Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-21
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The Mimneapotis Day Return nj the Party
! FIont DntUtA--Ihe Dn,mtfs at tie Purit-
io"-TAe "aood ~ npohca To-day"
| The ST. Louis excursion arrived safely from
| DAlulh yesterday morning about o'c.ock.
The party we're pretty well tired with their
rip, bu, az this was to be the Minneapo.i is day,
each member of the delegation
/ lied to say that there
10 "eariness and that ne Tor she) had only
started on al excursion.
Carriages we're III waiting in charge of the
mmnitLee OF arrangements, and the party Was
! t 4ken to the NIco let, where Dir. G,lson had
| prepared u good Warm meal for them. Aver
b eakfast the party dispo- Led itself each indi-
v.dual thought best. Carriages wee at Tie
,,r.lce VI eu.n as bought by had Lest take
| he air, ami good, comfortable rooms acre
| N waiting Tor such as preferred b slEStG after
The Lake Superior jaunt. Mast of the party
| preferred the former expedient, AZ there W lie
| ~ many beauties yet unseen III this lar North
| vest. Minnehaha and Fort Smelling. Lakes
| Harriet, and Calhoun, and Como captured the
| younger members Of the party, while the busi-
| OF the party visited and became ac-
| luainted with the great manufacturing ln-
| ustries of this great manufacturing and COM
| mercial centre.
| Arter !. day of rest and refreshment came
| another night of social enjoyment. Arrange
| nents had been made to provide banquet tor
che party at Kings Pavilion on the banks OF
| Lake CIlhoun. the GLOBE man giieves to say
| hat at this banquet (for tue first time II the
| history of the excursion) the ladies we're
| left out A sop was thrown to Cerberus in the
| shape of q social dance at Silver
| virey hall. 1t is needless to say that the loss
| Mas not to the gentler sex, who failed to be
compelled to listen to the speeches of The great
men who were present, but to the gentlemen
| Hho were ungallant enough TO dispense with
The presence of that element without which,
On our little earth. there il no such thing AZ
! social enjoyment.
| THE PROGRAMME.
/ The fol owing programme had been arranged
beforehand, and was religiously carried out
| Welcoming speech by Mayor Rand, of Mime
| apolis.
| First regular toast-Our guests Response by
| Hon. b. Gratz Brown.
| Second Minneapolis Il st. Louis railway.
| Hon. W. D. Washburn.
Third-City OF st. Louis, Senator B. II.
f! Armstrong.
Fourtn-City of Minneapolis, Hon. l. At
| water.
Fiftt-Our rivers and railroads, Capt. Joseph
| Brown.
Sixth-The twin flour producing cities of
America Mr.. c. G. Washburn.
Seventh--The great West, Gov. Brockmeyer
Eighth--President Folwell.
Ninth--Our national government, Hon. d.
c. McAdams.
Tonth--Our manufacturers, Hon. jeff G..
| Chandler.
Observation-Disclosures the course of Empire
takes its way" Hon. Robt. Campbell.
Want of space precludes tie possibility of
reporting all of the elegant speeches which
were made by the orators of the party,
| but the GLOBE cannot refrain from giving a
brief abstract of Gov. Brockmeyer's speech in
.>f nho
Governor said:
| LADIES AND .IEsrIRMHS: II at eventide on the
venty-tirst day OF March September you draw d
Lac at right angles to the meridian of the place where
you stand, and prolong tho from that place in
uke direction of the setting sun. the point on the
rth surface at which thia line nersect another
dawn from the same place through the center OF the
eAlti, tnat po,nt Is the est 80 sad the pedssoguc
to me, boy at school. From this extremely simple
deunluon of the West 1 hope that you, ladies aud
Ientleuien will SEQ at glance the necessity OF re-
maining perfectly quiet a, tho place where you now
ara during my remarks, for you VIII perceive that
tao slightest movement, the least wandering in
noughu even, Will instantly change the point of
departure-he place from which the theme sug-
gested by the chairman ia to say, the West is to
% determined II you, fair ladies, should allow
dear absent, or you, gentlemen, should trans
port yourselves in thought to that place Of fas
s9n ea av % Sa asE of vo
comes of our theme torn 70 scraps and scattered
over the continent abroad.
whose definition have quo ed, thousands of mi e,
away toward the rising sui, Knew not this deceptlv.
shadow this yellow traveller the other side Of the
slobe, who moves in our motion, and rests IN ou
repose; saw the west in the broad e1panss of The
Atlantic. heard its voice, the oceans, moan chan
! funeral dirges over world engulfed. This thu
| its stead appeared word-a world-the western
world, the western continent. Well, was it named
world, for it is complete in itself home TO
man.
The west became the east. The west Of childhood
the became, the east, it's funeral drge birth
day jubilee that lured on, and on, to seek West
That lured us on you and me, and your forefather
before us. What was west to-day became east to
morrow. From the Atlanh; to the mighty hlississ
WEST, oar West the Great West, the West of on
hopes and fondest antcipahons tho West Of gu
homes heart and center of the continent of the West
Its praires to-day oceans of grain. On them tn
south wind rpens the bread OF the world. Its river
4 in their leaps from the mountain side builds cite
filled with hospitality culture, and all the graces o
civilization within the houses of its people, thei
farm, In their minds workshops and factories. Yol
to-day five hundred millions of dollars worth
implements hundred millions of dollars WORT
of domestic farming, mining and manufacturing
tools which not in existence twenty-five year
ago. That to say, neither the things in exist
ence, nor much the conception of then
known TO 1t may be that they borrowed else
where the money to put these conceptions into wood
brass and iron, but mark it, they did not borrow tn
conceptions. They may have borrowed money t
pay for the wood, brass and iron, but they did
borrow brain to shape them to their They Dor
! rowed dollars, not sense. These implements in
creased their productive capacity their ability to
| work from to 500 per cent. AS til
q assessor rates them they are wort
$500, 100000, but what they worth az productv
agencies in the hands Of people and in the hand
- OF all pc jple-in the hands of mankind, in dollar
y and cepts-ths has not been rated. But why pan
U tcuarize? Their forests and praires and fields an
meadows; their mountains of minerals mines
wealth; their waterfalls mighty artiEcers and thei
a rivers the obedieut servants of commerce. Thor
a sands upon thousands of miles Of railway contra,
= the vast empire into neighborhood and iacilitat
- nike the interchange OF products and OF ooures,
~ But, why proceed Abroad our report cannot be b,
10 Loved. The West must be to be appreciated.
&c To this circumstance attribute the actions of M
:, sagacous gentlemen to whom indebted fl
q the pleasure of trip through this part OF OF
- West. feel assured that III your name My rstur
K them heartfelt Thanks and pledge them Co
dial cooperation in the glorious labor In which, the
IL work with such devoted zeal the material social
political development tf the Northwest, the Soutl
west, the United West, the Great Weat.
IN CONCLUSION,
:. TIE banquet at the pavilion, like every 9th
/ portion of the programme, was q success
1t ,rring the absence of the ladies. Quite
re large number of citizens were present, and Il
~ speeches were eloquent and pertinen
n, and time was called at the wee su,a' hour
- The party breaks up to-day, portion retur
ie ing to the torrid climate of st. Louis. anoth
9, remaining in this vicinity for few days, oil