St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-25
TILE SPEECHES.

THE SPEECHES.
At 9:15 the commanding form OF MI
Thomas Cochran, Jr., rose at the upper
end Of the hall. That gentleman, the chair
man of the reception committee, babe the
association welcome to st. Paul. The re-
ception, he said, was of very informal
character, gotten up, as so many things IN
the Northwest, upon the spur OF the mo-
ment Yet it was with great pleasure that
ST. Paul extended her greetings to her dis
tinguished guests. He would introduce to
them MI. Edmund Rice, the mayor Of the
city, and as they had seen handsome
crowd in the afternoon he would leave 1t to
the ladies to decide whether the mayor was
a good representative.
Mayor Rice expressed his qualification at
seeing in st. Paul the representation of that
power which makes and unmakeS states
men, the power OF the press, than which
there was only one greater power on earth,
the power Of the fair sex.
He trusted that the visitors had received
pleasant impressions from their brief So
jOurn, and would carry away with them to
their homes pleasant recollectiOnS OF their
visit. He hoped to see them soon again and
often, and whenever they came they would
be as now thrice welcome.
After the mayor had concluded, Mr..
Cochran said that he would read a letter
from one who had been here fifty years ago
and seen the Dakotahs in the city. He then
read a letter from Gen. Henry III. Sibley,
expressing deep regret at his inability to be
present
Mr. S. j. Conl1lin of Clark, Oak, the
president of the association and late of the
Clark Pilot, was next introduced. After
rendering his sincere thanks for the right
txrhia 1ppOr0ll
his party he said that the people of this
great Northwest did everything on grander
and broader scale than any other people on
earth, and among that people the people Of
st. Paul and Minneapolis stood pre-emi-
n9nt. Forty years ago. he continued. across
the map which New England boys studied
there were dark lines drawn, and
''the Great American DESERT heavily
printed. That was the kind of
map he studied when boy. IN speaking
of the earliest settlers in the West, Mr..
COnkin here made an impressive gesture:
's'The speaker is turned around, " interposed
MI Cochran, che is pointing TO the South
to West st. Paul" Hearty laughter greeted
this rally. and when it had subsidized, Mr..
Conblin resumed. 1t was then the general
opinion that Dakota and the country back
of this metropolis was SO unpToductiye that
the falls of st. Anthony would be compare
lively of no value. But it was
THE HAND OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE
that had fashioned that waterfall to aid a
people to occupy that misnamed desert land
and to plant cereal kingdom which could
feed one-half the inhabitants of the globe.
Applause. These intelligent men, said
the speaker, waving his hand toward his
audience, and fair women came from that
desert. A very few years ago, the scream
ing genius of human victory-the iron
hOrSe-entered Dakota. and opened up a
belt 800 miles wide in which the silence of
nature had been unbroken by the voice or
football of civilization. Now in a land of
wonderful agricultural development land
of bibles, churches of schools. a land dotted
with villages and cities. with its background
of broad, fertile farms; of large, cOmforta-
BILE farmhouses. of great herds. and of the
grandeSt crops the sun ever ShOne upon.
Applause. Twenty years hence tourists
from every quarter will see in this land
the richest, freest and happiest agricultural
people in the world. In this growth of
Dakota Minneapolis and ST. Paul have the
largest interest. Minneapolis and st. Paul
the speaker said, he mentioned in one
breath. for Minneapolis was the child of
St. Paul, and it would be a breach of pa
rental or filial affection TO provoke envy be-
tween them. Applause. He ventured
TO pTOpheSy that these two cities would be
One-the Chicago of the new Northwest,
Applause. when the merchants of Dakota
would as rareley go to Chicago as the mer-
chants of the West now go to New York.
The history of Chicago will be that Of New
York. A great and inhexble law of trade
WTested trade from New York and put it in
Chicago's hands. That same law is at work
h nd of of
against Chicago as it formerly did for that
proud city against New York. The people
should push their railways to the southwest.
to the Missouri river. and then the trade of
that wide and fertile valley would flow
hther The money and influence of the
citizens of st. Paul should be used
to push forward these railways. Re
verting to Chicago. Mr.. Conklin en-
phasiZed his former statement. that no
city could long contend against some nun
dredS of miles of diminished distance. In
conclusion he stated that he and his as
sociates had seen the city of their enter
tanners, Its magnificent residences, its great
j9bbing establishments. its varied manu-
factories and We're reioiced as much as thew
were amazed; their amaZement was great
because many Of them were visiting ST.
Paul for the first time. After hearty words
Of thanks Mr.. Conklin concluded amidst
loud applause.
Hon. w. p. Murray, city attorney of ST.
Paul, was the next speaker He first al
luded TO the wonderful railway deveIon-
ment of the last twenty-five years and the
consequent progress of this section in every
way. The speaker, when he came here
did not dream of the great state that was To
be here and beyond it of such a marvellous
territory. He could not have credited the
prediction if he had been told thirty-fye
. years ago that from that desert, in which ii
was said men could not live,
SUCH A BODY OF EDITORS
would come. As to the future the truth
had not been half told. Nobody realized
to-day what the future of Dakota and the
Northwest would be. but the visitors from
Dakota would thirty-fye years hence look
With pride and amazement upon the mag
nilicent country and the state that they had
built up: Loud applause. He trusted
that their stay had been as pleasant TO the