The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-22

is great in America today is due to the
influence of the brave, hardy, God-fearing
men and women whose landing at Ply
mouth rock we celebrate tonight. Their
message to posterity is to hold sacred
, the things that they held sacred. First
OF all sincerity. This was their dominant
trait. They may have burned witches,
but this was due to the same sincerity
that prompted Abraham to make sacr1-
flee of his son. Their next is to preserve
faith, that faith from whence springs
the seed Of our civil government, devo-
ton and respect for law. This latter
Is one of the strong lessons in their lives.
They left their homes, friends and kin
dred and took up their abode in the will
derness because they could not worship
God as they wished under their home
laws Their legacy is the common law
and the common school, those two great
bulwarks Of liberty, that have made
America today the greatest among all
nations
spoke on 1.-The Worlds Victors,' in
part as follows:
among the worlds victorS must be
reckoned the grand old men that landed
at Plymouth rock, and they are v1ctors,
for they did as victorS do. PLATE was
not the victor, neither was Nero, but
those who laid down their lives under
them are, and it is thus with the Pill
grim fathers From them such men,
Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Lovejoy and
Abraham Lincoln took their inspiration,
the courage to fight tor an unpopular
cause.
""The real victor in life must build his
home upon the stones, and be ready at
all times to lay down his lite for his
fellow man. The Pilgrim fathers planted
the seed from which the tree Of America
sprang, the tree whose three trunks are
| the school house, the ballot box and the
church, whose foliage is liberty, equality
and fraternity, and whose fruit is peace,
plenty and enduring prosperity. All this
the Pilgrim fathers have accomplished,
and it most assuredly entities them to
enrolment among the worlds greatest
victors.''
LAWYERS Great Effort.
Daniel w. Lawler then rose in re-
Spouse to 1.-THE Age Of the Pilgrims, the
Heroic Age In Our History and spoke
as follows:
I'm the first quarter of the sixteenth
century the profoundest scholar ard
most progressive statesman of the Eng
pages of Utopia the doctrines Of a new
| and startling political philosophy, the
| dream of a republic founded on the no
blest principles of human brotherhood.
In that IDEAL land, the fabric of the mar
| velous intellect of Sir Thomas More so
| cial problems of later. centuries were
solved, system of public education was
| established, the just rights of labor
were protected and freedom of religious
| thought and worship was secured: In
| the people themselves was repoSed the
sovereign power of government and from
| the mouth of the people, ,unstopped by
| the hand of prince or pfelate, were Is
sued the DEGREES of supreme sovereignty
To the world of that day, the aspirations
fD,. &hn n6x
gospel of human rights and equality:
| the declaration of the nothingness Of
anointed kings and the majesty OF un.
anointed people, glowing in the words Of
| the great author We're as fanciful as
| were in succeeding ages and to other
generations the pages Of Atlantis and
| the travels of CULVER.
And vet before a century had rolled
| its eventful round from that somber
! morning when on Tower Hill the excel
| toner held before the multitude the
| head of the greatest Of England's chan
| cellors there was to go forth from the
England which he loved and for whose
! law and liberty he died, a band of men
whose story and whose work were des tin
| ed in after years to realize his brightest
| dreams and highest aspirations.
Judged by it's causes and Its conse-
| quences there is no more important event
In the secular history of the race than
| the event which We commemorate to-
night Considering the personality OF
the actors and their motives and envi-
| rOnnlent there is no more 1dSclildlilS
chapter in the history of the world.
There have been other pilgrims and 9TH
| er colonists. For nineteen hundred years
men have read with wonder and delight
! the wanderings of that Aeneas, who, ex-
lied by fate, was the first that came
| from the coasts of Troy to Italy and
! the Lavinian shore. For a longer period
| and with a mightier spell a greater poet
| has sung the sufferings of Ulysses, storm
| tossed and weary of the sea. On the
| inspired pages of Holy Writ is recorded
| the old, but ever enhancing tale of that
| long pilgrimage of the chosen people
from captivity to Canaan. And yet the
| leaves of poetry and mythology of M
| spiration and history, reflect no deeds of