Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-03-28

demagogucs come in and tell the work
men that all their gains are wrung from
their labor and that the brain-work of
management should be satisfied with the
day labOrer's compensation, as one man
is as good us another. This plausible
fallacy is swallowed up by the workmen,
who set up demands for their rights.
They do not stop to think, however, that
if the statement were true all employers
would have the same chance to wiring the
profits from the oppressed workmen, and
failures in business would be practically
unknown. They ignore the fact that
ninety times ont of hundred the work
man gets more than the employer, be-
cause the latter gets nothing in gains,
and on the contrary makes failure,
losing all the capital invested"
MISS JESSIE I. YOUNG,
the only lady in the class, assumed, as
she said, the duty OF class historian.
Coupled with the history OF each was also
a "prospectus," outlining the future work
in the lives aspired to by each. May the
future be rs happy as the forecast. 1t
was, in part, as follows
"The Declaration Of American Inde-
pendence gives expression to the follow
/ ing beat iiul and truthful sentiment :
when IT. ne course of human events it
becomes 'ccssary for one people to dis
solve the iiical bands which have con-
| nected tn. = with another, and to assume
among de powers of the earth the separ-
ate and G al station to which the laws
of nature md natures God entities them,
a decent pcct to the opinions Of man.
kind requ es that they should (give) de-
| clare the causes which impel them to this
separation This was the initial sentence
of the salutation of Young America at her
transition rom school-life under English
rule to Il Ieerage among the full-fledged
nations OF the world. The Glass of 1896
OF the Aberdeen Public Schools is this day
to sever its relations with the public
school system OF our favored state, and
its members are to assume among the
people OF the world the several stations
to which their natures and the laws Of
nature entitle them, and to begin the
battle for these positions in the business
arena Of the world to which they severally
aspire and for which they hope they are
fitted by nature. The propriety OF giving
~ Il. I
quoted from the Declaration OF American
Independence has never been questioned,
and in making our transition from school
life to the arena of business affairs, | be-
lieve 1t to be with equal propriety that
we should briefly cnumerate the salient
points in our respective schoollves and
to proclaim to the world our intentions
and aspirations. When all of
these things shall have taken place, be-
lieve we can safely say, when nations
shall have rolled away, when the High
School shall have ceased to exist, even
when we are dead and gone, we will not
be forgotten; our posterity will know our
names and remember this our class Of
eighteen hundred and ninety-five, which
graduates tonight in Aberdeen.
PERCY W. MCKINLAY,
the class poet, showed that he understood
the art of rhyme. His poem was in the
nature OF a soliloquy OF the past, and
closed with the following verses to his
classmates:
Each persons but world in miniature,
He first lives III unconscious infancy
Dark as the early days of earth that bore
The first few branches of the human tree.
And now historic days begin, and here
He stands as stands the world in History's age
His sorrows, joys, his triumphs, and the fear
OF wars that with his soul his passions wage.
And future, but place called mystery,
a place where from no echoes ever come,
A place set in an unfathomed sea,
From which abiding spirits never roam.
My class of five and ninety, to thee,
With love and friedship, dedicate this rhyme.
And now farewell. Our chain of three times
Is broken by the feeting foot OF time.
Each writ nc little worlds brief history
That wher y life is DER and thou art gone,
Thy life to Il lamp may ever be,
Always It. although the source has flown.
l.. OTTO yESER
had been locted as valedictorian, and to
say the u; words to teachers and class
mates. 'ast words are always tinged
with sad -, yet these were also filled
with hop,
"The revolving cycle of the passing
years ma 5 it this evening my pleasing
duty to address you in the name OF the
graduatir. class OF '95. In the life history
OF every student the day Of his or her
graduation is an important period, nay, a
sublime moment. We are now about to
enter upon the path which we must travel
alone unguided until from our own efforts
and experiences, gained perhaps ty hard
labor, good and evil fortunes, weakness
and selfrestlaint, we shall reach tine goal
whittier our moral and intellectual nature,
affected by circumstances, but chiefly de-
termined bv greater or less strength Of
purpose, shall ever from the first have
tended You should be congratu-
lated this evening in having secured an
education, and it now remains with you
to put it to good use, and also to be
ready and willing to profit by the oppor-
tnnities which will come within your
reach. The placing before one Of high
aim and never losing Sipht of if az he