The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-16
PRESIDENT KINGsBURY BEsTows THE DIPLOMAS.

adherence to party inaugurated the
! 'spoilS system, an outrage perpetuated
son. Blind obedience to party must
cease. The citizen should hold but three
allegiences, his home. his country and his
God.
There is a doctrine now growing vigor-
ously which is of infinite Importance to
every citizen of our great republic: its
wisdom is beyond question; it embodies
a principle which must be carried out
America for Americans" And among
Americans must be included those aliens
who coming to our Shores adopt our hab-
its and customs. our national hopes and
aspirations. Great tidal waves of foreign
pauperS are rolling in upon our shores.
Time after time have these mountain
Gus ocean swells, racing with a mighty
impetr'. crested and thrown far inland
a conINlentS filth. UnprinciDled manu-
facturers and corrupt politicians find Eu-
ropean paupers easy abettors to their in
human and traitorouS schemes. These
great undesirable elements have invaded
our lands, are pillaging our homes and
threatening our lives. tbs time these
thieves, anarchists and assassins were ex-
cluded from our shores. Self preserve
ton is the great law of nature. II we
are TO live. to grow, If we are to reach
that high destiny which the God of ma
tions has assigned to us, America must
cease TO be the cess-pool into which shall
drain the foul sewage of Europe"
LIBERTY VS.. LICENSE.
save for its priceless heritage, stern JUS
tice wooed tender Mercy and fair-haired
Liberty was born. Liberty. the predes-
tined goddess of the mighty continents
of the west, has after a childhood of
want and famine and a long and tumult-
uouS youth, at last. in the full vigor of
a chaste and pure womanhood, come to
her own and her own have received her.
But she has q pretender to her throne;
she has a counterpart, 'fathered in in
EQUITY and born in perdition.' and the
so hot ,arfic OrIr
those whose eyes are touched by the di-
Vinely inspired hand of a pure and unset
fish patriotism can distinguish between
them. Students, that power of discern
ment must be ours. We must understand
that what We take from others we must
give; we must learn to rule and be ruled.
We must love and reverence those twin
sisters. Authority and Submission.
Sweet Liberty, with her maids calm
Peace and holy Love. but now wings her
weaping way TO whisper her sweet mes
sage into the ears of a sluggish tyran-
niZed nation. Pure. low. yet penetrating.
came the notes that struck the unlearned
eeords of the soul with masters hand,
and tho melody burst forth in d mighty
anthem. ''Cubra I.ibre'' The majestic
notes swelled to the dome of heaven. and
softly the gently vibrating stars gave
back responsive echoes. The inspired
sound came to US, as sweet, as dear as
the low hummed cradle song of our moth
ers. We took ii up; we answered back
Brothers, we are coming"
ALPHA AND OMEGA.
Our brothers have gone. will it desc
crate too much their sacred crusade to
their outgoing TO our own? We
today are assembled on an occasion des-
ignated from antiquity as the Alpha and
the Omega, the beginning yet tn end of
the students life. We have |ilfsted We
leave today the parental roof, the parental
care. We tear away the bonds of affec-
ton we have been years in forging. To-
day we separate. We say farewell. How
often have we heard of the battle of life
but il has seemed as a dream, il has been
seen "as through a glass darkly.' Now
we must push to the front and face the
missiles of fate. How long shall we en-
dure? Only the great Infinite knows; He
in His boundless wisdom and mercy, de-
termines all. Alrea4y, while yet we tot
tered under the guiding hand of our fos-
ter parent, have we been called to say
good by, now to a sister, then a brother
Perhaps but few of US will reach that
farther shore to which no earthly COM |
pass points" crowned by locks whitened |
by aged time. They whom the gods love