, 1906-01-24

h dome and the minaret in their great
est beauty modern architecture are all
OF the work of the great archi-
tects who designed the temples for ma
tons that ages ago passed into history,
the visible evidence of their work now
being here int there a time worn col
umn or broken arch.
In this connection memory recalls
the often quoted lines by Kingsley.
How fleet the works of men, back TO
the earth again.
Ancient and Holy things fade like a
dream"
There are times when 1t seems as IL
the words of the orator and the author
that stir the heart of a nation to its
depths, are but giving voice to a senti-
ment already in the minds of the PEG
pie.
Abraham Lincoln as an orator and
Harriet Beecher Stowe as an author
We're illustrious in this particular in the
days preceding 1860, when it seemed
evident that this country could not
remain half slave and half free.
Much that was spoken and written
at that time was only making audible
the heartfelt sentiments of millions OF
persons.
1t is in some such light as this that
| prefer to associate Mr.. Carnegie's
contributions to assist the march to-
ward broader enlightenment and con
sequent better civilization. 1t seems
more hopeful to believe that the prac-
teal work by Mr.. Carnegie as a bene-
factor is only making clearer a devel-
opng. Christian sentiment in Ameri-
ca that each person is in some degree
This brothers keeper and therefore
is responsible for some of the deprav-
ity and misfortune affecting humanity,
to the extent, at least, that duty to God
and country is misunderstood or neg
lected.
Were it not so the benefit of gifts
of such magnitude by one individual
for the purpose of education would re-
call that part of the parable of the
"Sower and the seed when Jesus said.
Some fell upon stony places where
they had not much earth; and forth
with they sprung up because they had
no deepness of earth. And when the
sun was up they were scorched; be-
cause they had no root they withered
away"
To the extent that Mr.. Carnegie has
done good for others, to that extent
the world will honor him.
Without reasonable appreciation Of
the duties and responsibilities of an
American citizen that carries with it
the authority to withdraw or delegate
power to those who administer state
and national government; the hope of
maintaining free institutions of learn
ing would be uncertain indeed. When
the institutions of learning in America
halt in their progress or retrograde to
that extent the nation will halt in pro-
gress and r%etrograde.
Only an educated people can long
remain free. This belief so impressed
the founders of our national govern.
ment that their thoughts turned to Sc
curing universal education for the
American people.
That the common schools ought to
be maintained in their highest efic-
iency and be free to all children of
school age, is now a universal senti-
ment in the United States.
AT the close of a great work for his
country Thomas Jefferson requested
that the inscription on the stone mark
ing his grave should be that he was
the author of the Declaration of indie
pendence and the founder of the Uni
versity of Virginia. Thus placing his
effort for higher education at the sum-
init of a long life work devoted to lib
erty for mankind.
A people are favored by their crea-
tor no further thar the reward that is
extended to each individual, who obeys
natures law and is true to all that is
best for his race.
Virtue is its own reward" applies
to all people regardless of race or color
In the fourth Philippe Cicero said,
All other things are uncertain, fleet
ing, transitory. Virtue alone is plant.
ed firm with very deep roots. 1t can
no be undermined by violence, it can
never be moved from its foundations
O' tht ldll VI Lie ILOuldH
republic when the Romans no longer
listenedtothe admonition of virtue. Had
the Romans as a people been enlight.
ened by education, it is not probable
that they would have been led from
the path of duty, and the republic
might have lived forever. Civic right
eousness ought to be the watchword OF
all citizens in the United States.
l ook upon the schools, the colleges
and the universities in the several
states as the strongest citadels for a
Hberty-loving people. Each yea an
increasing number of recruits enter
such f~ortresses, and each year a train
ed garrison marches out with banners
flying n with hopes high, to do SER
vice for mankind.
They will, as liberty demands, be the
true Jewelers. in this republic. They
constitute the engineer corps, the sap
pers and miners and the rank and file
of the army of freedom. Enlightened
conscience will direct them.
If the free libraries, through appre-
citation by the people, prove to be a
necessary adjuct to the present sys-
tenn of education, then they will justify
support by taxation and aid by phil.
anthropists.