The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-06-24
LIFE IS WE'LL BEGUN
THE HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCE.
MENT EXERCISES.
VERY LARGE CROWD PRESENT.
Exceptionally Strong Essays Read-very
Pleasing Exercises With Exquisite
Music.-The Whole: Very sue
cessful Affair

uG 6GIIOl CldSS vi UiIC ACuO0nd LII
school held their graduating exercises
at the Rhode opera house Saturday
evening. The throng in attendance
was limited only by the capacity OF the
theatre. The urban and rural friends
of the graduates poured into the build
ing until they filled every available bit
of room in auditorium, hall and foyer.
The unusually large audience evinced
the great popularity of the commence
ment occasion, as the program pre-
sented by the students proved its right
to the general interest manifested.
| The dainty dresses and delicate colors,
the flower decked hats and the beVy of
flower girls occupying the box laden
with roses and carnations, gave gala
appearance to the surroundings which
made the old festival of shroye Tues
day, pictured by the orchestra, seem
quite realistic.
The curtain rose at $50. Following
the j" Mardi Gras," Rev. |. ". Corey
offered the invocation. The exercises
of the class itself were begun with the
salutatory, in which Miss Anna
Kroncke gave a graceful welcome to
friends, citizens and board of education
to the last public act of the class of '97.
The speaker made a retrospect over
the past four years. They had been
years of pleasure as well as labor. The
achievement of the purpose for which
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days us a class irrevocably into the
past. Now the future stretched before
them full of its possibilities for failure
and success. Thus thoughts tinged
the occasion with mingled sorrow and
| Joy, for while it was farewell to the
halcyon past, hope springs eternal in
the human breast Youth was in
their possession, and after all this was
but the entrance to the spring time of
| life, and as the class motto said. while
there is much in the past there is
/" more beyond" Miss Kroncke de-
serves compliment for the graceful
manner in which she handled the usual
awkward salutatory.
The Grafton on immigration, de-
livered by Frank Barter, was very
commendable piece of work. Mr.. Bar
ter presented facts which had great
significance and from which he made
logical deductions. He dealt with a
great truth and brought out great
principle. His GRAFTON was the climax
of the program. He pointed out the
difference between the great tribal
movements of former days when whole
nations moved their goods and govern
ments, or what there was OF them, from
one locality to another, and the immi-
grafton of today. One was of the
mass, the other is of the individual.
The one was for the purpose of coloni-
cation or to escape from religious or
political tyranny; the other is for the
good of the individual. The three
periods of immigration into the United
States were given, together with their
character and significance. The last
period has marked a steady influx of
people who are ignorant and useless
and possessed of the idea that liberty as
enjoyed in America overlooks the lib
erty of Others This raw material has
been consumed much more rapidly
than it could be assimilated, and as a
natural result the veins and arteries of
the national body have become clogged
and congested. Only time can cure
this evil. Consequently in order to al
larv +l,o ho6v ,oo1ifio cpocn IN ritrbf ire
own wrongs with the forces latent il it
and the action of natural laws we must
use legislation. The national life is a
balance governed by supply and de-
mand. While the supply is SO much
greater than the demand or the nation
al facilities to consume it, the supply
must be restricted. This must be done
by legislation in such a way as to
admit only the demanded material.
The great amount of poor material
which makes its way into the United
States annually has been due to several
causes. First, they are due to unsatis-
factory naturalization laws. Railroads
have also been the means OF enticing to
this country vast amount of pauper
labor. Manufacturers have lent their
influence to the evil, while foreign
governments in their eagerness to dis
pose of their dead weight: and rival
steamship companies are also respon-
sible for a great deal of the unhealthful
immigration. 1t is the duty Of the
government to put an effectual stop to
this destroying movement. This great
over supply and the many ways in
which it is brought about, can be pre-
vented only by the entire making over
of our naturalization laws in way to
| exclude all but the refined and easily
assimilated material.