Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-14

presence of orators, whose eloquence was
never surpassed, by the very side of the
matchless Patrick Henry, the freeman of
orators and orator of freemen, this silent
man stands conspicuous. In an era which
gave Washington to freedom and Bona
parte to glory, this swordress man achieved
Immortality. For a hundred years the
songs of the free have been sweeter and
happier because of him, and at a sympo-
sium of the gifted, he would sit an equal
an honored guest.
All who love religion and liberty do just
honor to this prophet of universal tolera
tion and keep fresh his unfading memory,
with sweet charity and unceasipg graft
tude. He, more than any man Of his day,
foresaw the manifest destiny of his coun-
try, and he, more than any other one, so
shaped the policy of the country as to
realize that destiny. Referring to the con-
dition OF America in Jefferson's day, the
speaker said that less than a million of
people scattered along the thin fringe of
the Atlantic, had homes in the new world
and acknowledged allegiance to the king
of Great Britain. Compare our republic
and these people with the rivals
of 1743-the French and the Spaniard.
Said the speaker, this is what 70 one fore
saw on that spring day in 1743, but this is
what Jefferson did afterward foresee and
labored to produce. The form of govern
ment- actually adopted under the constitu-
ton framed hy Jefferson was not precisely
in all its details what he preferred, but the
persuasive power residing in its princi-
piss was such that, with his guidance it
wrought the desired result.
It became and would remain, if his dis
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union of indsstructible states. With such
a government expansion was possible, and
neither the number or size of
the states, nor extent of population,
nor territory, needed to cause
alarm. Logically, said the speaker, san
hundred sovereign states with full popula-
tions could be united under such a consti-
tuition based upon such underlying princi-
plss.'
Arguing that Jefferson's fundamental be-
lief WAS faith in the people, the speaker
said the Democrats, our founders, were pro-
gressive. They believed in the people;
they trusted in the people; they were the
true radicals; they were the party of pro-
gress, and to wit, we must again
become the party of progress. He desired
the simple creed of the fathers
a federal government supreme in its sphere
of limit, and delegated powers to state
governments sovereign IN their sphere; no
imposition of tax for other than public or
governmental object; sound currency,
based on coin; absolute protection to the
American al home and abroad; cordial re-
lations with all the world on the recogDiz-
ed condition that no foreign power shall
have foothold on the continent. With
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stated as the ruling force of the republic.
GENTLEMEN: The era which includes
our lifetime, is one of the remarkable and
almost incredible constructions of results.
If the production of material wealth, the
rapid and facile distribution of that wealth
and the bringing of the whole world into
such close and intimate relation that all
tho former conditions of human inter
course are changed, and problems bewil-
dering in number and importance are pre-
sented to our view, time ssand space are
no longer distractions to the worlds
intercourse. The telephone has already
brought the lips of New York close to the
ears of Chicago, and to ''girdle the
earth in forty minutes" would be an I'M
pardonable waste of time. Never in human
history, was the creation of material wealth
so easy and so marYelously abundant. Its
consolidation under the forms of incorpo-
ration is creating vast units of power,
which will result in monopolies, and alb
sorb and overthrow individual and indie
pendent rivalries. Herein are the dan
gers. It will behoove US gravely to
contemplate and consider what forces
shall be summoned to counteract them.
The great question which attends this Gre
alton of wealth is, what will you do with it?
Are we to be content with making this
land of ours one great wealth factory? Is
that to be all, and the end of all? Are we
to travel over the same lowlands of luxury,
efeminacy, corruption and decay as the
nations and governments that have risen
and fallen before US, on plains of history?
And on what do we build, or for what do
We build! What greatness do we seek to
achieYef To What do your institutions
tend? Is II the creation of
vsrcement and elevating of the
pathway Of progress as a people more of
justice, more of beneyolence, more of the
higher attributes that stir within our hearts
and dignity our manhood? The Greeks
called man anthropoS, cone with face
turned upward" and what shall be the use
of all our wealth in creating inventions, if
they dc not turn mans face upward and
create higher range of personal feeling,
ambition and action for our people?
Strong fortresses, chains of mountains
rugged frontiers and deep seas do not, of
themselves, protect country. Il is a liv-
ing wall of brave hearts and willing arms
that constitute its sure and cheap defense.
The strongest fortress in the known world
is the Rock of Gibraltar, and for nearly
three centuries it has been held by the
mailed hand of an alien and stranger,
menace and an abiding reproach to the
kingdom and people who surround it, be-
cause braver and bolder hand than its
natural owners, has taken and withheld it
from them.
The essential integer of our country, the
seminal principle of the American gov
ernment, the germ of our greatness as
people, is an independent, fearless, indi-
vidual man, the founder and head of q
family, whose social and political infu-
ence enlarges itself from family into state;
for the family is the birthplace and nur-
sery of freside virtues. Home bread and
bread at home, honor, truthfulness and
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