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RAH!RAH!RAH!RAH! U.S.C. AH!
Boom! Rah! Boom! Rah!
Sis! Boom! Ah!
The Intercollegiate Oratorical
Contest
H. K. PITMAN, U. S. C, WINNER
Each of the Contestants Prodnced Fine
Results
An Exciting Race for Forensic Honors Among
the Bright Young Men of Southern
California Colleges —Ou.lir.es
of the Orations
Kah ! Rah ! Rah I Rail I
U. S. C. Ah !
Boom! Rah! Boom! Kah!
Sis! Boom! Ah !
This is what happened, or a small part
of what happened, in the First M. E,
church lust evening about 9:50, when
Homer K. Pitman wa named as prize
winner in the intercollegiate oratorical
contest. The roar was Started by two of
the "brazen-throated champions" of the i
. „ , „ „ W. E. PARKER, '95, Occidental College
THOMAS BRANSCOIBE. '98, Pomona College The Winner, HOMLR k. PITMAN, '97, U. S. C.
>U. S. C, who sat on the front row, gor- I
geous in blonde spring suits bedizened
with scarlet ribbon, the college color,
and each bearing a cane from which
Moated joyously more streamers of ribbon.
These canes periormed a very important
jpnrt in the ceremonies, until the faces of
'the young men who manipulated them
matched the ribbons in their lapels.
Anyhow, the cry was whooped up on
all sides, and then there were three cheers
Ifor Pitman, and three more for the U. S.
C and anxious inquiry was made,
"What is the matter with Pitman?"
Whereupon the immediate response,
"He's all right;" then, "Who s all
right?" and again the answer, "Pitman,"
with the accent on the Pit.
The merry tin horn lifted up its little
voice in the general din. and then the
.other colleges, not to be vanquished be
cause tbey were downed, let loose their
yells until the air reverberated
and the good Methodist chandeliers shook
Iwith surprise at the general and un
bounded joy and enthusiasm. Finally
the wild tumult spent itself and the pro
gramme was finished. But perhaps it
would be well to mention what happened
on the programme before the college yells
interrupted.
The full seating capacity of the church
was taxed both up stairs and down, ana
although there were no college gowns and
mortar boards, the navy blue ami white
(Pomona), the orange" and black (Occi
dental), and the scarlet of the U, S. C,
were brilliantly and beautilully in evi
dence. Mr. Donald Urookman, president
of the rt. (J. aud (J. A., presided. The
opening number of the programme was a
selection b" the ET. 0 orchestra fol
lowed by a prayer by Rev. Dr. Condit,
president of the Occidental college, after
which the three orators took their seats
on the pulpit platform and were greeted
with tumultuous applause. Miss Lulu
iPieper then sang Oodard's beautiful little
[Berceuse charmingly, and the lirst oration
fcf the evening was in order. Mr. Thomas
r'airchilil Branscoinbe, of Pomona, whose
subject was the Growth of Altruism,
stepped to the front of the platform and
paid his acknowledgments to the audi
| ence. In brief bis remarks were
as follows: In our social and
individual problems our greatest
difficulty is the selfishness of man; and
our continued progress depends upon
whether in our development our altru
istic feelings are a growing factor.
The injunction "love thy neighbor as
thyself rr.ust be obeyed if we would
reach relations most ideal. Fully com
plied With, it not alone promotes indi
vidual happiness, but solves the social
problems of this and every time.
Mr. Branscombe then went back to
tbe time of Alexander and reviewed the
gradual growth of sentiment and altru
istic tendencies, ami the ob tacles they
had to contend with, from that time
to and through the crusades up to Napo
leon and on to the present, when we may
believe that we are slowly growing
toward a love that knows not
■ell and a trust in a higher
power than mere intellect. Po
mona s orator closed with the consol
ing remark that if the clouds of life grow
dark as midnight and we seem upon a
tossing, shoreless sea, let history then
remind us that there Ls a power above—
"our refuge, our strength." Amid the
most cordial and appreciative applause
the voting man sat down, and was imnie
diately made the recipient of showers of
flowers. His college mates, to the number
of eighty-two, went lo the platform with
both arms laden.
Mr. Brookman next presented orator
number two. William Edward Parker,
from Occidental college, whose subject
was: Is It Right?
