St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-06

But with all the disadvantages. anu
they are multiplied, for this company Is
practically helpless, you might as well
face the facts, they are not organized, they
are incapable of organizing; somebody
must extend over them strong and pro-
tecting hand. They are not criminals
we take better care of our criminals
! than that; they are not reforming
! drunkards, for we lioniZe reforming
| drunkards; they are not domesticated
| animals, for we give them a chance to
earn bread and shelter; but they
Are Of us, Gods GIFT,
| TO he with US, and somebody's arm must
! be SpIe cad over them and see that in the
Upltt and the outlook they have at least
! chance. 1t Is q little difficult 10 find
| any strong friend able to do It'll know
of but one friend that can do it. aud that
is public opinion. You and | help to
make the public opinion, the great
newspapers do largely toward making
! the public opinion, and we can help
then. to just opinions. Newspaper men
are about like the rest of us. | don't
think they are any worse-they ought
! to be great deal better; with the vast
! power in their hands, they ought TO be
saints, b1t they aren't. They make
part of this public opinion, and it is for
! us to help make it.
1t is useless to talk about the mayor Of
the city or the governor of the state doing
! this or that, they can do only what we,
the people, by public opinion say they
may do. 1t would be cOmical to see the
! census taker, the man who writes down
! lhe list of the children in this
city ana that other city land which
| possibly afterwards come together
| and right about it, 10 see that
man writing down the names walking
! about saying that he was the father of
! all the children whose names he put
! down in the list, but no more cOmical
! than TO nave mayor or a governor
| claim 10 be, and to do and TO own every
| thing.
No, we are part of that strange and
impulsive and wonderful ana resiStless
! something called the people; we make
| up part of that invisible, intangible,
/ impOnderable, infinite something that
| is back of all governments and under
all thrones, and above all presidents
and above all kings-public opinion;
and we can do little toward making
our part of it. Then there is this to be
| considered. that, bad as some of the
features are, and much as we need to
| look after all the interests in the case,
1t is altogether great and a wonderful
! thing to
open All tie DOOTS
everywhere and to have the women
enter any door that may please them. 1t
is great thing to feel permitted to take
hold with your own hands upon any
tool in all the great workshop of nature
and try your grip and your skill on it,
and read over the entrance the state
ment that Carlyle said Napoleon came
to teach mankind, namely, THAT the
tools belonged to them that can use
| them" 1t is a great thing to have all
| the doors wide open, it means indie
| pendence, it means chance.
Independence is the greatest thing. it
seems TO me, i'll the universe. like the
motto of that great old Englishman,
Seldom, on whose every book in his
library you could read it before all
things Liberty" 1t is great thing to
be independent, to stand on your own
feet and make your own bread and
fight your own battle and come up to
! your own destiny. l remember the
happiest day of my life. 1t was hot
June day back yOnder in the first col
| lege vacation. l went and hired out to
a farmer as a farm hand, and in one day
| demonstrated to myself that l could
| do it, and l could hardly sleep that
night for the JOY of the independence
| that came TO me.
Liberty, before everything, and this
| comes with this opportunity. 1t means
| to these women a chance. Once toll
meant to break rank and lose your
| chance, and il was narrowed to a few
calings; it was narrowed to the most
! serVile work; it meant carrying heavy
| loads of coal up long and rickety lad
ders out OF deep mines; 1t meant, as in
Europe it means in many places today,
working in the field with men as men;
1t meant being
YOked with a Cow
| and hitched to a market cart, while the
"lOrd of creation" rode on the cart and
carried a goad, as some of us have seen:
but today it means 4 choice OF indus
tries and activities, and opportunity to
see what can be done and win the
wages and the environments that every
industry that has a right to live has
right to claim; it means the ability on
the part Of all, and the disposition OH
the part OF many, to take advantage
in city life of its courses of lectures, of
its great concerts, of its open tides of
human uplift ard power. 1t means
much, and so it is great thing and has
great advantages. 1t brings the mind
into the spirit of our time, which is the
spirit of individualiSm. l. is the indi-
vidual man and woman that is counted
today.
There was no room in the old history
for anything but the history of battles
and the QuarrelS Of rulers; there was 10
room in society but for the king on his
throne and the general in the saddle and
a few nobility that were to be cared for
and pampered by everybody. But to-
day we are looking after the common
man and the common woman; we are
of nf
masses, and they do as they see fit, and
they play with their children, and
they plOw their fields, and they do
their work in their homes as it pleaseS
them and not because his majasty has
permitted them to do so, but his ma
jesty sits in the chair of state or on His
throne because the common people see
fit to let him do it. We have come to
the age of common people, OF individ-
ualiSm, aud this very work lifts us Into
it. and out OF it come the great workers.
Then it brings us in contact with re-
SponSibilitieS, and responsibility is the
greatest teacher. Take an ordinary
sort of man or woman and laden him
or her with given great responsibility,
as much as can be carried, and they
grow into greatness under it. 1t is mar
velOuS how it unfOldS the faculties;
there is no limit to what we can do I'M
der pressure. | think what ails the
Prince of Wales today, more than any
thing else, is the fact that he has been
shut out from all responsibility. He
has been
Forbidden to Have Any Opinions
on any living subject for fear they
might turn out high treason. He has
! been dWarfed, contrary to his nature. by
his mothers good constitution. Laugh
| ter If he had had a chance, and gone
into the midst of responsibilities. there
! is no doubt but he would have developed
! the qualities of man. 1t is something
to have these responsibilities put upon
us; we do better work. Some tribes Of
! Indians, when they want to get the best
speed out of their ponies. tie sack of
sand on their backs. They say they do
! not jump so high, and so they run FAST
er. Some of us when we are loaded
! down with great RESPONSIBILITIES do not