Weekly journal-miner., 1910-06-15

of active life, and must shortly as- sume the responsibilities of men and women. You will not be able to live on the joys of memory, and the call to duty will separate friends, even though their friendship endure.
 Up to Graduates.
 It has been demonstrated by stat isties, with which we are familiar, that your High school education gives you an immense advantage in the world. Therefore, you should appreciate that the world will ex- peet you to account for your advant- ages and to vindicate the efforts and sacrifices through which you have enjoyed them. If you seriously put it to the test you will find that while the workaday world may greet you with indifference at the outset, it will readily appreciate and re- ward you when you have shown your ability to help, for in spite of the pessimistie view announced by some, I believe the world never offered greater rewards for ability and com potency than it does today.
 Many of the members of your class are planning for courses in higher institutions of learning. From every point of view this is most com mendable. To one who is worthy of it a college course will fully re- pay whatever labor and sacrifice its acquisition may entail and I unhes- itatingly urge each of you to pur- sue your education farther if you possibly can.
 It is not proper to attempt to ap- ply our American criterion of money value in measuring the worth of good education. An education should do more than enable one to make a living. It should prepare him to live. It should fit him to enjoy life.
 But it should not be assumed that the keys of knowledge are in the exclusive charge of colleges and un- iversities. They are within reach of all of you whether you ever see the inside of a college or university, and you should determine that whether tonight be the end or not of your scholastic training, you will con tinue your studies in cOngruial direc- tiOns. so that your outlook upon the world may grow broader; that you may be more useful as citizens and to the particular end that through the breath of your interests you may attain the fountain of youth.
 You are to enter an active and complex world, a far different and I believe, a better world, than your parents knew at your age; and you may be sure that the rewards that await honesty, industry and ability are richer today than ever before. The moral tone of the world is bet ter than it has ever been, politics are more pure and there is less Dir acy in business. This is the age of special training and the day of the educated man.
 Partisan politics. in the eonven- tional American sense, are rapidly The leading political parties have found it difficult in re- cent years to find great issues of governmental policy upon which to align their followers. They have found it easier to grow wings, which show a disposition to fly asunder, than to fly together. The talismanie words "tariff,'' protection" free silver," and "gold stand lrd," have lost their old efficacy as party slogans, and it has become more and more difficult to know a Democrat or Republican by his per ,onal appearance. The habit of in -elligent free thinking is becoming and each year the independ mt vote becomes more important actor For many years our eOun- ry has been ruled by Conservatives.
 
 The natural reflex from an epoch I If conservatism is to an era of rad i ealism. The political pendulum wings naturally in that direction, lntil it completes its aecumtomed | Ire. Many present day influences lccentuate this tendency, the con of wealth, the sensational | press and the muckraker, the grow ng perfection of labor organizations, md the decreasing purchasing power if money. and others which might be and we seem to be en- a wave of political protest md radicalism.