68 State Papers and Addresses

This it is to which I refer in expressing the hope that, above and beyond
all the more tangible results of your years spent under the regime of this
University, you may have absorbed some of this independence of thought,
this Will to live your own life, and to help those about you to live their own
lives, free from any unnecessary restraints, always striving for a better day.

It is no accident, no special gift of Fate, that Maryland ever has been
free from real conflict of thought on any fundamental question. Three hundred
or more years ago the settlers invited all the world to their domain. In every
phase of our civil and political life, there has been that leavening influence
of the first settlers' Will—that Good Will that should be forever blazoned on our
Great Seal for all the world to see—and emulate. Why is it, that with all the
disturbing factors that have come into the industrial life of our country, to
array Capital against Labor, and class against class, Maryland has been
singularly free from upheavals ? Again, I say, it is the influence of the Mary-
land spirit of tolerance; a spirit that demands, and obtains, for the worker
the right to work, or not to work, as he may see fit, but that places upon him
the obligation, in whatever he may do, to respect the rights of both Capital
and of those workers who may not see eye to eye with him.

That such a spirit of sane, independent thinking can be one of the most
potent forces for good in your whole life, is particularly true in this day and
age, when old standards of life and thought have suffered rude upsets, and
the whole world knows not what to expect from the future. Particularly for
the graduate, the young man or woman who is standing on the threshold of
life, is this changed situation acute. Conditions have so altered, the future
is so uncertain, that it is but natural that many young people are at a loss as to
which way to turn, and, in their uncertaintly, sometimes are ready to accept
and follow principles that later they find to be at variance with the funda-
mentals of life.

Some twenty-two years ago, when graduates stood in your position, wait-
ing amid a war-torn country for the diploma that was to send them forth
on the great adventure of life, they thought then that they faced a troublesome,
uncertain future. And,, in truth, it was a dubious future. Our Country was in
the throes of the World War, young men on all sides were going off to one
branch or another of the service, many never to return. On graduation plat-
forms many of the young men assembled to receive their sheepskins were clad
in the uniform of one branch or another of their Country's service.

You will find many persons in the country, as you seek work, or even as
you may be busily engaged in the industry or profession you prefer, who are
not loyal to the principles of this great land of ours, and who will try to win
you over to their subversive beliefs. They will make a special effort to gain
your good will, because they are wise enough to realize that only by securing
the help of those who are well equipped mentally, will they ever make real
headway with their disloyal program.

With the broad policy upon which Maryland always has acted firmly en-
trenched in your mind, you will be able more quickly to detect and to reject
these alien doctrines. Never forget that Maryland first gave to the world the
principle of universal toleration, and what a boon it proved to be! Never
forget that Maryland, as one of the original thirteen States, fought to the
limit of her resources to preserve for her citizens, and for all the citizens of