The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-31

Wake Forest, n c., May 3O.-Ths hes
been notable day at Wake Forest COM
mencement. The crowd has been large
and every train brought numbers of
alumni. friends and beautiful ladies'
DIR. sMALL'S GRAFTON.
full house greeted DR.. Albion w.
Small professor of Sociology in the Chi
cago University, at II o'clock this morn
ing. After music by the Richmond band
prayer was offered by Rev. w. C. Newton
Of Godsboro, one of the strongest of the
younger Baptist divines in the State. Edi-
tor j. W. Bailey made a graceful and
happy introduction. Without manuscript,
even so much as a single note, the able
scholar greeted his audience and for
about an hour spoke. taking as his sub
ject, "A Message TO the Twentieth Cen
fury Democrat"
Or. Small began by stating that it
gave. him pleasure and honor to bear
from a young asprant for educational
reputation in the West a greeting to a
venerable institution in the South. He
believed after several visits in the South
and East that the South had been play
ing game of pOssum. He lived in city
of two million people. which was not on
the map when Queen Victoria ascended
the throne, and Chicago thinks it is NOV
ing with rapidity, but here in the South
the progress you are making in applying
new thoughts to old problems is the
same used in the crowded centres. 1t is
impossible TO bring you any new thoughts
lie told this story--and told it we'll The
wife of President Frost was going a long
journey through the mountains of Ken
lucky, travelling with the rural mail
driver. To beguie the time she told him
of the wonderful things in Chicago and
other great cities. The mal-driver. sat
in stolid silence, but after awhile made
three weighty observations:
]. We'll, I reckon there's powerful
sight of things going on up there that
we don't know nary a thing about
.. And | reckon there's Il powerful
sight of things going on down here that
the folks up there don't know nary a
thing about.
g. II reckon mixin' larns both"
Speaking of differences. he said he
knew men born in State where every
man who wanted 10 be called respectable
had to- be- Republican, and he had
known other men who were born in n
State where to be respectable he had to
be Democrat He added: II am so I'm =
fortunate as to live in n State where
every man who wants to retain his own
self-respect must be ashamed of himself
three fourths of the time if he belongs
TO either Of the political parties.
He gave the difference between q
Socialist and SOciolOgist. Socialist is
man who wants the government to own
all the land and all other species of prop
erty. to be the general employer of all
labor, and give to each his share. A
SOciOlogst IS. the man who has simply
caught the clue that every man of com
mon sense has done He studies to learn
the laws and find out the connection be-
tween cause and effect.
Modern Democracy believes that God
intends His child to organize On this
earth q divine kingdom where every man
may have opportnnity to work without
hindrance He will carry from the 18th
century two constructive ideas:
|. The thought OF the paramount worth
of man. Shakespeare put it in the mouth
OF 4 man whose reason was dethroned to
say: What piece of work is man.
How like an angel and a Cod
No rational man of that day would have
used that utterance. 1t was q father who
had gone through great Affections who
what we can bear. He must respect u.s."
We have come to a new and higher np-
probation of every child of God. This
idea was enforced with many beautiful
and classical quotations.
.. The second idea we will carry from
the nineteenth century is that mans
condition is very bad and that some ore
is to blame for mans misery. The idea
that man has miserable lot and that
We should be at work to reform it. is a
modern notion. You will hear it said.
THE times are sadly out of joint" The
10Th century man is dismally unhappy
when his opportunities are considered.
He glowers over his good dinner because
il isn't the best dinner. If he lives in
plain house, he grumbles because it is
not mansion; if he lives in a mansion,
he grumbles because it is not palace
Those who wear poor clothes, envy those
with good; those with good those with
snowy; those envy the showiest The
man with $500 income envies the man
with $1,000; the man with 81 900. he with
$4,000; the man SIC, O00 he with 81 900 900.
and so on up to no possible limit
With what spirit will the twentieth
century Democrat enter into the work
We ought to give our sense of humor :
chance One of the elements with which
to work out our salvation is a sense of
humor. In an outing given to the poor
OF city, an Italian woman saw la1v.
Miss Adams, wearing italian roses. ard
the woman said "How did you get those
roses from Italy?" The lady replied that
she did not get them from Italy--they
grew in Chicago. The woman said. "Tho
cannot be, I've lived here nine years ard
I've never seen one" An excursion to
the country was given to boys. One little
fellow, who had been crowded and
cramped in tenement. sat under the
shade of a tree by the river bank in a
state of exaltation. "What are you think
ing about?" asked the teacher. The re-
ply was: Say, teacher, "is it true that
all this heaven belongs to the United