Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1890 — Page 7

inrk Ridpath Add revives the De Pauw Alumni.

Men nod Aspect# American Politics.

Sene of the Coramoa Errors Upon Which the Alumnus Establishes Uimseif. # v :

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The following address was delivered by John Clark Kidpath, LL. D., to ths alumni of Do Pauw University, st Oreencastle: Mr. President, Members of the Alumni, Ladies end Gentlemen—1 shall endeavor to explain, os well aa I may in a brief address, some of the reason* why college alumni in general, and «tur»eivet iu particular, are so and h». nificant in the sum total

From the first day the alumnus finds himself wholly out ot tun* with the large and sotui-rvspsctable body known as society. He produces everywhere a discord. One thing is eertain, either hie instrument is erroneously pitched and tuned, or else the instruments of the othernerformersare the residue of a musical evolution which began with ths Kiokapoo*. His note, however clear and correct, is soon swallowed up in the chattering, the baying and the braying of the full chorus. — It will readily be seen that on* of aeverai courses is now open to the young men who was going to take the world by merit and be a leader by the superiority of reason and right. These courses 1 have not the time to indicate. 1 only pause to point out the fact that the alumnus the more he aspires the more he insists that talent nnd honest endeavor are the only prerequisites of success, is more and more involved in discord and hampered with bad breaks between himself and his neighbors. In short, he is presently voted down, and before the end of his first decade he sees, traveling rapidly across the fields, the ominous shadow of a disastrous eclipse. We all feel, however, that this analysis of the situation is partial and inadequate. We at one* begin to ask ourselves why it it tbat society at larce is so unfruitful a soil for college’products to grow in. Perhaps it is tiiis external condition of things that is at fault Possibly a state of affairs has supervened in our civilization which is so essentially bad in essence and administration as to choke the intellectual life into sickliness and a barren delivery. It is as clear as the light of day that something is wrong, seriously wrong in that land where the intellectual life is discouraged and disgraced and remanded to contempt by a vulgar crowd, swirling and tossing in the storm of its own irrational impulses and

passions.

Whence, then, has this condition of

affairs arisen?

The answer involves a reference to the

the public life proper of the States since that public life was

organized in 1776 down to the present time. You will observe that I begin the sketch with 1776, and not with 17611. I do so for the reason that in American history the Declaration of Independence, and not the Coustitution of the United States, is the fundamental fact. The Declaration was

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of the public and private Ufa of the nation.

The theme in iu fundamental assumptions history of is not very flattering, hut l apprehend that United

it makes np in truth what it lacks in com-

pliment. Of a certainty, the college j

alumnus, especially during the first decade of bis post-graduate pilgrimage, thinks

himself one of the greatest of men. lie be- ; lieves, moreover, that bis fellow-bearers of j

diplomas constitute a great order of nobili- ; the great thing and the Constitution the ty, to which the respectful obei-ance of the smaller thing that came afterward, multitude is due as to beings of a higher But more particuiarly in the case before sank and birth ' 1,8 may we look upon the Constitution of It take* a long time, indeed, to disabuse United States with some distrust be- , , . .. . . ’ . ' , _ cause it was a reaction, or rather the exhim of hi. hallucination, and many no : preMion o{ a reat . tlon) the Declaradoubt cherish the delusion to the end of ; ^; on 0 f Independence. Tiiat reaction was life. It is the fashionable thing to flatter fostered and encouraged for the most part our Aiaerican college alamni at least once by the small men who always bob up and a year with the story of the great honor in flourish in the epoch immediately sueoeed■wbieh thevare held, and the conspicuous th a l in which the great men of history

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The orator of the evening stan s, as , licnn revolution, and the Constitution of the before the representatives of the ten or nf- , United States was a half aristocratic reconteen hundred graduates, old and young, of struction. 1 doubt not that these statements the university to which he belongs, and in will appear shocking to some minds, but I glowing eulogiutn enumerates six or eight trust that the shock will be like that of a names out of the whole list, two of which are shower bath, to be followed immediately Senators of the United States, two Envoys ! ^s? 1 *asrag reaction, during which the

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net Ministers, one Governor and one Judgo in a Western Territory, and says: “Hear^ O Earth, and behold, O Heaven, how glorious we are!” .is to the other fourteen hundred and ninety-two, they are simply thrown in for filling. The fallacy, however, pastes for sound exposition, and the average alumnus is actually fluttered with the belief that be belong* to one of she most distinguished groups of persons in ths

United States.

