hoof of villany to the public gaze and
hold up to scorn the whited sepulchres
of social and political life. There are
those who pretend to sneer at its in
fuence. They are those who know that
fearless and honest journal OF clean
| handed editor is standing menace to
evil doers. The press has no reproach
| for the scofer. It simply asks: What
shameful record does he seek to shield
from the fierce white light that beats
upon pilloried malefactor?'
The speaker then described the true
editor. Heroism was required of him
as it was required of the true teacher
He concluded as follows:
eff you would know who they are in
this age, seek them where you will, and
YOU will find the same objections urged
against them, that have been urged
against the friends of humanity il
every age.
"You will discover they are unpopu.
lar, in their age and generation, often
despised and prosecuted, in the COM
munity in which they live-their
motives misunders TODD, their labors
misrepresented and misinterpreted.
You will find them the advance guard
in every battle which tells for the right.
You will see American womanhood
fighting for God and home aud native
land and all it means with a courage
which seems almost divine. And you
will see American manhood sacrificing
all that is held most dear for conscience
sake. But these heroines and heroes
are often scorned and prosecuted while
they live; but alas, too late, honored
with r,,nnnn nts when they die. While
they live and struggle for the right,
they gather into their bosoms, the
poisonous arrows, which malice and
envy had shot at them, and say to pos
terity:
Behold the title deeds to your gratitude
And thus we find
.Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne;
But that scatfOld sWays the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God, within the shadow,
Keeping watch above his own"
Other incidents of an interesting pro-
gram followed, and the institute was
closed by the following scholarly ad-
dress by Chief Justice Baker:
Judge Bakers Speech.
Education is in need of no defender
it is no new thing. Its birth precedes
civilization. Confucius inculcated it.
All Cinnamon read and write. Plutarch
asserted that the fair fabric of justice
raised by Numa, fell, because it was not
founded upon education. Pythagoras
declared 1t Indispensable to success
and Plato and Aristotle taught the same
doctrine. Charlemagne commanded
education among the savage Germans
in their native woods. The early Israel
ties and early Christians alike adopted
it. The Arabian caliphs planted a
school in every village. The Pope
taught it in the monasteries of the mid
die ages; and the Jesuit fathers bore its
standard to the shores of the Pacific and
as far north as where the great Oregon
pours its yellow flood into the sea. The
ruins of the old missions at San Diego,
Santa Barbara, San Juan Capistrano,
or IN our own Territory, San Xavier, are
but the ruins of ancient school houses.
It was the first beacon light of the
world. Assyrian kings, Egyptian Phar-
aohs and dynasty after dynasty have
all passed away! The wake of human
ity is strewn with the wreck of human
governments and institutions; while
education, the school teacher and school
houses have prospered and multiplied,
and today possess the earth! | saw the
great public buildings last year in
Washington, the capitol city OF this
great nation. saw the capitol itself, a
magnificent ediice, its towering dome
glittering in the suns rays, and over
looking all the historic country along
the majestic Potomac; the treasury
building, the army and navy building.
the patent and postofice building they
cost millions and millions of dollars OF