Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-06

| Brown started the song OF freedom
and millions of hearts to beat in sym
pathy with men under the lash.
Individual liberty knows not tn,
bane or badge of authority which ha
rendered useless many brilliant minds
Progress and retrogression begins
and ends in the individual.
The individual alone is the peerles:
| leader
Strip the race of these strongly
marked characteristics and there vii
be but little left of culture and civil
Zation The progress of the race de
mands bold individual men who viii
assert the truth and stand by it un
fiinchingly-for men will slay theil
own prophets and liberators. In PROUD
ignorance they will execute Socrat es
drag Gallileo to the inquisition, and
send a Savanavola to the scaffoid
The brutal hand of jealousy will senC
Lincoln to his grave without re
morse, in the very hour of his triumph
"a martyr to his nations progress
Truth has always had its martyrs
and such is the ordeal through which
it must pass. We are yet i'm the twi
light of progress. Mans highest in
tellectual and moral fields lie far be-
yond the limits of the present horizon
yet surely through the individual
alone will we attain them.
2. SELF CONTROL. Self control is as
important to the brain as it is to the
body. Self control saves one from
| tenn DtatiOn and destruction 1t saves a
man from remOrse and regret. 1t is the
highest form of sense and reasoning
Self control is the balance wheel of life
1t distinguishes the civilized man
from the savage. The quiet man OF
self control is worth an army of diSa-
pointed. Self control makes life
worth living. Self control is a stead.
fast arrangement of life's business
Self control is persistent planning OF
life's conduct 1t is a determination
to succeed. Self control furnishes
the capacity for continuous industry
which alone conquerS the treasures
of nature. Self control is self re-
straint-it is the conquering of self,
the hardest battle Of life.
3. JUSTICE. Justice is basic ele-
ment in progress. just is the rock
and base of all reputation worth pos
sessing. - just man will make a
reputation for greatness though not
endowed by extraordinary power. In
the just the people confde. Justice
and it's twin brother honesty is the
most useful guide, the compass to
life. A just man powerfully influences
toward right living and builds the
imperishable tombstone monuments
TO be called just is the greatest and
most gratifying of titles and is worth
the chief efforts of life History is
bejeweled with many just men and
women whose good deeds live after
them while their evil perished with
their bones.
What wonderful different world
would this be were we all honest.
Conductors, soldiers, detectives
would not be needed and could be en-
would die or do something useful.
Armies could be disbanded to do use.
full work. Productive economy would
cheaper living and man would have
more time for thinking, for the crea-
tion of new inventions which lessen
labor and increases wages.
Honesty would dispel thieving and
justice would rule the world.
A, IMAGINATION. Imagination is
one of mans chief steps in progress.
light above the groveling brute. I'm
agination is the north star of mans
hope. 1t is his most wondrous gift.
Imagination is mans wings OF flight
his world of greatest enjoyment. I'M
agination is our happy, hopeful land,
our sporting ground. 1t has accom-
panied man in his long journey of pro-
gress from the hut of the savage to
hn Of Iii No 1,oc
aided man physically by highly
wondrOus attitude, by his deXtrous
hands, by his marvellous fleet of foot,
but imagination has crowned him as
the worlds conqueror. In imagina-
tion began mans first glimmering of
real life. 1t found him with naked
hairy body, savage and ferocious
against his fellow. But imagination
like the mills of the gods which grind
exceeding slow but exceeding fine.
has accomplished the marvellous task
of producing modern man. Imagina-
tion fills the dreamer with hope. Inn
agination made Columbus discover
America, it made Newton discover
the laws of gravitation and Watt to
discover the power of steam. Imagin-
alton called from Edison the electric
light, from Morton chloroform-
which have blessed man and lessened
his pain. Lister gave US antiSeptic
surgery, Jenner gave US vaccination.
Imagination induces man to provide
food and clothing for winter, hospi.
tails for the sick and comfort for the
helpless. Imagination works slowly,
but ceaselessly in mans progress. 1t
enables him to leave the earth to con-
quer the universe. to measure the
suns to count the stars i'm the milky
way, to study the surface of Mars, to
calculate the moon and the tides. 1t
makes him travel through the air and
under water, to control tightening, to
make nature supply him aid and com
fort. Imagination makes man the
captain of the world
5, EDUCATION. Education has been
one of the window lights in progress.
1t is the distribution Of knowledge
Education is process by which we
are taught how to know and how to
do. Education enlightenS and re-
strains. The man of education knows
how to be taught from the solid
ground of nature and knows how to
act from the solid ground of expert
ence. The University uf Wisconsin is
the greatest and most useful of uni
| versities in America because Of the
| utility of the education it impartS.
Its students have caught the spirit OF
progress and spread it over the world.
The Wisconsin University is sending
| it's Investigators and productive
scholars over the entire universe. Her
graduates are a rich capital for the
state. The university is the richest
investment of Wisconsin. Her gradu-
ateS are in the vanguard of progress.
The Wisconsin University is teaching
her SONS and daughters to work wisely
and to the best purpose.
When teacher becomes valuable
and useful the Wisconsin University
secures his service for the benefit OF
the university aud the state. The
| University of Wisconsin wisely selects
practical and progressive teackers
saturated with the enthusiasm oi
| achievement and accomplishment.
Under the useful and progressive
| reign of the great John Bascom the
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