As a matter of fact he does not belong to auy such a class. He belongs to a class i characterized by a very superior order of Intellectual and moral attainments, but to a clan otherwise obscure, as things go. He is associsted with a society of men and women of erevated taste, refined manners and noble aspirations. But it is a society withottfcpowsrand'aflnost without inlluence in determining the destinies and developments of onr national life. It is a society so weak in the matter of will and purpose that it may be vidiealsd with impunity by any •mall demagogue who would be afraid to Teak satirically of the Salvation Army. then, let ms ask, do we hold this place fn the public esteem of the American

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people- Why is it that it is almost a disadvantage in the actual struggle of life to be an alumnus of an American college? While I certainly believe that American alumni are obscure, I also accept it as a hopeful sign that they are so. Indeed, I believe that the very obscurity of which we sometimes fretfully complain is the omen aud the augury of Dettar things to oome. Lot us grant, than, at th* outset, that obscurity, as wall asconspicnity, may be—and la this case is—-a badge of honor to be proudly worn as the evidence of merit and reputatioa. The first reason, I believe, Vrhy the average alumnus of an American college is likely on his issuance from his alma mater to imss into occultation is the erroneous teaching to which he has been aubjected during a large part of his formative period. I have been led to believe by actual observation and experience that a

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as much as it was safe to restore of that British and European system of political society which had. been so gloriously

wrecked in the Revolution.

More particularly, however, I call your attention to the condition of our American politics at the period just subsequent to the institution of the new Government, say precisely a hundred years ago. This Government was organized for the whole people, and not for a political party. Washington a as put at the helm. In so far as there was any division of political sentiment, he incorporated both opinions and both extremes of opinion in his administration. He set at one end of his Cabinet table Thomas Jefferson, the father of American democracy, and at the other end Alexander Hamilton, the father of American Federalism. Think of James G. Blaine in the Cabinet of Cleveland, or Thomas F. Bayard in the Cabinet of Harrison I Washington sought in every possible manner and on all occasions to prevent his administration from falling into the hands of a faction. For eight long years he held the rudder, hoping and striving and insisting that the Government of the new United States should be for all the people alike, with special favors for none. On coming to the end of his term he sat down deliberately aud wrote that immortal Farewell Address, in which he adjured his fellow-countrymen not to yield themselves to the passion and folly of party. His voice and admonition, however, died with him. The echo of it was heard fora brief season, and then perished in oblivion. True enough, Washington’s birthday is a National holiday. True enough, his Farewell Address is paraded forth and read annually before the people; but so far as the acceptance of its fundamental principle is concerned, namely, that the cpirit of party is the chief foe of political happiness and social unity in the United States, its reading is a piece of

mockery and hypocrisy.

The college stripling who reads that ad-

good part of what may be called the gener- dress on the memorable dav does not beat instruction received by a Voung man at li e?# it. His auditors do not’ believe it. The college is false. It is not so intentionally, newspaper that republishes it does not bebut is so out of the usage and cant of the - • ....

times. The young man is taught to believe in the invincible power of a certain class of ideal virtues, which, as a matter of fact, an as light and useless as chaff in the struggle a? the actual arena. This teaching is gen-

•rally given out in the form of which pass for the whole truth,

lieve it. Each and several of them all know well that to accept such a doctrine is to flirt himself forever out of the swim and to perish on the bank. They all sit down together and declare that the spirit of party is, as

- 2~ t>-~ Washington said it was, the very bane and anotnegms dragon, not only of free government by a

