South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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world, this country is bound together by the iron bands of five transcontinental railroads that reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific and whose branches stretch out like the arms of the octopod and gather in the tralhc; added to this we have in the Great Lakes, navigable rivers and canals— most desirable inland waterways. The life and prosperity of a free Republic depends quite as much on the education of the people as upon resources and commerce. A Republic can not endure if its masses are in ignorance. If the masses in any nation aee educated a despotism cannot endure. The American Republic has not yet reached that degree of perfection in which the masses are so equally well able to hold office that we could safely elect our officers by lot as did the Athenians in the age of Pericles. We still have the ignorant voter among us, but what is there to prevent us from attaining even a greater proficiency than they, when there is placed, by our public school system within the grasp of everyone, lie he rich or poor, an opportunity and the encouragement to obtain any degree of education and fit himself for any office to which his ambition may prompt him. And in the near future we may expect that the rights of suffrage shall be based upon educational qualifications; men shall hold office because they are fitted for it and not because they chance to be of the popular party. In conclusion: natural resources, commerce, an educational system and liberty, are necessary to a republic. Our country produces enough to maintain itself and has an abundant overflow; it has commercial intercourse with all the great nations of the world, its public school system is almost perfected and we are a free people—free from any system of caste, free from the demands of royalty, free from religious oppression. Our government is, in most respects a marvel of political skill. I see only one condition upon which our question depends; toinsurethe deration of our Republic requires, on the partof every citizen “eternal vigilance” this isthe “price of liberty.” Bert Roberts. -e-- c

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And we who live in this prosperous and enlightened age can testify to the success of their efforts. As we look away across the vast expanse of western prairie to the Rocky Mountains that loom up, seeming to touch the very heavens and interrupt our view, or as we glance up and down the fertile valley of the Mississippi, we see spread out before us one of the richest and most fertile stretches of country in the world. Dotted about the prairie like oasis in a desert, or scattered along the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries, standing as monuments to the achievements of a free people, are innumerable populous cities and thriving towns. In Minnesota and her surrounding sister states we have many examples of the enterprising northwestern spirit, where towns spring up in a day and do not wither and fade away like some fair flower but take firm root and grow up to be such cities of renown and beauty as Minneapolis the Metropolis of the Northwest and her saintly sister St. Paul. In the Middle and Atlantic states are numberless large cities whose business and commercial activity gives testimony of great enterprise. It is true throughout the Union that there is not a state but that contributes in some way to the energetic and progressive spirit characteristic of the people. Taking an inventory of the stock on hand let us consider the country’s resources. In the wheat fields of Minnesota and the Dakotas we have graneries that are sufficient to supply the entire want of this country and have a surplus for those less abundantly provided. Going toward the west and southwest there are to be found those wide expanses of grazing land supplying the great herds of cattle that furnish us with l eef. From California, that narrow strip of land beyond the Rockies, one of the richest mining and fruit raising districts to be found on the globe, comes fruit, vegetables and from her mountains gold in never-ceasing supplies. In the Alleganies are the coal mines, in the different ranges of mountains and along the Great Lakes are mines of tin, copper, iron and other useful metals. Within the confines of this country there is to be found the raw material for the manufacture of every article of necessity and even luxury, also the power and machinery for making use of them. There may come a time when the demand will be so great that the present sources of power will not be adequate to supply the requirements; but when that time comes, there will be at least one reservoir of energy as yet unutilized and whose capacity is almost immeasurable. When necessity demands it, that immense lx dy of water that now pours over Niagra Falls will not be wasting its force on the rocks, but will be under the control of man and take its place of usefulness with the other natural and artificial forces, turning the wheels of our mills and factories, driving our engines and lighting our cities. Although the United States, with her inexaustable fountain of resources, is comparatively independent of the remainder of the world, and while many of the thickly populated countries of Europe look to her for their subsistence. Yet she is in a measure dependent upon them to take the over production off her hands and keep up the demand for lal or. Besides having direct commercial intercourse with all the nations of the civilized

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t C ) CL TSS POETTJ. LASSMATES, gathered here to-night, Teachers, friends, our hearts so near. Accept the greeting of the poet. She greets you in that name so dear, That name we always love to hear, The name of those to honors new, The name of the class of '92. To those of you who may not know Of this our class, its virtues too, The poet tells }Tou, we can show The -best to cipher and construe; The best to laugh, the best to shout; The best to work, the l est to play; The best to think a puzzle out. The best that sees the light of day. We have our Burke, our Bacon, Loche, We have our Kingsley, and our Hume, Mozart and Lind, all in our stock. In truth, of each, one may assume, Of those the world doth largely rate We point you in our class to one Who is to him a worthy mate; Whom neither great nor wise will shun. We’re not a class to cut a dash; We’re not a class to break a law, And make our friends look on in awe, And fear results from actions rash: But we’re a class of strength and might. We work along with greatest joy To aid a fallen cause that’s right, And vice and evil to destroy. We’ve met our text books day by day As though we loved their deeps to sound; We’ve learned of Ethiope and Malay, Of tides, and clouds, and circles round, Of bones and muscles, tissues, nerves; We’ve studied diction, figures, style; History, too, its purpose serves; At unknown quantities we smile. In Latin, we can masters show Of Virgil or of Cicero. In German, one point we know well