The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-17
THE HONOR CLEAR
Senator George F. Hoar's Eloquent
Tribute to Senator Allison
at Iowa GU"
Destiny Of the Nation and the Part
Devolving Upon It's Seats
of Learning.

| l am glad to see your eminent statesman,
my associate and friend Of many years, now
| public service in the senate, Mt home among hts
neighbors Wherever in the country he may
| go ne will be at home among his friends.
40 not believe we shall cite Mr.. Allison as an
sion and the brass band. He has shown high
| quality for variety of important service in our
republican army. incline to think he would
fail as trumpeter. For thtrty-six years, count
Ing the term now begun-more than three-ffths
OF the entire life of Iowa-your state has called
him to the highest place in her gift. For all
that time his companions in tho senate have
called him to the most difficult and responsible
places In theirs.
Ever siuce the civil war the prosperity and
comfort Of the American people, so far
legislation affects them have depended very
largely on the policy which has regulated the
| currency, the standard Of value, the protection
| Of the American industries and the expenditure
of the government.
To-day the country Is planted securely upon
| the gold standard. The credit of the republic
| stands highest among all the nations of the
| world. The public debt, what there Is left Of
| it, is no longer an object of anxiety to any
| body. The independence of American manufac-
| ture has been achieved. We are the foremost
| manufacturing and the foremost exporting ma
| ton, as we'll as the wealthtest and strongest
| among mankind and the country is expanding
| probably more than thousand million dollars
| year, without a murmur of discomfort any
where.
| AAlSON xSlpo SuuBAuouIs
1t is no exa operation to say that to this result
| your senior senator has contributed more than
| any other man. In every conflict Of extreme
| opinions his judgment has, more than any other,
turned the scale. He has performed no office Tor
| the country not always likely to attract public
attention, but after all, an office productive OF
| an infinite sense of safety. The lightning rod
may be very modest addition to the architec-
| ture or ornament Of the dwelling. But 1t gives
| the inmates amazing sense of security. Mr.
| Allison has been the ltghtning-rod OF the sen
| ate He has drawn the fire from many politi-
| cal thundercloud. During all this time having
a large share in controlling vast public e1pendi-
ture. in shaping the policies which create cities,
| and towns and states, and make them grow, he
! has kept his hands clean, his integrity unsul-
| lied his way Of life modest and frugal
| The action faithful and the honor clear
What have just said Of your senior senator
is as creditable to the state as to him. his
| accident. She has kept him in the public ser
| vice because in that way the best opinions, In
| terest desire and moral being of Iowa herself
have been kept there In influence ana power:
| Surely no American visit Iowa without
! feeling an honorable pride OF the states which
| we owe to the Louisiana purchase. whose centen-
NAL we are celebrating this year, Iowa IS the
foremost one If we reckon Dy NUMBERS
and the foremost without exception If we reckon
| by everything else that makes up strength ana
the glory of a free state.
The African and Asiatic.
We have not yet learned to deal Justly, on
|
the Asiatic. Men like to say that this is a
| white mans country and act as If 1t We're
| white mans Christianity, golden rule and JUS
tice. I believe that the golden rule, the renglon
| If Christ the declaration of Independence, the
constitution Of the United States Will In COD $
good time, settle this problem for us also. Inc Inc
longer I live I am the more strengthened ID
| the belief-a belief which came to me WITH the
blood T inherited-that man God created him,
If he be left In freedom, may be trusted VIII
self government. va ''@5't5 ,1.,,t"et
| lean fashion with race which many men
| count inferior, is still the great and command
ing duty of the hour and generation. 1t Is no
longer sectional question-if 1t ever were In
| the matter Of mob violence, Illinois and Kansas
are guiltier than Mississippi. 1t was a Mas
sachusetts voice that pronounced the late 5udg-
ment Of the supreme court OF me Unl d STATES
to the effect that the right of 10, OO0 900 OF our
fellow citizens to a share in the government OF
the republic is in the end political question
with which the court that expounds and enforces
the constitution in all other matters has nothing
| to d. So that Mr. Chief Justice Lynch Is now
the highest authority in this republic on all
judicial questions either Of the civil OF political
rights Of the negro.
Functions Of the University.
The function of the university is to declare
that the most impracticable things in this world
| are the most practical; that the greatest re-
atty is that which is ideal: You may trace
| the career of man back with Darwin to the
monkey and the mollusk. but the most impor-
tant force in human history is that Of which
Darwin has nothing to say-which science does
not explain.
Beside the pedigree Of the physical and animal
life there is the pedigree of the spirit-a spirit
ual lineage for which the professor Of biology
does not account. We like to find 1t as We
trace the descent of our splendid youth of 1851
from the men and women Of the revolution an6
to trace their descent from the men and womer
of the pilgrim days in the inheritance Of lineage
and blood.
But 1t is not confined to that Inheritance
There wireless telegraphy that came
down across the ages from the men of Marathon
and Thermopylae to the men Of the Mayhower
the revolution and the civil war. 1t is moi
everywhere earth that the receiving stations
of these signals are to be found Thank God
who has not confined them to any single color
nation continent, there was spot in South
Africa year or two ago where race Of Dutch
farmers were able to comprehend the message
d trust there some men left In the United
States who have to hear.
Let It be the Office OF the university to select
from literature and science what will be peren
nial and eternal, and send out her pupils
equipped with these: Let her 80 train her chill
dren that they shall feel themselves alike the
companions and competitors Of the great Of ali
time.
Individual Character.
The fate Of the nation depends in the last re-
sort on individual character. Whatever safe
guards may be established, however complicated
or well adjusted the mechanism, you come to g
somebody having the will to do right when 1t III
. in his power and seems to be to his interest t.
do wrong. All elections depend this prin
cip1e. In the end you must somewhere come
| to point where the sense of public duty IL
stronger than party spirit or your election IL
but sort Of fighting, or sort of cheating.
Nj The same thing is true Of the individual
voter, the legislator, the governor, the judge
or the juror. On these men depend the safety
and permanenee Of the republic. On these mer
depend lfe liberty and property. Each has t.
make that choice to decide whether he will b,
Influenced by ambition, party spirit, the desire
for popular favor fear Of popular disfavor
on one side or by sense Of duty on the other.
Individual WILL
The destiny OF the republic IN the last resor
depends on individual will. The choice of thu
individual Is largely affected by what we cal
strength of3wll, by that habit Of the soul which
enables men to adhere to deliberate purpose,
and principles, formed when reason is unaf
fected by passion or desire, against the pressure
of excitement or immediate demand.
The great single purpose Of moral education
general, permanent and deliberately conceived
purpose, in spite of motives which appeal to &
with special strength at the time of the choice
Of action, to give strength to resolution which
will overcome the strength of temptation. II
teach this is the great duty OF the university
| The final purpose OF all scholarships, as o.
all life, is character. II the university be tn,
handmade Of science science herself is but til,
handmade Of the soul. The lover Of truth il bu
\ | a poor serf If he does not know that in til,
great feudal system this is the sovereign bafor,
4 whom all truth, science, knowledge and art ar,
but the chief vassa1s and officers OF the court
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