Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-09-08
MENTIONING so NAMES.

MENTIONING 80 NAMES.
AT the recent annual commencent
exercises OF the New York law school
the principal speaker was Martin W.
Littleton. Esq president OF Brooklyn
Borough. He mentioned no names in
the course OF an address in which he
scored greed and iii honesty, but his
audience wouli experience TO difficulty
i'll Identifying the conspicuous figures
in iron, OIL life insurauces md other
activities to whom be alluded, as will be
seen from the following extracts from
the address:
Not very long ago a little man sat
burned for days and years and when the
smoke went up and the fire went out
he raked the ashes and found S30O,0C0,-
900 melted i'll the heat Of sweat and toll.
Ills footsteps Tell upon a continent OF
iron, his cunning brought a c%onquering
army OF Drawn and grit, and with tine
two to serve and sleep not he rose to be
a monarch crowned with steel. But
when at last he saw the shadows length
ening toward the east be turned away
from grinding metal and golden greed
to set up once again his lost ideal.
Granite galleries hing with art and
color, marble structures stuffed with
books OF cult and greed, rose upon this
base Of solid gold. But all granite in
the undiscovered earth and all the
marble mhssed in unmined mountains
and all the books horu Of hate and love,
OF thought and passion, would fail to
teach II half as much as the calm
confession coming from this little man
that his gain was wrongly got and ideal
lost in the getting.
Another man holds hard in check
the surging commerce OF the age. lie
too, found natures boarded treasure in
with a privilege government guaranteed,
he put u plant together whose bound
aries battle all the skill Of men and
whose powers stagger all the r~esolute
nerve Of "A nation.
"Mistaking the decay OF uatrro for
tho grace OF God he turns "a trivial
stipend to the church, "a paltry con.
tribution to- the schools and in return
he expects the pulpit and the chair to
apologize to God and all the world for
the system by which it came. Better
than colleges browning campus grounds
better than churches implicitly pledged
to put the case in cUlorless discourse;
better than all these would he The plain
admission briefly made that all his gain
was got against the laws OF G1d and
man.
~ few decades ago Il man began tC
guarantee his fellow man against the
grave, and since that time tho men who
loved their wives md children ben,
their backs III loving labor to Tx it 80
that want would send no spectcrs t,
thor simple boar when they were dead
r - Men hold ny the hjgtost place u,
the integrity OF finance; men moulding
the customs OF the times into law ior
those who come after; men called bravo
honest. american men, thar gcd to hOlc
this trcasure in the name Of the unborn
these men exploit its fullest power
Tor selfish gain; cxpends its substance il
the dobonair's debaurh; Z cate tictitIone
bonds and trade them for the real gold
exchange the Autographed promise Of q
lie for the sacred fund. Tho COLLAR u
comes, and then cOntGnding captains 81
tho craft aud gar play high to win The
prize. Tho game il finished md the
fund Of millions Tor millions ia organized
into a gamblers roll to bet the stree
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