The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-29

or partisan, or narrow sense. but sectional because ours Is the peculiar bond of a common suffering in the past and of com mon perplexities and difficulties in the present.
 Debt to the South.
 "The educated life will touch the South under the double charter of discipleship and of leadership. If we are to wisely ex- ercise the right to lead we must first &C., cept the obligation to learn. Let no one as- sume. with cheap effrontery or supercili- ous dogmatism, that he is necessarily wiser than his section and it's people. We owe to the South the devotion of fear less reverence and a candid love, we owe hsr at all times the tribute of our cour- age. and honorable compliment of an alert and faithful conscience, but first of all we owe to her an understanding heart. It is. perhaps a temptation of the educated life to assume that it must be always leading, always teaching and never learning. The man. however, who would go forth in the jaunty confidence of his intellectual ap- premiership intent upon instructing the course of civilization and of readjusting in about thirty minutes. all the historic forces of human society is likely to get a jolt; a jolt not due to the rumble of the worlds applause but to that cosmic but indulgent impatience with which this uni verse of ours deals out oblivion to the weak. In the exercise of civic influence ignorance is fatal weakness. Those who would serve the South must love her enough to understand her. Her history is back of you, her institutions are before you, her life-religiously, socially, educa- tionally, is to be your life her fate your fate, her honor or dishonor yours. her sorrow or joy, or pride or glory yourss How can you do otherwise than open your heart to all that she is, to all that she has to teach you?
 Service of Education.
 But the service of the educated life is necessarily a service of leadership as we'll as a service of disciplenship. If the South has a right to your life, she mas right to it's best, ,si its best in thought, in judgment, in aspiration. You Will re- member that no country was ever truly or permanently served by any servile fear of ignorant majorities. and that every country has been best served by those who representing the great i'm perishable interests of liberty, equality. and probity, have set their faces toward the East in the high faith that no man. s light can be won out of another's dark ness, that no mans upbuilding can be won out of another's ruin, that no mans peace can he won out of anothers wretchedness, and that every human thing Is, by the loss or gain of every other human thing' forever defeated or advanced. Wherever the white child lies in industrial slavery, wherever the children of the State, black ar white, lie in ignorance and inefiiciency, wherever there are wrongs to be risnted or genuine rights to be protected. wher- ever there Is a truth that needs telling or A blessing to be handed on your hearts will 20 out ir wise and patient but con- structive sympathy; tactfully consioerate, gentle, but as unyielding "in all the night of this our Nfe' as the splendid Kindness of the stars. ,-.--
 Your interest will also lie, not in your section alone, but in the largest ana roblest destiny of the nation. Your natriotism will be not Southern only, but National as well and yours will therefore he. in the deepest and truest sense, Ma tional citizenship. That citizenship Is vour right. 1t is your legitimate and in alienable heritage. l beg that you Will not be driven from that high and inclusive standpoint through any evaporation at occasional demagoguery in the Nortn' or by any of the plausible appeals or occa- sional demagoguery at the soutn' Do not let narrowness upon eitner sue ulive 2 won from the standpoint of that free ana generous Anericanism which dares re- toice in every inheritance and in every achievement of our common country
 Dr. Buttrick Introduced.
 When he had concluded his address, which was received with enthusiasm, MT. Murphy presented to the class and the large audience. Dr. Wallace Buttrtck of New York, Secretary of the General Ed ucation Board. He presented him in appropriate terms, in which he alluded to the high position he occupies in the affairs of education in the United States.
 Dr. BuftfYck. in a short speech, thank ed Mir. Murphy and the audience for the compliment he had received, and spoke impressively of the important epoch in the lives of the young women. advising them to regard 1t as the commencement. not the finish, of the important portion of their lives, and urging them to renew ed efforts in the line of mental develop ment.
 A bit of humior was very much enjoyed when Dr. Buttrick declared himself a Daughter of the Confederacy," and he