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men who are greedy drunk with the intoxication of wealth and 

 power we sometimes are told that wealth and power are criminal. 

 There are some that hold that thrift is folly and personal owner- 

 ship a crime. In the new Utopia all is to be for all, and no one 

 can claim a monopoly, not even of himself. There may be worlds 

 in which this shall be true. It is not true in the world into 

 which you have been born. Nor can it be. In the world we 

 know the free man should have a reserve of power, and this 

 power is represented by money. If thrift ever ceases to be a 

 virtue, it will be at a time long in the future. Before that time 

 comes, our Anglo-Saxon race will have passed away and our civi- 

 lization will be forgotten. 



A man should have a reserve of skill. If he can do well some- 

 thing which needs doing, his place in the world will always be 

 ready for him. He must have intelligence. If he knows enough 

 to be good company for himself and others, he is a long way on 

 the road toward happiness and usefulness. To meet this need 

 our schools have been steadily broadening. The business of 

 education is no longer to train gentlemen and clergymen as it 

 was in England, to fit men for the professions called learned as 

 it has been in America. It is to give wisdom and fitness to the 

 common man. The great reforms in education have all lain in 

 the removal of barriers. They have opened new lines of growth 

 to the common man. This form of university extension is just 

 beginning. The next century will see its continuance. It will 

 see a change in educational ideals greater even than those of the 

 revival of learning. Higher education will cease to be the 

 badge of a caste, and no line of usefulness in life will be beyond 

 its helping influence. 



The man must have a reserve of character and purpose. 



" To the good man no harm can come, be he alive or dead." 



He must have a reserve of reputation. Let others think well of 

 us, it will help us to think well of ourselves. No man is free 

 who has not his own good opinion. A man will wear a clean 

 conscience as he would a clean shirt, if he knows his neighbors 

 expect it of him. He must have a reserve of love, and this is 

 won by the service of others. " He that brings sunshine into the 

 lives of others can not keep it from himself." He must form the 

 ties of family and friendship, that, having something at stake in 

 the goodness of the world, he will do something toward making 

 the world really good. 



When every American citizen has reserves like these, he has 

 no need to beg for special favors. All he asks of legislation is 

 that it keep out of his way. He demands no form of special 

 guardianship or protection. He can pay as he goes. The man 



