The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-27
THE DAILY GATE CITY

Yes, and here is all the recompense
he has ever received for it." said his
wife, in the bitterness of the moment
to the attending physicians at his
bedside, and she placed before them
three paltry medals. He labored and
how many have entered into his la
bors, Coming back to life through
the gateway of some surgical opera
ton which they could never have I'M
dergone but for the boon which he
has bestowed upon humanity. Thus
as we enjoy all these comforts and
conveniences Of our civilization, these
things which we have come to accept /
as a matter of course, it is we'll to
remember that they have come only /
as the result of human toll and sacri-
/ fee and self-denial, that back of all /
these things there is the brain sweat I
and the brow sweat of some one.
Other men have labored, we have en-
tered into their labors.
But once more / think of
3. The house OF your educational |
privileges. What house this is,
how wonderful in, all its appoint |
ments. What opportunities for
/ Intellectual advancement and cul-
ture are here open to the boys
and girls, the young men and
young women of this twentieth
century. l fear we do not always ap-
preciate these advantages as we
should. Is it not true that too often
We accept these advantages as a mat
i ter of course without a question as to
how they have come to US?
We stand face to face with the I'M
thought for those pioneer souls who
spelled them out for us. We learn
by rote the principles of the exact
sciences and how to use them to our
advantage with no thought OF those
who toiled to discover and verify them
for us. We come in touch with the
choicest literatures of all ages and
languages without any pulsing of
gratitude toward those master minds
J that gave these literatures their be-
ing. We accept, too, the privileges
! OF our wonderful American school
system whereby the poorest American
boy or girl may have such advantages
. as no other boy or girl that ever trod
this old earth 6 ever had, ay. such
advantages as kings and queens did
not have a century ago. We accept
} them and never ask ourselves, How
has all this been brought about? To
2 whom am l indebted?''
: How seldom we go searching for
r that one whom we are to thank for
the glorious privilege of demonstrate
t ing that straight line is the shortest
d path between two points or that
I. things equal to the same thing are
r equal to each other, or for that one
G to whom we are indebted for the op.
It portunity of laundering through "amo
y amas, amat,' or of delying among the
Z acids and alkalies of the laboratory
or of Investigating what some one has
e called the internal regions of &
d cato How seldom, | say. do we thini
4 much about these old benefactors save
2 now and then. perhaps, in some wor
IT ried moment when our inclinations
0 are calling us otherwise, We thini
just enough of them to call dowI
anathemas upon their heads and tt
S wish that the whole lot of them ha6
e died In infancy.
Il 1t is well, however, for US to thinl
of them in better way. It is vel
f. for US to remember that this hous,
i of our educational privileges is M
h Aladdin's palace. Ii has not sprunl
a. into being in some magical way. l
e. is ours to enjo-- today because think
ID ers have been thinking and philar
d thropists have been planning and ed
s. ucators have been toiling
re And / think of those old prophet
a and psalfnists who gave forth thei
in utterances among the hills of Pale:
IN tine, David, Isaiah. Jeremiah H
It, who knows them not today knows nc
!" literature
re And / think of those old philost
lg piers who walked and taught anon
" The groves and market-places {
of Greece, Plato Aristotle. and the res
ey of them.
And l think of Rome's contribute
re as it has been poured forth by til
ey lips of Cicero and Virgil and Horac
RS And | think of those old monks VIII
RS in their monasteries preserved tt
Sc literary treasurers of former day
e. laboriously copying old manuscript
in with an exactness that required tt
nix measurement OF eacn letter.
nd And | think of those who let loos