Arizona republican., 1898-02-05
WARMING THE HOUSE The Formal Opening Of the NeE
 Normal Building. THE GOYBRN0k'S RECEPTION
A MsenifiCcnt Address to the
 Teachers and Pupils
he Ceremony Attended by Large Crowds From Phoenix and Else Wh-re. A New Impetus Was Given tn ? N orInai Last Night.


 Given the Normal Last Night.
 Five hundred people attended the formal opening of the new normal building at Tempe last night, which was also made the occasion of hearty reception to Governor McCord and hts staff. A special train from Phoenix was crowded with visitors.
 All Tempe turned out and the audi ence was further increased from the Mesa side.
 The reception took place in the
 lower halls of the building and the audience was introduced by s cretary McClintock to the governor and Mrs. McCord, the members of the govern i or's staff and members of the faculty. After this ceremony the crowd as sembled in the great auditorium. In l the absence of President Johnstone of the board, Secretary McClintcck l presided. He iairoduced the governor, 1 who delivered the following forceful
 address:
 MT. President, Ladies and Gentle
 men: Some one has said that one l who is good at making excuses Is rarely good for anything else, yet in
 making my appearance be fore th:s in l telligent and highly cultured audi ence, I might with great truth and some propriety find room for apology in suggesting the little time which
 my public duties leave me for suitable
 preparation to do justice to this oc-
 casion and to the cause for which
 speak. But I shall rely upon your kind consideration and I trust that you will judge me by my motives rather than by my performance. When
 I assure you that nothing but an ar dent desire to promote the cause in i which you are laboring and :n which
 I feel a very deep in crest cou d have induced me to have accepted your kind invitation, fell assured that ..- <. will overlook my shortcomings. and
 will not view what 1 say with a crit
 ical eye or deem 1t as entirely un-
 worthy of your regard.
 The benefits of education have been gradually rising in human es imat;on from those dark days of the dark ages
 when kings could not even write their
 
 the gloom of the middle ages when learning dwarfed with fear only 7 found refuge in the. cloister cell of the monk; a period when even writing was confined almost exclusively to
 the clergy; period when by the ex-
 pressed terms of the law man who could write his own name was ex. empted from the death penalty. The : value of this acquisition at thcs; times is we'll illustrated in the talt
 told in the Arabian Nights. An m
 fortunate prince had been enchanted into an ape, but on account of his be
 ing able to write a beautiful hand h, was promoted to be the Grand Viziel ) to the sultan. To be able to writ' s legib1y is useful accomplishment but that alone would be of compara lively lit value: mere matter o !. penmansh-p will enable us to conve. l the thoughts and impre ssions of h
 CTS, but it will not enable us to hay e thoughts and impressions of our own y That knowledge is power, that edu e cation is citadel of liberty, that na u tional glory and prosperity consist il S the cultivation of our facu't:es, in tn 2 elevation of the liberal arts, in tn e elucidation of the sciences, in extend d ing and expanding the powers of req d soning are now acknowledged truths O Those vampires of the mind who de ,f rive their suste nance from ignoranc If are now known and viewed in thei if true light; they are the legtimat V prey of advanced education and ar l. being eradicated wherever the advan l. tages of education have sway. As " refu1gent light maints ins the sam
 splendor when it illumines a wide IS space, so knowledge illumires a d with which it comes in con act. Ir TO tellectual improvement is the feur 10 dation of national greatness and 1ik 10 the refulgent light enlarges and ez - tends itself, and contratry to the ge1 +- eral laws of nature the wider ,d spreads the stronger it grows and tn ,s more useful it becomes.
 ;, In a government like CUTS wher ;- the will of the majority governs, an 70 where that will is expressed throug -d the ballot box, and where permaren n and stability depend upon the degre ,o Of intelligence with which the ba 1C ,e, is wieldsd and the laws are made an 19 executed, the importance of a genert "a diffusion Of knowledge among the peC ,s pie can readily Toe appreciated. Ron ..' was impregnable so long as her pol II o'NN "~o AHAdoiACSu by uOHtSl pu r poses and patriotic motives but Whe O jealous bickerings, dehauchery an " corruption became rife and the inte hgence of her citizens began to re
 rograde, she began to droop and d. o, cline and as a government perishe o1 from the earth. So it may be wit M Mi9 us for our government more than an lu other on the face of the earth .. founded in the virtue and inte ligent VI Of the people. And deriving it's jul Il II powers from the consent of the go IL erned it's influences are as powerf7 1T for good at its remotest limits as