The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-28
SENATOR DAVIS ADDRESS.
Takes Occasion to Refer to the War
With Spain.
Senator Davis said:

Senator Davis said:
we have met to perform a great poi zeal
| ceremony; to dedicate. by an impressive SIM
poilsn, employed by many nations throueb-
typihes the state
An ideal significance inheres in every az,
by which the hand Of man, guided by his
WILL lis reason, and his mag nation. sizes
the forms of matter and compels them to ar
tstc or useful expressions.
me veriest utilitariau mectanisms, tho-e
slaves OF man, the creations OF his Us
which do his work. the most luxurious pred
ucts OF his imaginative art, everything from
Ine reaper and the sewing machine 10 the
painting, in which Nature Is given a beauty
beyond her own, or the musicsl composition
Ia Whlch sound expresses harmonies sweeter
ana more far than any heard in groves. has
Its transcendental significance which is the
very soul of the material creation.
Architecture has been wisely called by
Ruskin the distinctiyely political Art"
state edifces as works of Art disclose n 20
litical significance beyond Their manifest
utilities.
The cornerstone has always convened 4
mystical and symbolic meaning even in Di-
vine utteTances. super hanc petram edifcabo
mean eccles an. were the words by which
Jesus disclosed His purpose to construct a
upon rock the great and enduring temp
OF our faith And when He desired TO i'm
part the conception of a spiritual elifce not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens, of
which the immutabl6 basis should be Himself
He said, in the words Of the Psalmist:
Did ye never read in the scriptures, The
btOue WHICH inc OCIQera rejected. the same
is become the head OF the corner: this is
the Lords doing, and It is marvellous in our
eyes?"
DEVELOPMENT OF FIFTY YEARS.
1t is forty-nine years and two months this
day since Alexander Ramsey. the first gov
ernor Of Minnesota. landed in ST. Paul. There
was then no government Organization in the
territory. A census showed that in June.
1919, It contained only $40 white people. To
d IA
history society existed only IN It's origin Al
elements. There We're no courts, no legisll-
ture, no executive. and Il was doub ful l.
there any laws. Wisconsin had tn
recently been admitted into the Union as
state and provision had been made for
the government of that portion OF Minnesota
which had been a part Of Wisconsin. She
was political dereict upon the sea of Time
By proclamation OF Gov Ramsey issued
June l. 1879 the territory was declared o
be duly organized. by that fiat what hal
been mere primitive social aggr egat.on be-
came state under the name OF a terri o-y
The first session Of its legislature was held
in the dining room Of tavern.
1t now becomes us TO withdraw for a mo-
ment thoughts from the ''Inadding crowds
ignoble strife of these latter days, from the
eager activities of business. from the subtle
chicane of sordid controversies, from the
arena of the political games, from the friy-
olities of social indulgence. even from TIE
navies which have made the seas tremhle
with their wrath and power. and from the
armies which have set the stars Of the fag
among the consultations Of tropical and an
tpodal skies, from the Islands of the Ia
cihc which now are ours. from the frozen
gold of the Kl0ndike, from all the multtu lin
Gus and rejoicing elements OF our power and
happiness a people. and to contemplate
one single personal TACT.
Gov Ramsey survives. The hand that
laid the ideal foundation of this state f.ty
wears ago in the dining room OF a fro tisr
tavern now lays the corner stone of this the
capitol of the completed commonwealth Mem
CRY spans with its triumphal arch the breadth
of half century. Upon every year Of which
that arch is built his acts as governor. senE-
tor secretary of war. diplomatic nesotiat T
and citizen are intellectually inscribed.
Ii is only the ideal and spiritual work that