Sauk City High School - Sauk Log Yearbook (Sauk City, WI)

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ness of man and the perversity of the human heart. The breaking up of families is one of our great sources of national weakness. It tends to unfaithfulness, it is injurious to the care and education of children; it gives occasion to the break- ing up of domestic society; it lessens and degrades the dignity of woman; it springs from corrupt morals of nations. We are in an age of material progress. Great economic questions are to be settled, and must be settled right. Pro- gress along all lines to higher ideals is of divine ordering. Human stagnation provoked God’s anger is the lesson of the parable of the talents. In the solution of those problems, both economic and moral, woman has her place. She can not stand isolated from it. Her place is in the world as well as in the home. In the world when her love and refine- ment can render it a service. Let her embrace every oppor- tunity to work for further victories, for mind over matter, for virtue over immorality, for justice over injustice. To hold the world to truth woman must be in it. To do this woman realizes her birthright and gives to the world the influence of one. “So mild, so merciful, so strong, so good, So patient, peaceful, loyal, loving, pure.” 'fi-

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have been, as queens, the mothers and examples of nations. God has so ordained that woman should be the indispensable companion of man in all his work. The Apostles had the holy women as companions. The names of Abraham and Sara, of Isaac and Rebecca, Ferdinand and Isabella, are indissolubly associated in glory. With the dawn of modern times woman became more and more emancipated. Historians tell us that during this period woman has been greatly elevated and enobled and that she should be grateful to man for this advancement. Historians do her an injustice. Nobility of character is an inward growth, and can be conferred by no man or set of men. Her fight for liberty and recognition has been a hard fight. She waged it herself and won. She merits the gratitude of the entire world, for what she has accomplished for herself, for home and society. When General Halofernes was sent by the Assyrian king to subdue all nations and forego their national existence, it was a woman who stopped his onward march. The inspired writer in describing this patriotic act said: “Thou art the glory of Jerusalem; thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honor of our people ’’ Judith was not the only woman who did great things for the people, and the words of Scripture were meant in a higher, nobler sense for all women of all ages in the onward march of progress. Never has the position of woman changed more radically than since 1800. She is a part in the body politic. In certain states she is a recognized voter with full rights of citizenship. Does she not also receive in those states the same protection as to property and in the administration of the law as man has ? Everywhere the justice of this re-arrangement of rights has been accepted. In many places there are movements on foot looking to the early passage of laws which make woman a citizen in the enjoyment of the fullest rights contemplated under the original declaration of our liberties. Having a vote woman will be able to help her unfortunate sisters, to rescue the government of the cities from corruption and to take an active part in the reformation of those man made laws legalizing vice in all forms, in the upbuilding of juster ideals for both men and women. Woman must labor incessantly that the home should be an abode of virture and high ideals. With undying tenacity she should combat all laws leading to its dissolution, thereby protecting innocent children and herself against the lawless-

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flmertta, Jflfltstress of tbe S ea EUGENE REIF tphe present status of society requires each nation to seek some means of protecting its citizens, its commerce, and its possessions. The growing need of a great and strong naval fleet is becoming a question of vast importance to the mighty maritime powers of to-day, and they are now improv- ing and building battle-ships, cruisers, and submarines, which will mould the destinies of those nations in the future. France is greatly interested in the tiny submarine boat. Altho not yet completely perfected, the work is being vigor- ously pushed forward, to get it in working condition in time of war. The future military powers of Russia and Japan are destined to be great, while the marked growth of the United States naval power is but small when compared to the vast naval power of Great Britain. The great sea struggle between Russia and Japan has aroused the world, which had lain idle, and neglected the building of ships of war, wherein lay the fate of a nation. The immense commerce which is being carried on by the United States amounts to $1,500,000,000 annually whose safe protection can only be secured thru the influence of a large sea fleet. In the United States, we find elements of power:—a vigorous population and material resources without parallel in history, together with conditions never yet equalled—maritime frontiers, vast material interests, which demand the growth of our power upon the sea. The population of the United States is increasing twice as rapidly as the population of Germany, and three times as rapidly as the population of Great Britain, while the richness of the soil could support a population equal to the present population of the earth, without taxing the soil beyond the degree now existing in Europe. In the United States, two and one-half times as much is spent for education as in Germany and England, who stand at the top of the list in Europe. Altho the Civil War involved but 16.000 men at its beginning the numbers of