The San Francisco call., 1899-09-05
THE STUDENT VOLUNTEER.
Rv David Starr Jordan.


A Stamford how NOT long ago in Germany walked
through Franconan forest found by the wayslde
young soldier in his first UNIFORM lSIhs Ing + W. q
broken Heheped the boy to ms peasant
home his mother saw him bloody ana nsensote,
alive thanked God that he was saved from the
Better broken cripple soldier against his will
unwilling service rests the military glory OF the
great powers of Europe.
In the history of man two ideas always barred
his These first that the individual man be
body and soul and property to the state ana secoho
that the State the man or men who happen to De at
he head of affairs
The State" ID Louis XIV "the statethat is l. the
King; and another time he wrote: THE King does
what he wil"; the King is the State, the men
belongs body and soul and property to the King.
1t protest against all this that the citizen SOL
der the soldier who his clothes, not the
livery of any King.
The citizen soldier through ages the man who
fights wrong with eyes open When the wrong is made
unchanged by all that happens him
The citizen solder is as old as the struggle for freedom
1t is only such that have made instrument to
human progress. Oliver Cromwell soldier
and Miles standish and George washington The embat
tied farmers of Lexington who fired a shot
heard around the world" were citizen soldiers.
They stood for the right manhood to manage it's
affairs they turned their muskets against
that the State owned them body and and property
They declared that George Ill his Cabinet Parla
ment in whom they had part. lot representa-
ton, not their State.
Cromwells word the book of Parliament
might have been their Declaration of Independence A
Just powers under God are derived from the consent Of
the people"
would
so he fired that shot Lexington.
It the citizen soldier who died Bunker Hill
starved and froze at Valley Forge whose
blocked at Saltwater Long Island and the Brandywne
but whose resoute persistence defeat into victory
1t the citizen soldier who sweIed guerrilla
OF Marion and Sumter who fell Quebec and conquered
Yorktown
In like fashion, the citizen soldier arose again
In the South, the his State be-
onged to him. in the North, call of his Nation the
Nation he had Not Nation owned
and forced him forth from farm or shop 1t was his
should
1t his Nation and he that her integrity must
and shall be preserved So North and South alike
the citizen soldier, Gettysburg Shiloh Malvern
Hill the Wilderness, from the Potomac the Chatta
hoochee from the Brazos to the Cumberland
Citizen soldiers they all and when they
from Appomattox Courthouse and all, all
left of them went home the pow, the forge, the
was left them.
In the fighting South it just the in the
North. When the cause its
came home the gray ghosts OF all that had been
strongest South and each took finally
the place the Fates held openhe place OF citizens of the
United States.
And the lost cause of States rights merged into the
greater cause Of human freedom.
There were not many college 1915
few made infant republic The constitution the
Harvard and Yale of Columbia and
william and Mar since those davs we have become
Whatever else America has done, she
is training her young and women Her college men
the choicest all her citizens. Whatever else uni
all that takes place in the world around them
is said that in 1859 Robert Lincoln entered
Harvard but the college, Professor James Rus
sell Lowell had heard of his father Abraham Lincoln
Then our colleges were asleep They dreamed of Olym
pus OF Arcadia dragon devoured
their ratrimony.
But the awakening In 1861 the student
soldier born
faith and truth
n red touchsOne rang true metal
VINO VSmurea @ res o1e al ana Of e 5eafb 4o in battle
This roll tells us that heard of Lin
nd of al