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 Doll zeal
ceremony; to dedicate, by an impressive SYM
boiism, employed by many nations through
cut all time, the ed.fce which represents and
! typihes the state.
by which the hand Of man, guided By his
VII, his reason, and his mag nation, s=izes
the forms of matter, and compels them to ar
tstIc or useful expressions.
The veriest utiltaran mechanisms, those
slaves OF man, the creations of his genius
which do his work, the most luxurious pred
the reaper and the sewing machine 10 the
painting, in which Nature is given a beauty
beyond her own, or the musical composition
IN which sound expresses harmonies sweeter
ana more far than any heard in groves has
It's transcendental significance which is the
very soul of the material creation.
Architecture has been wisely called by
Rusktn the dtstinctively political Art"
State edifces works Of Art disclose 20
litcal significance beyond Their manifest
utilities.
The cornerstone has always conveyed a
mystical and symbolic meaning even in Di-
vine utterances. Super hanc petram edifcabo
mean ecclesan, the words by which
Jesus disclosed His purpose to construct as
upon rock the great and enduring temp
OF our faith. And when He desired to i'm
made with hands. eternal in the heavens, of
which the immutable basis should be Himself.
He said, in the words of the PsalmiSt:
Did ye never read in the scriptures, The
stone which the builders rejected, the same
is become the head OF the corner: this is
the Lords doing, and 1t Is marvellous in our
eyes?"
DEVELOPMENT OF FIFTY YEARS.
It 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. census showed that in June.
1S49, It contained only $40 white people To
a degree, perhaps unprecedented In our
history society existed only in its original
elements. There were no courts, no leglsla-
ture, no executive. and 1t was doub full II
there were any laws. Wisconsin had tht n
recently been admitted into the Union as a
state and provision had been made Tor
the government of that portion Of Minnesota
which had been a part of Wis consln. she
was a political derelict upon the sea OF Tine;
By proclamation of Gov. Ramsey issued
June l, 1879, the territory was declared 20
be duly organized. By that fat what hal
been mere primitive social aggregation be-
came a state under the name OF a terri oFy;
The first session of its legislature was held
in the dining room of tavern.
1t now becomes us to Withdraw for mo-
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 friv-
olities of social indulgence. even from the
navies which have made the seas trem6ie
with their. wrath and power, and from me
armies which have set the stars of the nag
among the consultations of tropical and an
tipodal skies, from the Islands Of the Ia
cifc which now are ours. from the frozen
gold of the Kl?ndke. from all the multitudin,
Gus and rejoicing clements of our power and
happiness a people, and to contemplate
one single personal fact.
- Gov. Ramsey survives. The hand that
laid the ideal foundation of this state fl ty
years ago in the dining room Of iroAtsr
tavern now lays the corner stone of this, the
capitol Of the completed commonwealth. Mem
ory spans with its triumphal arch the breadth
of half d century. Upon every year OF which
that arch is built his acts as governor, senG-
tor. secretary of war, diplomatic negotiat-r
and citizen are ineffaceably inscribed.
1t is only the ideal and spiritual work that