The herald., 1894-03-18
SOME UNIVERSITY ORATORS,
The Contest of Young Speakers
for Prizes.
Christ in History by l.. H. Caswell
Takes the First Prize.
A Very Oroditabls lot of Addresses
Made by the stud ents at
Friday Nights
Meeting.

before large and Interested audience.
The contest resulted in the choice of
Line DIN Fl. Caswell to represent the U.
S. o. in the coming intercollegiate ora
torical contest, to be held at Pomona in
May, also a pecuniary addition to his
belongings. The contest was a good ex-
hibition of oratory in itself.
The decorations OF the room we're
simple. consisting of drapery OF red
bunting around the walls, emblematic
of the college colors.
Through the kindness OF Messrs.
Welch, Widney and Sexton it was made
possible to offer cash prizes to the frat
and second best orators.
The exercises began promptly at
O'Clock. Hartley Shaw, president OF
the u. S. @. Oratorical association, pre-
sided. The invocation was offered by
DR.. Matthew in opening. Miss Lulu
Johns followed with a selected instru
mental solo.
The first of the evenings orators was
LINCOLN H. cAswELL,
who spoke on Christ in History. The
past history of the world is continu-
ous repetition of origin and growth, de-
cay and death, OF cities and nations.
Kingdoms, like men, mnst meet newt
able death. There is one exception.
1t is the Kingdom of Christ, and the
riee and fall of nations are subservient
to the ongoing of Ohrist's religion.
Coos hand appears in the selection of
the Jews as the choaen people to keep
the true religion before the world. The
battle of Marathon is another appear
ance OF Gods hand. The Greeks kept
the Perslans from overrunning Europe
and filling it with false religion.
1t was the mission of the Roman en-
pire to close the temple of Janus and to
establish peace, preparatory to Christ's
advent. A word spoken at Rome went
to the uttermost part of the earth. The
arts and sciences may cover vice, but
they cannot cure it. God had shown
the world how weak Greek and Roman
arts and sciences we're to uplift man
kind; then the gospel was announced
to purify the earth.
The growth of the religion of Christ
was 80 great in the first century that
Pliny and other philosophers speak of
it. By the fourth century it bad perme-
ated society and thrown down the idols
and heather temples. This religion
went westward, hop' and the savages
OF Britain were softened in their nature.
1t gave invincible courage to the Anglo
Saxon, who was destined to spread the
world.
The next oration was delivered by
HARRY F. WARD.
His topic was the Triumph OF Peace.
The settlement of questions in the world
heretofore has taken place by resort
to war, and man has slain his fellow. We
have been called on to admire the deeds
of vslor and courage which have taken
place as the result of war. The speaker
showed the two sides OF war. The ideal
was pictured, with its nightly bivouac,
the clash of arms, the cry of victory.
The real war WAS another thing. 1t
brings sorrow and suffering. Strip war
OF it's gay trappings and see the bloody
deaths and the homes full of widows and
orphans. War has helped to bring lib.
erty; but its principle was not of love,
and it was not possible for it to elevate
mankind, but only to arouse brutal pas
sione. The war of the present ie q
Thousand fold worse than the war of
history; the destruction OF property
which has taken years in building. War
is morally wrong. The coming conflict
will be between intellccts; it will be the
contest of arbitration. Reason and ius-
tice shall reign. The conflict shall be
transferred from the battlefield to the
halls of justice.
"Tyrolese Song" III. Proch) was rem
dered by Miss Grace Whitehorn as q vo
cal solo.
"What OF Our Country ?" was the patri-
otic title of the Grafton given by Wesley
W. Burnett.
A little over a century ago the "old
ship of state" set her PROV toward the
sun-kissed sea of liberty. Many are the
troubles she has encountered, and has
overcome them all. We are all Justly
proud OF her record. Upon the result of
the late war it was decided that her
permanency was based upon the princi-
pie, "Union now and forever, one and
inseparable." We often think of our
country as running parallel with time
itself. But ID great nations as our own
have perished. Let US be vigilant lest
civilization leave US and 60 to the East,
the place of its infancy. One of the
evils and menaces of this nation is in
discriminate immigration, whereby the
slums of Europe are dumped upon our
shores, to disintegrate the nation. If
we are ever vigilsnt the nation will still
go on in an upward march, for the
foundation Of the United States is solid,
HOMER X. PITTMAN
spoke on The Problem of Nations. In
the physical world scientists tell us
the atoms are held together by a princi-
pie of gravity. So the nations should
follow the natural law. Take two typi-
cal lives to illustrate society's state to-
day. The wealthy son is born, with all
the benefits money can obtain; with his
death marble shaft is raised, contain
ing praises of the virtues he never pos
sessed. The other is born amidst vice,
raised amid troubles, knocked about
roughly through life, and dies, having a
board for his tombstone. Yet we say
all men are equal. We don't treat them
so. The rich are becoming richer and
the poor poorer. A great spirit of unrest
10 selzlng the laboring classes. They see
that few men are able to starve the
great populace. if they see fit.
The speaker advocated the paternal-
ism OF the government, giving each an
equal start in life, with an equal finan.
cial as we'll as political standing. He
said that great estates should revert to
the government, for distribution to the
people, The government should own
the railroads, ETC., and the pool OF poll
tics would be purified.