The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-10
WITH MUSIC AND SPEECH
Exercises at the Dedication of the
High School Building.
DR.. GAULT,S ADDRESS
The President of the University of Idaho
lie Followed by j. M. Quinn. Who
Talks Pleasantly of the Genius of
Our Public School System.

Amid music and speechmaking. and in
the presence of nearly or quite 1000 peo-
ple the new High school building was
formally dedicated last evening under
most suspicious circumstances. The
ceremonies were under the auspices of
the board of education and the Butte
Teachers league. The teachers acquitted
themselves admirably in the arrange
Inent for the entertainment of the pup
lie. A programme of music and
speeches was given in the assembly
room of the High school building, fol-
lowed by ball in the gymnasium. The
address of the evening was delivered by
DIR. F. II. Gault, president of the Uni
Sersity of Idaho. and a brief. but high
appropriate, dedicatory address was de-
livered by Hon. ]. Nj. Quinn.
The assembly room was filled TO over
flowing when the first number on the
programme, a selection by Bergstroms
orchestra, was announced by President
]. ". Long of the school board, who
presided. Following a solo was given
by the colored basso, Logan, followed by
another vocal solo by Miss Catherine
Finn both of which We're received with
much appreciation. School Trustee j.
b. Frederic addressed the gathering
briefly and was followed by a selection
by the orchestra, after which DR. Gaut
was introduced. He said:
In the early decades of the century
now so rapidly drawing to a close the
state of Ohio established its state uni
verSity. 1t began in a very modest
way in a humble building and with a
faculty of two teachers Among the
many families / shall call your atten-
ton to one for the purpose of intro
ducing the discussion which shall en-
gage our attention. In one of the older
communities a young married couple,
a ra.r IL
mined to remove to more remote sec
ton. They belonged to that great and
influential class known as the COM
mon people. You know Abraham Lin
coin said. God must have loved the
common people. he made SO many of
Them Without the common people all
of our industries and all of the inter-
ests of state and community would
soon perish. If it were possible to
build Chinese wall of exclusion about
the city of New York or Chicago and
prohibit the brain and Drawn from
farm, factory and shop removing from
the rural districts to the city; if the
young men and women with high and
resolute purpose, We're debarred from
the cities every industry and interest
would at once begin to languish and
in a few years would utterly fail from
lack of managing ability. The great
dailies, the magazines. the vast bust
nesses, would soon become thing of
the past. The country boys and girls
are everywhere the leaders of thought
and activity. They come from Wig
orous stock, are accustomed to labor,
are full of a sense of achievement and
leadership falls to them naturally.
Some one has said. possibly George
Elliot, that ii is as easy for the strong
TO be strong as it is for the weak To
be weak. | remember to have read
- liant ia
society made up of distinguished think
ers some one having observed the orr
gin of the membership asked, How
many can milk" All but seven of the
sixty rose to their feet. thus showing
that they were not ashamed of their
early history and confirming what !
have just stated.
And thus this young couple. strong
of body, thorough of purpose and
strong in that ambition which is the
highest that can actuate the human
heart. that OF building a home. gath
cred their worldly effects together and
removed to the western portion of the
state. Did you ever think of the march
of the American pioneer? There is
nothing like it in all history. from both
a romantic and significant point of
view. The young and hardy settlers
migrated west of the Connecticut river.
thence over the Allegheny mountains
into what was known as the Northwest
territory, thence beyond the Missis-
sippi: the Missouri river was no barrier
to a later generation of Western pio-
neers; a succeeding generation scaled
the Rocky mountains and their sons
and daughters pressed forward to the
shores of the peaceful ocean. And all
this was the spontaneous uprising of
the home makers without leaders,
without concerted action. each upon his
Individual Giht1tfx.
mined TO seek his home in the far West.
Xerxes laid his unnumbered millions
on a mission of conquest and for the
spoils of war, Zenophan described the
march of the mortal 10000 and the
Mortimer took up their abodes in
Southern Europe. But these migrations
were lead by great chieftains. who