Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-23

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and mines of Minnesota, Dakota and Montana,
with Brlarean iron arms they are reaching out
to gather these treasures into this city of prom
Use: this child of destiny, the city of our hopes
and our hearts.
Who, sir, can look at the great, broad, bound
; less, billowy domain, stretching away from our
} feet to the foot hills of the Rocky mountains,
Of matchless fertility OF soil, tapped by the st.
Paul Pacific and forever tributary to st.
Paul, and then doubt her destiny?
| Who can look at the Red River valley, GO
miles wide and $50 long, with its soil of in
credible depth and unequalled fertility, at
Lake Winnipeg, navigable 300 miles, at the
Asslneboin, navigable 200 miles, the Saskatche-
wan for 1880, the Mckenzie for $500. and all
their rich valleys making wheat producing
region eight times the size of New York, and
Its productions forever to flow into the lap of
st. Paul, and then doubt her destiny?
No, gentlemen. The splendid geographical
: position of st. Paul, at the head of navigation
on the Mississippi, virtually at the head Of the
great lake system, the centre of continental
railway system, the natural entrepot for the
agricultural and mineral productions of re-
gion that would make an empire that would
have satisfied the ambition and saved the tears
OF Alexander, the distributing point for all the
products of the South to the Northwest of the
products of China and Japan Tin less years than
you lmaglne) to large part of the continent
the heart of the most ambitious Pioneer
could not well ask for more glorious destiny
than is in store for st. Paul
Some Of you. gentlemen, will doubtless live
to see all this plateau between the river and
hills occupied by stately business blocks; to
see the first line of sand hills that environ the
city on the north leveled down. to see our pop
ulation compactly extending to Lake Como and
Lake Phalen, and interlacing with that of Min
neapolis-perhaps the two united in one NUM-
cipallty; to see all the terraced highlands that
e9clrcie the CITY, on both sides the river crown
| ed with costly mansions and broad, we'll graded
avenues connecting us with all the lakes in
ramsey county, on whose shores many of our
citizens will have their homes.
And so, in conclusion, shall the sanguine
hopes of the Ramsey county pioneer be
realized, as he sees this sanity city the child of
his heart, sitting queen throned on these hills,
robed IN the silks of China and Japan, her
| crown wrought from the gold of Montana, and
set with the amethysts. rubies and sapphires
OF Ceylon; In her right-hand the far reaching
sceptre of commercial supremacy, her left
resting on sheaVes of golden grain gathered
| from her imitless western fields, strewn around
her the copper and silver of Lake Superior, the
| furs of the frozen zones, cotton bales from the
South. silks. teas, lacquer ware and other pro-
ducts of China, Japan and the Indies, the
majestic Mississippi flowing at her feet, lined
| for miles with boats and barges, her people
healthy, happy and prosperous, and the small
| remnant of the Ramsey county pioneers
| still gathering at the Merchants to revive
fading memories and cement the friendships
Of early days"
PIONEER CLERGY.
! The Pioneer Clergy-They, too builded well. and
the moral and spiritual are evidences of higher and
n 1n progress than all material achievements-
| builders of our beautiful city.
Bishop Ireland said it gave the speaker
great pleasure to raise his voice in the presence
| OF the pioneers Of Minnesota. The early DAYS
of Minnesota had their pioneer clergy, law
yers, farmers. They were not entirely abb
Ware en IN the lust t for gd Many Of them
They had their pioneer clergy. Two hundred
years ago Christian emissaries came in search
of souls, anxious to plant in the most distant
regions the cross of the Savior.
The missionaries We're also present, trying to
precepts of religion. Father Garchi, the resi-
dent clergyman forty years ago at what is now
Mendoza, was called to the city for the purpose
OF locating church. On the morning of the
9TH of October, 1912, he dedicated the church,
naming it St. Paul, with the suggestion
it might be called by the same name.
And yet there was something sad in these meet
| lngs, as there were many gray heads in the as
| sembly. were it not that there was hope of a
better and more permanent abode. All were
| anxious to see Dir. Fairchlld's prediction real
| the city would take wonderful strides in the
| direction of material prosperity.
| OUR TRUE FRIENDS.
| The real estate agents of early days. But few of
them are left, but ST. Paul and Ramsey county had
| no better and truer friends than they.
Col. Hewitt said in response shat he was well
repaid for being present, if for no other reason
than to hear such eminent authorities as the
former speakers advance such enthusiastic
hopes of the union and prosperity of the two
cities.
| To properly speak of the pioneer real estate
dealers would consume hours. The largeness
| of heart, the generosity of action. the high and
answering integrity of men like Col. Henry
| Mchlnny, deserved to be remembered at a meet
ing commemorative of the pioneer workers of
| st: Paul. Sometimes real estate men were
spoken lightly of. A few days since
the speaker lad heard man attribute the
misfortunes of st. Paul to the real estate deal
ers. He was drinking. (Laughter). man
would learn the true inwardness Of human ma
ture better in the real estate men than any
other business that the speaker had knowledge
OF. In conclusion the speaker said that he
agreed with the former speaker in anticipating
| the happy consummation of lasting union he
tween the two cities. daughter and applause).
WASHINGTON.
| The memory of George Washington - 1t
grows brighter with the lapse Of years. The un-
Ee5h ,.a 10 s to his to liberty and h
| oS~AS SAAS SSAA-SNS1AAi6
| latter-day patriots.
The absence of D. G. Cooley, who was ex-
| pected to respond, prevented any reply to this
| toast.
/ The State of Minnesota-Peerless among ali her
sister States In geographical position in fertility of
broad domain, in beauty of scenery, in healthful-
ness OF climate in provisions made for free educa-
ton, IN all that renders State attractive to those
SEEKING homes, Minnesota stands unsurpassed
Mr. Pennock Pusey, who responded. COM
menced by saying that there had been great
/ deal of Horld literature written upon the sub
| ject of Minnesota, and the speaker would pre-
mise by designating it as the grandest country
upon the face of the earth. When it was con-
| sldered In how few years the State has been
brought from condition of savagery to
| hourishing state of prosperity, there was a
great deal of truth in the assertion.
/ Illinois. Iowa, Michigan were developed after
considerable lapse of time. Minnesota alone
fertile uplands, and magnificent water high
ways. The difference between the early pioneer
days Of the State and the present was the diff
ference between fulfllment and promise. In
the midst OF the great era that supplied the
world with food, Minnesota shared the advan-
tage of three of the greatest water route.
IN the world. Nowhere else in the
world were there such magnificent
facilities for the transportation of products.
In respect to the productiveness of the soil,
the speaker predicted that Minnesota would yet
| produce more wheat than all the other States in
the Union together. Respecting scenery, the
speaker said that although Minnesota had not
the grandeur Of ocean, nor the sublimity of
mountain scenery, her lakes, forests and rivers
were unequaled for their tender and matchless
beauty anywhere else in the world. No man
ever looked for the first time upon the grand
bluffs of the Mississippi but what he became
impressed with the idea of the soft dreamy,
picturesque grandeur that rivaled in beauty the
Oriental scenes of the East.
He then referred to the salpbrious nature of