Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-06-07
ADDRESS
By Hon. w. c. Brown at the Lime
Springs H. S. Alumni Banquet

springs ID. y. Alumnl Banquet
on Thursday evening, May 80, 1907.
Mr.. Brown is Senior Vice-President of
the N. Y. Central Ry., and was for
our Lime Springs boy.
Mr.. President, Members of the
Alumni of the Lime Springs High
School, and friends:
am glad to meet with these pupils
OF this school, their parents and friends,
and shall be glad indeed if some word
which I may speak shall reach the
heart and be in some measure an in
spiration to some boy or girl hopefully
entering upon life's more serious duties
and responsibilities.
In this life we are prone to think
that each succeeding generation has
settled the larger problems of life and
OF government, not only for itself but
for much of the future. AS Daniel
Webster was closing long and dis
tinguished public service Charles Sum-
ner was just entering upon public
career equally long and, if possible,
more distinguished. In congratulating
Mr.. Sumner upon his election to Con-
gress the venerable Webster said,
Sumner, you have come too late; all
the great public questions have been
settled" Sumner was participant in
the consideration and solution of ques-
tions SO momentous in Importance
that Webster and his colleagues shrank
from serisously discussing them -ques-
tions the settlement of which involved
the nation in four years of civil war;
emancipating race which had been
held in bondage for centuries and
making this country in fact as we'll as
in name ''land of freedom"
lam often asked if in my opinion the
opportunities for young men leav-
ing high school or college now are as
favorable as they were thirty years
ago, and am glad to say that in my
opinion you may be thankful that you
are coming on to the scene of business
activity during the new century rather
than during the last half of the century
just closed.
The first decade of the twentieth
century is witnessing some great and
salutary changes. During the last
quarter of the nineteenth century
money seemed to count for SO much, to
exert so dominating an influence that
the struggle to secure it was desperate,
unscrupulous and remorseless. The
dawning years of the new century
have seemed to lift us as nation to a
clearer atmosphere and higher STAN
dard OF business and political morals
Money counts for less and character
for more than ever before. There are
many men who count their wealth by
millions who would give it all for the
respect and confidence of their fellow
men and the good citizenship which
they sacrificed in their struggle for the
money which has brought them SO lit
! tie in return.
The world is looking for young men
with health and strength, high moral
character and clean, wholesome habits,
young men with nothing but brains
and hands, backed by industry, loyalty
and fidelity to duty. Commerce wants
them, manufacturing is looking for
them; the railroads are absorbing
them and the supply never equals the
demand; the ministry and the schools
are calling for them and the success
OF such young men in any line OF ac-
tiyity is absolutely certain. Faithful
Intelligent service is better paid and
more rapidly promoted today than it
has ever been since it was ordained
that man should "eat bread by the
sweat of his brow"
The man who works with hand or
brain is each year receiving an increas-
ing share of the wealth he helps
create.
This memorial day, set apart by law
as well as made sacred by loving con:
secration is suggestive of retrospective
and patriotic thought. All over this
broad land from the Great Lakes on
the north to the sun kissed waters of
the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the
Pacifc-loving hands have strewn with
flowers the last resting places of the
heroic dead who "paid the last full
measure of devotion that this nation
might live." At Gettysburg. and at
Shiloh, at Vicksburg and at Atlanta,
at Mission Ridge, Chickamauga and at
Lookout Mountain, and at Arlington,
that great Pantheon of the nations
heroic dead, the air is heavy tonight
with the fragrance of these beautiful
tributes OF nauion's love-. At Spring
field in our sister state of Illinois thou
sands of sorrowing citizens, many of
whom knew and loved him, have look
ed upon the sublime monument which
commentaries the life and marty
dom OF Abraham Lincoln. On the
heights of Clarmont overlooking the
majestic Hudson other thousands have
gazed with tear dimmed eyes at the
stately tomb of the Great Silent Com
mander-Ulysses S. Grant, On Euclidl
Heights at Cleveland and in the beau
tiful cemetery at Canton tens OF thou.
sands OF citizens of Ohio and other
states have today recalled from the
silence and mystery of the tomb the