The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-26
member that rejection does not neces-
sarily imply lack of merit.
Mlnnesota's New CAPITOL.

NitIuGSOsd l<cW SbpitOSs
States need homes as well as the men
who make the states, and capitolS are
to states what houses are to men, the
expression in durable form of that uni
versal aspiration of men for a place
which they can call their own to i'm
prove, adorn. and, most precious of all,
to enrich with all the dear and tender
associations that cluster around and
hallow the home. Why should not a
state have and value like as
sociations? If the old home be-
comes dear because, through the
years, it's walls have echoed to
children's pattering feet and merry
making; because under its roof the
mother-hungerh has found blissful Satie-
ty; because it has sheltered the sacred
grief that pours itself out over the
form from which life has gone; because
through its portals sons and daughters
have gone to make homes for them
selves in happy unions consecrated
within its walls; if, with each recurring
year, the home gets richer in these
cherished memories, why should not
the states home also, in the process
-
memories of it's life and of the lives Of
its children, quite as dear to the state
as are those of the home to its in
mates?
And it does. In Washington, go into
what is now statuary hall, what was
the old house of representatives before
the nation grew too big for such
cramped quarters, and what a flood of
historic recollectons flows over you.
Here history was made; here measures
making that history were planned, pro-
posed, discussed, fought for and
against and adopted. Here, more than
with any place in the land, are the
names of our nations great associated
AS you pause there or in the old senate
room, now the home of the supreme
court, the dulIest Imagination can see
Webster or Clay or the Old Man Flo
quent standing by their desks and
hear their voices reVerberating from
the domed ceiling, as Webster thun-
dered against notification or Clay
pleaded for compromise or Adams as
serted the right Of petition. Are these
not associations to be treasured by
the nation as sacredly as parent or
child guards and keeps those of the
home? Are they not as rich a heritage
to the nations children in their inspi-
ration as are those which the depart
ing youth carries with him from his
home?
States build their homes much as
men Go, to fit their changing fortunes
and comport with the prosperity which
the years and good management have
brought. AS the cottage grows through
increasing stages of rebuilding into the
stately mansion among men upon
whom Dame Fortune has cast her gold
en- smile, so the home of the state
develops from the primitive structure
that sufficed for the first struggling
days of privation and poverty, through
the range of larger and more commodi-
Gus buildings, until, as now with Mime
sofa, increase of wealth and popula-
tlon brings the time when a building
behtting both can be afforded and the
permanent home of the state be reared.
This is the significance of the ceremo-
MES tomorrow, in which will be laid
the corner stone of the magnificent
building which, through coming gen.
Si"I'ohS VI Hef cnlldren, Will be the
nome OF the North Star state 1t will
remain fer her sons to endow it with
associations of honorable service, of
public duty well done, of human rights
preserved, of freedom widened, Of greed
rebuked and rapacity defeated and
wrongs righted, and of honor and in
tegrity remaining as white as the mar
BILE Of its exterior.