The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-22
College Men Have Strong Love
of Country.
DEPEW AT NASHVILLE, TENN,
Delivered a Mastery Speech at the Com
mencement Exercises of Van.
derbilt University.

Nashville, June 18.-The event of the
Vanderbilt university commencement
was the address of Chancey M. Depew
at the tabernacle tonight. delivered be-
fore an immense audience. On the plat
form was assembled the united faculty
and prominent citizens and the audi
ence was magnificent one. Upon be-
ing introduced Mr.. Depew was received
with overwhelming applause, and dur
.ing his address was freely and sponta-
neously greeted with cheers. He said
in part:
Ladies' and Gentlemen.-Then nearest
approach to the complete realization of
ideal pleasure comes with commence
ment day for the college man. To the
alumni coming back from the cares
and duties of their distant homes, it re-
calls the best days of their lives. For'th
graduate it is the supreme moment Of
this existence. We, the veterans from
American colleges, cordially and en-
Enthusiastically welcome these young
knights to the order of the higher edu-
cation. Patriotism in a republic has it's
best support and strongest hope in the
colleges. Where else liberty has been
crushed by the power of tyranny, super
stition and bigotry, they have never
halls of learning. The finest example
of the patriotic part of higher education
is the German empire of today, which
is the Outgrowth of the founding of
its university of Berlin. Harvard and
Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Williams
and Mary, institutions of learning,
were the architects of the Declaration
of Independence.
mo one can measure what might have
been the effect in 1860 of a university
so years old at Washington, like that
of Berlin with its thousands of students
and national inspiration. The people
had to become acquainted with each
other. The union and confederate vet
Grams shot sectionalism to pieces with
their cannon and their rifles. When
they were convinced of each others
equal worth and valor they could clasp
hands over the graves of their COM
rades in the utterance of a common
oath of loyalty to the flag which was
the common protector and common
glory of them all.
1.-The student must remember that
every period has it's problems to be
solved. Anarchy, socialism, taxation,
currency and relations of labor and
capital are questions as difficult, and
requiring d pdlIlOl COuulllOn Oh KNOW
ledge of men, as have agitated the ma
ton since the formation of the govern
ment. A man can serve his country
more effectively in preaching and pro-
noting the building Of good roads, than
in spending his time in spouting cur
rency fallacies. If the educational men
of the country would perform their du-
ties in the primary school of the caucus,
we would never experience that des-
potism of a machine which plumbers
impartially partisans and antagonists
1.-THE great opportunities of our coun-
| try are in the south The flood of i'm
migration for so years has sought the
west, northwest and Pacific coast. In
the south we find, as nowhere else, the
original stock which fought at Cow
pens, Kings Mountain and Yorktown.
The intelligent patriot is here. The
southern people in the last quarter of
a century has overcome difficulties
which seemed insurmountable. Young
men of the south have no call to tempt
fortune. At their own doors and within
their own states are their missions and
their careers. Be not deceived by the
glitter of wealth as the sole measure
of success in life. The moment that in
your chosen vocation you are sure of
an income beyond the requirements of
| a modest living, you are a success. All
the rest is accumI1la tiOn -