The San Francisco call., 1907-06-22
EVEN AS BENEDICT ARNOLD

What shall be said of the peace time traitors.
such as have cursed and disgraced San Fran
cisco and California and caused us all to hang
our heads in very shame before the scornfuly
pointed fingers OF jeering world?
The man who violates his oath of office and
accepts a bribe to give special privileges at the
expense of the many to the few is much of
traitor to his country as even Benedict Arnold
cold blood. sets about to corrupt the public Off
cials and betray the people is also traitor
more of one. IL such thing be possible, than
those whom he corrupts and seduces from the
path of official rectitude.
In fact. Of the two kinds of traitors, the war
time and the peace time, the former Is the less
despicable and less TO be condemned of all honest
and women. For the war time traitor must
have certain amount of personal bravery to to
enable him to face the sure death which Will
follow the discovery of his crime and the capture
Of his person. But the peace time traitor, the
man who conspres against the great body of
American people and bribes public offcials-such
traitors, thinking they are taking little II any
risk are eowardly traitors and conspirators
admired, admired with a doubtful kind Of admiration as
that of personal bravery and courage.
What opportunities for justice, for equal
chance under the law, can you and your children
hope for If your city councils. your boards of
supervisors, your governors, your representatives
and senators In congress your judges as so
are under control of private interests? Your
properties, your lives, your liberties are all at
stake To save the institutions of the country and
to make the republic, in truth and in fact gov
ernrnent of the people for the people, by the
people 1T is necessary absolutely necessary, that
women of the country shall resolve that like the
president of the United States they shall set
fher faces like flint against the encroachments
OF the peace time traitors and determlnedly do
what they can, in spite OF all discouragements,
to rescue the political machinery of the whole
country from the traitorous hands into which
SO much of it has fallen
PRINCIPAL SPEAKS
Rev. d. p Scudder opened the exer-
cises with prayer, followed by short
address by James H. Pond, principal of
the high school. The girls glee club
sang, and Marie Kaplan Lazarus read
an essay on Secondary Education in
the United States and Germany
Utility or Development-Whc %
was the theme of a paper read by
Albert H. Rowe. Tyler Henshaw made
the farewell gift of the June 1907 class.
Charles H Redington, president. of the
board of education, presented diplomas
to the graduates as follows. b
Fern Marie Alderson Farmor Medbery Alexan-
der Helen Bell Laura Chan. Helen Mary Cusil-
man, Olive Eastman Cutter. Joseph Aloysius
Dias Grace Adele Downey, Helen Adele Edson
Margaret Edwards. Susan T. Fisher, Mamie
Elizabeth CLAWS, Katherine Isabel Gray. Robert
Holland Griffin, Elmer Walker Cruer, Winifrcd
NJ Handley, Ethel Sophia Hansen Genevlcre
Florence Hartman Tyler 7. Henshaw Isao Hi
rata, G. Randolph Hook, r. Jane Hopkins, Wal
ter g. D. Hufschmidt. Stewart Vernon Irwin.
lone Mnriel Jacobs, Zelma May Jones, Spencer
Martin Kales, Mary Curtis Keyes, Frederick Wal
Mace, James Ross Mason. Hazel Mount. Joseph
Pavilger Charlotte Craig Rattray, Orrin D.
Reager. Albert Holmes Rowe. Eric Goodwin Scud-
der, Andrew Judson Sturteyant Jr.. Mary Creigh