Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-13


and the Danube. France and Germany
glared defiantly across the Rhine and
Austria, now expelled from Germany,
competed with Russia for the territory
of the Danube and the Balkan States.
At this time Italy was at variance with
France because Tunis had been seized
from her. Thus old friendships were
severed and old enemies united in the
forming of two great alliances; the
triple, composed of Germany, Italy and
Austria, the dual, com posed of France
and Russia, while England cycling with
suspicion both alliances, stood off in
splendid isolation"
With the opening of the twentieth
century, the kaleidoscope OF European
politics again turns and new and inter
esting problems are presented. The
questions of the Rhine and Danube fade
into insigniticance before the more i'm
portant ones of Asia and Africa. In
the last decade, England, Germany and
France rushing into Africa, each seized
as much land as she could and regret
ted she did not seize more. England,
taking possession of over half of the
available land, incurred the jealousy of
Germany and France. In Asia, Russia,
extending her possessions oyer the
northern part of the Pacific coast, and
England threatening to seize the south
ern part, are separated on the west
| only by Afghanistan and on the east by
China. The Russians, seeking Pacific
seaport, seized Manchuria and threat
ened eventually to seize all China, thus
filling with apprehension, not only
England but also Japan, who feared
for her existence While the strife was
over the Danube and over the deserts
and forests of Africa the United States
took no part, but when the problems
! turned to China, our next door neigh
Dor across the Pacific, we showed in
unmistakable terms that we desired the
integrity of China.
We have always been true to the
legacy of Washington, and will con
| tinue to be as long as the controversies
are distinctly European, but when they
emerge, as they are now doing, into
| world politics we must, as one of the
great nations of the world, take our
| part. President Roosevelt, in his in
augural address, strikes the keynote of
| our international policy when he says !:
| we wish peace, but we wish the peace
of justice, the peace of righteousness.
| We wish it because we think it is right
and not because we are afraid. No
weak nation that acts manfully and
| justly should ever have cause to fear
US, and no strong power should ever
be able to single us out as subject for
insolent aggression
| My dear classmates, we are gathered
| together perhaps for the last time as a
class, and our good-bye's must be said.
| -Four years ago we entered upon our
high school course, new to our sur
roundings and perhaps a trifle per-
| picked, and frightened. During these
years we have grown up together in
our work; we have studied together,
and perhaps at times we have played
| together. And now as we part there is
| a pang of regret that we must leave
| these pleasant associations and feel
| ing of uncertainty as we face the future.
| Up to this time our plans have been
| formed for us; our difficulties have
| been explained by those more eXper-
| fenced than we, and in fact we have
moved in a fixed and definite groove.
| But now as we go out from the narrow
| limits of school life into the world, a
new field will be opened to us, and we
shall be thrown more or less on our
own resources. With no one to mark
out the track, with only ourselves to
| solve the problems of life, let us take
this step with strong determination to
do our best, to be always firm to the
| truth and to make our lives count.
One great lesson has grown out of the
experience of school life even in the
time of greatest encouragement =:
| There is no excellence without labor.
We have proved that only by relying on
| our own faithful efforts do we excel in
strength. Emerson is right when he
says DO the thing and you shall
| have the power, but they who do not
| the thing have not the power When
we have truly labored the reward is
| great because our efforts have all passed
into the building of a stronger charac-
ter. We may lose wealth and position;
| disappointment and failxre may come;
| but the power to acquire knowledge, to
| solve problems, to seize the moment,
no one can take from us.
Great is our 'apL recitation of all those
who by their kind and constant help
have made this successful schOOl-life
possible. The every thought of the
| school board and other citizens has
been for our interest; they have done
their best to supply all the necessary
| equipments for our progress. Wausau
is the only city III the state where so
many men have given generously from
| their private resources that the school
might be thoroughly furnished. We
| express our gratitude to the faculty
| who have always held before us the
great field of attainment beyond, and
who have always pointed US to higher
| ideals of character Perhaps our par
| ents have sacrificed that we might OBJ
| tain an education, and the least we can
now do is to show that these efforts, on
our behalf, SO gladly put forth that we
might have fair chance in life, have
| not been wasted.
| As we leave these days behind, may
we take with us all that we have gained
| of ability to see the truth and to follow
| its leadings May the grand gospel of
work always inspire us to higher at
tainments in thought and character.
And now, dear classmates, goodbye, or
as eur old Saxon fathers would have
said, God DE with you"
! President q. ID. Jones, of the Board
| of Education, delegated the pleasu re
of presenting the diplomas to Supt.
Karl Mathie. Mr.. Mathie began the
work of the Wausau schools just when
most of the class of 1905 were entering
school, thirteen years ago. He has had
very good chance to analyZe the char
acter of the graduates and therefore
was in very fine position to give them
the advice which he did, and if they FOL
| low it the Wausau high school Ygii. fave
honored men and women in its Alumni.
DIR. Russell Lyon is having the wing
of his residence raised from one to two
stories.
lf -, I-;nd of k;1touS mood