The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-24

characteristic OF the student, and l
would rather talk to students than
to any other class of people. talk
to them in my own country, and
am glad to talk to them in every
country which l have the good for
tune to visit. The student is passing
through the springtime of life. In
the spring we SOW the seed-it is the
time of year when the sowing gives
the greatest promise OF a crop; so
that when you leave a thought with
student it grows and develops.
Then | like to speak to students
because the student exercises more
than an average influence upon the
life of his country. The more the
student develops himself the stronger
he becomes; the more he can null
tiply any good thing that is given to
him. 1 like to talk to students, and
like especially to talk to those stu
dents who have had as their inspira-
ton and as their example the dis.
tinguished statesman Of Japan, Count
Okuma, whose guest am today.
loud applause)
1t is impossible to calculate the in
fuence of one human life upon the
lives of others, because the influences
that touch the heart go on and on
We speak to those about, but if we
speak through an example that i'm
presses itself then we speak not only
| to those whom we know today, but to
| their children and their children s
| children to the remotest generations
| of time. And SO l am glad today
to be the guest of this great man
whose name has reached our owI
country and whose face l longed tc
see. (Applause.)
AS you approach the mountain range
you find that few peaks reach uI
above the rest of the range, and the
eye rests upon them. So in approach
ing any land there are national char
| acterS that reach above the rest
Foreigners see these mountain peaks
| of humanity, SO to speak, and learn
ITO know them even though ignorant
of the foothills and of the land in
general. And so |, even in distant
| America, learned to know the great
| men of Japan and learned to count
among them Count Okuma CAD
plause.) l am glad therefore to be
| here as his guest, and as the guest
| of this school, and if you will bear
| with me l will make a few sugges
lions that occur to me as timely in
speaking to students.
In the first place let me say to you
that while things seem strange to a
visitor, whether he visits this land OF
any other land-whiIe these differ
ences first attract attention yet after
all we are much alike. If you look
| at the eye of human being yor
| find that it may have a color that
is distinctly it's own, and you begin
to classify eyes. Some will have blue
eyes, some will have brown eyes, some
will have black eyes, but no matter
| what color the eye is, it looks out
| upon the same landscape and sees
| the same things. And SO We may
differ in appearance or in features
we may differ in size, we may differ
| in dress, but after all we are human
| beings and we have the same i'm
pulses and the same purposes And
this to my mind is an important les
son for us all to learn. We, of course
| coming from our own country recog
niZe that the people We see upon the
i street are not quite SO tall, not quite
SO heavy, as those we meet upon the
street at home, but I never have felt
| that l could hold one in contempt be
cause he was not so large as others
remember hearing years ago a
phrase like this: "That Nature does
not put up her jewels in large pack
ages: that the priceless gems are
usually smaller than the rocks we see
about u.s. And have known persons
small of stature who in mind lowered
| above others with large bodies and
little intellect. l say however much
we may differ in appearance, in dress
in custom, when you come to know