The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05

appointed to enforce them deliberately
and openly disregard their oaths and
license criminals for monthly compensa-
ton, then society is in danger from its
custodians and the lawyer becomes the
guardian of public morals, the protector
of the innocent and the instructor of the
popular mind in tho precepts of political
morality"
In the first part of his speech Mr. In
gals apostrophized youth and held his
hearers enrapt by his superb flights of
fancy and the vivid pictures of his imag-
inatlon.
ut is magnificent to be young" said
he. There is a superb glory and fasci-
nation about youth. The morning of
life, the springtime of tho soul Youth
is the enviable epoch. We lose some
thing when we cease to be young for
which time brings no equivalent or COM
pensation. Of youth everything can be
predicted. The heroes, the artists, the
poets, the philosophers. the leaders of the
bar, the great captains of industry are
young The wealth, the pleasures, the
dignities, the destinies of the world are
the inevitable heritage of the young
Some of these heirs of fame and fortune
and felicity [ have no doubt are here.
but as they look back from the
apex and high divide of success
| and recall this hour they will feel that
there is no joy the world can give like
that it takes away when we cease to be
young.
ITO us who have taken our places and
! done our work comes the desolatlng
thought that we shall grow no more. We
have been weighed and most of US found
wanting. We have been scrutiniZed,
| guaged and measured. Our specific
gravity or levity, our cubic contents and
our dew point have been ascertained and
registered, we have become monotonous.
The earth grows fatigued with US, but it
greets the young with ardent and impa-
tient reclamation.
"The young are to do the work and
win the victories in the future and there
are many to be won. They are to rein
force the wasting ranks and fill up the
skeleton regiments of conquering armies
| of the civilization of the twentieth CEN
fury.
"Life's undesirable Civilizations may
subside; its hopes and fate may chill and
grow dim with years; its unchanged
| courage may falter at last; its daring
dreams of conquest may shoulder to en-
| bers and gray ashes; but the unfOrgotten
radiance of youth sheds an imperishable
| luster upon existence like that which
| streams down upon the wrinkled and
venerable earth from the golden and
purple assures of the eastern sky.
at would therefore be fiction and
insinceritY to pretend to be unconscious
of the honor of the opportunity of ap-
pearing before these chosen representa-
lives Of the youth of Kansas or to be
unmoved by the pathetic but inspir-
ing suggestions of the place and the
hour. l cannot forget that my brother,
who has preceded me to the unknown
kingdom, who has sailed beyond the
sunset and touched the happy isles was
an early member of the board of regents
of the university, nor that 1 pronounced
the address at the first annual COM
mencement
Contrasting in memory the feeble
and narrow infancy of the institution
with the great constituency, the noble
equipment and the splendid prophecy
of the present, I cannot forbear the ex-
preston OF gratitude to the founders
whose sacrifices, self denial and foresight
have conferred such inestimable benefits
and advantages upon their state and the
world.
They builded wiser than they knew
when they laid the corner stone of thi:
great school which through much adver
sity and tribulation has moved strenu
ously and resolutely onward agains
Ldisheartening obstacles until it stands