The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-06-15

thing like the mountains that rear their
heads above the snow of the clouds. That
person is not given over to envy and to
gloating over the wreakage of human
hopes. If you would be respected and
honored in your communities, live the
purest kind of "A life, devoted to noble
ideals.
"Then there is the matter of service
No life is worth living unless there is
an ambition. No man need envy a
good business man what he has honestly
accumulated to care for his family in his
declining years, but there is such a
thing as accommodating big pile of
money simply to behold it. No person
ever acquired lasting fame by devoting
his life to that | would rather write
IA little book that would be handed down
| from generation to generation than to
own all of the wealth of the Standard
Oil company. Monuments have been
erected by grateful people to commem
crate the service of men who have de-
| voted their lives for their country. These
people had the feeling that caused sol
iders to 90 to their death in battle, and
women to give their all, even their chill
dren, and Father Damien to devote his
life among the lepers of the Sandwich
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which means personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Good Men Needed.
There never was a time when there
was such demand for good men and
women. Fortunately there is such a
person at the head of the national gov
eminent today. Let his example and
| that of such men as Lincoln and Grant
be followed instead of that of those who
would destroy the country. Every
great question confronting the govern
pie of this kind. These are troubleous
times, and the ship of state is rocking
amid great pillows, but there will in
the future as in the past rise up those
who will direct it to safety. Every
man who has achieved permanent sue
cess in this or any other age has been
| the master of his achievement, and has
shown devotion to a single purpose and
willingness to sacrifice self. | believe
that YOU will be lasting credit to the
institution from which you 60, and
will be honest men and women, which
will be better than all else"
The ladies' chorus sang Doris" by
Ethelbert Nerin, accompanied by Mrs.
Hubbard with the violin and Miss
Schoyen with the cello. This was very
well rendered.
| Public Schools Democratic.
Judge Ell Torrance of Minneapolis, a
member of the state normal board, adj
dressed the graduating class at much
length. He said that he was a friend of
the public school, as it is a very demo
cratic institution. "Iou can 90 into a
church and the best pews are occupied
by presumably the best people. At the
theatre there are different price seats,
down to twenty-five cents up in the gal
lery. You can buy ticket to New
York, and you can take IA palace car or
a smoker. People are classified wherever
we 90, even if this is democracy. In
the public schools, however, all are equal
in every relation and the only differences
arising are those created by individual
worth. 1 am filled with pride when |
look upon the magnificent class who
have purposed to make teaching their
mission. Often we want to be great
especially when we are young. We can
not take money out of the world, and
life is too short to waste any of it in
folly. Life is up hill all the way, and
along the road are many sacrifices to be
made.
"The spirit of love and sacrifice
shown by individuals is about the only
way that we are permitted to look into
the face of the eternal. In the faces
of your self sacrificing parents you can
more nearly see the face of the eter-
nal than in all of the material things
of this material world. Do not, my dear
children, work for pay. Have "a higher
ideal than dollars and cents. There is
no higher duty than instructing the
young. Good citizens are the best herit-
age of this country, and they are worth
more than good dollars. Be optimistic;
be anything but pessimist. Believe
that today is better than yesterday, and
| that tomorrew will be better than to-
| day. Put your very sole and best eff
| forts into doing something for the up
| lifting of the world. Don't think that the
world owes you living, for it does not
owe anyone penny. You owe the world a
life There are lightweight lives here
to be dedicated to mankind, not to live
off of mankind"
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