The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-22

can exposition the only II , Hall was
one Of the prominent persona es, and is
thus introduced and reported by the
Buffalo Express:
A slender old man Of medium height
| advanced to the front Of the stage The
lower part Of his face was hid with a
grayish yellow beard. There was not the
slightest suspicion of a smile on his face.
In fact, his countenance was set in stern
lines and remained so throughout his
speech. But he was the wittiest talker
of all and kept his audience in a continual
uproar of laughter. Commissioner Hall
said:
Mr.. President and Friends: This greet
ing Is so cordial that I anticipate the
next time may appear in Buffalo upon
pubic platform, L VIII appear either
as a governor or a United States SEN
ator. Naughter) BY the way of a COM
promise; don't know, but I would do
the double act. (Laughter) There Is a
time In the affairs of states, as well as Of
men, which, taken at its tide, leads on
to fortune. That time is the present,
when the great Empire state Of the West
comes to the great Empire state of the
East and upon the grounds Of this beau
tiful city views here an exposition greater
and grander than was ever before erected
in the history of the world by a single
city and state-far greater than the Cen
tennial at Philadelphia in 1876, and in ar
tistic, electric, midway" and many
! other respects, greater than the expo
sition at Chicago which had the support
Of the entire world (Applause.) 1 con-
graduate most sincerely the people of
, Buffalo, congratulate the people of New
York upon what has been accomplished
| upon these grounds, and I also congrat-
ulate the people Of New York upon hay
ing an opportunity to meet US. Uaugh-
ter) We are proud of New York; she
has been q great state ever since the In
dams discovered her, before Christopher
Columbus arrived on the shores of this
country. We are prouder still of Mime
sofa, and we congratulate ourselves that
We are here today enabling the people Of
the state Of New York and the East to
understand the class of people that make
this country great. daughter and .ap-
plause) And so with the air redolent
with these bouquets Of congratulation,
No cares can tnfest the day
And the night will be filled with music
AS we traverse the classic Midway.
Qaughter) Though geographically sep
miles Of travel, owing to our splendid
waterways, the commercial relations Of
New York are closer with Minnesota than
with any other state in the Union, with
the possible exception of that land of
mosquitoes and corporation enactments,
New Jersey. Oaughter) The territorial
pioneers Of Minnesota met in St. Paul
last month to celebrate the forty-third
anniversary Of the admission Of the state
to the Union. Of the seventy-five or
eighty present, it was found that q large
pTOpOIJlOH came rum western new 1Orhs
and so if we have accomplished much, it
was because much was to be expected
of us owing to our origin. daughter.)
We started right at the outset; we rec
OgniZed that in some respects New York
was our superior, at that time, at least,
and possibly in some respects might al
ways remain so, and we accordingly
adopted the criminal code of the state
Of New York without dotting an ''r' or
crossing q st" We thought Is was use
less to study up anything upon that line
as long as New York had had the mat
ter in hand. Laughter) The time was
when we did not do scarcely anything in
q financial way without looking to New
York; we could scarcely build a school
saloon without calling upon New York
for financial aid. Laughter.)
But that time has passed. It Is more
than twenty years since the late Austin
Corbln, Of New York closed his loan
agencies in Minnesota because the people
were becoming too prosperous to borrow
money at high rates Of interest. It Is
only the poor man that can afford to pay
a high rate of interest. G1aughter.} W.
have for years sat at the feet of your
divines, your jurists, your authors, your
editors, your statesmen, but we have now
engaged in the Gamaliel bsiness on our
own account Q1aughter.) We have,
thanks to the government Of the United
States, setting apart two sections Of land
in every township for school purposes.
the greatest school fund of any state IN
the Union, with possibly two exceptions.
and by the time four land is all sold It
will have reached the magnificent sum of
at least S50,O00,000 OF our seventeen hun
dred and odd Thousand population over 25
per cent are in tho public schools to be-
come the future statesmen and rulers of
this country. Our great state university
in 20 years has grown from an enrolment
of 200 to nearly $500; it has an annual In
come of $350,O00, and tuition is free to
We have soma 700 newspapers, all of
them able; some Of them with good cir
culation liars. but all largely circulated
daughter and applause.)
Now it is no wonder that we are fitted
to go into the Gamaliel business on Our
own account and rise Independent Of New
York in that respect as in others. OauDh-
ter) When first began newspaper work
in Minnesota, the city of Rochester was
styled the Flour City, the spelling indi-
eating the product of wheat. That scep-
neapolis is now not only the milling CEN
ter of this country, but of the world
The capacity Of her mills is equal to over
1900, goo barrels OF flour year, which If
placed end to end would extend half way
around the world, and biennially she
could complete Pucks famous girdle OF
the earth. Her mills have sufficient ca
pacity to produce the flour to make 20
000,000 loaves of bread a day, more than
enough to give a loaf of daily bread to
every man, woman and child in New
You cannot repeat the Lords prayer
without giving top-column, next-read-
ing-matter advertisement for Minnesota
Gaughter.) Rochester is still styled tina
the botanical plant. daughter.)
Minnesota has furnished the greatest
railroad and transportation genius that
the world has ever seem (Applause.)
Wall street uses his name to conjure
stocks with, and when he allows his
name to be placed in the directory Of
by leaps and bounds. Iaughter) They
cannot even run a panic down on Wall
and Broad streets without aid from
Minnesota. Oaughter.) The most noLa-
was erected by a st. Paul architect, and
that this Is no idle statement of mine |
cite the fact that when the committee |
OF the ablest architects in this country !