The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-05-25

and better cause for a life of nobu-
| ny and pleasure in the United States
IMAM IN any other country the chan
oelior brought forth many striking
thoughts and followed each with
proof that was at once convincing and
| impressive.
America is the best place for the
/ average man to live and in America
the average man has better advant-
ages and is better contented. and
said the speaker, mine hundred and
hmety-ntne men out of every thous-
and are average men," In America
the average man has much to look
forward TO, in fact he can look for
ward to the very highest things in
4 life, in no other country is this the
case Chancellor Buchtel then drew
a comparison between the life of the
average man of this country and the
average man of England. France.
Italy and other countries of the Old
World. In England the average man
mas for contemplation a life in the
workhouse after he reaches the age
of fifty years, he has this pathetic
condition staring him in the face all
through the early years of his life.
What a difference in America, no
/ man ohAAAAAA III AAIAAAu ana nOuN looks
forward to spending his old age in n
workhouse or poor house, such a con
ditlon OF affairs is not known in this
country
MANY people" declared Dir. Buch-
tel, believed that the great painting,
The Man With the Hoe having for
Its original French peasant. was
oyerdrawn and exaggerated. " Such
is not the case he declared, France
under her present condition makes
such men by the acres His glowing
picture of the American man with the
hoe, the modern farmer and rancher,
aroused much enthusiasm in the aud
fence
In Italy a cross of gold on q high
spire towering hundreds of feet into
the air over rich and magnificent
Catholic cathedral, while the street
below is running over with beggars,
is the typical street scene. Not so
in our country. The typical scene
is village street with neat and COM
Portable cottages on each side peo-
pied by happy people. little school
house nearby and the meeting house
further down the street and no beg
CARS anywhere to be seen"
The ideal spirit of social equality
that prevails in America was point
ed out rs another great advantage
of this country over all others.
Another element of American life
that has its great advantages is the
delightful sense of humor which pre-
walls here, declared the speaker. His
happy and apt Illustrations were
greatly enjoyed.
The value of the dignity OF labor is
Fft11vs nr1tr in fhfu ~
and this forms a great element of
strength of American life.
In closing the chancellor declared
that the highest and best educational
advantages in the world were open to
me youth OF America.
II was an address of great value,
and when the speaker had concluded
every person in the audience had a
higher conception and a better APP
probation of American life and could
rejoice anew that he was privileged
to live in the United States.
Chancellor Buchtel is at all times
a pleasing and popular speaker and
the class made no mistake in asking
him to deliver the commencement ad-
dress.
Following Chancellor Buchtel
President Samuel n. Wheeler of the
school board, in happy ADDRESS pre-
scented the diplomas to the young peo-
pie In beginning he extended thanks
to Chancellor Buchtel and paid high
tribute to his address. The gentle
man then dwelt briefly with the grow
tn of the schools. He declared the
term of school just ended the most
successful in many years in the his
tory of the city. He spoke enthus-
iasticany of the worth of the class
and their faithful application to their
duties.
In presenting the diplomas Mr..
Wheeler referred especially to Miss
Ramsey, the valedictorian, and to Miss
Fletcher, the salutatorian.
Following the presentation of di-
plomas the class song was sung by
/ the graduates and with the class yell
in the air the public exercises of the
fourteenth high school graduating
class were at an end.
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