■ . , ^ . . when, as a free people, but also of social concord and patter of fact, thware so fragmentary a* to happiness; but at the game time they all be utterly miSiending and delusive. Here know that the spirit of party is ths on* is what the ethical teacher iu an American thing which prevails and conquers and tricollege say*, and says in all sincerity, to umpbs in this country over every other the youth: 4 ., , , spirit and principle of'action, and that to “Young man, merit is the only thing that oppose it practically amounts to a self-in-wins. You have only to he true to yourself flicted ostracism which few arabi and success is sure to follow. Be humble aspiring men are willing to and you shall be exalted. Do not strive foe j But I was intending to sp

tiiat deterioration of priori]

ambitious and

worldly ends, for if you strive, they will

eak further of

principle and practice

which immediately ensued alter the retiraev ami death of Washington. The politics of the United States have performed the voyage from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario—hy the usual route. From the administration of the elder Adams to that of his son the

Mode you. Seek not your own, amt everything will be added to your treasury. l>o Hot be anxious about sucoeas, for all the i world can not keep you from success when you have deserved it. Desert is everything, I contrivance nothing. Whoever intrigues | for place aud power defeats himself and : comes to shame. Scorn the demigogical ' wgys of the age, for they lehd you to confusidn, dishonor and bankruptcy. Right is the only thing that triumphs. Falsehood dscefvc* nobody, while Truth has* legion of angels at her command. Only be pat, an 1 toil, and the everlasting gates 1 ne opened at last to receive yoa at the

I of the triumphal column.” And so on, } ' But why is it that the political history of iwanitum. v . v ^ i th 1 t . CDit «« has performed this horNow, all these aphorisms, saeh *nd sev- ! nble plunge from the higher to the lower erai, are true; and they are all false. They level? It is the division of this great pop-

political ship enured and passed the rapids. With Jackson it went over th* Falls. From Van Buren to Bnchanan it floated along in thatgreat chasm where the surface is smooth enough, but where desth end hell are rushing under. From Lincoln to Harrison we have drifted in the whirlpool out of which few things living escape into the lake be-

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i are true in oue sense, and false in another. They are true in the abstract, and false with respect to the whole present conditions of

this great pop-

ulation of the New World into two antagonistic hosts set over the one against the other in the manner of battle, each host commanded by eertain generals and subordinate* in whoae interests the war is eonducted. The thing against which Washing, ton warned and conjured his countrymen has actually oome to pass, and ths result is

human society. ..Our ethicsl master at coltot sits up in his ideal world and deliver* hu ideal principles to the neophite just as though his post-graduate Inheritance was

to bs an ideal stats. The whole thing is I peecisely analogous to th* Socretic dialogue that the bottom of American political eorepublic. The island of the Allan- eiety is on top, and tba top la everywhere

*-» be created in the first place, and a t the bottom.

dsd with a »c* of beings who j Soms men natually belisv# that the exiws of reason, of conscience and isting order, whatever it is, ought to be in th ropy. But Atlantis, alas! is a upheld and perpetuaUd. Others, with . Indeed, it is no more than the tra- equal sineeritv, believe that the existing i of a myth; and our college professor order and tendenev are not so good as the 1 in his genwtion as a practical i order and tendency which existed formerly.

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if the laws and rewards of human ..an was that old human philosothe beetling brow*, who lolSed he plane tree and debated with arnTPolemarchtt* about the beau-

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Such persons look to the post for *11 their models and types and standards of excellence. Still a third class of minds, certainly as honest and vigorous as any, break away from the present and renounce the past. They see in the past ohly despotism, oppression and wrong. They see’ in the present only the perpetuation of the past; but in the future thev tee evsmhing. They accordingly strain in the direction of the futnre. All their faculties are busy with the project and work of reform. The more extreme of this class are perpetual revolutionists, just as th* extremists of the second class are medierais and reactionists. It is easy to see from this analysis how ike political society of every aode’rn State is normally and beneficially divided into a caster, a left and a right The center would perpetuate the existing order, the right would return to the past, the left would break away from the existing order, spurn the past and hurry to the future. It ia in th* happy balance whieh may be, and

