St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-24

nOtn1ng Whatever worth remaining IN the
thought, or upon the character, is carried
away. Besides,
THE TEDIUM OF THE HOME LIFE
drags most wearifully on the wife and daugh-
ter. Their recreation must be that of perfect
purity, and for them, too often, it is not to be
had. Such institutions as this supply this
need. No one will ever leave this place. bear
ing away the bitter fruits of a vicious exper-
fence. Everything here appeals to the best
instincts of our strangely Maynard nature.
Here are set up examples of what that purity
Of life, which is the very force of the best in
dustry, can do. They are models, which
stir the soul to emulation. Production,
and not waste. is taught in this spacious edi-
flee. Here, one learns the value of the life
we live. We see that the most stupendous
constructions, the most delicate material
dreams, are, whatever their form. simply
built of the sands of time, which too often
Slip wasted through the hour-glaSs which each
OF us carries in his hand. Properly consid-
cred. the pyramids. and all s'the cloud capp'd
towers, and gorgeous palaces that the world
contains, are not stone; the steam engine is
not iron; the telegraph is not wire and brass
and electro-magnetism; the statue is not
marble; the poem is not rhythm and words;
the priceless painting is not color; music is
not sound, moving in melodiOuS curveS:-
but, all these are the work of men. put into
form, which has thus received from the crea-
tive soul the heritage of an immortal life.
Considered simply as an agency of instrnc-
ton, this is the place where knowledge shows
itself in its visible forms. Within our sight
stands the university of Minnesota. They to
whom its administration is entrusted, intend
to make it as eminent among
ms titutions of learning as Min
nesota is destined to become eminent
among states. There we see wisdom reposing
in the cloister; here knowledge plans, delves,
hammers and finishes. There all past exam
pies lie in trance, in books, to be awakened
f0 Of
words-precious, but always the same.
Here knowledge lives the life of man;
speaks colloquially to man; is Intercepted by
them and answers; is disputed and sometimes
refutes and sometimes is convinced. And,
just as in enc day in this city,
MORE WORDS ARE SPOKEN
and more lessons are thus taught than are in
all the libraries Of the town, so here by the
colloquieS with and the Undergraduates of
these essential examples the greatest inter-
changes of thought take place among those
who have not the leisure or the taste for
books.
Concerning the impending contest between
city and country, the speaker said:
In our country there is no finished political
structure. We see here the process Of state
growth, to which everything either admins
tiers or is adverse. If 1 were asked 10 state
the problem, which more than any other in
wolves our political institutions, l should IN
hesitatingly pronounce it to be in the rela-
lions between the great cities and the coun-
try. The tendency of population to concen-
trate in the cities is a dangerous and it is
increasing. The last census shows that %
per centum Of the people of the United
States live in cities of over 5000 people.
This occasion is too restricted. to allow me to
enter at all into the causes of this overbalance
of population. 1t must suffice, here. to state
the fact. With this masslng of numbers, the
aggregation of money in the cities has taken
place, in still greater proportion. The
political consequences are deplorable. Two
systems OF government exist. That in the
country, is Democratic and of comparative
purity. That in the cities, is, too often, the
rule of mob Swayed and rewarded by an
oligarchy, and ductile in the hands of cor
ruption. The purity of the franchise has
been polluted, until, IN a contest for the presi-
dency, the people look, with fear and tremb-
ling, for the returns from the city of New
York. The economic results are graver still.
No free government can long survive the
aSceRdency of controlling cities. The history
of the world teaches this in many impressive
instances. Juvenal deplored that Syria
should have poured the filthy waters of the
OrOntes into the Tiber, and the corruptions of
Rome eventually liberated the great empire
to it's extremites. Paris DEGREES q revolu-
ton. and straigthway, all France is shaken.
A riot in London causes industry to flag,
throughout the world. A great strike in st.
Louis stops theintercourse and exchanges of
millions of producers and consumers. The
game of finance in New York has, for it's
stakes,
THE WHEAT FIELDS OF MINNESOTA,
and the railroads of the West, which are the
very nerves of our industrial body. The re-
bellion so reconciled US to the operations of
centralized power, that in the blaze of a
great national triumph, we have been blinded
to its consequences. Capital is maSsed in
cities. 1t subsidies the forces of trained in
telligence. The most alert and cultivated
self-interest and the ownership of the great
national highways are there. Such power of
attack, and concert of action, are thus pro-
duced, that the scattered forces of the coun-
try cannot resist them. The possession of
power always leads to its abuse, and we can
not be deaf to the cry for redress, which has
gone up from field and shop throughout the
land. No one expects to hear nothing but
the highest reason in such a cry, (for anguish
does not use the forms of logic, and still less
to hear it in the recrimnations which il pro-
vokes, but the undertone of justice is plainly
audible in the clamor for redress. The re-
suit is that the anarchy of discord stands
Indignantly between the city and the coun-
try; it has marshalled opposing political
forces, and, unless these throw down their
arms and become reconciled, our system of
government will be put in peril. What
| it has been asked in the spirit
Of anarchy-f years hence, the
producer and consumer in a convulsion
frenzied resistance, rising in insurrection,
shall, in day, possess the railroads, and the
trained capacity of the operatives shall lend
itself to running them? OF what avail, then,
| against these millions, the decisions of the
courts, the proclamations of executives, or
the little army of the United States, and, as
for volunteers where would you get them?
This is now no new question. 1t has been
asked repeatedly, within the last year. Ten
| years ago no one thought of propounding it.
The necessities OF life, and of the government
| itself, are such that the wheels could not be
stopped for single week, and it is the lesson
OF all time, that property, once thus wrested
from Its owners, is never restored upon the
same terms by which twas formerly enjoyed.
/ DO not believe it is ever coming to this, and
no well-wisher to the people will ever advise
it. An enlightened self-intereSt will teach, it
is teaching. and it has taught, within the last
six months, the city and the country, that
true wisdom consists in identifying their in
terests, and in reforming every agency which
tends to discover them. Let animosity be
ended, by the cessation of abuses, and then a
few years of prosperity, growth and compe-
tition, such as this favored people is now en-
joying, under the providence of God, will
efface all signs of conflict, even as one sum-
mer heals a battlefield with the balm of
golden harvests. Every leader of thought
should proclaim, by day and night, the golden
rule of the identity of interests, and the ne
cessity Of its enforcement 1t should be
taught in the schools, iterated in the newspa-
pers, ulsouosou wherever men meet, ex-
pounded by the courts, prescribed by the stat
utes and inculcated bycevery example. Now,
whatever draws the country to such cities as
| MINNEAPOLIS AND SIS. PAUL,
those ventricles of the heart Of the
great Northwest-and shows it the
mighty powers which these possess of
turning the crude form of raw mate
rial into finished creations; of making econ
omical distributions; of giving a near market
and high price; of releasing the reward of
labor fro n the designs or caprice of distant
agencies; whatever causes the city to forget
its self-importance, to abjure its covetous-
| that after all, it is the soil from
which all things come, and to which all things
must return, even to the great cities which
make themselves joyous and glorious upon it;