New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-08
PACKARD ANNIVERSARY.
ST. CLAIR MKELwAY- ADDRESSES COM
MERCIAL SCHOOL GRADUATES.

Carnegie Hall was filled last night with the
friends and pupils. past and present. OF Packard
Commercial School, who had gathered to celebrate
the torty-second anniversary Of its birth by COM
mencement exercises of unusual interest. St. Clair
McKelway the principal speaker. The Rev
DR.. Russell Fl. Conwell also made an address. S. c.
t. Dodd presided. There were seventy-nine gradu-
ates from the school of stenography and sixty-two
from the school Of business. The programme con-
tanned portrait of S. S. Packard and this senti-
ment from his pen:
In all Coming time shall hs n ne hs sss df Be-
known that in this calling have not wholly failed,
my highest personal ambition Will be met 1t is OF
this title am most proud.
st. Clair McKelway took for the topic of his ad-
dress Signs of the Times. and said in part as
follows
One of the things we must learn and practise is
the expansion OF our thought 70 meet the expansion
States as world Power and not merely as con- &C.
necessary. Whether this be lamentable or com
mendable i Is impera tive In II Is TIE guaty OF
pride, according TO temperament to age or to nanI5
to it. into it and with it. Those between eighteen ana
forty determine the present ana VIII Sette me
carries in the course of the hereafter The rising
$500 ~ % f , tde W. $3.50 viii nreserve
its consequences. Some dissent from that decree
moderation and Will hold to moral responsibility me
administration of the trust. National war 1ota
by criticism of its origin its justice and its conduct
from punishment and the considerable or the con-
temptuous allowance OF il mark difference in the
conduct of peoples and of governments from what
II before under like circumstances. Inc mag
nitude of nations in part accounts for this. The
preponderance Of side over that on the
other in part accounts for II. The desper-
ate chances of our Revolution mace the Tory
nationality in the War 1872 made the Federal
sympathizer with Great Britain a danger to his
country, and not merely doubter OF its cause ana
strength. The passionate divisions and the burning
questions thrust into the between the states
cost the Copperhead arrest, contumely, PUNISH
ment and a measured ostracism But IN Great
Britain the Dom Pauites and in the United States
for noise than for numbers, for anger than for
influence, and they have not disturbed the repose
of citizenship, the equanmity OF government, the
serenity of Parliament of Congress- or the polse
of Queen or President. They have been interesting
to students of political malformat ons-and to
litical control change hands at the next election
the Republic would Of necessity retain al! its &C
uusitions and all the responsibilities which they
Impose. There might be recourse to new men, put
there could be little If recourse even TO new
methods. Accomplished expansion 1s as unalter-
able fnaty National independence or Ma
tional union. This is of the facts about which
he who would deceive delude his countrymen, or
any part of them, he who would delude himself,
to get their safe his resentment at lOSt
leadership or at persisted prestige, should nave a
care. There is a misrepresentation whlch is minor
and transient. There is a mlSconceptlon OF Ma
tional spirit and National purpose which is bad
so will be neither legal nor PUBLIC nor social pun
ishments but for them surely will be confinement
for life at hard within the limits of their own
littleneSS.