St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-07
IN THE EVENING.
Events of the Promenade Concert
and Banquet.

I p H.. ana was dlJenucu Dg ABOUT ZOO Oh
the beauty and chivalry of Duluth,
who promenaded to the sweet
strains of Seibert's orchestra. About
10 o'clock carriages commenced
TO arrive and the ladies were taken home,
and the gentlemen returned to Hotel St.
Louis, where an elegant banquet of ten
courses were served. Plates were set for
over three hundred people. About IL
o'clock President Forbes called the assem-
blage TO order in few well-chosen words.
Mr.. FurgusOn. chairman. then read letters
of regret from the Toronto, Montreal,
Baltimore, New York, San Francisco,
and Philadelphia boards OF trade, Messrs.
Mr.. Hughett, j. NJ. Whitman, TN. OakeS,
Senators Conger, Mcmillan, Sabin. w. L.
Petit. w III. Pharin and Others. Col. G..
Ill. Graves was then introduced as house
MASTER He gave the first toast-Minne-
sofa, the North Star State-brightest i'm the
galaxy OF the nation; responded to as fol-
lowsby
L. F. HUBBARD:
Gentlemen: On the several occasions
when have been asked to speak the senti-
| ment has always been the state of Minnesota.
/ My response has been in the nature of pro-
/ test. but my protests, though somewhat in
gt nous, do not seem 10 avail, and conclude
II is part of my official position. Any Min
doomed Minnesota for all she is worth in the
past years, but that time is happily
! passed, for eXtravagant praise.
| We have already seen accomplished such
vast changes, almost beyond our widest pre-
dictions. Our state has passed from the
homes Of savages 20 a state of highest civili-
zation. Within period covering half life
time the change from a wilderness to a state
of 1,l00,0O0 souls is significant evidence of
its possession OF extraordinary natural en-
] "a IL
made in our experience, it has been demon
strated that its great resources only necessi-
tate the agency TO develop them, but people
of energy and unconquerable will have made
this state what she is. Loud applause
The toast, Dakota, the Land of the Da-
cotahs. the Land of Happy Women, was
responded to in felicitOus speech, as fol-
lows. by
GOV. PIERCE:
Gentlemen: 1t was hardly necessary for
Longfellow TO know the handsome women If
the men know them. You have heard much
of late of Dakota do not propose TO 90 into
statistics on this occasion, but 10 state the
plain truth of the matter Dakota wants TO
get into the Union. She is a territory twenty
five years old. She may be called an old
girl of the family. Her sisters long since
married, conducting their own household
but she will marry the United States
or nobody. She is growing old. getting cor
and spank her babies. She has 1000 soldiers
who have testified their devotion by service
on the baIJle field and has twice
ten thousand widows CT soldiers, and
she asks for the rights her sons fought for
We ask il because properly IS not safe under
the laws OF the territory, but, gentlemen,
while she remains a territory the
laws of the United States VIII be
sustained The representatives of the states
of Minnesota, Wisconsin Illinois and
x-bn afnfa fft-ac hs- 80, I,alr
us in the sisterbood of states. Dakota, not
having a seaport of her own. places her hope
in Duluth and countless fields of grain bend
their heads toward Duluth.
This toast was received with cheers,
everybody rising.
GEN. j. II. BAKER
made one of the best received speeches. In
opening he spoke of the fortunate situation
of Duluth, by nature, and the vast resources
that lay Immediately behind the city, to-
gether with the enterprises and vigor of the
men that hsi obeyed Greeley's call and had
come to the city's builders. Continuing,
Gen. Baker said: ''To BENJAMIN Franklin
more than TO any orther man do we owe it
that our national boundaries, at the close
of the war of the revolution. included this
superb region as part of the domain. He
alone of all the great men making the
great treaty of 1888 had read the story of
that trader, Duluth. of Fathers Alluez and
Marquette. and he believed that great ma
tiOnal wealth lay concealed in the darkness
of that unknown wilderness, and il was his
diplomacy and wisdom that pushed the
boundaries of the new confederacy to the
far Northwest to include the Michigan pen
insula. Isle Royal and the rich north shore
of Minnesota In the rest of that commits
sion this whole region was a myth" Gen.
Baker then dwelt somewhat on the history
of the treaty and the boundary lines which
it prescribed, and then proceeded to speak
of the Great Lakes, which had been COUP
led within the grand Northwest-the great
channel which Providence had provided by
which
ITS POSSIBLE PRODUCTS
might be given cheaply to the world, the i'm
perial waterway that stretches from the
ocean to the very home of the greatest
grain field of the world. These inland seas
are of as much importance to the great tier
of states which border on them as the
Mediterranean sea is to the south of
Europe. At the present rate of increase,
in a very few years their commerce will
surpass the commerce of the Mediterranean.
1t is less than ninety years since the first
vessel discharged its cargo at Chicago.
The past year 1.000 marine arrivals mark
the business of the port of Duluth alone
with capacity of 600. 900 tons. There is
no such other equal marine growth. Eng
land was thousand years in building and
establishing her marine power. That of
these lakes has sprung up as by enchant-
ment and prefgures the incalculable value
of these inland seas to the future commerce
of the Northwest. The speaker then sub
mltted the four propositions: That more
wheat has been raised in Minnesota and
Dakota in the last five years than was ever
before raised by any equal population in the
history of the world; that sixteen gross
millions of bushels of that wheat was
handled at the city of Duluth during the
year 1885. which is a greater amount of
wheat than was ever before handled By
any city of equal population in the history
of commercial transactions; that this vast
volume OF wheat was carried to an Eastern
market at lower rate than any equal vol
ume of wheat was ever moved a like dis
tance inland in the history of transporta-
ton. and that all this wheat here raised is
richer in gluten and superior in the quality
of its flour product to any wheat raised
anywhere else in the world
THESE ARE BIG FACTS,
and they underlie the whole situation of the
Northwest. They bring it to the fore as
a tremendous power in the commercial
world. Other superb things have followed.
as the logical result of some of these facts.
Out of such resources have come such cities
as st. Paul. Minneapolis and Duluth. and
the grand young republics of Minnesota
and Dakota. The same reasons which ex-
ist in nature for the establishment of great
wheat markets at Odessa, Trieste, Toledo
or Chicago, exist for the establishing at the
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