The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-05-22

us to judge not what people profess. but
by what they do, and wisdom teaches nc
that while under our form of government
we are free and independent people and
are given great liberty, yet we are not :
free agent in the sense that we can roam
hither and thither as wild animal roams
through the forest, bouncing upon eyery-
lining that is weaker than itself, since we
have bounden duty to perform in re.
turn tor the liberty we enjoy and this is
to SO live that we may assist in building
up and protecting the government which
protects us. Many people who shout
liberty do not know what the term lib.
erty means, because it is not liberty that
they want, but license; license to destroy
that which required the wisdom of ages
TO construct; license to abolish all law
and he law unto themselves, not even
controlled by the law of God, which
commands that Thou shalt not kill.
Everything in nature has fixed rule or
law-since law is but rule of action
and violation ofany Of these rules brings
about disturbance. TIE harmony of
the world is dependent upon law and
you show me community where the
law IS not enforced aud Crime goes un-
checked and UNPUBLISHED and will show
you community where there is no pro.
lection to life. liberty or property. Our
mind is but an echo of our early teach
ings and environments. and If all men
were brought up to obey the law and as
sociate with none but good, true and
loyal law.abiding citizens little need
would there be for jails and peniten-
tiaties; hence every young man aud every
young woman, yea, every man and every
woman, should carefully guard his asso.
ciates, since the Good Book tells us that
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap What finer rule could we
take for our guidance than the beautiful
thought expressed in Pope:
'Unblemished let me live or die un-
known;
80 grant an honest fame or grant me
none
without being understood as GEN.
surfing any of those brave men who
CALAMITY went to the front when the
bugle sounded and risked their lives to
fight our battles, yet when the press for
months had been publishing pro and con
the claims of different ones as to what
they did or did not do, it seems to
me that none of them did more than
their duty, and believe the Ameri Fan
people would really appreciate it much
more If these gentlemen would consider
and heed the thought expressed by one
of the poets. who said:
When I am not thanked al all / am
thanked enough.
"'I've done my duty and I've done no
more
"a duty, once done, has its own re-
UNA ri in, h0 Nf
science. or as it is beautifully expressed
in familiar quotation:
81 slept and dreamed that life was
Beauty;
l woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Trail on, poor heart, increasingly,
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and MONDAY light to thee
when young man or woman Of the
present day graduates from school and
HOSTS the sails on the Bark of Life and
tacks against the tide of competition that
exists in a trade, business or profession
he or she is apt to have the high ideals
formed in school disappear as the morn
ing dew before the midday sun. Serious
questions confront us along the line Of
the Capitalization of wealth and the com.
of various smaller competitive
business institutions into mammoth big
which necessarily liniit the OPP
pOrtunities for employment or for bust
ness and yet hundreds and hundreds of
avenues are open for the young man or
woman of today that were unknown to
our ancestors. Immense fortunes are
now often made in a single day. The
heads of some of our large corporations
la %
than leading men OF q former age in a
life time. This is practical age and it
behooves our young men to carefully
and keep abreast with the times. Re-
member that improved machinery is do
ing away with many trades. Many of
the old fashioned business ideas and
methods are not suitable to present con-
ditions. The professions are changing.
I do not altogether like the change in
the political world, and should any Of
you, in the future have political aspira-
tons, and the young man or young wo-
man of today will be the politicians of
the future, stand boldly for what you
think is right, regardless of the position
of the political party with whom you
may affiliate, since he who is narrow
and welded to party that he can
not lay it aside and do his full duty-and
duty demands that he stand for what he
thinks is rights not good citizen.
- Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and, knowing,
dare maintain
Are the bulwArk of any community"
The names Of the graduates are as fol-
lows: Viola P. Harrington, Rose M.
Ewing c. Thompson and Verne
c. Hurlbut.