The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-04


eral. II there, has been anything, above and;
beyond that literal performances, which, We
might have done to add to your enjoyment
and did not. IL will be to US lasting sor-
row.
Are some of your illusions already dis
PEELED? Have you found that the frontier is
abolished utterly? Have you found that the
wild and wooliy West is tanned and shorn :?
Some years ago st. Paul discarded the print
tive chippewa currency with its wholly un-
reliable ratio OF sixteen to one-sixteen
blankets for squaw. Those early settlers
who came here when horses were fixed cap
ital. commenced business with nothing but
bunch of salt in one hand and halter in
the other and amassed sudden wealth are
mostly deceased. Their heirs have loftily
scorned to contribute for our encampment
fund. but we managed to survive. You have
met different class of people, and they are
your friends. aa
To the upbuilding of this commonwealth our
comrades have notably contributed. Coming
in great numbers from every loyal state they
have met here the stalwart colonists from
Northern Europe and united to build up
new type of American citizenship The two
elements combine the best blood Of the world
the dominant races of mankind. All their
splendid energ es, developed under the most
nvigorating climatic conditions broadened by
generous culture, ripened and enriched by
the masterful current of intense patriot
ism will flow in Strengthening streams
through the veins of rising generations who
are to stand guard around the ark of the
covenant In our holy of holes. Here the
principles of our order are granite cliffs from
which solid boulders Of patriotic fervor have
been quarried, to be embedded in laws
and institutions. exemplifying to the future
this nations Unreasonable value by its
transcendent cost.
The local work of preparation for this event
has been made light by the participation of
many willing expert hands. 1t has been
symposium of grateful earnestness There has
been a free mintage of patriotism in the
soundest of metals-an abundant voltage of
electric energy and public spirit. There have
been unity and harmony among our men, and
the enthusiasm of our women has been spon-
taneous, contagious and altogether charming.
The growl of the groaner and groan of the
grumbler have been heard in a few back
streets. but the swelling chorus of activity
has drowned them beyond rescue. The re-
suits are before you. ! will not venture to
expose the machinery by which they were
achieved. They simply typify the sentiments
of our entire population toward the men who
have honered us with this visit. The adorn-
ments on our avenues and buildings mutely
speak the feelings of our breasts. In other
ways have those feelings been made vocal.
In the words OF a stanZa printed with the Of
fetal programme:
Shout the people: Welcomed welcome!
Ring the bells from every steeple.
Greet the brave with waving banners,
Beat of drum and bugle call!
Welcome those whose grand endeavors
Purchased freedom. kept the Union.
Saved the flag whose starry splendor
Is the glory of ST. Paul.
Greetings and welcome and honor, and
deathless gratitude to the veterans of the war
for the Union! Their cause was sublime; their
devotion was perfect; their grand aggregate
of renown will gid the pages of an heroic
era. And whatever, if anything, the present
may withhold of universal consent to the
sacredness of their motive and the complete
ness of their triumph, may safely be left to
time to God and to history
They claim undue need of praise. They
wrought nightly, but they had mighty and
Almighty help. Rebellion succumbed not
alone to the boys in blue, but to their moth
ers, and the girls they left behind them. Lee
surrendered not alone to Grant and his
armies, but to the colleges and churches, the
mines and factories, the homes and herds
and harvests of the giant North. Slavery per-
ished because its doom had been written en-
the celestial chimes; because the nineteenth
century had come; because the free school and
the free press and the open Bible had come;
bcause the flying engine and the speaking
wire had come; because Wilberforce and Gar