The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-12

in the service but sixty-five graduates
OF the Military academy. Disaster fol-
lowed disaster, and our national capital
was in the possession OF a foreign sol
diery
This experience was enough TO last
until wars and rumors Of wars shall
De no more. It made new era in the
history of the academy When the
Mexican war came it had in the service
over 500 graduates, and almost an equal
number in civil life. need not rehearse
the brihiancy Of their achievements.
1t was the training school of most
Of those who rose to great fame as COM
manders in the civil war. Lee. Grant
Bragg, Jackson, Davis. Johnston. HaT-
die and Early, won their spurs on Mex
lean soil These achievements fixed
forever the fame Of this academy, and
so established it in the confidence of
the people as 10 secure that support
which manifested such brilliant results
/ in the war between the states. All the
great battles Of that war were COM
manded by West Pointers on both
sides.
President Madison in his annual
message Of 1922 said of the academy:
{ Good order is preserved in it, and the
( youth are well educated in every sci
| ence connected with the great objects
of the institution
Record Of the Academy.
This Characterization upon its disci-
Dline and training eighty-seven years
/ ago has remained thus to this very day.
| The academy established in 1902 has
graduated 4742 cadets. We are ia
miliar with the names of its military
heroes Over half its graduates entered
/ civil life. It has given TO our country,
among others: One president of the
/ United States, one president of the con-
federate states. three presidential can
didates. two vice presidential candi-
dates, one ambassador, fourteen minis
| ters plenipotentiary, twenty-seven
members OF the United States senate
and house. sixteen governors, one bish-
/ op, fourteen judges, forty-six presidents
and fourteen regents and chancellors of
| colleges and universities, and many
I others belonging 20 useful trades and
/ professions
/ IN addition. it claims one among the
( few American delegates to the first
/ Hague conference, one to the famous
arbitration conference that settled tine
promising understanding between Eng
/ land and Russia, two of seven delegates
/ to the recent Hague conference, two of
/ its alumni are in charge Of the greatest
/ engineering work Of history-the Pan
/ anna canal, and one is reorganizing the
police force of the second city in the
world.
Prestige to Sustain.
Thus. all Of YOU. those who con-
tinue in the service, and those who may
enter upon civil careers, have a great
prestige to sustain West Pointers have
/ so generally maintained the standard
Inf hon T1r~
erty- and fidelity 10 duty that the name
! is always accepted as prima facie evil
dence that its bearer is all that is i'm
! piled in its highest sense in the fine old
! term, a gentleman.
/ Believing that you viii prove your
/ selves worthy of such noble fellowship
and that in peace and war you viii jus
tify the confidence and expectation OF
your friends and cOuntrymen. il is not
merely exercising the pTerOgative of the
office which ! hold. but with d profound
! sense of the honor the occasion affords
me, that ] present 10 YOU your diplo-
mas"