forces that the stately ship of progress sails on across the wide and sometimes storm v oceans of history. Thus far the political division of sentiineat among men subserves a good purpose in equalizing the energie* of the State and directing the tendencies and general destiny of the publio life of a people. „ ; What, then, is the modern political party? Practically it is an organization of a few men in a great State, constitaing a sort of close corporation, having one single ulterior end in view, and that is their own advantage. In order that such a body of men may get power, it is necessary that they profess something. What their profession U depends exclusively upon what they think ia best calculated to take the country in. There are always lying about the surface of human society certain questions in which the people at large, from patriotie or other considerations, are likely to take an interest. The party maker searches diligently among these questions to find one or more which he thinke are likely, if fanned with a little fallacious oratory and factitious discussion, to break into a flame. So the question is taken up, and ail the elaborate machinery which a century of self interest has invented is immediately put into operation to create or perpetuate an issue. People are actually made to believe that the interests of the country depend upon the decision of this question or that question by their votes. They are made to believe that that sublime product of reason and eternity called history is created br drum majors and central committees. They are taught that they should leave their cornfields and their workshops in the village and rally at the call of some peripatetic demagogue who is hired out of a corruption fund, collected from the beneficiaries, to go about the country explaining and perorating , about the “burning issues which now divide j the American people.” Sometimes a man of , sense and reflection attends one of these J meetings and stands like Anacharsis on the ! edge ot the crowd to hear tile oration or per- | haps to contribut > feebly by his presence to j the proposed salvation of the country. What ; must be the real impression made on the | mind of such a man under such circuai- | stances? He listens for awhile at the ora- ! tory. He sees his country’s flag at the back i of the platform. He watches the drummer as he pounds his booming war tub, and ! then considers the antics of the orator as j he goes up and down the platform roaring | and cavorting like a wild ass of the Assyrian desert filling his belly with the east ; wind, nnd then turns on his heel toward the | seclusion of his own home, the quiet of his j own study, saying as he walks along and I communes with himself: “How long, O Lord, how long?” And yet this performance in the public square is at present, and has been for more ; than half a century, the dqminant fact in | American society! Of course orators and ! teachers go about telling you something I else. They say that our public schools, or l our churches, or our railroad enterprises, i or our great cities, or our marvelous indnsI tries, or our expansion as a people from east ] to west, from north to south, are the doruji nant fact in American society. But it is not ; so; that is, it is not so as things go. The dominant fact in American societv is that political meeting which the thoughtful ! man attended and went away from with bitterness in his heart. That is the thing to ; which every other element of power and ini fluenee in the public and the private life of : the United States bends a humble, and I i am sorry to sav, a patient knee. That is the thing after which the great Protestant Church marches at the tail of the procession. That is the thing which, beginning far back in the history of our Republic, under the modest name of convention, at length achieved autonomy, gained an independent life of its own, grew and expanded until its jaws were, full of dragon’s teeth and its throat sufficiently enlarged to swallow at a gulp every form of opposition that appears in its pathway. That is the thing that has gone wallowing and sprawling and roaring through the United States, crushing and devonring and devastating the land, living on the fruits of industry, gathering the rewards due to enterprise and blasting not only the blossoms and fruits, but the very branches and stem of American culture and American manhood. What, let me ask, do truth and reason and honesty aud patriotism and philanthropy go for in the presence of this infuriated beast of party? Nothing, nothing! This thing called party has possessed itself of the public press of the Uniter! States. It has obtained the means of poisoning and corrupting the very fountains of public intelligence. The myriad telegraph lines stretching like an infinite plexus over the face of all continents and through the depth of all seas are a part of the apparatus and tackle of this demon. He has compelled the fire that burns and the water that boils in the locomotives of the world to do his bidding. He has seized God’s lightning by the hair aud compelled that also, in sheer prostitution, to become the universal and instantaneous liar among the nations. The steamship and the mart of commerce are his. The silver mine and the mint are his. The revenue and the pension list are his. The foreign correspondence and the census bureau are his. The Patent Office and the Panama Canal are his. The water courses and the passes of the Rockies are his. Everything is his from the Capitol at Washington to' the humblest school house in the woods of Arkansas. What wonder then that the scholar, the thinker, the philanthropist is either crushed to death in the bloody jaws of the dragon or prudently stands out of the wind of his nostrils, hiding In his own place and hoping against hope that the day will come when the beast will perish under the lance of some benificent giant rising in his pathway! — How is it possible that the life of learning, of scholarship, of honest merit, can flourish, or even survive, under the political system that has supervened in onr country? How is it possible for an honest man even to oast an honest vote, when the antecedent conditions of every election have been so contrived that a man must virtually stultify himself before he can vote at all? The modern political party has learned how to prepare a condition in whieh the voter has the alternative when it comes to the election, of voting for something bad or something worse. He is adroitly driven into a strait place between the devil and the deep sea. Whila he stands there embarrassed with the situation, strongly desiring to do his duty, loving his country and her institutions, vexed and harassed by the force behind him and the conscience within him, mortified to death in the presence of the boasted ballot-box, two emissaries stand, one on one side of the window and the other on the other, glancing furtively at his ticket to see whether they can discover some evidence about it on which a discharge of mud and filth can be made from that catapult of all indeoeucy, the partisan news-

