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UN IVERSITY OF OREGON MONTHLY
sentiment of the American people is not behind it all, working deep
and earnestly toward the very root of the evil?'“ The-men first to
layjfcheir lives,on the'altar of their country to protect her flag from
insult, here, too, could they only realise the danger, Would faithfully
respond/ So again let go put that old time call of Liberty and Uflion.
Hearing, let us?‘s ee,jand seeing; meet the foe.
not «vade,
we can nM^deny. We dare not extenuate, we dare not palliate, if
we valure national existence. When we perish .from the earthy it will
be from causes within. “Yet the wilfi^-free;-strong is the soul, and
wise, and beautiful; thes^eds of gdd-like power are in.usW U,” We
need fear no .foreign foesp long as we hold fast to1 the principles
that were in the hearts o f our fathers when they’founded ¿jarss repub
lic, the principles by which our institutions were conceived in purity,
our standards of right aild wrong made stainless and high; and our
laws held inviolable. Lest we forget, let us as of, old “go to the
limpid fountain of unadulterated patriotisih,, and,' performing a
solemn lustration, return divested of all sordid, selfish, and sinister
impurities,^; and most of all, return with eyfes fdear to see the, right
and will strengthened to stand/for 'that righteousness that exalteth
a natibn, so that in reality this nation may not perish, but on through
the ages "live ‘to fulfill its heaven appointed functions for' mankind.
Bert Prescott. ;
'Editor’s N ote: “Mercy That -Condemns”, is the oration deliv
ered at Monmouth, Oregon on Friday, March thirteenth, by Bert
Prescott. This oration brought to the University for the -first time
in nine years, victory in the Intercollegiate Oratorical .-contest^ The
author is to be congratulated on the force and depth of his thinking.
In a few minor details the, oration here printed differs, slightly
from the oration delivered by Mr. Prescott a t ; Mohmbutli; in the
main it is-substantially;-similar.