The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-22

fact that tho German WA trained in his
mind, that he lad high id rs and finally
Shared 'he.e ideals hy his praotica! gay:
| was immensely struck, a. l think all OF
us tn,lst have been struck, 10y the way IN
which, n few weeks ago, our fellow citizens
of German birth or descent many OF whom
are here in this audience) took part in the
service Of concentrating the life and
writings Of Schiller.
Each race that comes here, each e!e-
ment, can contribute something OF value
and can contribute very much OF VaIue.
and it would be a very good thing for all
of our people IL we should personally shape
our development so that it would come as
natural to us as 1t does to the people OF Ger
mary to recognize the incaloulable debt ot
a nation to writer like Schiller, to man
who again has done work for the pubic
for the nation, for all mankind, upon which
no price can lie put,
"From Germany this country has learned
much. Germany has contributed a great
element to the blood Of our people, and IL
has given the most marked trend ever
eiven to us along scholastic and university
lines. to the whole system Of training stu
dents and scholars. In taking what we
should from Germany, from this great
kindred nation, l wish that we could take
specially tho idealsm which renders 1t
natural to them to celebrate such an event
as schillers life and writings: and also
the keen, practical common sense which
enables them to turn their idealistic spirit
into an instrument for producing the most
perfect military and industrial organiza-
tons that the world has ever seen.
PEACE SHOULD PREVAIL.
Il hope most earnestly for the day when
we shall see peace prevail among the nations
OF mankind; peace industrial, as well as
military, prevail within the nations them
selves. No man in public position can,
under penalty of having forfeited the right
to the respect Of those whose regard he
most values, fail as the opportunity comes
to do all that in him lies for peace.
But peace OF valuable type comes not
TO the man who Graves it because he ID
afraid but to the man who demands it
because it is right. The peace granted
oontenptuously to the wea killing and the
cowar I'd is but a poor boon after 1t has been
granted
I'VE must keep our minds upon the
essentials end not upon the non-essentials.
In 1881 there were people who cried peace,
peace, who said that any peace, no matter
how shameful was preferable to the worst
of all wars, q fratricidal war. and If those
people had had their way we should have
been hanging our heads now. We would
now he feeling that the country founded by
Washington, the country that at that time
was perpetuated by Lincoln, had gone
down in the wreck of irretrievable disaster
we got peace then, peace forever a.
believe. in this country because there we're
sufficient number of men who felt as Presi-
dent Wright felt and went to the war to fight
for permanent peace. l have no patience
with the brawler the quarreler, the swash-
buckler, and | have a little less for the
academic person. either Of body or soul.
who believes that nation any more than an
individual can afford to put peace before
Justice. Put justice first; 1t will generally
lead 10 peace, but follow it wherever 1t
leads"
Degrees were conferred upon the MEM
hers Of the graduating class by Carroll d.
Wright, president Of the collegiate de-
partment. and upon the post graduate
students by G. Stanley Hall, president OF
the university.
SPEAKS AT HOLY CROSS.
Several thousand persons were seated
in the grand stand on Fitton Field at Holy
Cross College The President made brief
speech, standing under a small canopy,
facing the grand stand. large crowd
of people who could not find seats in the
grand stand stood in the rain while the
President was speaking, and the rain came
in torrents. Mr. Roosevelt spoke humor-
ously of the recent defeat of the Harvard
baseball team by the Holy Cross players,
and the colegians made things lively with
their college yell. Other things he said
were:
In America we have been given as
peorle exceptional advantages. We are
TO be held to an exceptional accounta-
bility for the use we make of those adj
yantapes. We are not to be excused II we
fsi, to do our duty abroad and at home
| want to see this nation not only strong
but lust, and not only just but strong.
want to see us develop as a nation those
qualities which we prize in the individual
man We want to see the individual Ameri-
can decent man but nothing but decent
man want to see him able to hold his own.
! want to see that he does wrong to no one
else. and does not suffer wrong himself.
| 1t Ia the same way WIFI tilS Hdllou.
The constant effort Of our people should
be to see that we do not wrong any other
people, that we are prompt to stretch the
! helping hand Of friendship to any other
| Power which we are able TO befriend. yet
that we make it evident that this attitude
springs not from weakness but from the
junction Of strength with a sense Of justice.
Among our own people what / most
desire to see is the union of a lofty sense
of the rights of others with the power to
act efficiently and effectively | do not
wish to see in politics two entirely separate
groups, one composed of the men who
mean well and can do anything, and the
! other Of the men who are thoroughly
efficient, but do not mean well at all. |
want to see in combination the power Of
efficient action with the power of feaity to
lofty ideal.
81 wish to see in statesman and in private
citizen the same qualities that are in the
soldier on pitched fields in campaigns. A
man who is soldier is worthless if he has
not In the first place got in him the root