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Show - 'S3- nice Address at nanorer .by President Benjamin Idc Wheeler.. (HANOVER. Juno 28.-Yesterday wat given over chiefly to the alumni In tha commencement proceedings at Dartmouth college. Tha Alumni association , held a publlo meeting, at which tho principal address waa given by President Benjamin Ida Wheeler of the University of California, Cali-fornia, who cava attention to tha follies and fraJltlee of the very. . rich. Mr. Wheeler aald. In part: One of the saddest features of Uvea pursued by persona of -wealth consists In their Isolation Isola-tion from humanity. . People who maintain steam yachts and dins Fronchfully at nlht and flit between t-rno and Newport and Palm Beach and Horn burg; are naturally and automatically auto-matically driven into the society of the like conditioned and bound there. Their sons attend at-tend the asms' expensve academies; tbelr dauchter are polished off at the same elite schools; their sons and .daughters meet together to-gether and they Intermarry and Inter-dlvorc Inter-dlvorc and the casts of the great rich emerge. Sound Judrment and clear perspective In these motives and' movements of human life are seldom found amonr the people of the caste who drag the golden ball and chain. We need national laws for divorce, ton the oversight of Insurance, for ths reg-ulation of the traffic of ths great national system of railways.. Wi are a nation and must have national na-tional laws for national concerns. It behooves us while holding fast to local aafemards for local Interests to court the Inspiration of the fuller, richer national life, and be Americana |