paper.

Glance back to the time of the great upheaval of 1856. That wks a revolution in whieh. for a short season, the people rose and stood. The young Republicans made their own banners, and put thereon the glorious alliteration of Free Speech, Free Press, Free Schools, Free Kansas and Fremont. Nobody could misunderstand it. It meant something. The Democratic party meanwhile entrenched itself in conservatism. It stood by the past Slavery was a part of tha existing system of labor and society in a large part of tha Union, and the democracy defended it To do so was a true conservatism, but U was also a false humanity. The issue was made up, terrible ’war was fought. Slavery crushed. The Union was reoonurue and at the end of that time the two parties found themselves face to face, and apparently the vocation *f each was gone. But the machine was now in foil force. The j question was how each should use the other as a foil to keep itself in power and continue to monopolise the spoils of the bat- . tiefield. The last presidential campaign was weighed most largely on the question rof free trade and protection. In that campaign the Republicans of the United States ws«* forced into alignment under the pro-

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Now, ia the name of all that is sacred, what kind of logic is that which says to these people, vote this particular way or you shall b* taken up by your mortal body, lifted out of your place in society by a hand more powerful thau yours, and be dashed down in a spot of solitary barrenness and to wail among ths kickers.

> where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched! Who says this? Party says

it and ijo«* it.

Of course, slaves are slaves. As a general rule, slaves are not very discontented with their condition. It does not follow that the majority of a servile race or of a servile societv demand or desire emancipation. For emancipation, mark yon well, brings with it the roost serious labors and responsibilities. It is glorious to be free, but freemen have heavier loads than slaves. The differencs is that the freeman may at hia pleasure lay down his load and rest. But we must bear in mind that in every prostituted society there is a large number of sspiring spirit* who long for release and freedom. This number is made up of the very best material of the given societv. It is composed of those who carry about with them everywhere the visions of propheev in their eyes, the dreams of the future in their brains, the twitter of the songbirds in their hearts and spirits. > # Now it is precisely this kind of an element which the American giumni constitute in the political and general society of onr times. They hare in them, as a role, the fires of enthusiasm and the aspirations of greater and better things. During the Formative period of their lives they have been placed, or have placed themselves ander conditions peculiarly favorable to a high development. They ought, in virtue of their advantages, to be the best and tallest men and women of the times. Asa matter of fact the alumni of our American •colleges do occupy, as they ought to occupy, a higher intellectual and moral plaue than the great majority to whom like advantages and blessings have been denied. It is the hard condition of onr times that the very merits and virtues with which the American alumni are so richly endowed are, in the present conditions of society and under the forces by which the public, aud even the private life of the people of the United States are controlled, as much of a disadvantage and an impediment to the possessor as they are an advantage and in-

spiring impulse.