Over gory battlefields and by desolate
homes he led his aivlicnce; through car
nage and bloodsh n sight of eter
nal hills and bec...ng crags: within
THE CONTESTANTS
earshot of the groans of dying hordes;
ilown the sides of war-staind hills where
HOWS the blood of prince and pauper
alike, of bond and free. Mr. Parker
wis.led to show that from the dazzling
heights of ambition that had been reached
by valiant soldiers, poets, orators, states
men and kings, their immortal deeds
still shone, 'but they had been deeds of
Will it pay? rather than Is it right? The
latter is the question that reverberates
around the world, and comes ringing
down the ages, an«l only when time dies
in the arms of eternity will the last
echoes of this grand question die away in
tiie falhornless aoyss of space.
Mr. Parker was even more submerged
with Moral tokens than his predecesor
had been, and then Mr. Homer K. Pit
man of the I. S. c. was announced to
speak on The Bane of Inequality.
Law is universal, and the penalty of its
transgression is certain. The universe is
held together in one grand, harmuiiious
whole by immutable law. If it were pos
sible to suspend but for a moment the
one force of gravity, cosmos would he
thrown into chaos. What is true in the
physical realm is true also in the social
and moral. Man is bound to his fellows
by bonds of mutual dependence. As
wrong relations in the physical world
produce confusion and destruction, so
wrong relations between man and man
produce strife and suffering.
Among the erroneous ideas that by
enforcement have Idled the past with
ruins, none is more powerful than that of
man's inequality. It is the underlying
sentiment of class and race oppression,
the fundamental principle of despotism
and tyranny, ana upon its precepts is
founded the institution of human slavery.
The nations that ; " «■•--•- n&a > -
the world in culture and achievement
have been those that have granted the
greatest freedom to their citizens and
have been least enthralled by the bane of
inequality.
Greece towers high above all the nations
of antiquity in the excellence of her at
tainments and the grandeur of her civil
ization. Vet Greece failed to grasp the
I principle of equality in all its broad and
far-reaching Significance. The beautiful
I structure of her civilization, enriched
LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1895.
and adorned with her art. literature and
philosophy, was made alooniy by tbe
dark shadows of human slavery.
Rome conquered tbe world through the
power 01 her freemen. Yet. in her phil
osophy, freedom and equality were the
birthright of Romans alone. Restrained
by no just conceptions of equity she
pushed her conquests until over every na
tion was raised the Roman standard.
Hut the very causes most instrumental
in bringing about the supremacy and re
nown of the republic hastened its decline.
Extensive conquests made Rome the
slave market of the world, but the free
dom of her citizens was destroyed by the
serfdom of her captives. Slaves tilled the
soil, while tbe idle, Impoverished free
men flocked to the city, where, bowing
at the feet of opulent and despotic lead
ers, tbey sold their votes for bread.
The mind wearies as it contemplates
the dark ages following the fall of Rome,
during which caste, feudalism, religious
intolerance and despotism swayed the
world. Yet all through that long, dark
night of wrong the unseen hand of Om
nipotence was moulding the affairs of
men. that there might be ushered in the
dawn of reason and lioerty. England
awoke ami Magna Charts was wrested
from tho unprincipled John, Luther
dared to he a man. and after a
long struggle the papal power was
broken; but here upon the shores
of America the morning light of that
glorious day, whose sun shall never set,
hurst forth in all its splendor when that
iin mortal hand of patriots, breathing the
free air of this new continent, dared iv
the name of the eternal right to declare
to an incredulous world that "all men are
created equal." That this principle
might be established our forefathers
fought and died. But slavery, strange
consort of freedom, continued to rest like
a blight upon our fair land. Four hun
dred thousand of Columbia's noblest sons
sacrificed their lives ere the work of our
ancestors was completed and equality of
privilege granted to all.
The past fifty years have marked an
era of progress unrivaled in history, and
free America leads the world. Yet ine
quality in a new guise is still oppressing
mankind with its pernicious bane. For
merly it was serfdom, now it is monop
oly. Yesterday men were enslaved by
force; today by dire necessity.
A great spirit of unrest has seized the
laboring classes. Broadened intelligence
brings increased wants, but to the laborer
there is no proportionate increase of
means wherewith to satisfy his desires for
modern cultu c and refinement-
Although America has no hereditary
aristocracy, the excessive disparity be
tween the conditions of capitalists and of
laboring classes has produced social castes
whose dividing lines are fast becoming
more apparent.
