Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-11
CONCLUSION Of
CLASS ORATORY
FINAL QUINTETTE OF HIGH
SCHOOL GRADUATES WERE
HEARD TODAY.
SOME ESSAYS WILL BE
REPEATED FRIDAY,
Shakespeare's Women, Liberty, Del
sarte, Trusts and the Navy
Were Topics.

The last five students of the gradual
ing elias of the high school delivered their
orations this afternoon, and there will be
no further exercises until commence
ment day, next Friday, when several OF
tho ora ion will be repeated and the
Youths who have completed their labors.
as far as the high school is concerned
will he presented with their diplomas.
"Shakespeare's Women" was MISS Jes-
sic ImGboden's topic this afternoon. She
said in part:
Woman plays an important part IN the
literature of all ages and nations. A
story without a heroine is almost devoid
of interest. Ruskin says, Shakespeare
has no heroes. he has only heroines. and
that in all of Shakespeare's plays the crl-
sis has been caused directly or indirectly
by mans folly and t redemption, II
there be any, is by the wisdom OF a wo-
! man."
The character of affections are the most
, beautiful in S~hakespeare's dramas.
From these women of pure and noble
purpose we must turn to study the CHAR
acter of a woman VINO a great strength
OF mind. which Ill WOlsey's was mlsol-
rected because Of a wrong ambition. we
, must pity Lady Macbeth whose longing
for power made even murder possible.
AS we close the book, in which these
women live, the grandest, most lasting
monuments to S~hakespeare's name, we
feel a reverence for the great man who
has given these creatures to US. never
before has such a company OF women
greeted the world as that we nave just
reviewed. 1t is composed of women who
| have lived and who still live. immortal-
lied by one an genius.
William Harnan spoke on "The Evo-
tuition of Liberty"
The love of liberty is one of mans
primeval virtues. Liberty in the alb
stract is divided into three classes: civil.
! religious and personal. OF these, civil
after by modern nations. This political
liberty in it's best sense may be said to
| have originated in Greece. .
! The disunited state of affairs resulted
I in her downfall and paved the way for
! Rome, the mex nation in which we hnd
the principles of political equality, prom
inently displayed.
progressive spirit of liberty are the Teu-
+; tons, or Germans. With all their love
of freedom the Teutons gave little
thought to the great question Of consti-
%tutional liberty. And indeed constltu-
tional liberty found it's first adherents
not among these German tribes, nut
among the people of England in whom
the sturdy Teutonic independence was
blended with the Norman pride and
I learning.
To repeal all the old ceremonies and
introduce more simple and serious form
of church service was the object of a
new sect whose members were called
"P~uritans'' by the scoffing courtiers
They proposed to sail over the broad
ocean, to the newly discovered land OF
America. Little did these Pilgrims think
Will engaged in defending their settle
ment against the constantly menacing
dangers that they were laying the foul
dation of what was to be the greatest
nation of modern times. And now 9
country of 10000. 900 people, of great
wealth and of unlimited resources, il
stands a living monumen to liberty. i
is the refuge for the oppressed, the hopt
of all freemen and the stalwart cham,
pion of liberty and justice in every cline
"Trusts' was discussed by Charlie!
Davies, president of the class.
Among all the great questions that de
serve the serious thought of every Amer
lean, the most important and at the sam,
time the n which oy~ershadows al
other questions. not only in it's actua
results, but in it's tremendous possibili
ties for veal or woe, is the Trust uues
! ton.
! Today we have a trust for every con
{ ceivable, industry. the same condition
! prevail in each and the same causes pro
ducing the same results. To CLAIM
that this development is unnatural /
absurd. 1t was not a matter of choice q,
{ the part Of the owners of the manufac
! turing plants, but a relentless workin,
: of the law of self-preservation. Compe
tition Is often said to be the life of trade
{ but it was found by these men that com
{ petition was the death of profit; there
s fore, to insure profit it was necessary t
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