St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-07
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Report OF President Blnkr1v,
Recommending Some Things
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The delegates to the convention
OF the United Typothetae of America
met at the state capitol yesterday
morning in their first regular ses-
sion. The hour set for calling the
convention to order was $50, but it
was considerably later before Presi-
dent Blakely brought down the
gavel.
After the members of the conven-
ton had taken their seats, David
Ramaley, president of the local Or
ganization, addressed a few words
OF greeting to his brethren of the
craft, and then introduced Gov.
Clough to the assembly The gov
ernor was received with applause.
He extended a cordial welcome to
the visitors, spoke briefly but felici-
tously of the Importance and high
standing of the art of which his
hearers were the Representatives. re-
ferred to the great power of the
press and the wonderful influence
the newspaper has over the policies
of nations and the opinions and ac-
tons of men.
After Gov. Clough had concluded.
NJ. J. Costello, the mayors private.
secretary, was introduced by Mr..
Ramaley. After apologizing to the
convention for the unavoidable alb
sence of Mayor Smith, Mr.. Costello
stated that he had been deputed by
the city's chief magistrate to tender
them the freedom of the city. He
also spoke at some length in COM
plfment Of the assembled represent
atives Of a class to which st. Paul
was indebted for much Of it's COM
mercial prominence and prosperity.
Thomas Todd, of Boston, on be-
half Of the visitors, returned thanks
to the governor Of the state and the
mayor and citizens of ST. Paul for
the warm and hospitable welcome
they had extended to the stranger
within their gates. He said he was
glad to come to the place where
Drawn and brain work grow side
by side. The West, he declared, had
secured the young men and the best
men of the East, who had come
here and found room to grow. He
had never been up here before, but
he could we'll remember the condi-
tionS back in 1864, when his brother
came up here to what was then a
bowling wildernessAwhere Indians
with scalping. knives ready for use
the brother was killed by the Indians
formed a goodly share of the popu-
lation. Now the only sealping of
which he could find any evidence
was that done in trading between the
whites. 1t was commonly reported
and believed down East that when
ever a child was born in Minneapolis
they had a census, and whenever
one was born in ST. Paul they is
sued a new edition of the directory,
but he now knew these reports were
libels. But he believed in the Sun
day school conundrum that ST. Paul
is like the book of Numbers, because
the latter implies the taking of
census.
After Mr.. Todd's speech, which was
happily phrased and abounded in
humor and a little good-natured fun
poking at st. Pauls interest, in in
creasing it's population, a short recess
was taken. When the convention
again came to order President Blakely
READ HIS ANNUAL ADDRESS.
He reviewed the work of the organi-
cation during the past year, spoke of
the great progress made by it not only
in increased membership, but in ad-
vancing the interests of the art of
printing and the betterment of the
condition of those employed in it, He
deprecated, however, the manifesto
ton of a too great eagerness to ell
gage in the business by many who
were only urged thereto by the thought
that it was a money-making employ
ment and who did not sufficiently con-
slider the duties it entailed upon them
The apprenticeship question was re-
ferred to and suggestions made as to
the need of a more perfect method of
instruction in this branch of the trade.
He strongly urged the establishment
of benevolences for the care of old
and INDECENT printers and said in con-
cluSion:
surely, In this age OF the world,
when man is coming into recognition
of the brotherhood of man; when indi-
viduals and corporations and commu-
mites of every kind are thinking not
only of their own welfare and security
but also Of the needs of those less
able, less favored, less fortunate than
they have been, it becomes us to erect
some monument that will do honor to
us and to our kind. We should in
augurate some beneficent enterprise
that will prove we are Worry inherit
ors of the great legacy bequeathedi to
us by the stout hearts and the steady
minds which, cropping after light in a
benighted age, invented the tools and
the methods by which the spiritual
illumination they eagerly sought
should be widely and freely diffused
over the earth. Jsta
1--WE are praeticing an art which does
more than any other to enlighten and
elevate the minds of mankind. ItO is
by our craft that the source sof
knowledge are laid open to the world
1t is by the types which we set, the