Behold what the spirit of party, the domination of party, has accomplished in the United States. It has made the political life everything, and all other life virtually nothing in the esteem of the American people. It has degraded public opinion to this abject level, that there is no greatness in our country, no renown, except the doubtful greatness of hoi »ing office and the ambiguous renown of being elected or appointed to something. It has succeeded in thrusting down into obscurity, if not into contempt and ignominy, every form of endeavor and every species of accomplishment except the endeavor of politics and the struggle for place. It is impossible to describe the humiliating and debased condition of the public mind on these questions. Note, for a moment, what the American people really think about the conditions and circumstances of greatness. They believe that Government, the act of Government, and particularly the governors, are the most important facts in our civilization. ] They suppose that those citizens who are ] elected to high office do really, as the vul- j ; gar phrase has it, hold up the country by * the tad! They suppose and say—not know- | j ing what the laws of civilization and prog- j ! re*s really are—that a President, a Congress, i | a high court, a retinue of Governors and a j i battalion of municipals rca«v direct the en1 ergiesof a great people amT determine the ' course of events. What an absurd- ! ity! AVhat an utter subversion of all j the laws and conditions of human j history! Why, these men are merely i bubbles blown up on the billows of Na- | tional life by the capricious breezes and whimsical tides of publio opinion. They flicker for a moment on the crest of a wave, then burst and go into the thin gas of an attenuated oblivion. And yet party has decreed that these publio officers of the people, ephemeral as they are, elevated to high seats by low methods, and surrounded as they are by sycophants who swing censers of bad incense under their nostrils, shall be the great men of the age; that they shall be the cynosure of all men’s eyes, the observed of all observers; that they shall be cajoled and flattered into a state of mind respecting themselves and their work ih human society at which the gods laugh afiil weep by turns. At the same time it is decreed that high intellectual achievement, at whatsoever account it is, shall go for naught in ' this great procession of American life. It is ! decreed that art shall be nothing, learning j shall be nothing, literature shall be noth- J ing, science shall be nothing, invention and | discovery shall be nothing, social aceom- ! plishment shall be nothing, philanthropy 1 shall be nothing, teaching thi?masses shall | be nothing, nothing shall be nothing except | the one degraded business of politics—the i one ridiculous work of determining what ! man shall be set for a brief season in authority over other men by the corrupt and corrupting system of machination, intrigue, perfidy, throat cutting, personal butchery and malicious partisan massacre bv which a pitiful victory is achieved by one faction of i men over their fellows. This can be proved | by individual instances. Forty-three years ago there was graduated and s nt fo th fr m the halls of our old Asbury College of Liberal Arts—now included in Dc Pauw University—a man who had in him the true inspiration of genius. He perceived that the most delicate, the most beautiful, the most useful organ of sense aud ideality in the world is the human eye. He studied that organ as perhaps no man had aver studied it before. He made a specialty of that delicate and beautiful surgery by whieh the evils and diseases afflicting | tha eye may be remedied or assuaged. In i the course of twenty years he became by j odds the most eminent oculist in the whole j world, not in the new world only, but in venerable Europe as well, he carried forward his work—his achievement. Among | the experts of Paris, of London and Berlin, | he was regarded with awe and astonishment He returned to his own country, established a great hospital, aud wrought for twenty vears more at the marvelous problems and glorious issues of bis profession. He died on the 6th of October, 1888, within 150 miles of thl door of his alma mater, and yet there are not six men, and not two women, sitting on our rostrum to-night, and not teu men in this whole vast audience, i who know the name of that wonderful man I to whom I have referral. There never was a time in the last fifteen years of his life when he was invited to visithU alma mater. Aye, there never was a time when his coming to the university or to the tujru where lie was educated would have been noticed : auy more than the apparition of a drummer. There never was a time when a car- ! riage or even the omnibus would have been ! •out by a committee to meet him at the sta- j tion or to welcome him back to the place where his youthful genius dreamed its first dream and plumed itself for flightl And why? How is it possible thst such a thing as this should have come to pass in the republican society of the New World? It is •imply and solely because Elkanah Williams, of blesaed and glorious memory, waa not an office holder; not a politician. I will cite another instance of the same ignominy into whieh the American alumni are likely to fall. Six years ajgq a new life came to this university, promising at least the possibility of an immortal fains. Among the incidents and stirring scenes attendant upon the founding of De Pauw University was tbs building of the Women’s College. Ths corner-stone was laid. Ths memorial box was prepared. Its contents were selected by a committee. Very prominent among these contents were a half-dozen copies of countv newspapers and other political sheets of like caliber nnd compass. To have omitted these.immortal documents would have been to destroy some of the most important evidence which may be expected at the day ot judgment. We may easily believe that the first resurrection would be a comparative failure it these precious eight-by-teu political sheets abonid not be the first things flaunted in the face of eternity I Now this university in the fifty years of its existence has produced a limited literature. Bom* of our men havn heard tha voica within them, hnvo taken their pen and have written their

