St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-12

go hand in hand. Let US endeav-
or to curb unreasonable demands upon
the part OF vast aggregations OF capital.
Let every inducement be held out to at
tract citizens of other lands to come to
us, if they bring means to care for them
American citizens. PauperS and GRIM
inals we do not want. Anarchists and
those who would destroy property
should not be permitted to find home
among us. If it is admitted that we will
prove ourselves equal to the solution
of the social and industrial problems
that will confront US in the second cen
tennial of the republic, we may be
permitted to indulge ourselves
in picturing an ideal peo-
pie under an ideal government;
for the benign influence of educational
and intellectual refinement, coupled
with the lofty aspirations that come
with untrammeled liberty, must pro-
Who can picture the vast industries
and internal improvements that the
next 100 years will give us? The
genius of invention viii not fail to keep
step with the speeding Years, and will
add wealth, ease and comfort in such
degree as we cannot now estimate. |
have an abiding faith in the future of
America and the greatness of its peo-
pie. Evils will beset Us. but, as in
the past, we shall prove ourselves able
toavert them. Heaven grant that we, our
children, and our ehildren'S children,
may prove to the world that our fore
fathers were wise enough to build for
all time, and that the foundation laid
by them shall be as enduring as the
Years. May the words of our poet
Whittier come true:
oh, make thou us though centuries long,
In Peace secure. III Justice strong
Around our gift of Freedom draw
The safeguards OF thy righteous law;
And, cast in some diyiner mould,
Let the new cycle shame the Old.
Mayor Smyth, replying to the senti-
ment, "The City of st. Paul. said:
L regret exceedingly TO be called upon
to respond to the toast, 1.-The City of st.
Paul, y for we acknowledge our inability
to do Justice to the subject. If we
should go back in the history of our city
five years only and demonstrate by fig
ures our wonderful growth, it would
strike you as more fabulous than
the story of ''Aladdin's Lamp" We
have, in five years. more than doubled
our populatiOn-now numbering at
least 100000 people. In the last two
years there was expended in buildings
u
enormous sum of SOS, 000. 900. This rapid
increase i'll population and wealth has
necesSitated large expenditure of pub
lie funds to enable us to keep in adj
vance of our growth. Our city is q
perfect network of sewer, gas and
water pipes-l641@ miles Of water mains
and lateralS have been laid during the
past year, furnishing us pure water and
thereby making us the healthiest CITY
on this continent. We are a city of
householders, large proportion of
poorer people owning their own homes.
making them law-abiding citizens, and
not communists and anarchists. We
are proud of every department of
embeZzlement Or defalcation in any
OF the public Offices of our city
since its organization. We are es-
pecially proud of our police department
for its good order and efficiency. we
have had, in the past, jeaiousies
and jars with our younger sister on our
western boundary; but we have buried
all these animOSltleS in the dead past,
and have joined hands and Will march
shoulder to shoulder to our great des-
tiny. Loud applause
'sThe silver-haired and silYer-tongued
orator of the fioor-the Henry Clay of
the senate" were the words with
which Mr.. Scheffer introduced Senator
ID. +. Goodrich, who, on behalf of the
senate, responded for ''the legislature of
1889" He remarked that the chamber
OF which he was a member was COM
posed of body of men never surpassed
for their integrity and their ability by
any preceding legislature. 1t was
said the senate had done no work
what" said the senator, has the
senate not done? Pray tell me
and | will say no more. What
evil could be corrected by legislation,
the senate had been ever ready to take
up and carry through. Senators had to
guard against woodchucfS. Laughter.
They were very numerous, and came in
clothed in such verbiage of words that
even Bishop, the mind reader. could not
ferretIhem out. Loud laughter. The eX-
petition with whichth senate work was
performed was, in great measure due
to its presiding officer, Lieut.. Gov. Rice.
Loud cheers Always on the alert, al
ways keen, always bright. always ready
to suggest, one who never made mis-
take, to him the senate owed much for
the expeditions manner in which the
work was carried through. Cheers.1
Hon. c. II. Brush replied for the
''hOuse" in the toast to the legislature.
He eulOgized the working properties of
the members of the house. and had a
little shot at the senate: I'VE are close
ly thinking OF passing an amendment
to the constitution doing away with the
senate as an unnecessary body"
Laughter and cheers.
Hon. Eugene Hay filled the position
of Mayor E. c. Babb in responding to
the toast: ''Our Sister City" He reverted
to the natural topic, the connection
between Minneapolis and ST. Paul. and,
speaking for the former city. said: I'VE
are willing to lay aside all feeling of
jealousy. and assist each other in max
ing the state of Minnesota to be the
yeritable North Star state of the Ameri-
can continent" Cheers.
Hon. w. II. Sanborn replied for the
common council of st. Paul.
Judge Kerr having responded for
''The Judiciary" and Hon. ". p. Muir
ray for &Older Times, the Territorial
sponded to the toast: The CITY of the
Unsalted Sea-" He said:
Within the vast domain Of Mime
sofa, mountain and forest, city and
town, teeming field and cumming
valley blend their romance,
their resources and their power.
Her green uplandS empty their
Astounding waters Northward into
Lake Superior and southwark into the
Gulf of Mexico. Through her lux
urious intervales stretch the great
water and iron ways. along which
hasten the eXhaustless harvests
of America to feed the world.
From Wisconsin to Dakota stretches a
Chain of cities and towns-a glittering
| girdle of jewels, and the chief cities of
| the state are the wonder and admira-
| ton of the continent. The
third city of the state is
its golden gate of commerce
the natural outlet of all the productions
of the great Northwest Situated at