The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-28

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have been raised to higher plane OF pa
trio,ism. The additions to our fleet have
been very considerable and that feet will
never be less. The appropriations for its
increase, already liberal, will continue to be
so. The astounding victories of Commodore
Dewey and Commodore Schley have convinced
our people OF the vital Importance of the sea
power. The organization and operation of
great army and navy WIZ teach them their
own strength.
The. heroism of our. soldiers and sailors
will be heritage OF national glory and
honor. Our people were carried to the high
est top of national pride by witnessing at
Manila and Santiago Ito paraphrase Napier).
with what majesty the American sailor fights
1t is also perceived with the greatest salts
faction that certain opponents of European
opinion, who until recently spoke with a
condescending assumption of superiority of
intervening in the present contest have abat-
ed their hauteur of expression.
The Monroe doctrine. in the sense of an
intention by this government to intervene to
prevent encroachments by~European nations
upon the republics of the Western hemisphere
has been confirmed, and has received a
steadying force. The press of continental
Europe has adopted during the last few
years a fashion Of resenting even any theo
retcal assertion of this great principle Of
American security, which was recently char
acteriZed by Prince Bismarck as doctrine
h
able than any European power will delibera te
before acting upon that assumption.
The necessity for the immediate construc-
ton of the Nicaragua canal has been IN
deniably demonstrated by recent events. The
voyage and perils of the Oregon are conclusive
upon this proposition.
The unpleasant relations which have ex,sted
between the United States and England for 50
many years were caused by a traditional
aversion, which was aggravated by certain
events of our civil war and by many minor
Irritating controversies, the worst feature of
which is the fact that few of them have ever
been settled. But through all this II has
been felt by the people of both countries that
tie binds them together, however much thew
may irr;tate each other by straining 1t.
Aversion and even specific controversies he
tween peoples so related are often composed
by the force of events with which their con-
nection seems merely ideal and sympathetic
Such pacifying forces are so subtle and i'm
palpable that they can often be perceived lon,
before they can be described. The difficulty
of indication exists in the present instance.
but, Notwithstanding, 1t is very plain that a
change of sentiment. OF expression, and Of the
general contour of relations between the two
nations has taken place.
GREAT HUMAN EVOLUTION.
The conviction, heretofore only imperfectlv
felt and only partially, infreQuently, and fit
fully acknowledged, is now clearly operative
and Is openly and spontaneously expressed
that the 125, DOC, 900 people who speak the Eng
fish language, who have established repre,
sentative governments and maintained per-
sonal liberty in every portion of the world.
whose conceptions of faith, literature morals
education, popular government and individual
freedom are cognate at all times and every-
where. whose civilization, though developed
IS not decadent but Is still progressive, who
have heretofore taken no step backward In
an expansion of influence and empire without
comparison in history, are amicably approach
ing each other under the pressure of great
human evolution
trust that these observations will not be
thought irrelevant to this ceremony It has
seemed to me most proper that the thoughts
OF our people should be directed to these mo-
but not partisan, which has assembled this
of the thoughtful men and women
of our beloved commonwealth
;, Ihis day Will soon end. The invocations.
triotic music sent out by Instrument and
voice, the words of oratory vainly essaying
to be adequate to its theme, the cleaning
banners of our country the emblems of our
the trophies of our conquest of in
Vulnerable fe,icities here exhibited, the mill
tant youth Of Minnesota marsha.ed for
that constitutes this pageant Will
soon cease to be seen or heard
Not for hundreds of years viii this cere-
mony be again performed. But of one indu-
bitable and change.ess fact we can feel as
sured, and 1T is that when, in distant age
a corner stone shall be laid for another and a
greater capitol of Minnesota, they who place
It, in contemplating the reverend structure
here begun, will glory in and emulate the vir-
tues of their fathers.
For as a great master Of English a seer
in economics and an authority in art, has
truly said of such structures raised by states:
Men cannot benefit those that are with
them as they can benefit those who come
after them; and of all the pulpits from which
human voice is ever sent forth there Is none
from which 1t reaches SO far as from the
grave
BUILDING FOR TIME.
Nor is there, indeed, any present loss. in
such respect for futurity. Every human &C.
ton gains In honor, in grace, in all true
magnifcence, by its regard to things that
are to come. 1t Is the far sight, the quick
and confident patience, that. above all other
attributes. separate man from man. and near
him to his Maker; and there is no action
nor art whose majesty we may not measure
by TINS test. Therefore, when we build let
us think that we build forever Let it not
be for present delight, nor for present uss
alone; let 1t be such work as our descend
ants will thank us for and let us think
as we lay stone on stone, that a time Is to
come when those stones will be held sacred
because our hands have touched them, and
that men will say as they look upon the
labor and wrought substance Of them, 'Seei
this our fathers did for u.s.
For, indeed, the greatest glory of a build
Ing is not in its stones or in its gold. Its
glory is in its age, and IN that deep sense
of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mys-
FERROUS sympathy, nay, even Of approval or
condemnation, which we feel in walls that
ne have ,, long been washed by the passing waves
OF humanity. 1t is in their lasting witness
against men, in their quiet contrast with the
transitional character of al things, in the
strength which, through the lapse of seasons
and times, and the decline and birth of dy-
nasties, and the changing of the face of the
earth, and of the limits of the sea, maintains
Its sculptured shapeliness for a time insu-
perable, connects forgotten and following
ages with each other. and half constitutes the
identity, as 1t concentrates the sympathy of
nations. "
1t is in that golden stain of time that we
are to look for the real light and color and
preciousness of architecture, and 1t is not
until a building has assumed this character
nli IL mas been entrusted with the fame and
haloWed by the deeds of men till It's walls
nave been witnesses Of suffering; and its pill
lars rise out of the shadows of death, that its
existence, more lasting as it is, than that of
the natural objects of the world around it.
can be gifted with even so much as these
possess of language and of life
No sooner had the senator taken his
seat than one of the department Off
GERS of the G. A. R. sprang to his feet
and proposed three cheers for Senator
Davis They were given with a will
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