The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1905-06-01


sponsibility for the welfare of
men is more dangerous to So
ciety than the ignorant emi-
grant whose motive in coming
here is to find larger life for
himself and his children. There
is not city in America that
could not be redeemed from
municipal corruption. if the
educated and well-to-do people
would do their public duty.
What a tremendous loss to the
world, if Moses had thrown the
weight of his life against rath-
er than for the suffering, ignor-
ant, and oppressed. He chose
wisely when he chose to iden-
tify himself with the people of
God. They needed him, but he
also needed them, if he was to
be the best that in him lay.
For finally it rested on himself
what he would be. He might
throw away his opportunity, or
trusting iii God he might seem
to his friends to throw it away,
and really make the highest
use of it. We do not expect.
you do not expect, to occupy a
place relatively as great in the
world as did Moses. But the
first thing that every educated
young man and women ought
to feel is that they owe the
world something.
The Devil never invented a
bigger lie than that the world
owes any man a living, till he
has earned it.
When you are thru school,
take the work that lies nearest
to you. IF you can not get what
you want, take the next thing.
No work is dishonorable ex-
cept poor work, or work that
makes for the injury of men.
Moses was for a third of his life
a shepherd. But he found
afterwards that this discipline
was necessary for the man who
would lead the Israelites out Of
the house of bondage. One
trouble with the Russians in
Manchuria is that that they
have not acquainted themselves
with the territory where they
are fighting. Moses learned all
the secrets of life in the desert
before he was called to lead
the people. He also had lost
something of the rashness
which belongs to youth. You
will find educational opportun-
ity in any position you may find
yourself in. The man or the
woman who has ceased to learn
is marked for intellectual and
spiritual death.
One of the most pressing
problems of our time is how to
make the best use of the men
and women who are gradual
ing from our higher institutions
of learning. There was time
when all college graduates ex-
pected to enter the professions
of law, medicine or divinity.
Germany finds it hard to pro-
vide lucrative employment
for all of her graduates When
women first went to college al
most every graduate could find
place in High School as
teacher. But in the older parts
of the United States there are
many more seeking places tina
there are situations. So now
many college graduates are
seeking and finding places in
the lower grades. This is tend
ing to elevate aud dignity the
work. The demand i'll every
department is for men aud wo-
men who are capable of doing
common things in Il larger way.
The Christian idea of education
is not that few are to be lifted
into special privilege, but that
all men are to be made better
brothers in the human family.
The situation here in North
Dakota is to the point. We are
and must remain largely an
agricultural state. What are
we goirg to do with the boys
and girls who graduate from our
High Schools and Colleges?
Is this education to divorce
them from the greatest materi-
al interest in the state? Effici-
ent agriculture lies at the basis
of all national prosperity.
Booker Washington is right in
teaching the negro that the
basis of civilization is intelli-
gent labor.
1t would be a great day for
North Dakota when all ever the
state some of the best trained