volume, not n single paragraph, not one poor word or title was pat into the memorial box under the oorner of the college across tbs wny. There no copy of Goodwin’s “Mode of Immortality,” of Edwards’s “Peemn.” of Muaseli’s “Payshok^y,” ,

Barnes’s “Cyclopwdiaof the American Government,” of Sim’s “Life of Eddy,’’ of Mason’s “Pioneer History of America,” was put sway as an evideae* of what wo are doing in the domain of literature. The university of that day disowned her child-

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Such it the terrible tyranny, the crashing despotism, the intolerable slavery of mind and soul and renutation, which the beast of party has established and enforced in the American Republic. What are the alamni going to do about it? I will tell yon what they have for the most part done about it. They have given over the contest nnd gone

into occoiution.

Only a few of onr number hare distinguished themselves bv obtaining the rewards of public oifice. The great mass have shrunk back from a form of life ia which it was impossible for them to be competitors. They have bidden away in obscure pursuits and the uselessness of usefulness. They have gone into occultation behind th* bloody moon of politics, and the surrounding sky doesn’t seem to miss them. The obscuration is for the most part complete, and the alumnus, the average alumnus, is obliged to solace himself with the consolation of his preacher, who tells him to b*

good and be happy.

What are the oiurani going to do about it? I answer that we must abide our time. Certain as the suu shines, certain as the ■tars glitter in the blue vanit of the summer night, certain as civilization goes forward in the stately marches of progress, certain as man is man and God is God, the days of political domination over the American people are numbered and shall be finished. The decree has already gone forth. An invisible hand has appeared and has written upon the very vault of Heaven the Mene, mene tekel upharain. The intellectual classes of this country, and our American alamni in particular, are obscured by the operation of brutal forces, before which they have been obliged to cower and hide away for a season. But everyone of them has carried into his seclusion an insurrection in his breast. There is a revolution in his heart and brain, and the day comes when his declaration of independence shall be written with a flaming ami immortal pen in the pages of his country’s history. Hail to the rising of that auspicious morning in the glow of which the intellect, the reason, the true spirit and the aspiration of this country shall burst forth in its splendor and draw the flaming sword of the spirit in the flash of which the nation shall be electrified and every evil

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There’s safety behind it as well as in the use of iv But there’s nothing ahead of it. The reputation of Pearline covers a multitude of imitations. Their names may end in * ine, w but their use may end in trouble. Don’t be persuaded that they are “ the same as Pearline,’’ or “ as good as rearline.” The peddlers who try to sell them will tell you that they are; if you’re reckless enough to try them, you will know that they are not. Get your Pearhne of some good grocer, for it’s never peddled. It’s the best thing to get, and it’s the only way to get it. Fesriina Is msnnfscturwd only bjr 179 JAM&S PYLX, New York. *'

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I contracted a terrible blood-poisoning * year ago. I doctored with two good physicians, neither of whom did me any good. 1 suffered all a man can suffer and live. Hearing of

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FACE ALL BROKEN OUT.

I was at one time ashamed to be seen, because my face was all broken out with blood disease. I tried all remedies in vain, and about two years ago sent for your book. “How to Cure 8km and Blood Diseases,” which was

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' CUTICURA RESOLVENT, The new blood and skin purifier, and greatest of humor remedies, internally (to cleanse the blood of all impurities and poisonous elements, and thus remove the cause;, and Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, and Cuticura Soap, an exquisite Skin Purifier and Beautifier, externally (to clear the skin and scalp, and restore the hair), speedily cure every humor and disease of the skin, scalp and hlood, with loss

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