The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-30
Noted Orator Addressed
 Alumni.
Appealed to Hearer. to Preserve old ta<aIs of American Government ana Lamentea Imperiaiistic
 Tendencies Of Present.

University, May 2s.--fSpecial)-- Charles Towne today in the presence of great audience at the exercises com memorating the seventy-fifth anniver- sary of the founding of the University of Alabama, delivered an inspiring ad- dress on American citizenship.
 Mir Towne's address In its lofty. thought and it's compelling oratory stirred his hearers to a high pitch Of enthusiasm It was an appeal for ad- herence to the older ideas of the Amer fcan government and a protest against the modern tendency plainly apparent to draw away from the old fashioned ideals.
 Mr Towne deplored the influence which was making more and more for centralized government. He protested against the insidious encroachments upon the rights of the sovereign states, He protested against America as im- < perial for that's what it is not and what 1t could never be if the constitu- ton was respected and held inviolate-
 He pronounce as ''an American,an. ideal that is held up to us in a red-fsced man with warm strenucsity holding aleft in his strong right arm big stick" America. he wanted to be world power by example and not by conquest. There was not place un- der the American system of government for dependencies and colonies where
 
 Towne's trend of thought. his convtc- lions So forcefur1y expressed harmo- nfxed with the opinion of his southern hearers and they gave him frequent and hearty applause.
 States Rights Discussed.
 On the question of States rights, on frnperialiasrn. on purity in government life he voiced the convictions of his hearers The audience which gathered in Clark Hall to hear him was delight ed with the address and at its close they gave him an ovation.
 For fun minute the audience stood and cheered the powerful and ccnvtnc- ing orator The fact that Mfr Towne would speak. that he had. although Ill. decided to make the trip from washiunton to Alabama to deliver this single address, against the advice Of his physician. gave an added interest t oths appearance of one of An1sricas seu great orators and crowded Clark Hau as perhaps it has never been crowded before.
 And inc audience hearing the master lv address remembered the honcrs chat mad come to the distinguished visi- for Congressrnan from Minnesota sen- asor from Minnesota and Congressman from New York. and decided that they had been we'll bestowed
 A vaferan member of the faculty or -AsaNauaa after the address. said: we have had in our history some or the great orators of the world here. put do not believe there is any speaker ItvIua better fitted to address an an- efsnce than Charles 4. Towne."
 Has Striking Personality.
 sv virtue of a handsome personali- ~ and A distinguished presence, MT. TDwne captivates his audience oetore he opens his morth. His face IS Hke Tat of the great. English actor, Sir ..Ntrf lonnnASS ana asceticism. ! splendid stock of gray hair covers his massive head Tne hndv is that of an athlete. broad or Shoulders and slightly protruding. He has an orators best equipment full and beautifully modulated voice.
 MT. Towne was present to deliver the annual address to the society of 1e alnmni. He was escorted to the stage hv A committee composed of Prest- dent AbercronIbie. Congressman Syd- nev T. Bowie, and ex-Congressman K. III. Clarke. Mir. Towne was presented fS>the audience by his colleague Tn Con9ress, Hon. Sydney J. Bowie, of AIahama. who alluded to the sacrifice MT Towne had made of seat In Congress because he left the Republi- can party on account of the money question
 Mir Rovvie alluded briefly to his re-  sought the honor of seat in Con ryess had a high conception of the natr1otisun and the ability of the Awerfeans. found as I sat among them that conception. as high as 1t was. fell short of the aetuahty. Now as I am preparing to lay aside the bonora and the responsibilities of the hJgh ofaca which my people conferred unoT1 me. I declare in my opinion the 'Amertoan Congress is the ahlest and Tnost patriotic law making body in the world. And no finer, no more typical representative of the aolltS and the patriotism of that Congress ex ists than the Hon Cnaries A. Aowe of New York, who will now address ycu' A.. A,s anpearance at this celebration or tnls college anniversary. Mir. Towne oe- clared that on June 3oth he would se to the northwestern State Of Michisal to attend the reunion Of ms ~ ~clasa ago from the University of Michigan.
 gro make thls trip" said MT. fowne sI have to make peculiar sacrfices put I could not resist the temptauon batte myself in the atmosphere or Inls consecrated spot. In the life or Eu- ropean university seventy five years is not a long period nor IS it Iong In the fife of an American university Ie is onlv A mile stone to mark the period in a strong and lusty youth.
 The seventy-five years of life Of the T1niveristy of Alabama. Mir. Towne de- cIared the most eventful years in the history of the world. He reviewed the sulendtd accomplishments of mans in- ventiye 2 uius during that period anc he went yer in brief the great epoch making Incidents of history which ses it apart and above any other perioc in the written record of the world
 Tn this review he defined the great civl war as "a cataclysm which threat ened to make good the prophecy oI tbsf English book written on the rise