Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-08

her. We are proud that We are on the line of
travel, and we have interstate commerce be-
tween Massachusetts, and Michigan, that will
eventually bring them to Us and make them
good citizens of che State and Empire, which
after 1889 you are going to find located on :hcse
lakes right near where We stand. And Yet,
throwing all testing aside, we as Americans
want to get into little broader style than
simply our States. We want to find and realize
and feel that humanity is the same on
both sides the fence. That it is the same
both sides of any imaginary line. That the
prosperity of one is the prosperity of all. We
want no more Of State pride that Only reaches
to the line of the State. We want pride and
an ambition and business brain that will take
us all over our own line and show us that the
prosperity of one State is the prosperity of all.
That growth of one is growth of all. l stood
on the steps of factory in New England last
summer as the hands went out to dinuer, and
they poured out and poured out and poured
out, and finally, after they had all gone,
the superintendent said to me, ''How macy
people do you think are leaving here to day %
said can't imagine, but 1t looks hike Il
bridge. He asked the foreman, who said there
were on the pay rolls 800 people, who had
just gone out the gate, and thought hat was
my duty as citizen living away out in tie
West, where there are no factories, and where
we raise grain and corn and wheat. l said
my duty is, after all, to remember these 500
people, to feel that they much my
neighbors, that their interest is SO much mine,
| that in my public and private action I
| should do much for these 5000 people as
I would for 1000 people living in my own State.
That ought to be the spirit of all of US, North,
| South East and West, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, that we are one people and one nation,
| with one common veal, and in which We should
| all be interested. That is the platform of the
| future American citizen. Keep up our States.
| 1t is well enough to have our little prida in our
State in that sense, if we don't carry it too far.
I like man of that kind. like these folks
| who come up here from New England and
| tell US what wonderful people they are, and
how high Bunker hill is, and how salt their cod
fish are. They make better American citizens,
perhaps, for that. A man, l think, who loves
the place where he was born makes better
citizen in some other land than if he did not
love that place. think a man who loves one
woman devotodly will love all women moder-
ately, and the man who loves his height or has
a heart for mankind that is all right, but we
do not want to carry this notion Of State or
pride of State rights one inch beyond the line
of our duty as American citizens il the greater
and wider sense. Keep up our States just as
we have and name our children
with the last name OF our States
as Gen. Grants father named him g. S. Michi-
gan, q. 8. Massachusetts, q. S. Mississippi,
| and So on through, and the time is coming, and
| 1t is not far distant, when that will be the
mark and the Distinguishing brand of every
| man that loves the land he lives in.
J. MASSACHUSETTS TAKES HAND IN.
To the toast "God Save the Commonwealth
| of Massachusetts," Governor Lang responded.
He said the names of Winthrop and Adams
| and Others of his State, would live not only in
| Massachusetts, but in Illinois or Michigan and
all over the country. They were not the prop
| erty of one man or of one State, but of all.
Whatever is creditable in literature, art science
and commerce in Massachusetts,, the glory be-
longs to other States in equal proportion. No
one would narrow to State lines the noble
names of Lincoln. Grant, Sumner and Adams.
They rose above locality, they were tie nation
names. He mentioned that Chicago had grown
from the flames like city Of a fairy tale and
| that these Bosten gentlemen whe cameto see it
were impressed with the sight and with the
| idea that nothing could retard the clty's pro-
gresa. He made comp limentary allusion 10
| General Grant as a man who had seen the
| workings Of all governments and was most
| fully satisfied with his own country's iIsti;u-
| tions. He expressed the gratitude which he
| and his associates felt for the hearty welcome,
spontaneous hospitality and warm fellowship
extendad them.
| Ezra Miller. of Omaha, res pended to Omaha.
| the Gateway of the West. through which the
! Pacific pours its golden flood.''
Horace Porter responded to ''War and Com
| merce." The Great West was answered by
| Hon. John F. Wilson, of Iowa. W. 81. Brown
spoke for Cincinnati. E. P. Nudge Of Boatoa,
| answered 'Our Manufactures" Chas. Calby,
of Milwaukee, spoke pleasantly upon the great
lakes and their outlets, and after few more
toasts and speeches, the company dispersed.