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world, not by arms, but by planting the English language and
Anglo-Saxon institutions in every country and by carrying the
message of the Son of Man to every people."
Ohns. M. Deardorff of the University of Denver spoke on
"The Dignity of Obedience." "All government," ho said,
"is based upon law, and only under law can civil society
exist. The rights of manhood, however sought after, are
secured only by order; order is by government, and the
authority of government has its source and seat in law." Mr.
Deardorff lauded the power of the ballot as the only redress
of wrongs which the citizen has. lie said that "law with
truth is beneficence directed by reason; mob is hatred acting
on impulse. Law with truth is the. twin handmaid of justice;
mob with error is the wreaking of personal vengeance." "Men
everywhere seek to know the authority of law. To the, enquir
ing mind, it is manifest on every hand. Its prosence is
revealed in the harmonious commingling of countless whirling
spheres. It speaks to man in the throbbing of the locomotive,
in the battling of the elements, in the roaring of a Niagara.
In obedience to it the acorn unfolds into a majestic oak; by its
guidance man penetrates the mysteries of nature." "In propor
tion to man's regard for law have his development and power
been perfected. This, then, is the exalted purpose of law, the
true dignity of obedience the raising of man into his proper
sphere and the advancement of civilization to its goal."
G. D. Talbot of the University of Nebraska spoke on William
Lloyd Garrison. He said that "When a great wrong is to be
righted, God sends the man." Ho characterized Garrison as
the greatest, tondorost soul that the great Republic has soon
since the days of Washington. Garrison saw the "cruelty
and infinite outrage of slavery" and determined to devote his
life to fight it. He was imprisoned in Baltimore for libel and
after being released "wont back to Boston, rented some typo,
borrowed a press, and friendless, penniless, and alone began
to publish the Liberator." "All the harsh, stern, terrible and
tremendous energies of English speech, he drew upon and
launched at slavery. The Liberator radiated thought that
glowed couched in the words that burned a pillar of -fire in
the night of the nation's sin." "William Lloyd Garrison,
first of reformers in the greatest of reforms, more than a
martyr to his cause, as a life of toil and striving is greater than
the dreamless cloop of doath."
Rollo Lu Verne Lyman of Boloit College, Wisconsin, dis
cussed the "Altruism of American Expansion." Ho ardently
maintained that the duty of the United States is to expand.
Wisdom, courage, unsought opportunity, loyalty to democracy,
faith in an overruling Providence compel America to decide
now, once and forever, whether she is to remain in splendid
isolation, or is to assume her place among the enlightened
powers of the earth, in the very battle front of the struggle of
civilization. "Expansion! It must bo! The precedent is
imperative! America must obey the immutable law of growth,
which is a nation's response to a God-appointed destiny."
Mr. Lyman maintained that the constitution was purposely
made flexible by the fathers to promote growth. "It is the
light in which each generation has eolvod and must solve its
own problems. The responsibility of a three-fold duty rests
upon us to day duty to ourselves, to the islands under our
protection, and to the world." "America needs toning up, she
needs broader national activity. These newly opened oppor
tunities for action will bettor prepare us to grapple with un
solved domestic problems." "Columbia's real problem is not,
to keep or not to keep the islands; it is, shall she assume
responsibility or neglect opportunity?"
Dudley H. Forroll of Tarkio College, Missouri, spoke on
"Retributive Justice." "Law," he said, "Is the sustaining
principle of all government, the essential constituent of an
mato and inanimate existence. Its uniformity and universality
refute the arguments of tho atheist and expose the willful
ignorance of the agnostic. Tho divine protest against lawless
ness is retributive justice." God's sentence of retribution has
fallen upon Egypt and Babylon. His hand writes tho doom
of every nation that forgets the laws of human brotherhood.
"Spain has given tho most recent illustration of retribution's
law. This nation, tho synonym of tyranny in government and
intolerance in religion, has produced upon the stage of life one
of the most sublime tragedies in tho annals of men." Her proud
position as ruler of tho world has bocomo a myth; her power
has gone, never to return. "Justice cannot be cheated. The
Infinite God has spoken and the wheels of destiny are turning."
"Strikingly also does history illustrate tho inflexibility of l.aw
in dealing with tho individual. Wrapping about himself the
faded and moth oaten folds of his old continental uniform,
without a friend beside him, and refusing the comfort ho dared
not take, passed away Benedict Arnold, tho soldier, patriot,
traitor." Mr. Farrell concluded with a strong apostrophe to
America, warning her to continue obedience to the "law of
human rights which demands the 'upward look to God and the
outward look to man.'"
A. 0. Northrnp of Kansas Wosloyan University at Salina,
Kansas, spoke on "Tho Changing Policy of the United States."
He said that a changing national policy is historically Ameri
can rnd is essentially democratic. It is the dictate and the
embodiment of wisdom gained by experience. Wise states
men always change their policy in changed conditions and in
changing circumstances." "A changing policy has been the
characteristic of every political party in the history of our
nation. Such a policy is tho logic of tho nation's life and
hoalth. It evidences that tho nation is not all entombed in the
past but is very much present and alive and has the courage of
her future. It evidences that her heart is thrilled with the
fine delights of progress while she holds her face to tho sun
rise, climbs the slopes of higher achievement and swings into
tho wealth of a bettor and brighter civilization." Mr. Northrnp
showed how our national policy has constantly changed and
all these changes have been for our bettering. Ho maintained
that tho flag should never be withdrawn from Cuba and the
Philippines. Ho commended tho record of the Peace Com
missioners at Paris. Ho advocated closor relations with
Groat Britain. In conclusion ho quoted a stanza from Kip
ling's Whito Man's Burden.
Harry G. Harward of Eureka College, Illinois, eulogized
"Tho Grand Old Man." "In the twilight glow of this depart
ing century we may not see clearly enough to judge impartially
of his life. Time alone can reveal how much greater ho was
than any of his contemporaries for fame and power. Timo
alono can estimate tho value of his service a service as broad
.as the world, as universal as humanity." Gladstone came
from the groat middle olassos. Ho was nurtured in tho midst
of comfort and luxury. "Ho was truly groat in every phase
of his career. Gladstono towered above the men of his time
like one of his own Olympian diotios."
"Gladstone, tho scholar, waB a profound thinker. No subject
was too abstruse for him. In oratory he demonstrated his uf&
rivalled versatility. His lips wore touched with tho live coal
of eloquence. Ho was the heaven-commissioned champion of
the desolate and oppressed. Looking through the 'clear 'ether
of 'heaven's justice' lie saw the !brot;herhood of man wot as a
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