St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-24
INGALLS, IGNAT|US.
The House Enjoys a Real
Feast Of Reason and Flow
Of Soul.
Kansas Great Ex-senator
Z Delivers a Very Good Off
is Hand Address.
Considers Minnesota's Loea-
ton the Arena Of Future
AZ
g. Triumphs.
Senator Donnelly Ably Fol-
lows the Line Of Thought
;s Suggested.

Suggested.
The news that the noted and sharp
tongued John j. ingalls,, ex-senator
from Kansas, was to address joint con-
vention of the senate and house of rep
resentatiyes attracted such multitude
of people to the capitol at 2 O'Clock yes
terday that the hall of representatives
was uncomfortably crowded. Both
sexes, all ages and all classes of people
were represented in the throng of out
siders which had taken possession of
the long gallery and monopoliZed every
available inch of standing room Oh the
main floor.
At 2:10 Speaker Lee raped the house
to order, and five minutes later the SEN
ators filed in and took the seats provided
in the main aisle and in the area before
the desk of the speaker. Another five
minutes of patient waiting elapsed and
the tall, gray-halred, specialized, alert
looking aud thoroughly self-possessed
by Gov. Nelson, Hon. Ignatius Don
nelly, Hon. p. II. Kelly and Hon. j. B.
Sanborn. He was shown to chair be-
side Speaker Lee, who at once rose and
said he felt honored to be able to intro
duce to the convention the distin-
guished gentleman who had consented
to- address them, Hon. John J. ingalls,.
Rising and bowling to the speaker, Mr..
ingalls, beganshis address. He voice is
resonant and penetrating, pleasant in
tone, and smooth in pronunciation, eX-
cept for seeming sounding of "r'' on
words like idea, delta, etc.
His Personality Was Striking
as he stood under the canopy over the
speakers desk. The head is peculiar
in shape and appearance, and many
pictures considered as caricatureS linn
it to the life. The hair is apparently
plentiful, silver gray, and appears to
rise in lump on top of his head. Tall
as he is naturally, the slim body, en-
closed in a closely buttoned coat. and
the long neck surrounded by a very
high collar, make him appear still taller.
SpectacleS cover pair of not very large
mouth is shaded by close-clinging,
slightly dropping mustache, and small
tuft of hair Is cultivated on the chm.
Mr.. ingalls, spoke substantially as
follows:
Mr.. Speaker, Senators and Repre-
sentatives of the State Of Minnesota:
am not unconscious of the great honor
conferred by the invitation to address
you on this occasion. If my life con-
tanned no other distinction, this honor
would be sufficient. Perhaps the fact is
sometimes overlooked that the geo.
graphical position of Minnesota is pc
culiar and commanding. North America
alone is concave, and Minnesota is stu
ated on the crest, between the two great
continental depressions. Keeping this
in view, to my mind the destinies Of
these two great valleys are inseparable,
and Minnesota should properly be the
central state in a continental republic.
That is my understanding of
Her Manifest Destiny.
lido not approve Of or believe in an
neXation of islands so distant that they
will serve but to increase our vuIner-
ability as a nation. and make it neces-
sary to maintain a vast and costly navy.
That is not my understanding of the
real spirit of the Monroe doctrine. |
do believe. however, that there are men
in this audience who will live to see one
flag floating over one nation, from the
Arctic circle to the Nicaragua canal.
Referring then to the beginning of
emigration to the West, the speaker said
that when he begantO think OF Joining
the movement st. Paul, Minneapolis and
st. Louis were the OutpoSts of civiliZa-
ton. incidentally he mentioned that
the question of mean temperature was
all that kept him from settling In Min
nesota. At that time there were few
settlements beyond the three cities
named-nO husbandry. no harvests, no
homes, in what has now become great
empire Of civilization. There is not
now, said he, foot of unorganiZed ter
ritory under the flag. We have abol-
ished the frontier. and when the last
ray of the setting sun is glimmerlng on
the farthest rock of our Alaskan pos
sessions the first rays of awakening
dawn are gliding the headlands of
Maine. myself, as a senator of the
United States. have assisted in admit
tug into the Union seven full-panoplied
states. When we look back 10 what
was done by Egyptian civilization and
consider the narrow limits within which
it was accom- lished, then turn to the
possibilities of the future for our
own far-spreading nation, the pros
pect diZzieS the arithmetic of
the Imagination. The Mississippi
drains section of country which now
controls the purse and the sword, the
commerce and the coinage, the policies
and the progress of the country. United
as we should be, we must in future con-
= Of ha
But
4 Great Responsibility
is devolved upon US by these facts, and
Oh how we bear 1t depends the eventual
success or failure OF our civilization. |
beIieve we will be successful. The
earlier problems that confronted us have
i been solved. Now we begin a new
career In the solution of greater economic
and social problems, and l believe we
! will succeed in the effort.
We of the West are broader and wiser
than they of the East, who are narrow
and confined. The despots of the sea-
board the salt water tyfants, have been
dethroned, and the people of the great
prairies have taken their places. We
believe in the good of all, and would adj
minister the government in justice to
ALL in determining the great problems
! confronting us, whether they affect our
own OF other parts of the country.
Touching another phase of latter-day
tendencies. he said that syste N was de-
fective which was too minute. 1t is not
,theFfunction of government to say what
man shall eat and drink and what a
woman shall wear. The latter sally set
the house in such an uproar that the
speaker was compelled to pause. When
the cheering and laughter had subsidized
he continued: That government is the
best which governs the least; which
gives the widest diffusion Of civil and
political liberty; which secures equal
right to rich aud poor to vote and have
their votes counted; which sees to it
that the poor are not robbed by the
rich. and that the weak are protected as
well as the strong. When this is done
all is done.
Mr.. ingalls, concluded by saying that