Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-21
SHE HAS COME TO STAY.

power multiply her resources, educate
her side by side with our boys, give her
equal advantages but save her for our
| homes! This is what she demands. She
will not and should not be content with
less. The home Is her abiding place, her
kingdom, from which with q scepter of
love she rules the world. In this realm
of peace and harmony patriots and
statesmen and warriors and scholars are
reared and imbued with lofty aims and
noble purposes and consecrated to their
countrys good.
| Such homes as this, sir, are the seat of
the greatness and the glory of this gov
eminent, the source of her prowess and
power, "the beginning and end of her re-
| sponsibility." Destroy them and you de-
| stroy 1T; elevate them in culture and re-
| f1nement and enhance their peace and
security, and you point the way and
prepare. the path along which this repub-
| lie, leading all the nations of the earth
| in the upward march of peace and prog
ress, shall go in Gods appointed time"
Iamn prophet, nor am the son of one
! but drawing back today the mystic cur
| tain that wells the future-with the cause
| of education, Vitalized by Christianity,
! constantly fostered and higher advanced
| the portals of all our institutions of
! learning open alike to women-with the
| government Of our state kept in the
| hands of "the virtuous and intelligent
| by such men as our present able and dis
| tinguished governor and other state Off
GERS; with the high places in our govern
| ment filed by brave and true men, such
| as he who is our honored guest today;
| with peace and contentment and thrift
| mantling our people and marking their
| upward course as the years go by, be-
| hold, in "enraptured thought" picture
| that would fill the overlooking heart of a
| patriot with peaceful joy. 1 see our re-
| public still greater grown, her starry
| flag, emblem of liberty, beloved every
where within her wide domain and re-
| spected by all the peoples of the earth. L
| see our state, the peer of any. in this great
! sisterhood of free and Independent states,
| in all that constitutes state, with
wealth and resources multiplied many
| fold, with 100000 peaceful, patriotic
| citizens, through storm and sunshine, In
honest thrift patiently working out their
| destiny under God; their homes, lighted
| by love and sustained by faith, the seat
| of culture and refinement, and the
| chosen abode of religion pure and unde-
| filed; father and mother (both of them
| perhaps graduates of this university to-
| gether invincible, but neither complete
| without the other in loving comradeship,
| fighting lifes battles; he, liberty-loving,
| loyal, brave and strong; she, home-lov-
| ing, cultured, modest and good; jealous
| alike for their country's veal, proud alike
| of her glorious history and her sublime
| mission and anxious alike for her peace,
| her nOnOF ana ner Tame, DOtn OIL lHeIl
true to themselves, their country and
| their God.
And from thousands of such homes,
scattered here and yonder, 1 see coming
into all our schools young men and young
| women, yearning to learn-and this
pround university full of years and still
| much beloved, its capacity greatly en-
| larged and it's facilities much increased,
| is filled to its utmost.
And here in this cultured city of ele-
| giant homes and beautiful women, in
| these classic halls, hoary with hallowed
| memories, where father and mother
| studied and perhaps wooed and loved,
| and among these ancient trees, that
| stand like silent sentinels to guard this
| sacred spot, but tell not even the timid
| stars when lovers plight, while the blush
| ing moon hides her gentle face, and upon
| yonder beautiful carpet campus, where
| the pale student, much fatigued from
| constant robbing the night of her wee
| small hours in long and patient study