Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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28 the milestone. he represents, or makes promises he has no intention of keeping or who attempts to prejudice a people by falsehood or incendiary utterances, is as much a traitor to his country’s best interests as was the contemptible Arnold. “Let us burn and destroy the idols of party worship; banish politics from the municipality and county, limiting it to questions affecting principles in the state and nation; place competency and integrity at ever)’ part of the public service. Let us adorn our courts with judges worthiest to wield the attributes of God; elect representatives that will reflect the majority of a free people, send to the senate statesmen whom history will immortalize and nations make their models, uphold them with a patriotism that will never tire, and guard them with a vigilance that will never sleep.” Let Young America be taught such principles as these from the cradle up, and our national fiber will ever grow stronger, our government better and more just, and our people happier and more prosperous. Lynn M. Scofield.

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TilK MILRSTONK. country and its marvelous process in science, art, and in all that makes a nation great. e have gained an ever growing admiration from all nations. following each branch of industry from its small beginning to the magnitude which it may now possess, we are shown that the progress of the Isist, great as it lias been, is but preliminary to that which the future promises, when entrusted to the rising generation of genius. Underlying all vast industries, however, are the broad fields of individual industry, where a single person, depending only on his own skill and perseverance not only is able to create an industry, but also to devise a means for making it useful. In almost every case but little money capital is possessed at the beginning, but there is a better capital than mere money in the self reliant genius of the invincible American. Look over the whole list of nations and show me one in which a boy can start from so humble a position as a log cabin or the tow path and reach the highest office in the government, as did (airfield,— “Horn in a lovely western wild, And cradled on a cabin floor, He labored when a little obi Id, To keep the gannt wolf from the door.” Vet the place for greatest improvement is in our settlement of the social and political problems. Although we cannot expect such a revolution as Bellamy experienced when he opened his eyes to a new civilization in the twentieth century, we look forward to the time when the backbone of monopolies of every’ description shall be broken, when no one may live without work, und no one be obliged to labor without receiving the full value of his services. We look forward to the time when the noble maxim of our forefathers that “All men are created free and equal” shall be one of the practical principles ot life instead of merely a fine spun theory quoted by every demagogue orator. We long to see uncorrupted elections, and straightforward men in public ottice, obeying the dictates of an intelligent constituency. We shall welcome the day when public office shall, in reality, be a public trust, and when the politician who would secure his election by a series of juggling acts in which the people are deceived—when such men shall be retired very hastily to deserved positions of dishonor and disgrace. He who is false to the people

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Pyramids. VALEDICTORY ORATION, CLASS OF ’90. Build today then, strong and tture, With a firm and ample haw, And ascending and secure, Hindi tomorrow find its place. This simple stanza contains the rule according to which all th» great, stable pyramids of the world are erected; shaken throughout every liber by the muscular arm of labor, they stand, in after ages, imposing monuments of the energy expended ui on them. Thus it was with those great edifices which adorn the valley of the Nile. In the time of King Menea, these regions were made to echo for years and years with the stroke of chisel and hammer, but today standing guard over the ruins of many dynasties, loom up the world renowned pyramids of Kgypt, uncovered by the shifting sands of time, fitting memoirs of ancient genius. These were builded of rock to render them stable, but today then exist pyramids, composed, not of rock, but of great events, which may be call national pyramids. Observe the towering grandeur of that nation we are proud to call our mother country. England stands without a peer among the nations of the old world, attesting the strength of her foundations by the many centuries she has existed in spite of domestic violence and foreign wars. Ink every national monument, the English pyramid was not erected in a day. It is the result of ages of work and strife and seeming failures. The foundations were laid in the old Anglo-Saxon love of liberty, in the traditions and customs brought from their wild German home. The genius of Alfred the Great did much to bind the Saxon nations into one; his work was continued by the stong but arbitrary laws of William the Conqueror, and afterwards more effectually by the common interests of a united people.