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every avenue of life, then, and not until then, can we hope for the solution 

 of some of the problems that now embarass our social institutions. Ig- 

 norance, it is true, is a menace to society, but the ignorant are more to 

 be piftied than fearedl The dang erous element of society today, the ele- 

 ment which is threatening our republican institutions, is the element 

 lacking in moral force, who yet have the intellectual training of our 

 schools and universities, the men who have the ability to make chem-ical, 

 commercial, and political combinations and who use them for personal 

 ends regardless of the rights and happiness of others. These are the 

 fellov/s who are creating the inequalities of opportunity and who are 

 bearing down upon the laboring classes. These are the men who are 

 prostituting the discoveries of science by the manufacture and sale of 

 adulterations and imitations of all kinds of products. Ignorance and 

 poverty, when driven to the verge of dispair by genuine or fancied 

 wrongs, may resort to mob violence and the destruction of property, but 

 greed and avarice, trained and s killed in the subleties of logic and 

 rhetoric, and loaded with dollars, strike at the foundation of our institu- 

 tions. I believe, as a whole, the world is growing better, that the good 

 yet predominates and is on the increase. 



I would like to believe that tlje students of science, the men who are 

 able to learn the compositions, relation, and causes of things, would 

 never use that knowledge except for the development of truth and the 

 upbuilding of humanity. I would like to believe that the dairyman who 

 makes butter which has a flavor suggestive of green fields, clover blos- 

 soms, and new mown hay, will get his reward in this world. I would like 

 to believe that the milkman v/hose milk produces not a film but a visible 

 layer of cream on its surface, and the taste of wiiich takes us back to the 

 farm, and the days when a bowl ol inilk and bread was a feast, and a dish 

 of mush and milk, a banquet, will prosper and hfs tribe increase. I 

 would like to believe that the cheesemaker who is generous enough to 

 allow the curd to absorb all the butter-fat that it v/ill take from the 

 whole milk, and whose cheese will cut smooth as butter and dissolve in 

 the mouth with the flavor of the country air, may be made a professor in a 



