University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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12 run igxutux hurl tlu hot lava of human hatred from Cuba to Alaska— from the Philippines to Maine. And you, ladies and gentlemen, here to-night—for some of you may be honest believers in prohibitive legislation— remember that the more heavenly the dream, the more violent the awakening: that remembering it. you may gradually rouse yourselves and lessen its embittering shock. Let us be dupes no longer! Let us cast forth from our intellects these plans for prohibitive legislation, the burning ashes of a noxious incense that would drug us into the sleep of credulity for the purpose of our enslavement. Let us cast forth those ashes, because, as true Americans, we recognize in them the scent of tyranny and national dismemberment. And then when we have done this, when in our enlightenment we have relegated prohibitive legislation and all its coterie of awful possibilities to the tombs of the forgotten, let us set up for ourselves, in some conspicuous place, the warning motto — 'Pe temperate in all things.” and by way of amendment let us add, “even in our reforms”—that in following the teaching of that wise old precept, we may continue our national existence—in prosperity, security and peace. Edward Ignatius Fitzpatrick. Ifirfit (Cnmntuutmt Sweet Jesus, when Thou dost abide Within this spotless breast. And there Thy Majesty dost hide, Seeking calm peace and rest,— Unto that warm and tender heart The treasures of Thy Love impart.

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coxfljct of lmf axd liberty 11 the Government and the governed, the relationship of father to son, or places the governed in a state of dependency upon the decisions of the Government. Now, in a republic, such as ours, in a democracy which by its eulogists is said to have gone farther than any other nation of history in the protection of the private rights of its citizens—in short, in these L'nited States, conceived in liberty, dedicated to liberty, ever the sanctum of liberty, how odious is this system of government, State paternalism, the stifler of freedom, which would so circumscribe our boasted personal independence as to make it absolutely contingent upon the whims and determinings of our neighbors. And yet, with its innate distastefulness, the tendency in that direction is each day more pronounced. Its strength is to be felt in the anti-liquor amendment. And, ladies and gentlemen, though in truth the prohibitionists are a dry sort of people, we will find that victory, despite their dryness, will inflame their hearts, and enkindle their imaginations in much the same manner as a warming wine. Conscious of their power, powerful in their success, they will find new fields on which to battle highly exaggerated evils. Reform will beget reform, and each in its turn will infringe on private liberty, the civil society in its newly-created office will begin to encroach on the realm of the domestic, and what will result?—OPPRESSION—of a new form perhaps, but none the less, oppression—the reign of tyranny, the arrogant sway of pettiness, dwelling in high places, and then like the violent eruption of a muttering volcano, will come the rousing of a long-suffering people, a people from whose eyes has at last been snatched the rose-tinted glass of illusion, a people whose blind quest for social uplift has betrayed them into the loss of inestimable privileges—ah. this is truly something to ponder upon, this awakening, such an eruption as can

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(Ea;tJ. Jofltfjilj $uUumn. It . A. Ca])t. Joseph It Sullivan needs no letter of introduction to the readers of the “Ignatian.” Along; with llriga-dier-General Charles II. McKinstry, Master Klectrician Dick” Queen, twice recipient of the Croix de Guerre, Sergeant Con (Vllrien, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, and so many other heroes whom St. Ignatius gave to I’ncle Sam he will be pointed to with pride by all the loyal sons of Alma Mater. Joe was always a “fighter,” courageously attacking anything from a Greek verb to Kuclid's method of finding the L. C. M. Me was a fighter on the football field too. and often did he put a healthy scare into the opposing front-rankers. Having passed successfully the examinations. Joe went to represent St. Ignatius at West Point. Popularity was the keynote to his success at West Point as at college, and when his class was graduated just at the outbreak of hostilities, he was commissioned Captain of Infantry, and was among the first to be sent overseas. That Capt. Joe’s ambitions to engage in the fight were