Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-04

an Agricultural society. may be pardoned now
ever, for the inference that the resources of great
country" do not afford sound and secure basis fol
an enlarged paper currency.
But these changes of European sovereignty over
the BOIL of Minnesota not striking or more
strange than the rapid transformations of its govern
ment since it came under the sovereignty of the
United States It comes TO us forgotten history
when recall that the eastern half of your state was
claimed during the revolutionary struggle as part of
OF Virginia by no less Governor than Thomas JEFF.
fersou; when part of the Northwest territory tn 6
gallant but unfortunate Arthur st. Clair was its chief
Executive; when al part Of Indiana, William Henry
Harrison, frOntiersrnan soldier statesman was made
ts Governor at the age of n years; when part of
Illinois the larga-framed and largehearte1 Ninian
Edwards ruled over 1t, appointed thereto by Madison
at the personal request of ga young Senator named
Clay" as he is significantly styled in certain rec
ORD; Wlien as part OF Michigan territory, Gen Lewis
Cass was Its efficient honorable, and careful Execu-
tive when part of Wisconsin the chiyalrous and
courageous Henry Dodge was its popular Governor
and also its delegate in Congress from one-half it's
domain; while his worthy and still living dele
gate at the same time from Iowa represented the
Other half-a striking coincidence, rendered still
more remarkable by the father and son meeting
again In the national Senate from the States which
they had represented in the House when territories.
Nor of the section Of your State west of the Mis-
sssippl does it read less strangely recall that
when sold to the national government by Napoleon
Bonaparte it became part of the organized Territory
OF Louisiana; changed very soon to Missouri; and
mad for long years as ts Governor the brave, adye
furious William Clarke, who in company with Mer-
wether Lewis, under the direction of President Jefer-
son, made that extraordinary journey from ocean to
oean-the first white men who crossed the continent
on soil belonging 10 the United States, leaving their
names forever associated with q great achievement
familiar to all who have read the harships and con-
quests of the Clovis and Clarke" expedition After
wards Minnesota formed part of the magnificent and
rapidly growing Territory OF Iowa, which soon
took on the stature of a full-grown vigorous COM
monwealtlI.
Iowa and Wisconsin having been admitted as
States, their territorial remanders naturally formed
one government and 30 in 1849 the Territory of Min
nesota was organized. And then for the first time
since our government acquired Louisiana from
France with the exception of o brief period under
the old territorial organization OF Michigan and an
equally brief one under that of Wisconsin, Mnne-
sotu on both sides of the Missssppi wa, organized
under the same government. And that gems out
yesterday; yet the sowing Of the next crop will mark
full rounded thirty ycars since the organic act was
passed by Congress, and President Zachary Taylor
apponed AeAaader hamsoy first Governor Of the
day. after enjoying the highest honors of your Terri
tory and your Stote looking fresh and vigorous
when in the administrations of John Tyler and
James K Polk he represented Pennsylvauia dis
triCt i'll the Congress of the United States. He might
pass still as u young man. if his luminous record
in States and in both branches Congress-
did not enable us to measure the ripe three-score
years that crown his honored head.
To trace the history and development Of Minnesota
from it's organization in lS49 would far transcend the
proprieties or oven the possibilities of this occasion.
But whoever will enter into the details of the progress
here made will find one of the most remarkable ad-
OF civilization realized, and in period
no brief that oea not comprehend the life of one
generation In 1849 your territory contained but
1900 inhabtans to-day your state has 100000; in
1S49you raised 400 bushels OF wheat last year you
raised 33OOOOO bushels; and thege h2tues, striking,
even startling as they are, form but an index TO your
marvellous progress in all forms OF material wealth
The pages OF your census tables seem like romance;
the STATISTICS OF your progress dazzle the reader with
their proportions, ana almost challenge his creduly
ut every column he peruses.
! am addressing M agricultural community. Dur
ing all the depression of trade and commerce and
manufactures prevailing for these past five years,
you have steadily progressed in comfort ndepend-
once and wealth. While thousands elsewhere have
lacked employment, ana MANY, lear, nave lacked
bread, no able-bodied man in Minnesota haa been
without reInunerave labor, and no ono has gone to
bed hungry. Your pursuits and their results form
the basis of the ideal repubc-happly indeed real
lied within your own borders. The tendency OF all
your industry is toward the accumulation Of indie
pendent competency, and does not favor tle
upbuilding of colossal fortunes. You
dealing daily with the essential things OF me- END
not warped i'll Your Judgment nor detected from
your course by speculative and illusory schemes oil
advancement and gain. You are landowners, free
holders proud title that comes to US with centuries
OF civilization ana strength title that every man
In this country should make II MS object to acquire
and to honor Sell-BoVernlnent among tue owners
of the soil IN America il an Instinct and where that
ownership IL widely distributed good government rs
the rule. Whatever disturbances therefore may
threaten the peace ald order OF society, Whatever
wild theories, transplanted from other cllues, may
seek foo-hod hero the republic of the United States
rests securely that basis OF agriculture where the
farmers OF the revolution aud the trainers Oh the con-
stitution placed it. The man who possesses broad
acres which he las earned by the sweat of his own
brow, ia not apt to fall in with the doctrine of the
communist that no one has right to ownership i'll
the soil the who has the product Of his labor in
wheat and in corn, in pork aud in beef in h!dea aud
In wool-cornmandng gold and silver az they always
have and always will in the markets of the worlds
not to be led astray with theories OF fiat paper and
absolute money, but ustinctvey conaigna such wild
vagaries the appropriate domain of fiat folly and
y, plr+aY,o
The farmers of the republic will control its destiny
Agriculture, commerce and manufactures, are the
three pursuits that enrich nation-but the greatest
Of these is agrculsnre for without its products the
spindle cannot turn aud the ship will not sail. Agri
culture furnishes the conservative element in
cety, and in the end is the guiding, restraining,
trolling force In government. Against storms of
popular fury; against frenzed ma1ness that socks
collision with established order; against theories of
blood; against the spirit OF anarchy that would
dan socisty and Ranbcap aoyern,oe the farmers
of the United States will stand rs the shield and the
Observation-Disclosures the willing subjects OF law, and