The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-02-25

here In Mankato, despite claims to
the contrary. He made a general
reference to Sunday opening and
laxiJy Of officials in this city, and said
that as general proposition he could
not see why any newspaper proprietor
should call his paper 1.-THE Times
under the circumstances. He said
that he would take tissue with the
claim that all or the best good times
were past. He considered the present
the very best. He drew an effective
word painting to show that distance
lends enchantment. He referred to
the old times with their untitled
fields, unbroken forests and unex-
plored mountains, the dread supersti-
tion of the people, etc. The genius
Of man has chained the lightning to
his chariots and. the streams are rapid
with winged steeds. Mr.. Beattie said
that one of the greatest political
barriers ever made was when New
York was secured to make Thomas
Jefferson president. The sprees of
students today are innocent compared
with the nightly brawls of the ancient
university, where the students OBJ
tanned their cues from the manner in
which the professors washed down
their daily meals. We will go home
tonight with sobriety, said Mr.. Beat
tie, but hundred years ago we might
have gone home in the morning after
being dragged from under the tables
in drunken stupor.. In the dark and
bloody times Of thesold days, every
mans hand wasagainst his neighbours,
whereas the Brotherhood of man is
nowtrecognized, taken fro u the teach
ings and'life Of Christ.
DR.. III. A. >Tomlinson, superintend.
ent of the st. Peter hospital, respond
ed to the toast, "Improvement," in
the absence of DR.. Andrews. He said
that when people commiserate him on
his lonely life among the insane, he
often replied that the only difference
which he ssaw between the people in
andsout of the hospital was that those
inside were better behaved and easier
to get along with. In the early days
each person was dependent upon his
neighbors for what little information
he attained. These subjects related
to the past. instead of the present. If
there has been improvement in the
last twenty years, it has been in such
associations as this. If political aad
social questions are discussed, it. is
never done in partisan manner. A
breadth of reason and depth of study
are brought to the discussions that
was impossible in the old times.
Judge Severance gave an eloquent
address on "George Washington.
Among other things he said:
The name that gives significance to
this occasion is blazoned on the an
nails of every civilized country, and
the eloquence Of all the living can
give it no brighter luster. When
George Washington died, every ros-
trum in this country proclaimed his
virtues, every heart bled with agony.
The temple of Mars on the Rhine
resounded with lofty panegyric, and
that Napoleon awho Knocked at the
Alps and toyed with che thrones of
Europe draped the lilies of France in
the habiliments of national woe. En-
gland, proud mistress of the seas,
from which he had wrested an en-
pire, forgot her national lspleen and
exalted him above all who had lived
before him. Let it be said to the
shame of our educational curriculum
that there are a score of histories
read today in the schools of England
that exalt Washington even above the
American conception. The consensus
of the opinion of the world is,
that when we combine the genius of