Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Striking Address by Pres. Hyde
On Larger Righteousness"
Appeal for Contribution 10 Gym
nd-.S1O,OOO Now Needed.
Election Of Bowdoin BugIs Board.
Proetors for Coming Year.

Brunswick. Me, June 1S.-(SpeciaD.
The exercises of the 106th Commence
ment of Bowdoin College began at
O'Clock Sunday afternoon when Presi-
dent William Dewitt Hyde delivered
the Baccalaureate sermon in the First
Congregational church, the Church on
the Hill The entire Senior class,
headed by the class marshal, Robert
Martin Lawlis of Houlton marched
solemnly into the church and took
their seats in the front.
President Hyde. taking as his text
THE Larger Righteousness" Matthew
we spoke in part as follows:
"A Columbia Sophomore writing in
the Atlantic says, not personal saliva
tion. but social. is our interest and
concern" II is true everywhere. In
our new gymnasium we shall give
more floor or ground space to the So
cial or athletic than to the individual
or gymnastie side of physical training.
Men will do 20 times as much cheer
e<ly for the group as they will give
Erutigingly to individual development.
-in study the brilliant individual
recitation, as an end in itself, has gone
never to return and interest in the
subject studied and its social signif-
canoe, are coming to take its place.
In temperance we are getting be-
yond the fear of becoming drunkards
ourselves as a motive, and opposing
the saloon as social nuisance.
The social evil can never be root
ed out by appeals to the individual to
avoid disease. recent reliable re-
port shows that the cost of that evil
is 5000 women's lives a year in a single
city, with, bitterness and shame to
thousands more broken hearted faith
ers and mothers. brothers and sisters
of both the 5000 girls who die every
year and the many more who live on
In disgrace and degradation. That
fact calls on every man who has a
particle of honor or chivalry to refuse
to be partner in such wholesale muir
der. Multiply the numbers in that
single city by all the cities in the
country, and you will see that more
persons - naade miserabiein life and
xaSiYer fshonored death by white
NJ than there were by
<x $50 years ago. that the
34sts white slavery should be
sof the oncoming gen
ef that every individual
md MINNIE his personal conduct
by fhe <fde Of this great social issue
on which heNwants to be counted.
THE business man who merely
makes money for himself and his as
sociates within the letter of the law,
skinning industrial enterprises. ma
nipulating securities. paying excessive
salaries. granting favorable contracts.
misusing inside information so as to
rob the public of reasonable service,
the employee of decent wages. the
stockholders of fair profit: is now well
understood to be the thief and public
plunderer he is. To be an honorable
business man, one must rise to the
larger righteousness. which serves the
public economically and efficiently.
treats employees justly and generous
ly and deals with the investors and
creditors openly and fairly.
TN politics we are just beginning to
understand that the man who votes
for or against a tariff. for or against
reciprocity treaty. for or against
workinsmen's compensation. for or
against public utilities commission.
according as it affects his business, or
his profits, or. his class. and not ac-
cording to what he believes to be for
the best eof the country and public
as whole. does all that is possible
FOR man to do in these times of
prosperity and peace to put his indi
vidual interests above the interests
of the public-or to be in plain words,
traitor.
Mood and evil are doubtless mixed
Spm Johnson much as they are in
all of us. But when he spoke and vot-
ed as congressman and as mayor to
reduce the tariffs, franchises and fares
by which he had made his millions, in
order that neither he nor others like
MIN might have further opportunity
to plumber the public and fitch hard
earned pennies from the pockets of
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