Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-06
The Regular T0asts.
THE PIONEERS

THE P1ONEElS.
The first toast Of the evening was: The
pioneer edito1s-where are they?
Col. Calkins, Of the Milwaukee Sunday Iele-
graph, and formerly of the St. Paul Pioneer,
responded. Though not pioneer in the edi-
torial fraternity of Minnesota, he had been as
ISOLATED with the fraternity for time. He
had come to Minnesota years ago, and had been
astonished at her marvellous capacity for devel-
Opment, and had come to the conclusion that
here was the seat of empire. There were
younger men than he present who were older
and better qualified to speak of the pioneer
editors of the State than he. They might tell
Of the trials of this business when it was a
strife for existence, but he could only speak of
the mission which these editors came to record.
He then proceeded to speak at length of the
extraordinary development OF Minnesota and
of the part which the editors had taken in that
development, closing with an eloquent perora
tion in which due credit to the press was given
for the part it had taken in the work.
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL.
minneapolis and St. Paul-may they soon
be united" was the next toast, and Col. Hans
Mattscn, of Minneapolis, was called upon to
respond. He said that the sentiment met a
ready response in his heart. He had come
here thirty years ago, when this was but a
wilderness, and viewing the country over he
had made up his mind that here was destined
to be located the seat Of a magnificent empire.
Whatever local jealousies might exist-and he
was not sure but the press was responsible for
fostering them, he entertained none. for he
was certain that the destinies of the two cities
were the same-that each would prosper or
each would repine in common. He hoped to
see the day when the two cities would be one.
THE NEWSPAPER PRESS.
The toast to 'The Newspaper Press" was re-
sponded to by Mr.. James =. Mills, of the Has
tings Ne,u Era, in long and carefully-pre-
pared address. To attempt to report it would
be to mar its symmetry and practical thought.
1t received the most attentive hearing and was
loudly applauded.
BREAD AND BUTTER.
"Our Wheat Fields-May they give us an
abundance of bread and BUTTER was the toast
next in order, and Miss May Newson responded
as follows:
BREAD AND BUTTER.
The staff of life, the end of our DESIRES the
handspring of our existence.
plain homely theme, and yet, when we
have pondered upon the histories of nations;
when we have considered the commercial rec
ords of our cities; when we remember the hour
ly doings of our own lives, can we deny that
the ruling power of the world is Bread and
DuOtCi! Lie power; aye, CQo strongest
common tie that holds humanity within the
bonds of brotherhood-the leveer of all dis
tinctions. the founder of all equality, alike
the strife bringer and the peacemaker, the in
centive to crime and the foundation of virtue.
The old Greek philosophers, in their searches
after the mysteries of the universe, were accus-
toned to fix upon some one element from
which, as they supposed, all things finite
sprung. Thales claimed water was the begin
ning his successor air; Pythagoras, numbers
and so on; but living in practical age and
among practical people, without going very
deeply into questions of metaphysics, the
modern philosopher has come to the conclu-
sion, that the unknown quantity for whic:, the
anclents sought so earnestly, lies hidden in nv
simple but expressive subject.
Is it not so? What shall we think when we
look around us in such times as these, and be-
hold a world of eager, hurrying creatures, push
ing and jostling one another, hoping, suffering,
toiling, to procure-what? Honor? knowl-
edge? Immortality l-just Bread and Butter.
Is it, then, such an unfortunate world
Should it be lifted up out of its degradation to
know the nobler qualities of the human heart:
The poet knew what he would teach when he
said
"A sympathetic word
Though grateful quite is quite amiss
In leading to the life etern
The soul that has no bread in this,
The present want must aye be fed,
And first relieved the present care.
Give US this day our daily bread
Must be recited in our prayer
Before forgive us may be said.''
Why, my subject is the firmest, best friend
of the race, if rightly used. Is man tired
It will refresh him. Is he discouraged? 1t
will strengthen him. Is he melancholy? Il
will cheer him. Is he savage? Music hath nc
charms so great as those of Bread and Butter
Ispeak now particularly of man, because Il
is we'll understood that his susceptibility to the
potent influence is much greater than that Of
woman's, and we know that no other than q
man could have written those touching words
''Oh, hour of all hours the most blessed upon
earth,
Blessed hour of our dinners!
We may live without poetry, music and art,
We may live without conscience and live with
out heart;
We may live without books; what is knowl
edge but growing?
We may live without hope; what is hope but
deceiving2
We may live without love; what is passion but
pining?
But where is the man that san live withou,
dining?"
Live without dining This fact of tn,