Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-22
BIDS FAREWELL TO COLLEGE
Glass Goes Out from the Stats University Ct
Wyoming
LARGE NuNB:R or VISITORS PRESENT
senator warren Delivers the Address
to the Graduates, speech Brim-
full of Good Advice to
the CollcEiaus.


to the Graduates, n speech Brim-
full of Good Advice to
the CoIicEians.
LARAMIE, wyo, June 21.-CSpecial)-
The annual commencement exercises OF the
Wyoming State university were concluded
this evening, large number of visitors
from different parts OF the state being pres
ent. The commencement address to the
students OF the university was delivered by
Senator Francis Il. Warren of Cheyenne.
Senator Warren's address was in part as
follows:
II do not forget that many of you are
graduating from life of study and from
realm OF theory to the sterner endeavors
of maturer years, where patient, persistent
and sometimes dreary toll is the price of
success. Therefore, at the risk of disap-
pointing you, l take you into my confidence
and say that instead of trying to offer
polished jewel OF oratory l will offer some
thing along very practical lines. This with
a view OF noting incidents of our individual
and national life, and perhaps drawing some
conclusions and comparisons, or mayhap
moral. Proceeding on this line, l am re-
minded that the Wyoming university is an
agricultural college as well, and 1t Is due
to this fact that we have the generous
assistance OF the United States. That we
have this assistance is due to that veteran
statesman, who, during the last year. passed
to the great beyond, Hon. Justin S. Morrill,
of Vermont. Senator Morrill,, our benefactor
in this respect, early in his official career,
inaugurated a campaign for practical educa
tion in every state and territory through
colleges to be assisted by the government
To-, 81 rtotiA -
and his efforts eventually resulted in the
magnificent endowment, enjoyed by this and
every other state in the union, of SAC, 900 for
each state per annum.
'"The life OF this statesman and patriot as
We review it, typifies in measure the life
of our nation, growing from small begin
nings to full and perfect development And,
rejecting upon our national life, much as
we would upon that of a successful man, we
might naturally ask questions of such i'm
port as these What progress have we made
in accumulating national wealth; develop
ing our resources; our manufactures? What
have we built; what of our standing with
/ other nations; what are doing for hu-
man liberty, and what are the impending
and imminent problems for us to solve?
Creditor Nation.
From borrowing nation we have become
almost in the twinkling of an eye creditor
nation. A thousand million dollars in gold
is our present store, which Is 5000, 900, 900
Increase over our stock of a year ago. The
whole world produced during the last year
but $2S5, 900 900 in gold of which s65, ,0OO, 900
used in the arts, leaving 1920, 200, 900
added to the worlds coin, of which the
United States captured the lions share, or
s2O2 900, 900, almost the whole lump. In
agriculture, from small exporting and large
importing nation, we have turned the scales
and exactly the reverse Is now true. In the
past eleven months our exports Of merchan
disc have exceeded our imports by S495 ,000,-
900 and s260,000,000 OF our securities held
abroad have been bought back by American
capitalists.
Our manufactures are seeking every
cline and England, France and Germany
are viewing with alarm the passing OF the
manufacturing scepter from the old world
to the new. In our relations with other
nations we have in the last twelve months
sprung from a somewhat isolated and unim-
portant nation, internationally speaking, to
one Of the most important and powerful.
Our citizens in foreign lands no longer seek
a British consul to enforce their rights, as
we regret they sometimes had to do when
our flag seemed weak or far away.
"lunce INTO the
Are we the same liberty loving and liberty
| giving people as of old? The pessimists,
| those who see gloom and failure in every
| thing; the critics who are always destroy
| ers and never creators; the envious who
view with composure the troubles which may
be about and around the nation-these,
whom we always have with us, will say we
are not. But they who look with hope to
| the future. who hetieve huilding I'm rat
than in tearing down; in progress rather
than stagnaticn; who are patriots in that
| they attribute patriotic motives to the rulers
of the nation-they will answer yes The
! traditions and principles upon which our ma
| tion is founded are for liberty and relief of
| the oppressed and every gun that is fired by
| our soldiers in the far orient Is that ulti-
mately liberty and the blessings of free gov
ernment and civilization may be given to a
| people crushed and blinded by centuries Of
oppression.
"As to the future, you who are now gradu-
ating from school and youth have in your own
hands your own and the nations future. We
who are commencing the downward incline
! of life can best serve you by showing you the
| rugged and toilsome incline up which we
| have labored and bid you in some regard
| Judge the future by the past. 1t Is for this
| that | have called your attention to the life
of Senator Morrill,, man healthy in body
| and mind, who, like you, was born and
! reared in frontier state among the noun
| tains. BY birth and training you are
! equipped to become citizens OF whom your
| state and your alma mater may well be
proud And as you go out into the great
competition which awaits you in the busy
world, competition which grows in inten-
! sity with each succeeding year, / have only
this admonlton: Keep before you the ex-
| ample of such character as ! have tried
| to portray to you this evening, the industri-
Gus, thoughtful, patriotic boy and man OF
that sterile mountain region, who did his
duty in whatever sphere OF action he found
himself, whether as an humble subordinate
in narrow field or as an important figure
upon the floor of that great parliamentary
| body, the senate of the United States"
Boys Make Find.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., June 2l-(special
Telegram)-Some boys while playing today
in a boiler room OF an abandoned machine
naar tho Milwaukaa danOt found seven