Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-06-20

government corrupt-a condition
that ought not to exist. and which
does not exist when good citizens
perform their duties.
AS the years progress the stand
ard of American citizenship should
rise. Our government is now, and
always will be just as good as the
people at large will insist on hav-
ing. Our standard of government
will not be maintained or raised,
however, without effort. without
all the institutions and agencies
which mould character and thought
and public opinion, particularly
our public schools, perform their
full duty faithfully and we'll. No
truer expression was ever uttered
than that-"Eternal viligance is
the price of liberty"
So much in reference to the re-
sponsibilities as citizens which rest
upon the graduates of our public
schools and higher institutions of
learning and the obligation they
owe to their government which has
provided them with the means of
education.
Let us now for a few brief mo-
ments consider with what the youth
of the present day is endowed, as
he III she Locks out upon a worli
which demands so much and offers
so much in return.
The young men and women of
this country who are going out
from the schools and colleges, in
these early years of the twentieth
century, commence the active
affairs of life with the greatest
heritage with which the youth of
any age has ever been blessed.
Your inheritance is the aggregate
knowledge, wisdom and experience
of all the ages that have gone before
The liberty of thought and action,
which today is yours with a title
as free as the air you breathe, was
won by your forbears at the sacri-
fee Of rivers of blood and tears.
The history of the world is written
for you, that he who runs may
read. The noble example of the
men and women, who in years
gone by have fought the battles of
human progress and who are en-
titled to have their names enscribed
among the great and the good.
have left imperishable ideals for
you but TO emulate. Those who
have written upon the pages of his
tory a record Of wrong and of op-
preston of their fellow men have
left equally as CONSPICUOUS examples
for you to avoid. The literature
Of the world is yours. The nrn-
verbs of Solomon, the psalms of
David, the Sermon on the Mount
are yours. The philosophy of Plato
and Epectitus, the song of Homer
and the poetry of Dante and Shake
speare gre yours. The painting
the sculpture and the architecture
that made Greece and Rome cer-
turtles ago the center Of the culture
Of the world are all yours. The
oratory of Demosthcnes. and Cic-
ero, of Burke and of Henry, of
Webster and Of Clay, of Becher
and of Calhoun are still ringing
in the corridors of time, and it is
for you but to stop and listen. The
discoveries of Gallile0, Of Newton.
of Franklin. of Faraday, of Morton,
Of Pasteur, and all the great train
that have followed them are yours.
The inventions of Morse, of Step
hens, of Whitney, of Hoe, of Good
year, Of Kelly, of Bell, of Howe, of
Mccormack, of Westinghouse, of
Edison, of Marconi and of innumer-
able Others, all of whom toiled and
some of whom starved that the
world might have the benefit of
their labor and genius, are yours.
All the knowledge, gathered
through all the centuries, of the
stars, the planets and the great
solar systems in which the earth
upon which we live moves in its
regular orbit as q mere speck in
the vast incompreheDsible universe.
is yours. You may measure the
distance to and determine the COM
position of worlds beyond the sight
of the unaided human eye. Tis
YOURS buI IN road fhn oonln,;c,1