St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23

and the domes of our commonwealth There
are dignity and grandeur, too because there
Is a quickening of thought and zeal with
cut which no nation can be good and great.
me splendid Kohinoor, freed from all blem-
!shes. piazes brilliantly among the crown
Jewels OF the sovereign Of England George
Ell, not of sovereign ruler, but of SOW
ereIgn people! Frederick the Great called
him The Father of His Country" because
courage. patriotisnf and love throbbed and
endured in his mortal frame. The Washing
ton spirit stands as a model of manhood.
lofty view of life. its duties and possibil-
tues; or man and his worth; OF society and
Its responsibilities; of God and His claims.
ana supreme question to the citizens OF
today is: Shall the Washington spirit be
strengthened or weakened?
The Father of His Country Yes, and
the father of our country! And beyond this,
TOO: Tor so large his thought and so
majestic his spirit, that, in the language OF
Phillips, Ireland's orator and patriot: No
people can claim, no country can appropriate
him. The boon of Providence to the human
race; IN his ;, fame is eternity and his residence
In him we have the crown of spirit, a
purpose. an endurance the world has never
matched. Pierrepont's hymn. sung long years
ago at the celebration on the I'D OF Feb
ruary. in the Old South church, Boston, Is
thrilling picture of those days which tried
mems souls
This stanza we hail today:
There like an angel form
Sent down to still the storm
Stood Washington.
Clouds broke and rolled away,
Foes fed in pale dismay
Wreathed were his brows with bay
When was done.
One of New England's noblest sons has
said: "A thousand unrecorded patriots
helped TO make Washington. thousand
lovers of liberty contributed to Lincoln. God
has not let one of them be wasted" We add:
Some OF those lives were with them, many
before them"
says Guizot, cannot be measured by the
magnitude of their cradles" Back of the
cradles to heredity must we go as well as
forward to achievements.
And so back of the pilgrims and back of
the other early settlers of America must we
search to find the education and inspiration
to those to whom we give the immense honor
OF building here a temple and a citadel
whose walls we mark, whose towers We can
not count 1t must be remembered there
were settlements earlier than 1920. and that
many who made them were not of English
stock But they came out of nations or COM
munities which were profoundly stirred by
spiritual and social forces. They came with
these forces as really as they came with their
speech, their garbs and their habits. No
stormy ocean could swallow UP the sef-reli-
ance, the pluck and the aspirations with
which the European homes from which they
came were alive. They did realize what they
were bringing for the centuries to come
and so, like the pilgrim fathers, they had no
censers of gold in which to carry the I'M
dying fire. They brought it as our woods
men used to carry fire with which they were
to warm and brighten a new camp. But
they brought it, 1t didn't go out and here
1t kindled, till now continent and CONT
nents are illumined by it. And they did not
leave dying flame in Europe. 1t was not
as in the days of old.
When liberty from Greece withdrew
And Ger the Adriatic flew
To where the Tiber pours her urn
Sne struck the rude Tarpean rock.
SPARKS were Npdled by the shock
And again those fires began to burn"
No! They kept on burning in the father
lands and they are burning yet,
When the Revolutionary was over our
washington, after having emancipated a
hemisphere, resigned it's crown and preferred
the retirement of domestic life to the adora-
ton of land he might be almost said to
nave created" So, with a far-sighted and
deilcate common sense'our fathers stoutly re-
FUSED hereditary leaders, counted the people
as the princes of blood and those whom they
chose as stheiryieaders, lawmakers and magfs-
trates, as their honored servants. They did
not forget kindred and friends in the lands
from which their. fathers came but the pres
ent and the future waved the enchanting
wand Somehow they caught the foregleams
OF the coming glory. With gratitude and
t prlae we exalt and cherish their spirit and
thelr deeds Theirs was glory both indus
trlal and material In the fulIness of criti-
cal time they sfelled the forests; they turned
!n MaI TerroW MS and planted the corn that
Ia
one has become thousand and the small ono
a strong nation,"
All honor to the American spirit. so af
nuent IN Its origin. SO grand in it's forces.
1t was not the offspring of one school of
theology or plan of government Above these
II was born of Bible revelation and nurtured
by providences which stirred consciences
moulded lives and ordained ''Uberty throueb
out all the land to all the inhabitants there.
Of Assault has not destroyed it, Inac-
ton and reaction have not crunbled it, Be
cause transplanted it hourished and is now.
though still the fighting. not victorious
hero. sending out it's strength it's thoughts
and hopes. yes. its seasoned facts to re-
vive the lands from which it came. Sons of
patriots. the works of our fathers live after
them. We are the inheritors of priceless
heirlooms. More than this we are the in
heritors of possibilities. Those who relieved
themselves from the pence tax on tea by
rearing a free empire, gave more than
heirlooms. Shall we cherish and maintain
our free institutions in cities in states and
in the nation? So long as consecrated man
hood survives. free from the pail of luxury
and the stain OF corruption. no matter what
may be the strife of parties or the stress
and strain Of commercial reyerses so long
as we are honest, industrious. patriotic and
Godfearing men, our national foundations
will be as abiding the mountains and the
stars. Behold the patriots duty. the scho-
ars' mission, the philosophers wisdom and
the hand toilers' hope. And now welcome,
thrice welcome Colonial Danes" and
Daughters of the Revolution" to the loyal
society of patriots and to the consecrated
circle of the noble and the pure who love
their country! More than the Miriam mis-
sion, with the timbrel after victory, is yours.
Ever in this land has woman been the COM
plement of mans weakness and the crown of
his strength. On Plymouth rock,
WAS woman's fearless eye
Lit by her deep loves truth
The cheering of her love and life have en-
dured and blend today with our highest as
pirations and purest purposes.
Let US tell the story of heritage and
blessings to our children! Let 1t be written
upon the door posts Of homes and school
houses! Let it be inculcated by our teachers
in rooms where the pictures of Washington
and Lincoln and Grant and other noble men
of our land beam down upon our coming men
and women! Let us wave in the red. white
and blue of our flag, an aegis of inspiration.
as it floats above our common schools and
seminaries of learning
Finally! Let us love and maintain the
rights and blessings of our country, as the
true man does his home, within whose sacred
circle the wife regns an undisputed queen.
melodies by the orchestra. President c.
P. Moves, of the Sons Of the Revolu-
ton, presented the medals awarded
the pupils Of the ST. Paul and Mime
apolis high schools for the best essays
on 1.-THE Declaration of Independence"
The first prize, a silver medal, was
awarded to Edwin M. Grime,of the
Minneapolis South High School, while
Raymond A. Jackson, of the st. Paul
Central High School, received the sec
ond prize, bronze medal. Honorable
mention was awarded to Helen L. Fox
of the Minnea polls South high school.
The audience then arose and sang
America" and Rev. c. c. Mitchell dis
missed all with a benediction.
At the conclusion Of the exercises
held at the Peoples church by the Sons
hn Of %1,o