St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-14
TOLD OF OLDEN TINES
Judge Flandrau's Interesting
Address to the Junior
Pioneers.
"reminiscences Of the State
When 1t Was a Front
Ter Spot.
w. j. Footner Elected Presi-
dent Of the CONNER
eial Club.
HRS. Besant Talks MyStically
Of the Theosophic
Art.

The Junior Pioneers last evening list
| ened to one of the most entertaining,
and undoubtedly one of the most re-
| liable historical addresses ever deliv-
| cred TO body of men whose ancestors,
| and in some instances they themselves,
had aided in making that history. The
events were related by one who does not
speak from gathered evidence, but who
was an actual participant i'll the histori :
cal. reminiscent. amusing and pathetic
incidents pictured, and one who is con-
sidered the best authority on Minnesota
history In the state-Judge Charles E.
Flandrau.
Judge Flandrau opened his address with
references OF praise that are due to those pl-
oneefS who first penetrated the great West
and the debt of gratitude the country owes
them which it never can repay. He gave
Il clear and concise history of what he termed
1.-The heroic age of American com
merce' as carried on by companies
with many voyageurs who fitted out ex-
plnring parties to go trading, some OF whom
were absent for years at time. and then
gave geographical sketch of the different
boundaries of territory as coded and acquired
by the government till the confines of the
present state limits were reached. The first
white settlement i'll this country was at Fort
Smelling i'll 1919, and the nearest point where
troops were located was at Fort Crawford, or
Prairie du Chen. In 1885 and later came
Mendoza Saltwater, st. Paul and st. An
thOny Falls. The speaker then gave in de-
tail the different conditions arising from po-
litical changes, admissions of territories and
parts of territories into The Union, an told
many amusing incidents arising out of these
complications He also gave in detail the
different Offices as created, and those who
held them, bringing back to memory many
old and familiar names and incidents He
told of the early struggle to secure the cap
itol for st. Paul. how it came near going TO
Pilot Knob and how we were spared the
affection of having TO climb that Knob every
time we wanted to go to the capitol. The
financial history of the state was given at
length. and the old bond reputation ex-
planned in way MANY present had never
heard before. The Indian history of the state
was gone over in detail and on this subject
the speaker was certainly at home. as many
years of his life were spent among them.
He related considerable unWritten history,
and gave the details of the greatest Indian
outbreak the entire country had ever known,
that of 1862. He went over the entire ground
OF the framing of state constitution ana
the struggle between the two lead
troll of Minnesota The Republicans
camped in the hall all night where the
meeting was to be held and the Democrats
took possession the next day at noon. They
split into two conventions, sitting nearly
sixty days and then found that their desires
were nearly identical. A joint constitution
was patched up, and both parties signed it,
with one execution, Henry Setter,
of st. Croix. He said it was
not the work of Democrats, and he
would see the state kept Oct forever before
he would sign it. 1T has been said that |
make the sign of the cross when the name of
the party is mentioned, but | am mere
infant compared with the lron-clad falth OF
my friend Setter, is the comparison the
speaker made.
The speaker then gave the railroad history
of The state. and how from a struggling In
FAINT in bankruptcy we grew to prosperity.
But having erected such a model OF a state
would it not be well to turn our attention to
the subject of perpetuating to our posterlty
the fruit of our handiWork? Are our political
and economic systems on solid basis!
These questions were discussed at some
length, ana the speaker said that two
evils were today threatening us. They are
universal suffrage and universal emigration.
The safety valve heretofore has been our IN
occupied territory. For the first evil there is
no remedy, as it was started wrong, but 1t
should be checked. The control of the gov
eminent is now in the hands of people
who are alien to our traditions and hostile to
our forms of government. The only way to
do this is to protect labor from the en-
croachments on our Eastern coast just as we
have protected it on the Pacific coast by the
Chinese restriction act. If it was good
thing TO exclude the Chinaman because our
labor could not stand his competition, then
it must be all equally good thing to cut off all
other streams of competition that bring dis
tress not only to our laborers but to our insti-
tutons as well. The speaker was given ris-
ing vote of thanks and on motion of William
Koch was made an honorary member of the
Junior Pioneers
Charles Pottgeiser gave several selections
on the piano. among which were a mazurka
and a march dedicated to the Junior Pho
neers. The discussion on the annual enter
tainment was long. and many votes were
taken. with the final decision to take Turner
hall, as it is the only hall that viii! accommo-
dale the Juniors and their families, although
nearly majority favored the Windsor hotel.
The date will be either the end of January or
the beginning of February.