Not less clearly defined is the discrim
ination between the idler and the toiler.
That society should be so divided is due
to a false idea as to the dignity of labor.
It is an idea ingrained by experience,
inbred by inheritence, and yet it is
wrong—basely wrong! The words of the
Master: "My Father worketh hitherto,
and I work," shine out like a ray of sun
light across a dreary way-a promise of
the time when men sliall see that toil is
honorable, and that grand ultimatum of
existence, a glorious activity.
The deep-rooted feeling of popular dis
content that now pervades our country
will never be dispelled until far-reaching
changes have been made in our social
system. Twice before in modern times
has such a feeling of dissatisfaction seized
the people; once preceding the great re
ligious reformat ion and ones preceding tbe
French revolution. In each 'case the dis
content was met with apathy, and his
tory is made sad with the results. If our
statesmen continue to meet the present
disquietude with indifference and say, with
Louis XV., "After us the deluge," alas
for society!
Already extremists are advocating the
overthrow of our whole social fabric. Pa
ternalism and Socialism are abroad in the
land, and theif pernicious though plausi
ble theories, unless met with convincing
argument, may Vie instilled into the minds
of a restless people.
Those who advocate these radical
changes forget that the present social
evils are not more a result of wrong rela
tions than of right ones distorted. Thu
bonds of mutual trust between employer
and employee have been broken. Capital
has forgotten that without labor it would
be helpless, has forgotten that labor is
entitled to a just proportion of the wealth
it creates. Labor has forgotten that cap
ital alone gives it employment, and that
scattered wealth would be powerless.
Both have forgotten that while there
seems to be a clashing oi interests it is
only temporary, and their highest inter
ests are common aud can be best sub
served only by mutual concord and equity,
individuals have forgotten that wdiat is to
the advantage of society is to their own
advantage. Peace ami confidence will be
established only when the acknowledged
truth of human brotherhood becomes an
organized factor in our social and com
mercial life. The world must learn that
the command of the Brest Teacher.
"Love thy neighbor as thyself," was not i
intended to be merely a kindly sentiment,
but a golden rule that should govern the
actions of men.
The much needed changes in onr system
can be successful only as they are founded
upon the two-fold principle of equality
ami brotherhood, lint let us have a linn
and abiding faith in the future.
When the glad day dawns—and it will
dawn—in which men come to appreciate
their privileges and to value labor aright,
they will learn that there arc other em
pires to conquer than that of Mammon.
And w hen universal culture and moral
ity shall have swept away all unjust In
equalities, when man shall dwell with
man in union and brotherhood, when
Christianity shall throw its kindly in- j
Huence over all, and love shall reign
supreme then may wo justly be proud of
a nation whose achievements are nobly
and grandly good, whose citizens arc
truly free, and wdiose motto is liberty,
equality and fraternity.
It was not a vety great surprise to any
one in the audience when, after Miss
Bovard had played one of Chopin's polo
naises, and Miss Addic L. Murphy had
read extremely well and Mrs. Edith Brown
Young had sung Dudley Buck's Creole
Lover's Song, the Bey. John t-ray, rector
of St. Paul's, presented, with a neat
little speech, the lirst prize medal
to Pitman of the ' I". S. C.
Then it was that the com
motion which heads this article tooK
place, although as soon as he hud linished
there was considerable appreciation ex
pressed and it was very justly bestowed.
Sir. Pitman is."only lit years old. and is
lour years younger than either of the
o ber contestants, yet his oration was
extremely clever and was delivered with
considerable dramatic spirit.
The prize is a medallion of rod gold, on
the upper edge of which is a scroll with
a laurel Wreath in green gold across it.
tin the surface of the medallion are the
letters S. C. I. O. A., the date 1895 and
the words, first prize. Attached to tho
medallion on either side is a laurel branch.
On the scroll are the (Ireek characters,
Delnos Legion, which mean literally,
terrible in speaking, a supposititious en-
C omium which the Greeks gave their ora
tors and which was applied especially to
Demosthenes. Following is the marking
in the contest:
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Following ure the judges:
Judges on thought and composition—
Rev. A. H. Carrier, V. 1)., .Santa Bar
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State Normal; Professor A. Q, newcomer,
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