The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-17
FOUNDERS DAY AT TULANE
Interesting Exercises Made
By the Presence OF Distinguished
Guests.

New Orleans. March 12.-Founders
day was celebrated today by the vari-
Gus departments of Tulane University
of Louisiana. The ceremonies took
place at Tulane theatre and the i'm
p%ortance of h occasion was increased
by the presence of Edward NJ. Shepard,
of New York, and President Robert c.
Ogden, of the Southern Educational
Conference. Mr.. Shepard made an
dress which received close attention.
His topic was Modern Power of Wcrld
Public Opinion He said in part:
Some times it is said. I think, alb
surdly, if not alphabetically that it
was only five years ago, during our
Spanish war. that the United States
really became a world power The
saying seems to me quite unified to
the true place in military and naval
power and the material respect of the
world which our nation has held since
JackSon'S victory over British Veter-
ans seventy-eight years ago, or since
the announcement of the Monroe doc
trine, or since the resolute assertion
during Jackson's presidency of our
rights against foreign countries or
since our stupendous exhibition Of mill
itary power during the civil war OF
since We have for generations been a
veritable world power, even if until
lately we did not pass under the clam
or of imperial or colonial policy.
L beg of you to observe, however,
that it is not of world powers of which
1 am now speaking, but of world pow
er. In u time we shall escape from
the policing of the earth by iron and
blood; at least hat policy will move
only rarely and when ~insenSate folly
shall be deaf to h command of an
enlightened and benevolent world sent
iment. The ultimate risk. even from
a military or naval point of view Or
that of commerce or finance, or offend
ing that world sentiment will be more
serious han the risk of some specific
and immediate offense against any one
of the war lords of the great nations.
Already such a true world power.
slight though it be to what the future
will bring, controls from day to day
specific national acts over very Dopu-
lous and and travelled sea within three
hundred and sixty degrees of latitude is
ALREADY the world sentiments of right
and wrong. of justice and s~poilation, of
mercy and cruelty, of glory and shame.
Within the past few weeks an event
not in itself of capital Importance has
given us another illustration. perhaps
the most striking yet, of the power OF
a world power sentiment now fully
come of age. But a mont or two 6
a few shot thrown by a German gun
boat in a mall South American fort
brought an outcry the very ext day
from the whole world around. Vene-
zuela cried out to the United States
and within a few hours after the I'M
heroic bombardment, every American
newspaper had its say. Within forty
eight hours it was a topic in the British
parliament,W within a few more years the
comments of statesmen there and ca
kilograms from Washington We're i'm the
foreign offices Of Berlin and Paris. The
German war lord stayed his hand when
he understood the world sentiment
and seemed willing to be sOOther by a
cheque from an American iron master:
and his British ally was at once.
ashamed"
An address by Edward RICHTER, pres
ident of the alumni. a statement by
President Alderman and the comforting
of degrees closed the exercises. Among
those honored by degrees were edward
M. Shepard, Robert c.. Ogden and Chief
Justice Nicholas of the Louisiana su-
preme court.