New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-06-20
They Have
Graduated
FOUR FORTUNATE STUDENTS FINISH
<~N HIGH SCHOOL.
The, Commencement Exercises, Largely
Attended and Both Pleasant
-.'.- and Instructive. .s.sE
An Exceptionally Strong Address by Hon. w.
s. Hammond Of st. James. #a.


IL DoRoTHEA rAUENsTEIN. 3
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The Opera House was packed to the
doors last Thursday evening to witness
the graduation exercises of the high
school class of 19O0.. Not only was the
hall appropriately decorated but the
stage was made beautiful by profusion
of flowers, palms and potted plants.
Upon the stage was seated the members
of the school. board, superintendent
Critchett, principal Grussendorf, and
Hon: W. S. Hammond of st. James, who
was to deliver the graduating address
and make the formal presentation of di-
plomas.
The exercises began with a piano solo
by Miss Addie Olsen which was followed
by John NJ. Seckl with an Grafton upon
the topic, "What the United States has
done foc education," in which he traced
the legislation of the country in behalf
of education, attributing the greater
achievements in science and other de-
partments of human effort to education.
"Hope and Memory" was the subject
of clever essay by Dorothea Hauen-
stein in which the writer characterized
hope as the basis of material success and
the real stimulus of human effolt.
The next number was an instrumental
duet by the Misses Hauenstein and o.
sen, followed by Dorothy Baalsch with
an essay entitled glove of the Beautiful. -
Miss Baarsch covered her topic in a
thoughtful discussion of the question
and her delivery was particularly pleas
ing.
| The class exercises closed with an ora .
tion and valedictory by Joseph W. Pref
singer upon "Our Constitution" which
was of especial merit and is printed
herewith.
The principal event of the evening
was, of course, the address of Hon. w.
s. Hammond, who is al orator of the
highest class. MI. Hammond's address
was out of the ordinary line and was de-
voted to bringing out the thought that
the people of all countries are the true
source of power and the assumption of
power by political leaders without the
cooperation of their constituents must
| inevitably result in their downfall.
The presentation of the diplomas was
made by Mr.. Hammond in very appro-
pirate and pleasing manner.
THE BIRTH OF OUR CONSTITUTION.
The state of the government of all ma
tions had been now and then during
their history on the verge of anarchy.
But in almost every instance the step of
nation from one kind of government
to another was accompanied and we
might say caused by military powers.
We see Sulla accompanied by his le-
gions gain possession of the Roman
World. We see Cromwell assisted by
his invincible ironsides snatch the scep-
tire from the hands of Charles the First,
and establish the commonwealth. Ma
poleon stayed the. progress of the French
Revolution by his famous dispatch,
"The reign of the lawyers is over" and
he led the nation from it's lawless reign
OF terror back into military despotism.
Now the only agent that made these
changes, either from the worse to the
better or perhaps from the better to the
worse possible, was a mighty army.
How much different and how much more
peaceful are the successive steps, by
which the colonies of North America
passed from their distracted state of
Jealousy and independence into a strong
and independent union which will, as ev-
cry patriotic American hopes, last for
ever as bulwark against injustice and
tyranny.
Z. We see the colonies dependents Of Eng
land and we see no more political union
between them than can be found be-.
tween the separate nations of Europe
today. This disunion caused mostly by
the difference of religious tenets held by
the separate colonies as well as the diff
ference Of character Of the colonists re-
mained until they were forced to unite
against common danger.
Although several efforts were made
by some Of the wisest of our statesmen:
to make the colonies act in concert, yet
we see no political union among them
until the First Continental Congress in
51776. The tyrannlcal measures Of Eng.
land have. af lsak ahnss 70 fha "a ,,,a.:oe.