The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-02-13

Rosary, by Tosti, under the direction
of Chief Musician Harold Bachman,
with the presentation of this fine mu-
steal number, the North Dakota Agri-
culture college cadet band certainly
established a reputation with it's audi
enCe. A selection from the opera, The
Quaker, concluded the musical pro-
gramme for the time being, and Lieu
tenant Governor Kraabel then intro
duCed the presiding officer, Clarence
A. Williams, of the agricultural COL
lege.
Mr.. Williams Speaks.
Mr.. Williams spoke briefly, as fol-
lows
Members of the legislature, ladies
and gentlemen:
THE North Dakota Agricultural
college has for some time past, sent
out demonstration trains and no doubt
a great many of you have seen before
what the agricultural college has been
doing. But never before has an agri-
cultural college or university attempt
ed to send out a train for the pur-
pose Of demonstrating school life in
general; that is, college activity from
students point of view. We have
arranged a programme in keeping with
the day, which will follow.
THE agricultural college band will
now play our march, President Worst,
| arranged by DR., Putnam"
The number was well received by
an enthusiastic audience, after which
| the principal speaker for the Occa-
sion, President Worst, was introduc-
ed by Mr.. Williams.
President Worst's Address.
Applause was not stinted when
| President Worst was introduced to
the vast audience that had gathered
| in the spacious house chamber for this
occasion, and in addressing Governor
Hanna, the state officials, members
of the legislature and citizens, Presi-
dent Worst said that though it was
almost half century since Abraham
| Lincoln was assassinated he was
| aware that there were many present
| who remember the great sorrow that
| swept over the country because Of
| his death, and 1t seemed most fitting
| to gather at the capitol of the state
on his 104th birthday anniversary
and pay tribute to his life and to his
work.
President Worst departed from
eulogiZing the man and spoke of him
as child of destiny. He said he be-
| lieved there were many who were OF
| the opinion that Lincoln had been
| raised by the Almighty to accomplish
\ great work, and he would not at
| tempt to controvert that opinion. In
cidents were cited some 800 years back
! to relate how Lincoln's forefathers
| had come to America with the pill
! grims to find a land where they could
enjoy their religious freedom without
persecution. The speaker told of how
the first vessel of pilgrims landed al
| jamestown devoid of food and means
| of a livelihood, and how twenty
negroes We're traded for food anG
though it was for motive of charity
it really planted the seed of slavery
| in the very citadel of liberty, and thai
| slavery continued through the southern
states of this nation for 240 years
till the whole south land was abundant
with crops of tobacco, cotton anC
cereals that had been raised by the
slave traffic.
| Among these pilgrims was Sam
Lincoln, one of the ancestors of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and the hardships anC
tribulations of the family were fol.
lowed in President Worst's remark:
till 1776 when the men of the nortf
and south Joined hands in their great
struggle for liberty, and as a result
one of the fairest constitutions of tn,
world was formed, with possibly tn,
exception that it safeguarded slavery
which from 1907 to 1860 it was tn,
greatest political and moral issues
the world had ever known. The pull
pits and the press of the south de,
Tended 1t while those Of the nortl
We're opposed. and that it seemed bu
heavens destiny that 1t remained fol