Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-29

occur to him that the the two have had
points of contact and union. The begin
nings of English liberty were laid by law
yers, against warriors. They interposed
statute after statute between the baron and
the man. Then there came to the aid OF the
lawyers the essayists and pamphleteers who
gave a new force to the cause OF liberty.
How infinitely is this force expanded in the
modern newspaper! At the close of the last
century there arose another controversy.
The liberty of tho editor-the freedom OF
printed discussion-was assailed by power,
aud for time seemed suppressed. Then
the bar returned to the press amply the AID
the press had earlier given the bar. Sucn
lawyers as Erskine, contending against
ruling after ruling, finally established the
principle that the jury shall stand between
the editor and the power which would sup
press his freedom of utterance. SO, after
all, it is perhaps not entirely homogeneous
for company of editors to call upon mem
Der of the bar to respond to toast in which
the bar is 80 highly complimented.
8. Minnesota, THE Empire State of the
West"
Gen. ]. H. Baker, of the Mankato Free
Press, replied. He began by saying he lad
thought if The Good Lord would only forgive
him for speeches he had made, he'd never
make another. But under the circumstan-
stances, having been assigned 30 great
and magnificent subject as Minnesota
he would forego his resolution. Thereupon
General Baker spoke in glowing terms OF
the great Northwest, and declared the posi-
bilities in Minnesota were unbounded. he
saw no end to her prosperity, and at length
recited her marvellous advantages for beoom-
ing the seat of civilization and
power in the West. Secretary Seward
had so prophesied the same on beholding
the vast resources and far-spreading beauty
of this region. It took no prophet to fore
tell our glory. Anyone, as the speaker was,
acquainted with the extent from river mouth
to source in some beautiful lake, could but
be Impressed with the belief that our future
could only be bounded by time,
a. The value of county seat to newspaper,
or Uice CerSd.
Hon. Henry Kinds, of the Shakopee Argus,
was called upon to respond. He thought 1t
a great come down from the empire OF MIN
nesota to county seat. 1t would have been
better gice yerSa, to have climbed from the
county seat to.the empire rather than to fall
from the empire to the county seat. But ne
could say of the subject that all the dement's
are not in favor of the newspaper, nor all
rice uersa. The county seat is simply the
local center, the distributing center, the CEN
ter of county information and news, and the
newspaper gains by that. The benefits, how
ever, are evenly balanced. for there are very
few county seats in Minnesota which could
exist as such without the newspaper. With
out it they would soon be abolished or taken
up and carried away.
5. 'The Frontier Editor"
This was responded to By A. j. Under
wood. He receunted his extended e1-
perience as such. While conced-
ing much to the metropolitan
journals and editors, he knew many of them
when they were only frontier affairs. The
frontier editor served a purpose, accom-
plished mission. He led the vanguard of
civilization and had opened the way to al
low Minnesota to advance the to position OF
Empire State of the West.
6. The old and the new.
Mr.. NJ. G. Russell, of tho Duluth Tribune, in
response to this toast, variously considered Its
possible significance and finally mentioned
among the old things of Minnesota Dsyton's
Bluff the Hotel de Wild Huter, the Indian
mounds, the Historical society, the old rail
road bonds, 10. Browns steam wagon, Col.
Allen, his friend Louis Fisher and the Indian
trails, some of which latter, he estimated, had
required the destruction of millions of soles-
moccasin soles. Among new things were the
sandbars, which need government appropria-
ton and little more water; the women OF the
State. and the children-the latter of whom
would have been thought hundred years
ago too smart too live. Then for the old sys-
tenn of travelling, by two grand trunk routes in
any direction-canoe or trail-we have the
railroads; the brakeman's cry instead of the
VOLTS; the steam whistle instead of the savage
whoop. Then look at these two new cities; IN
twenty years only to be equallcd by New York
and Boston and only to be outnumbered by
the city on Puget Sound and the castle city,
which will then look down from ITS rocky
Duluth, our only lake port.
This concluding the regular toasts, the very
pleasant party adjourned shortly before mid
night, and the Thirteenth Annual Editorial
convention was numbered among the things
that were.