St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-30

cal trade by means OF trade schools.
| Philadelphia has started the ball rolling
by opening trade school under the i'm
| mediate control of its exchange. Other
exchanges are discussing the question
seriously. and in a few years may we
! not hope to see these trade schools in
| operation III every city in the Union
under the fostering care of the local ex-
| changes.
T. The darkness that has clouded our
| pathway so long is dispelled, our sun is
risen, and in the light of the prosperity
| that has illumined our way in the past
| shall in the work Of the future progress
| in the firm, steady, careful manner that
| has characterized its actions up to the
present, and SO beautifully expressed in
| Longfell0W'S poem, 1.-The Builders.'
| THE GOVERNOR TOASTS THE TWINS.
Chairman Abbot prefaced his next in
production with the remark that Mime
| sofa was young state and st. Paul
| young city, and under these circum.
stances he would introduce the
states youngest governor-William
Il. Merriam. Gov. Merriam took the
piatform-in this case the table-and
delivered really excellent speech in
both delivery and composition. 81
fully recognize in this vast body before
me-, said the governor, 1.-THE repre-.
sentatives of a body of men
who are rearing monuments that
shall long survive after they
have passed away. This Is a practical
age; an age of money-getting and
money-saving. The vast and unparal-
leled development in the last half
century is largely responsible for
this state of affairs. The discovery of
opening up of iron mines and the
marvellous expansion and growth of
railroads have been the cause of the &C
emulation Of fortunes that have had
no parallel" The governor then re-
ferred to the wonderful development
OF Rome, and later the EliZabethan
age of England, and claimed that the
nineteenth century was the iron age of
the world. "This,' said ne. sis the age
OF the steam engine and the lucifer
match. You gentlemen are building
My toast, however, is The Twins
This same push has built up, IN the
memory OF the youngest men here. two
great cities. and all their Touring mills
and wholesale houses. When you come
here again you shall see libraries, art
galleries, asylums for the poor and
tiner. buildings than you see here
now" The governor claimed that Min
neapolis and st. Paul were firmly unit
occasional spats. The governors
speech was good one, and three hearty
cheers rewarded his effort.
The chairman next introduced George
G. Prussing, of Chicago, in very hui
morouS manner as ''the next mayor of
Chicago" Mr.. Prusslng said he had
been told that the architect was de-
signing man: Laughter The
toast toast was, ;, The Architect, Our
offspring of the builder. History"
said the Chicagoan, ''says the builder
always was, while the architect came
from his ranks. l hope when l next
come here, you will not write the
architect, our dearest foe,' but our best
friend"
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND's ADDRESS.
The next speaker was Archbishop
Ireland, and the high expectations of
the audience were not in the least
grand effort, and at its close the
audience seemed to become al
most frantic in their applause.
''There is no need" said the arch
bishop, ito explain the presence of
clergyman amid the festivities of the
evening. The suggestion presents it
self at once to your minds that the con-
tractors of st. Paul are good, pious
Christians, and that they have no hui
man respect in making the fact
known to the members of the ma
tiOnal convention. There is natural
alliance between the church and your
profession. TIE church demands from
the hands Of builders dwellings for
her spirit upon earth, and the noblest
works of builders are the monuments
erected by them under the sky-reaching
inspirations of the church. The pride of
religion and art is the majestic cathe-
the last supper. Men are the
blocks of granite and sandstone which
are to be worked into social structure.
Religion is the cement. Religion is the
sole and the never-failing spring of
charity, justice, purity, sacrifice, car
dinal virtues which render human So
ciety possible. Those virtues are be-
gotten of the principles of religion, and
are preserved by the graces of religion.
Religion is the breaking of Gods love
over men and whatever the efforts tend
ing to the intellectual and moral eleva-
ton of men to their social happiness, to
the diffusion among them of the birth
rights of Gods children, religion smiles
upon them and delights to co operate
with them. The subject. employers
and Employees" to which l am to re-
spond, tells of the burning ques-
ton of the hour, and the
safety of society will not permit
us to shirk it. Several causes operate
in bringing it to crisis in these times
diffusion of education, urging the work.
ing classes to think for themselves, and
to seek betterment of their condition:
the general reStleSSneSS and love of
| revolutions pervading at present the
whole human race; the gigantic strides
of industrialism, exciting liveliest COM
petition, and leading to the confounding
of men with machines. and l believe |
| may add in increasing greed of money,
| consequent upon the increase of posi-
bilitieS to become rich.
dislike to lecture the absent. The
employees are not with us tonight. If
they were | would say to them, as l
have often said when among them,
strive for your rights, while allowing
the rights of Others. The vital construc-
ton of society demands labor and
capital, employer and employee; to
abolish capital would be to render labor
would be to take from employe the
shield of justice. Nor should employs
limit the liberty of fellow employee. My
sympathies go out to employe-he
is the more helpless party and
his burthen is heavy. But l
always stop TO protest when employees
seek by force to compel fellow-employes
to join them in a strike, or when en-
ployes declare that the children of their
brothers shall not learn to be, as them
selves, tradesmen, capable by skilled
labor to earn an honest and honorable
livelihood. There are duties for the
employee; there are more serious
ones for the employer. Elevation
and power bring responsibilities.
A just and generous employer will by
his sweet-mannered ways and his silent
acts mirroring his noble soul do more
to prevent and quell labor ebullltions
than legislative enactments."
After discussing the proposition too
often advanced, that capital is entitled
to get labor at the lowest possible price,
the eloquent prelate closed with the
following: II am aware that