Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-05-31

by clear cut craftsmanship. The negro
problem is still unsoIved, a black
cloud hanging over our national sky
and menace to the national wei
fare. Capital and labor have not yet
learned the great lesson OF equitable
and happy cooperation. The liquor
monopoly has long fattened on our
manhood, but young giant Is buck
ling on the armor for mortal conflict
with il. Take your places among that
ever growing and victorious army OF
volunteer citizens before which the
liquor interests are Bringing In fear
A new and unexpected problem in
government faces us for which our
fore-fathers did not provide. The
flow of population to the cities Is
creating a condition demanding the
finest of statesmanship in municipal
government.
In these and many other ways you
will be useful TO your generation.
What ever you do, let II be worthy
and do 1t with all your might Co at
it in the spirit OF the young officer
who was asked TO take a certain
battery that held the key to the bat
tie field and replied: "Tll try, sir" CO
in the spirit of the young man who
after reading his book on How the
4 walked into the office of Jacob Riis,
Other Half LIVES and not finding
him in wrote on a slip of paper, 81
have read your book and | have come
TO help" and signed his name
Theodore Roosevelt How character
J istic of him who is even today trying
to be the peoples helper. Go In the
spirit of that splendid man who on
the north steps of the court house in
Dixon, Illinois, asked the business OF
the man who was TO introduce him
and upon learning it 10 be that of a
saloon-keeper said, Il have never yet
been introduced to the people by a
| saloOn-keeper and l never will
Thank God for men, tan, sun
crowned, who live above the fog in
public duty and private thinking.
, The solution of Americas problems
awaits a generation of men and WON
en- who will sit at the feet of Jesus
! till they see the vision of His king
dom and who will go forth in His
spirit and by His power to realize the
vision. 1.-THE fatherhoOd of God and
the brotherhood of man" stand for
two of the most precious possessions
of our race, but both of them are
empty bombast or eXecrable subter
fuges without the Sayiorhood of Jesus
| Il am debtor to all men Il am
ready" las much as in me is.
BE thou like the old apostle
Be thou like heroic Paul.
If a free though seeks expression.
Speak it boldly, speak it all.
Face thine enemies, accusers,
Scorn the prison, wrack or rod.
| II thou hast truth to utter,
Speak and leave the rest to God.
Glass of 1908, go to your life work
Those who have preceded you admire
the advantages you have enjoyed anC
the enlarged opportunities open before
you All wish you well. The beue
dictions of parents, teachers and the
public go with you. May peace abide
at your house; may plenty sit at YOU
TABLE; may success wait upon you
endeavors. Go with the enthusiasm
of youth. with the bound of the ath
ilete who hears the signal: Take you
education, your common sense, you
kindly heart, your love of God anC
man; put them all to their utmos
possibilities, that you may make thu
most of yourselves. And, as you builc
your life
Build 1t well what Ger You dc.
Build it straight and strong and true
Build it deep and high and broad
Build it for the eye OF God"
And when the Master calls for Vol
may He find not simply leaves, but al
abundance OF fruitagc. With you
willingness to discharge your obliga
ton to all men to the limit of you
ability forget not that other declara
ton of heroic Paul. 81 am no
ashamed of the gospel of Christ" p,
not ashamed of Jehovah, your Creator
nor OF Jesus, your Savior. nor of tn
Holy Spirit, the Comforter of ever,
obedient believer, nor of the Bible
precious to your ancestry, nor of tn,
Church and her mission in the world
nor of the work, under Jesus Christ
that you set your hands to do, and
Live for those who love you,
For those who know you true;
For the Heaven that smiles above you
And awaits your spirit too:
For the right that needs assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance
For the future in the distance,