The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-20
GRANGE FOR POOR BOYS.
UNITED STATES STILL OFFERS 1T.
DECLARES HON. j. p.
DOLLIVER
TRIBUTE TO SENATOR DAVIS
He Has Served His Country Well
May He Live Long to
Serve 1t Fur
Their.

Scholarly, magnetic, American, was
the address delivered last evening at the
Peoples church by the Hon. ]. p. Dol
liver, of Iowa. The address opened the
Y. M c. A. entertainment course and a.
most suspicious opening it was, almost
every seat IN the big auditorium being
occupied Mr.. Deliver spoke on "A
Poor Boys Government and his adj
dress was as convincingly optimistic in
tone as it's periods were gracefully
rounded in construction. There was no
suggestion of veTbiage. The speaker said
things and said them eloquently. The
audience was deeply attentive always
and at times warmly enthusiastic. Mr..
Dolliver began his address with a sketch
of the early history of America. Not a
succession of brilliant victories was that
history, but a constant struggle. Up to
the period contained in the lest forty
years no one could be sure, no one dared
with confidence predict, that the govern
nlent would be lasting Up to the time
of the Civil war it was an experiment
After the Civil war 1t was a successful
experiment. Students of American his
tory were too apt to regard the names
Of the men mentioned in the covers of
that history as the history itself. 1t is
a coincidence that the historical names
signed to the DeclaI alton Of indie
pendence have gradually faded from the
original document so carefully preserved
in Washington and that the document
alone is legible. But perhaps it was not
entirely a coincidence. The signers rep
resented individuals and Only small
group at that. The document represent
ed the lives and the devotion of all tho
American people who had stood by it,
the essence of liberty itself. The Ameri-
can Revolution was a fine moral move=
ment; 1t was not a splendid military
spectacle. The rarely won battles made
the outlook only less problepratical. The
defeats seemed to emphasize the hope
lessness Of the struggle. Even when the
struggle was won all was not plain SAIL
ing. Struggle after struggle followed
until that last mighty one when brother
fought against brother and America was
really free.
Leaving the past for the present, the
speaker saw no danger in the broadening
of the nations power and influence. All
the years Of its existence America had
worked for herself. 1t was but right to-
day that she should do something for
humanity. So long as the flag remained
in the state that opportunity was les
sened. Carried to other and more be-
ntghted lands the opportunity would
broaden. The United States had come
out of the Spanish-American war re-
spected nation, respected at home and
abroad. The speaker had no sympa thy
with those who asserted that the coun-
try had degenerated into a plutocracy
SONS OF POOR MEN.
In New York today, every man of
prominence, with the exception of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, was tile son of poor
people and started in life without re-
sources. AS 1t was easy for them to
win success, so was it easy for the poor
boy of today. The inheritance of a great
fortune would ever prove, as it had
proved ir the past, a fatal detriment
The speaker eulogized Washington, Lin
coin, Grant and other dead leaders, and
mindful of the present, paid a high
tribute to President Mckinley and Will
liam Jennings Bryan as typical of the
best American manhood. A very elo-
quent tribute was paid to Senator Cush-
man K. Davis. His work at the Paris
conference was commended. His states
manShip was pronounced second to none,
not even to William McKinley's; his
patriotism was described as of the high
est.
SERVED HIS COUNTRY WE'LL.
AS scholar, historian legislator, his
served his country faithfully and well,
and the tribute concluded with the earn
estly expressed wish that the shadows
of death that now hung thick about the
stricken senator might fade and he be
left to serve his country for years to
come.