St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
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stand punishment combined to qualify him.
This last trait is what most distinguishes
truly great men from smaller ones 1t was
this trait in Washington that made victory
over the mother country possible under all
the circuIrstances.
The punishment that Washington bore was
not mainly from the British armies. although
be got much of that. 1t came from the back
billings and the 5ealousies and the other
meannesses e men as as. much interested in
with all the wants that bound the limbs of
our forces like letters, the results of the war
were glorious TO ourSarins, even from mil
itary standpoint. Remember. we were fight
ing men of our own race. For two centuries
no British army has been lost, or even
riousIy checked il the old world To us,
on the other hand, belongs the distinction of
two British armies. bodily captured in the
course of a single war. l might digress by
recalling like achievement. little later
New Orlenas in 1915. Under such circum-
stances. we can afford TO overlook some van
tiles in our English brethren. We hold the
record for war.
Some have compared the work of Lincoln
| in the civel war with that of Washington
in the revolution. To my mind the task of
Lincoln was relatively much smaller and
much easier. The Northern states much
surpassed the Southern in oI<Aton and in
all material resources. From the first shot
at Sumter the North, was practically as one
man. All the accumulated wealth and all
the productive power of the Northern peo-
pie were freely poured out in the public
cause. During the civil war it was easy for
the North to keep in the field five soldiers
well armed we'll fed, well paid well equip
ped in every respect, for each 100 inhabitants.
During the revolution it Impossible to
keen one out of 100 regularly with the colors.
In other words. during the civil war the
spirit of patriotic sacrifice in the North
more than five times great and more than
five times as efficient relatively as it had
been during the revolution in the colonies.
Notwithstanding Lincoln, Washington still
stands, and is likely to remain, far in front of
all other Americans The services of Wash
ington after the war were great, patriotic and
distinguished. The tremendous prestige which
| the final success of our arms gave him, not
only in our own country, but throughout the
world was Of priceless value during the slow
and painful process of knitting together the
thirteen discordant colonies into one people.
But after all, the greatest thing that be
said of Washington is that he not merely led,
but in the broad sense, he was the American
revolution.
citizenship" was the subject of the
toast responded to by Rukard Hurd
Mr.. Hurd's remarks applied to the eX-
listing condition of things. They were
practical rather than reminiscent Mr..
Hurd urged upon the descendants of
revolutionary sires the Importance
of their duties as citizens. Like their
ancestors they had a grand and noble
mission to perform. That was to
purify the governments of their COM
monwealths. 1t was their duty to at
| tend the primaries and do their utmost
to secure the election to office of. up
right and fearless men. There were
plenty of honorable citizens willing to
accept these honors at the hands of
the people Corruption and fraud
could be stamped out taxation re-
duced and other reforms accomplished
| if good citizens would only rouse them
selves and make it their personal bust
ness to take an active, energetic hand
inc mr. t0
dishonest and corrupt politicians shall
no longer control elections.
Judge Rea next called upon II. p.
Hall to respond to the toast News
Distributors" as a man who had prob
ably distributed more news which had
and which had not happened, than any
one present.
Mr. Hall said in part:
l Judge from the lines of the printed pro-
gramme beneath my sentiment that L am
expected to begin Jy saying:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear,
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"
AS the expected never happens, l do not
begin that way, but | wish to say aside
from supplying our physical necessities, there
is nothing to this life but the distribution OF
news 1t permeates everything. We have
early authority for this, for we read In Acts
this announcements.
For all the Athenians and strangers which
were there spent their time in nothing else
but either to tell OF hear some new thing"
The contrast between the earlier periods
and the present is immense. In olden times
the clans in Scotland were summoned to
arms by runners carrying fiery torch.
while today the president of the United
States touch an electric key and almost
instantly summon million men to battle, If
the defense of the country so requires. King
David sat at the gate of the city while the
Waterman went upon the tower to look out
for the runners bringing on foot the sad
news of the death of the kings favorite but
| rebellious son. If King David had had the
advantages of the ong-distance telephone,
which we now possess he could have called
up Absalom that fateful morning and told
him to cut his hair, thus preventing Joab
from inflicting that severe affection upon
him.
The rapid dissemination of news is the
greatest c.vilizer and preventive of war in ex-
estence, Us 1t names and formulates public
opinion almost instantly throughout the
world. This country has passed through a
crisis recently Tor it is substantially passed.
which well illustrated this. When the presi-
dent issued his Venezuelan message it was
Immediately cabled to Great Britain, and the
prompt action of congress in his support SIM
iarly disseminated Mr.. Norman, of the Lon
don Chronicle. came to this country and day
by day reported to all Great Britain the pulse
OF the American people, and the tide was
turned in that land.
| wish to digress a moment to say that for
myself l desire to repudiate the unwise ac-
ton taken by a portion of one of these or
CARNATIONS last December in laying on the
table resolution endorsing the president It
is not the doctrine of the dead Monroe. 1t is
not the doctrine of the living Cleveland. tits
the American doctrine, and it says hands off
to monarchy, and freedom to the entire Amer
lean continent No petty question of business
should prevent our standing for our country.
would like to see Mr.. Hale's story "a
Man Without Country incorporated in
our school readers an incentive to patriot
ISM There can be no better object lesson
than the weary life of the fictitious Philip
Nolan wandering desolate through the world
without country
| am not an admirer of England but I do
admire the protection she gives an English
citizen. When the king of Abyssinia cap
sured an Englishman and put him in
refusal to explain or offer redress an army
OF TO- 600 men. was put in motion, and as rap
idly as possible speeded to the land. and
marched 700 miles over a desoate country
until the dungeon was reached and the En-
glish citizen restored to his home That cost
S25. 600 600, and l admire the action of any
country which will so protect its citizens.
want the American flag to be "a pillar
of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night
TO enfoid and protect every. right-behaved
American citizen, wherever he may roam
on land or sea. 1t is that which will make
u.s., the mightiest nation on earth as we are
respected everywhere. and will SO thoroughly
the spirlty manifest will take root and
bear fruit in despotic lands.
Rev. j. P. Egbert, the last speaker
of the evening, delivered a brief ad-
dress on the topic of Revolutionary
Daring" without touching upon the
duties of citizenship in detail. Mr. Egg
bert dwelt upon the sacred heritage
of the descendants Of the heroes Of
ln6, which was to preserve and foster
the same love of country, courage and
honesty of purpose that inspired their
ancestors. These qualities and traits
of character need not, and should not
slumber in times of peace. Patriotism
was not q dormant virtue. The man