The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-02
HARPER'S REPORT
Tells of How He Won Rockefel-
ler's So, 100000.


Chicago, April I'm the presence of
an audience of students and their
friends. Assistant Secretary of State
David J. Hill today delivered the con-
vocation address to the graduating
class of the University of Chicago.
President Harper delivered his quarter
ly statement telling of the S250,000
which had been raised since January 1,
thereby fulfilling the agreement which
secures to the university the 81, 0O0, 900
pledged by John D. Rockefeller on con
| dition that the university raise like
amount.
A feature of peculiar interest was the
granting of the degree of associate to
70 freshmen and sophomore students.
The degree was only recently establish
ed. Thls innovation in the granting of
degrees, mentioned by President Har-
per to the presidents of IA different col
leges at their recent meeting in Chi
cago is expected tie effect not only col
legeS the country over but high schools
as Well The idea was applauded by all
/ but Harvard. Its purpose is to get men
into what is practically graduate work
! IN the last two years before receiving
/ the traditional bachelors degree or to
start them Immediately in professional
! schools.
Mr.. Hill spoke as follows:
! AS If awakened from a marvellous
/ dream to find itself in the presence of a
/ more wonderful reality the United States
/ energies from its war with Spain to dis
cover that it has suddenly become one of
! the greatest oceanic powers of the world
! holding on the west Tutuila the finest
port in the southern Pacific the Hawaiian
/ Islands, Guam and the Philippine arebi-
! pelago, while its continental coast line of
more than five thousand miles occupies
nearly one-fourth of the entire Pacific
water front.
No longer a struggling federation of
small comfnonwealths scattered along
the Atlantic seaboard but a great and
/ powerful nation commanding the breadth
/ OF the continent and ruling distant is
/ lands, what is TO be the part of the Tn
/ Ileu STATES IN these great movements
/ which are changing the political and
moral geography of the world? VIII it
| follow the counsel OF those who oppose
the extension of American sovereignty
! beyond the confines of the continent. and
| who demand that our flag be lowered be
4 fore the standards of seIf-constituted
! chieftains. imagined to embody the sove-
! reignty of a people because thev have
infiamed with Instruction a single one Of
| eighty-four native tribes, never recog-
I niZed as a state not even constituting a
| nation, and wholly devoid of public re-
| sponsibility? When the public archives
| have told their story, it will appear that
the interest of trade. but the charter of
liberty for millions of human beings gath
cred under the protecting folds of a flag
able to defend them from foreign agrees
| sion and domestic anarchy. The one con-
| CelNdDlS oppOi Suuity AoI me Tree ueEel-
opment OF self-government in the Phil
ippine archipelago, so far as that may
be possible was secured when the sover-
eighty over those islands passed from
Spain to the United States. In the name
of just administration. in the name of
fnterna t1onal tranquility, and in the name
of self-government itself, the United
States can not lower its flag wherever it
has been raised, until anarchy has been
suppressed, public order established and
the world convinced that our president
expressed the real purpose of the Ameri-
can people when he sent forth his Philip
pine commissioners as bearers of the
good will, the protection and the richest
civ 1f f1aal- inc raj fla7~ tha
| conquering nation
THE advocates of Little America as OPP
posed to Greater America have sought tC
Inspire the conviction that our recent de-
VelOpment is the fruit of political mater
ialism-a reputation of those great ideas
which animated the founders of this ma
! ton. Deriving their standard of national
path of duty IN perpetual isolation, anc
proclaim the doctrine that the material
and moral expansion of the country are
contradictory and incompatible. But al
experience teaches that the improvement
. of national character is not to be sought
by pious contemplation of ones virtues
in a monastic cell, but Wrung from the
stern issues of life by conscientious effOr
in the great field of activity: for nations
like men become strong and great only
by. mastering manfully their divinely ap
pointed tasks.
. include the extension and diffusion of tina
, which characterizes our deeper and purel
, 1 national life. that which we are proud t.
call our 'Americanism' is not worthy o.
l the energies and the ambition of the
"A
Americanism which we can not abandon
or disregard without casting into the ses
= the precious pearl of our national inner
itance2 1t is the principle that no form
/ of civil policy is tolerable which does no
/, permit and encourage the most free anC
unrestrained development and exercise o
all those mental and moral faculties ant
energies which give force and value t
the individual man; the idea Of a free,
: ! generous and harmonious cooperation O
: | man with man. of institution with insti
t | tuition. of party with party and of com
monwealth with commonwealth in tn
? | promotion of general prosperity withou
q ! regard to class, creed, section or raeia
: | origin: a reverence for Ideals of 5ustfc
! and equity Incorporated into the law o
: the land made operative by the combinei
s / force of society and sustained by the glai
! ! and willing obedience of all its members
I liberty is sweet. but it is not the who'll
: / secret of our national Development Fra
5 ternity is noble, but 1t IS not the oni'
bond of our civic conference Deeper thai
!; both liberty and fraternity lies the su
. I hIinne conception of an imperative mora
: order which is not merely the fertil
polling force OF individual and nauona
I'VE sometimes speak of commerce a
if It were essentially sord1d and selfish
$ but we must not overlook its beneficen
l influence. Appealing to solemn treatie
. which have opened to the American PEG
. pie the trade Of the vast empire Of Chin
Z -apparently on the point of being i'm
: nerilled by exclusive pOlicies-in order t
+ maintain equal rights for the traders an
manufacturers of the United States. tn
r president has invited the nations, throug
: his distinguished secretary of state.
give assurance that the open door sfla-
NOT be closed against US. Reeognizin
tbs rights Of the American people as
great pacific power, England, Russis
s Germany: France ltaIy anq Japan nav
: 4 responded in that just and friendly spir
l. which we had reason to expect from thel
and in a body of diplomatic correspond
v + ence recently offered to the public thes
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