The San Francisco call., 1905-03-06

in this great university after her child
had left her.
These thoughts were only enhanced
after the death of her husband. To
this object her vast fortune was de-
voted without reluctance and without
reserve. To carry out this purpose she
gave this great landed estate. one of
the most magnificent in the world. She
planned and paid for this great assem-
blage of buildings, arches and monu-
ments which adorn this campus. prob
ably, all things considered. the finest
group of academic buildings now in ex-
istence.
While other people were building
palaces and founding libraries and eS-
tablishing great corporations for their
own glory she was building this cher
lshed university for the education of
the common people. For these people
she rummaged the libraries. the gall
eries, the museums of the Old World.
the tonlbs of the Pharaohs. the
curiosity shops of China and japan;
she searched the world that she might
bring treasures rich and rare to this
sacred shrine. This thought dominated
her life, drank up the energies and en-
thusiams Of her soul.
THE purpose Of the Stanfords was
not to erect dead monument how
ever colossal and splendid. in some
fountain whose waters should flow out
to refresh the present and the future
generations of mankind, TO gladden.
and bless the world ages after the
founders had turned to dust and their
souls had gone to God. Every one of
the many hundreds of youths now
gathered here and the hundreds and
thousands yet to be gathered is pen
sioner of the bounty and benevolence
of Senator and Mrs. Stanford. The
Stanfords felt the responsibility under
which they lived to whom Almighty
Providence has intrusted large wealth.
They knew the day would surely come
when the steward must give account to
his master and it behooves him so to
use his money that he can give his ac-
count with joy and not with grief.
THE REAL MONUMENT
TT is not alone the marble and the |
stone that make the monument-it Is |
the great life-giving influences that !
make 1t a monument and a memorial. !
1t is this, this great life-giving influ- !
ence, that makes this splendid univer- |
sity what Ii is. 1t Is this life giving in
1uence that will make this noble pile |
live a monument forever.
Millions and millions Of people in |
this country look upon the multi-mil- !
lionaire as a sort OF highway robber /
who gains his wealth and fiaunts it /
with ostentatious pride before the peo- /
ole. as the result of having robbed II i
away from the earnings Of the poorer 1
classes and to the cost of the common
people Many of these people. have \
no doubt, believe it is their passion and
their creed to think that by the multi
millionaire they have been robbed. To-
ward these millions of people 1t has
caused unrest and distrust, and they 1
look forward to the time when there
shall be an upheaval and downfall Of |
this class. If more of these so-called
multi millionaires had devoted their
wealth in the manner in which the |
Stanfords did. to build UP an educa-
tional institution like this, which
throws out nothing but goodness to
mankind and to the world. hatred and
malice would be turned to thoughts of
love.
Here is founded one Of the most
fully equipped educational institutions
on the earth, where the child Of the
humblest home may have the greatest
at the least cost; where the
moral influences are in the highest de-
gree wholesome and dominant; where
many hundreds of the youth of the
commonwealth are already gathered i
and many more hundreds are to be
gathered In the future.
A LIVING MEMORIAL.
This is a living memorial of sena-
tor and Mrs. Stanford. 1t Is hard to
believe that there is one man in this
whole land who hated Mrs. Stanford
Who could look upon her with mean
jealousy. still less with f1endish hatred?
What had she ever done for the op-
preston of the poor or for the hurt of
mankind? What fiend from the pit
would want TO murder, or put her in
distress? The very devil Of the Puri-
tans. 1t seems to me. would have
scorned such an office. But this mys-
terry time alone will disclose, If 1t ever