Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-06

martyrs were those or all Shaue5 OF opinion
and of no opinions at all.
We had among us high tariff men and
low tariff men, prohibitionists and those
who were not exactly prohibitionists, at
least in practice; civil service reformsrs
and those who were not exactly in favor of
civil service reforms. In short our trouble
was that we had too many candidates and
too few voters.
If our voters had been
at all in proportion to
eur candidates we should have thrashed
Mr.. Sabin notwithstanding his thrsshing e
nashine.
A il was he trashed us. There were some
pleasant episodes in the long and weary
living for.
Thus, my friend Gen. McLaren, q may
rs well mention names as it is not at all
to his discredlt) came to me one day and
pointing to person who has charge of
Col. Aliens storeroom at the Nor
chants, a sombre, large eyed,
mysterious parsonage, and in an agitated
whisper asked with trembling finger point
ed to the object of his dread, "Who is
that!'
"Why this agitation, general? ?" said.
Said he, "He has been watching me for
two days" (He thought it was one of
Dunnelrs spies).
"Oh, general" said I, "that's the man
Col Allen employs to watch the spoons
while this Window boom is going on"
The general looked relieved; he
wasn't after spoons. 1t had one good
effect, however, for during the two days
when he fancied himself watched by this
relentless emissary,he didn't offer anybody
a single postofice.
One of the most touching stories of the
late war is that of the frigate Minnesota
struck amidships by rebel ram and going
down with all sails set, flags and
penions flying and every man at his post,
and as she sank her last broadside pealing
up through the gurgling waves. So, when
the opposition fleet went down,
the sonorous voice OF
the speaker resounded through the
assembly hall as he cast the last ballot for
civilian Window
In order to relieve tie apprehenslons OF
his friends may remark that he didn't
90 down. He got ashore.
Animated by the example of my Win
dom friends, determined to keep'the can
didate of my choice Mr.. Berry in the field
as long as he held his own. Had he lost
single vote, assure you l should have
ceased to vote for him.
D,4 4ba oooocion dam an1S sonnet hin Or
more than mere jocUlarity.
The burning questions involving the alb
stract rights of man, which confronted
the nation during the fiery ordeal OF the
civil war have become dead issues. we
are living in material and utilitar1an age.
The true benefactor of the people IS not
the speculative theorist, who seeks directly
the spiritual improvement of man. 1t Is
not the poet, the orator or the phllan-
thropist, but it is he who clothes the ma
ked, who feeds the hungry, who furnishes
employment to labor. Whose energy
and enterprise stimulates the growing in
dustries of the country. If you would
make people virtuous, make it first con-
tented and happy. Great questions call
for the efforts of such man. The 1nven-
tive genius of our countrymen has pro
duced in the last half-century more discov-
cries fraught with the physical welfare Of
the race than all the preceding ages. Il
has overleaped territorial bounds, and
along the Volga and the Nile the shrill
whistle of the locomotive proclaim the tri-
umph of American engineers. 1t has made
it possible for the vigorous young republic
of the west to compete in manufacturers
with the nations of the world.
Russia iron manufactured in America
! outsells its Russian namesake in the marts
of St. Petersburg. American cutlery sue
| cessfully compete with that OF English
manufacture in the markets of Burning
| ham and Sheffield and so with nearly every
manufactured article. The protection re-
quired to foster the infant industries of oul
couni ry is no longer needed.
In the meantime our shipping interests
! languish. No American mail leaves our
harbors for any part of the world under
the protection of the American flag.
Not a single line of ocean steamers sails
the sea the property of American owners
Ship building has faded from among oul
| industries With an extent of coast ex-
ceeding that of all other nations, we ought
to be the carriers of the world, but our mer-
cnaQQ1S6 Is largely CdCIiou III DLAVAoH wv
toms. A single volley from one of Eng
lands iron clads would well nigh
sink our entire navy. These and kindred
questions crowd upon the attention of the
representatives of the great and growing
Northwest.
Who so we'll able to consider them as the
young, ambitious, and energetic man who
has organized, upon this remote frontier,
manufacturing enterprises, the peers of
any similar ones anywhere, and has done
more to give impulse to the marvellous
material development of our glorious
commonwealth than any man in
it. I do not think the
legislature made mistake When it passed
over professional men and theorists and
selected the man who is most distinctively
identified with her rising industries to rep
resent her on the floor of the United States
senate.
Like those who preceded him he was
most heartily applauded, and the band
took up and prolonged the strain by a
stirring number.
Hon. Thomas Wilson.
Hon. Thomas Wilson, of Winona, the
gentleman honored by the support of the