Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-13
THEIR SCHOOL DAYS ENDED
Graduating Exercises of Senior Glass al
Dohany Opera House.
FFTY.Two PRESENTED WITH DIPLOMAS
DR.. Hensen of Chicago Delivers an
Eloquent Address on "Old ana
Young America" TO the Young
Men and Women.

NOunH ""
Men and
The graduating exercises Of the senior
class of the High school at the Dohany
theater last night attracted an audience that
filled the house to the doors. The stage was
banked with ferns and palms, and hanging
from the center of the proscenium was the
class motto, Die Weishert list nur in der
Wehrheit," in letters OF blue and white, the
colors adopted by the class OF so. Inc
motto translated is wisdom lies only In
Truth" The seats for the ffty-two gradu-
ates we're arranged in tiers with a back
ground of palms. In addition to speakers
the seven members of the Board of Educa-
tion and Superintendent Hayden had seats
m the stage. The members of the faculty
os the High school were seated In the front
row Of the stalls. .
The exercises opened with the playing OF
the "Gardes du Corps" by the Apollo cruz
followed by the offering of the invocation
nv Rev. George Edward Walk. rector OF ST.
Paul's church. Miss Grace l.. Barr rem
dered in a most pleasing manner 'Wnen
the Heart is Young" and then came tne
principal feature of the exercises. the au-
dress by DR.. P. S. Hensen OF Chicago
DR.. Hensen's Address.
mr. uensen's subject was "Old and Young
Amorica F." and the theme OF his discourse
was that the preservation OF the American
shirt Is essential to the American republic
He said in part:
Westward through all the ages the course
~ empire has taken it's way; through the
gates of Eden, through the gates OF ASA
through the pillars Of Hercules. over the
Atlantic, through He'll Gate, past the AL
leghenies. past the Rocky mountains, cleal
to the Golden Gate, which is the oltlma
Thule, beyond which there Is no iarthei
west. Humanity scattered at the lo"er VI
pahe, ;s coming together again in this new
western world. Polyglot peoples OF every
hue and nationality, we are looking each
othor over and considering whether we car
live together or whether we shall eat eacf
other IN: whether this new world shall DC
q naradise or a pandemonium. The future
~ humanity is to be fought out and the
destiny Of the world to be determined or
this continent.
7 for one am not 6. pessimist. l believe
in God. in the republic and in the future
of humanity. And yet we cannot plihH
The fact that grave dangers confront US
Eoreignism is one of them. After our re
cent experience especially, America stanos
forth foremost among the world powers
and If it be said that Spain was only .
woaLl,nq It must be borne in mind tina
when America was a weakling, she met tne
miphtiest power of the globe and Wrunt
from her her independence.
ant the foreignism that we nave most u
fear Is not that which threatens us VIII
battleships lowering along our coasts, ou
the Trojan horse within the gates. Not ina
IT am prejudiced against a man with a LOT
eign name or a foreign ancestor. Many o
, the foremost fighters in the revolution an
In the recent war were men whose name
sound strange to our Anglo-Saxon ears. N
matter whence a man comes to these shores
so that when he comes he takes root. w
want no n-American party, no irish
American party, no foreign flags foatlnl
above our city hall in New York or any
where else. In the time of the civil wa
another flag was unfurled. We shot 1t iron
the flagstaff and never mean to have an
other.
Domestic Dangers.
Grave dangers OF a domestic sort con
front us. One is the INSCRIPTIONS politica
demagogue, ever ready to "crook the pres
nant hinges of the knee that thrift may foi
low fawning." Another is the plutocra
who wants the earth and would crowd hi
fellows off from it and trample them be
meath his iron heel. Not that it is a sin t
be rich. 1t 10 a sin not to be, If a ma
might have been by the diligent use @
God given opportunity. 1t is one Of tn
meanest devices OF the demogogue to ARA
the poor man against the rich man becaus
the former has to trudge on foot while tn
latter rides in a carriage. And there
danger from the proletariat, for whom al
lowance indeed must be made, for peopl
in comfortable conditions can scarcely real
ize the desperation Of many a brave ma
out OF money and out of work, with
family clinging about him and looking {
him for bread, as he hears ever more tn
bowling OF the wolf coming nearer an
nearer to his door. 1t is not to be wondere
at that he sometimes feels like bowling lik
a wolf himself.
The conflict between labor and capita
threatens the very life OF the nation an
the enormous combines that are now bein
formed are introducing new conditions ths
threaten us like the shadow of an avalanche
Our only salvation from these dangers
to be found in the perpetuation of the Amel
lean spirit, and by the American spirit
do not mean just any kind OF spirit thu
may be abroad, the vulgar spirit Of til
swashbuckler, which is supposed, especial
by foreigners, to distinguish Americans, ne
that love OF money which is so characterize
of us and which flames out perhaps nowhel
as in America; but that better spirit tn;
girded and glorifed the fathers of the r.
public, Not that all OF these were dem
gods; there were tories and traitors, slav,
and slave drivers, even then as now; bl
there were some things pre-eminently typ
cal OF the earlier Americans that we do we
to remember and to perpetuate, and one
these was love OF liberty. They brought
their bosoms a spark that burst into fan
on the Fourth of July. 1916, and that fan
licked the heavens and lighted up the who
world.
Love of Law.
One hundred years OF calm and storm ha,
rolled way since then. but the flame
lunquenchable. Politically, ecclesiastical
socially and civilly we must see to 1t thi
through all coming years America shall /
free.
Love of law, no less than love OF libert
, distinguished the fathers. They said; "N