The evening times., 1896-10-22
NATIONAL HONESTY A TEST
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| which our institutions of higher education
| and their graduates are fitted to render "a
| our people, III the enforcement or those I'M
| mutable truths and fundamental principles
! which are related to our national condition,
| but should never be dragged into the field
| of political strife nor impressed into the
service of partisan contention.
| When tie excitement or party warfare
presses dangerously near our national safe
| guards, would have the intelligent con
| servatism of our universities and colleges
| warn the contestants in impressive tones
| against the perils of a breach impossible {
| repair.
| When popular discomfort and passion are
| stimulated by the arts of designing parti-
sans to pitch pcrilously near to class
hatred or sectional anger, l would have our
| universities and colleges sound the alarm
| in the name of American brotherhood and
| fratcrnal dependence.
NATURAL LAWS MEMORABLE.
When the attempt is made to deiude the
people into the belief that their suffrages
| can change the operation of natural laws,
1 would have our universities and colleges
proclaim that those laws are inexoraLle
| and far removed from political control.
| benefit through governmental aid, and
public places are claimed as rewards of
party service, would have our universities
| and colleges TO persuade the people To a
| rclinquishment of the demand for party
spoils and cXhort them to Il disinterested
and patriotic love OF their government
| for its own sake. and because in its true
| adjustment and unpervertcd operation it
secures to every citizen Ills just share OF
tile safety and prosperity it holds in store
for all.
When a design is apparent to lure the
ecopln from their hottest thoughts and To
blind their eyes to the sad plight Of ma
tional dishonor and bad faith, j would
have Princeton University, panoplied in
her patriotic traditions and glorious memo
ricS. aud Joined by all the other univer-
stiles aud colleges OF our land, cry out
agaiust the infiction Of this treacnerOus and
fatal wound.
would have the influence of these in
stitutions on the side OF religion and
| morality. / would have those they send
out among the people not ashamed to ac-
knowledge God and to proclaim His inter
position in the affairs of men, enjOiniG
such obedience to His Law saS makes mani
fest the path OF national perpetuity and
prosperity.
WOULD IMPROVE POLITICS.
I hasten to concede the good already ac-
complshed by our educated me n in purify
ing and steadying political sentiment; but
I hope I may be Above to Intimate my
belief that their work in these directions
would be easier and more useful if it were
less spasmodc and occasional. The dispo-
stion OF our people is such that, While
they may be inclined to distrust those who
only on rare occasions come among them
from an eXclusiveness savoring of assumed
superiority, they readily listen to those
who exhibit a real fellowship and n friend
ly and habitual interest in all that con-
Germs the common welfare.
Such a condition of intimacy would, be-
lieve. not only improve the general po-
litical atmosphere, but would vastly in
crease the influence Of our universities and
colleges in their efforts TO prevent popu-
lar delusions or correct them before they
reach an acute and dangerous stage
/ am certain, therefore, that a more con-
stant and active participation in political
affairs on the part OF our men OF educa-
tion would be OF the greatest possible value
to our country.
1t is exceedingly unfortunate that politics
should be regarded in any quarter as an
unclean thing, to be avoided by those claim
ing to be educated or respectable. 1t would
be strange indeed, if anything related to
the administration OF our government or
the welfare OF our nation should be es-
sentialiy degrading. 1 believe 1t is not
superstitious sentiment that leads to the
conviction that God has watched over our
national life from its beginning. Who will
say that the things worthy of Gods regard
and fostering care are unworthy of the
touch of the wisest and best of men?
TRIBUNES OF THE PEOPLE.
I would have those sent out by our
universities and colleges, not only the
counsellors of their fellow-countrymen, but
the tribuneS of the people-fully appre-
ciating every condition that presses upon
their daily life. sympathetic in every I'M
toward situation, quick and earnest in
every effort to advance their happiness and
welfare, and prompt and sturdy in the de-
fense OF all their rights.
have but imperfectly expressed the
thoughts to which have not been able to
deny utterance on an occasion so full OF
glad significance, and SO pervaded by the
atmosphere of patriotic aspiration. Born
of these surroundings, the hope cannot be
vain that the time is at hand when all our
countrymen will more deeply appreciate
the blessings of American citizenship, when
their disinterestedl love of their government
will be Quickened, when fanaticism and
passion shall be banished from the field of
politics, and when all our people, discarding
every difference OF condition or opportu-
nifty, will be seen under the banner of Amer
lean brotherhood, marching steadily and
unfalteringly on toward che bright heights
Of our national destiny.
At the conclusion of President Cleve-
lands address the audience Joined in the
singing OF America after which the
Benediction was pronounced by Bishop
Henry Y. satterlee, of Washington, d. c.