St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-16
BY THE GOVERNOR.
His ExcelIency Welcomes the Con.
ference to the State.

His ExcelIency Welcomes the Con.
ference TO the State.
Gov. Hubbard always makes short
speeches and the one last night was no ex-
ception. Immediately after the prayer he
was called on, and he extended to the nota-
BILE gathering a welcome to this common
wealth in fitting terms. He said:
Minnesota, though one of the younger
sisters i'll the family Of states feels
that she is well advanced in the character of
her charitable and correctional work, and
that she has accomplished substantial results
in her efforts to place the administration of
her charitable, penal and reformatOry insti-
tutions upon an enlightened and beneficent
basis. She feels. also, that she owes much to
you, ladies and gentlemen, for her advanced
position in this respect. You will bear me
witness that in recent years she has taken an
active interest in your organization, aud in
those questions of practical charity which
have been the subjects of your consideration
and action. She has sent able delegations of
her representative men to your conventions
through whom her voice has been heard in
behalf of measures you have adopted for the
amelioration of the afflicted AMI the con-
demned. She recognizes in your body an
agency for incalculable good to those classes
of the community whose dependence is largely
the charity or the state, and those whose
reformation must depend upon the character
of the methods adopted for their treatment
and restraint
Entertaining such sentiments regarding
your body our people could not feel other
wise than honored by your presence in their
midst. They welcome you, therefore, ladies
and gentlemen, with overtowing hearts, and
they bid me express their profound apprecia-
tion of your unselfsh efforts for the relief
and reformation of your fellowmen. They
desire to learn from you wherein their own
charitable and corrective methods may be
wisely changed. and they wish to render such
aid to your deliberations here, and in further
ance OF your work hereafter, as their best
Intelligence and most willing effort will allow.
You are engaged in work, ladies and gem
tlemen, which has for its purpose the solu-
ton of great social problems, to the study of
which the best intelligence Of generations has
been devoted. Like difficulties confront you
that have thwarted the efforts of philanthropy
lists in the past. To overcome the prejudices
and reform the practices established by long
custom, must be the work of time and
AN ENLIGHTENED PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
1t might be supposed that where the pur-
pose was TO relieve the suffering, tighten the
burdens and generally to rehabilitate the con-
dition and character of afflicted humanity
that hearty sympathy and cordial co-opera-
ton would come as voluntary tender from
every quarter, but striking feature of your
experience has been the resistance offered TO
innovations upon methods hallowed by long
continued use. The progress you are MAX
ing. however, in the diSloging of theories en-
trenched by time encourages you to press
forward in your work of reform. In all the
oates where boards of charities and correc-
fssAa are established you have in them a pow