The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1897-08-14
CROWNED WITH SUCCESS



TIE ORATOR or TIE DAT.
Tn Mozart Society then sang
= selection from the oratorio of the
Messiah. Chief Hill then intro
daced Charles w. Anderson, Of
New York, the orator of the day.
Among other things Mr.. Anderson
said:
ssIn rising, Mr.. Chairman, to
perform my humble part in the
services and ceremonies of the day,
Ishould feel difident and unequal
70 the task did I not reflect that,
after al, the success of this occa-
sion does not depend upon any dis
play of eloquence. Il is not by
el0quence or the lack of tit Is
not by logic or the absence of it
it i not by wisdom or the reverse
Of i, IN speaker, that such an oc-
cazion Is this Is to be justified, or
made memorable. The presence
here Of men from every walk of
life, men Of the pulpit and men of
the plough, men of every religious
and political complexion-young
men, standing on lies threshold
with its stern realities all before
them; middle-aged men, in the
plentitude of their powers and in
full possession of their faculties;
old men, with the frosts of many
winters upon their heads have gath
cred here today with common de-
sire to make public recognition of
the manifold obligations to God
and man, which rest upon us all,
and al alike In making the respon-
abilities of American citizenship.
Thus you viii see that the oc-
casion itself is its greatest feature
and Its grandest success. This
gathering Of free American citizens,
forgetful of their social, racial and
political differences and mindful
only of their common interest In
whatever makes for liberty, justice
and Christianity, is more eloquent
commemorative Grafton than any
which could fall from the lips of
man.
OF LIMIrLEss POSSIBILITIES.
81 sometimes feel that We, as a
race, do not fully appreciate the
importance of industrial education.
I feel that the day is near at hand
when the physical apparatus of
civilization viii play a larger part
in the progress of the world than it
has hitherto done. In other words,
/ firmly believe that the great in
dustrial victories are in the future
and not in the past. We have
done much and wrought many
miracles, but the miracles are but
evidences of possible powers rather
than the high-tide marks of devel-
0pment. In my mind the POSSIBLE
ities of physical and scientific
achievements are limitless and
beyond the compass Of human con-
cePtion. Look at iron alone. See
what has been dore with it in the
last fifty years. See what you are |
able 10 do with It here in Tennessee. |
From it are made things dainty and /
things dangerous, carriages and
cannon, spatula and spade, sword
and pen, wheel, axle and rail, as
Nell IS screw, file and saw. 1t is
bound around the hull Of ships and
lifted into tower and steeple. tits
drawn into wire. cooled into springs, |
woven into g1aze, twisted into rope
and sharpened into needles. II is
stretched into = web, finer by COM
parison than the gosamer of the
morning along the bed of the
ocean and made to tick ont the
yesterday Of Europe on the today
Of America. All Of this variety Of
use has been made out of the stub
b0rnest Of metals BY the sovereign
touch Of industrial and scientifcI
educ1tion. There Is inexhaustibie
promise IN this development. I'll,
has brought and Is still bringing
the two great races closer together.