The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-25
SPEAKS FOR CUBA.
Senator Davis Delivers an address
at Hamline University.

Senator Davis Delivers an address
at HamIine University.
Senator c. K. Davis delivered an in
teresting address yesterday morning
before the students Of Hamline uni
versity.
After a few Introductory remarks by
DR.. G. H. Bridgman, Senator DAVIS
arose, amid cheers and class yells. He
proceeded, first explaining briefly why
he believed that colleges turned out
men better prepared for life than uni
versities do. He believed they could
devote more time to the study OF
mathematics and Oratory, in the small
er institutions of learning than can
be obtained in the larger universities.
In the course of his remarks, Senator
Davis said that during his life he had
given too much time to reading, ana
not nearly enough to thinking. Just
as men are gluttons of viands, so do
people become gluttons of books. Their
contents are swallowed whole, without
thought or reflection, but the success
full thinker is he who wrestles with
their contents and refuteS, if wrong,
their statements.
I'm nv YOUTH" continued the SEN
ator, 81 made the mistake of omnivor-
Gus reading. 1 have often noticed that
the lawyer with one book WINS MS case
against him before whom whole stacks
of legal books are piled, thus testify
ing to the truth of the old Roman
proverb Beware of the man with one
book I believe, in the future, the
university student is the person who
is going to control public opinion and
public acts, and he is going to spend
his time and talent as well as rack
his brain on that question which,
believe, is to be one of the greatest
questions of the future-the betterment
of man as an individual. In the past
this question has not been prominent
because class has been fighting class,
democracy has been in antagonlsm
against aristocracy. But in our own
country, that we love so dearly, class
struggles have been stamped out by
the Revolution and the Civil war, ana
the right of self government has been
secured and there have sprung up con-
ditions, possibilities and contingencies
for good that have never been offered
to other nations or ever to our own I'M
til now.
81 am not afraid of the Capitalization
of wealth, but I am afraid of the cen
tralization of population, the precursor
of national decay. 1t is fact ana
one to be dreaded that one-fourth OF
the people of Minnesota are In st. t'aul,
Minneapolis and Duluth.
Zone of the curiosities of the present
time is the remarkable prominence
given to international and foreign al
fairs Our daily papers TEEN with COM
ments on the state of Cuba, on the seal
fishery question and international tariff
laws. We have lately been agitated
about the seal fisheries. Since the pur-
chase of Alaska from Russia, the gains
accruing from the seal fisheries have
more than realized the price that we
paid for that territory, but the cana
dian soon became aware OF the prohtS
to be made out of the seal and they
began Unfortunately to kill both
young and female seals, and so many
seals were killed that the stock became
decimated We had repeatedly tried
to come to some agreement with Great
Britain to preserve the seal, but so far
we have been unsuccessful. In 1920
missionaries from America to Hawaii
found that country in a terrible cond1-
ton, barbariSm and cannibal1sm being
rampant, but in thirty years we
brought order out of chaos and the
people came under a constitutional
government with Legislative bodies. In
1910 we warned every nation that they
must keep their hands off the Sandwich
islands and it was generally understood
that in due time we should annex the
1SldnQS, Dul people Sdy, w HdI w we
want with Hawaii?" 1 believe, in
time, the Pacific ocean is going to be
the seat of the greatest commercial
traffic the world ever saw. With China
awakening from. her sleep of centuries
and Japan putting on the garb of
energetic Eastern civilization, the Sand
witch islands become of the greatest
Importance and our possession of them
means that in case of hostilities the
guns will be turned away toward our
enemies intead of toward us and we
can make it the base of military opera
lions against any foe whose shores are
washed by the Pacific ocean,
Continuing, Senator Davis dwelt on
the situation in Cuba. He quoted the
international law that no nation has a
right to interfere between a nation and
it's rebelliouS subjects, however bloody
the condition of that state might be-,
but that there was a law to guard the
property of foreign residents from in
jury and loss. Senator Davis said:
THE citizens of the United States
have had $4,000, 900 worth of property
destroyed during the late conflict, much
of this loss being inflicted by the Span
ish troops themselves. Beside all this,
our own citizens have been thrown into
Jail. 1t was the duty of the United
States government to recognize the bel
ligerency of the Cuban patriots. I de-
sire to see republic established in Gu
ba and, in time, after 10000 Americans
have taken UP their abode there, I
hope to see Cuba admitted as a state
into our glorious Union