The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-13
Varied Lessons Drawn
From Lincoln's Life
THE 4. R. A. BANQUET
A Notable table. Lincoln Gathering at the
West Hotel. g.
ELOQUENT CITATIONS. DELIVERED
Speakers Drew From theSSLife Of Lin
coin Lessons for the Pres
emit Day.

49, 585s9 - E9 ne.
emit Day.
Three splendid eulogies upon Abraham
Lincoln We're delivered last evening at the |
banquet OF the Hennepin Republican as
ISOLATION. A scholarly, mastery grafton |
was given by Eugene Hay, brilliant and
eloquent tribute by the Rev. DR.. j. S. !
Montgomery and warm sympathetic |
song of praise by Patrick H. 'Donnell of |
Chicago. While 1t may not be particu- |
larly significant it is still a notable CO.
incidence that the principal speakers of |
the evening should have been born. in the
state of Indiana where Lincoln spent SO |
much Of his boyhood. - ~
The main dining-roon Of the West hot |
in which the banquet table was spread !
was gay with the American colors which
were draRAd in many beautiful effects. |
Life-size Portraits of Washington, Lincoln |
and Mckinley looked down upon the con-
course from artistic flag designs. Over
Guiding Governor S. R. Van SAINT, Attor-
ney General w. B. Douglas, State Treas
Wer julius Block, Judge David F. Simp-
son, Postmaster S. B. Loyejoy, James A.
Peterson, Ray w. Jones and j. ". Nash.
These with the speakers, President S. L,
Trussell, Of the Hennepin Republican as
ISOLATION and T. e. Byrnes the toastmas-
the table of honor. Among the high
privates were Senators Stockton, Reeves
and Miller, w. E. Hale, Robert Jamson,
G. S. Cairns, W. D. Hale, the Minneapolis
members of the legislature, many we'll
known city and county officials and the
gaily clad Flambeau club.
Before the banquet began the Rev. Don
aid D.. Mckay invoked the blessings of
the Almighty on the occasion. Toast
master Byrnes was deprived, of the oppor-
tunity OF delivering very carefully pre-
pared address by the unexpected arrival
of Governor Van SAINT. Mr.. Byrnes grace
fully accorded his place on the program
to the governor, who made short, but
stirring address. He was enthusiastically
cheered at his appearance in the
hall, as he arose to speak, and at the
conclusion Of his remarks. Lincoln he
said, was not only the foremost man of
his day and his time, but he lowered
above everyone else living or dead. Per
sonally the governor did not believe in
hero worship, but if he did he said he
would be found always at the shrine of
the great American, Abraham Lincoln.
His work was now done, but his fame was
enduring and was secure in the nation he
had freed and saved.
Mr.. Hays Vigorous Utterance.
Eugene Hay had for his subject theme
"Lincoln's Message to the Twentieth
Century, Mr.. Hays Grafton, while
beautiful. tribute to the character of Lin
coin, attracted most attention from his
outspoken and vigorous attack on great
consultations of capital for the control
of natural utilities. 1t made the audience
thoughtful as the grave subject was care
fully considered. Governor Van SAINT was
noticeably attentive. The grafton will
soon be published in full in The Jour-
q l. Among other things Mr.. Hay said:
lJHn0Rr 10 ah1 ef f1ot
the law which We call a corporation, which
has been the vehicle of modern progress and
| IS absolutely necessary in the commerce of
to-day. ssT&Ga.' @' I-- .ssr. &."r
| The business OF this day could no more be
| done without corporations than the bird could
| fly without wings; but in the economy of
healthy commerce no useful purpose is served
by such corporations as '.The United Metal
Selling company or the Northern Securi-
| ties company" Il
If the doctrine is to apply that there are to
| be no restrictions placed upon corporations
other than those placed upon natural persons
| and that the principles of law and equity are
| to have the same application to- these artifi-
cial creations that they have to men in their
| individual transactions, our thralldom has al
ready been accomplished.
If corporations are to be chartered and pro-
tected whose sole purpose Is to divert the
earnings of other corporations; if corporations
|
purpose is to control other corporations and
do those things which the law forbids those
other corporations to do. and this multiplied
ton of corporations within corporations is to
be permitted indefinitely, then it is easy to
see how the great industries of this country
may be brought under single control and
our boosted liberty become a byword and a
mockery.
The playing of the ''Star Spangled Ban
ner'' by the orchestra was the signal for
Il every man present to cheer enthusiastic
ally, the signal for every man to rise to
his feet and wave his hand
DR.. NIontgomery's Address.
'.The Americanization Of the World
was then considered by Rev. DR.. Mont
i gomery, who gain proved himself great
favorite with the Hennepin Republican
association. 'Truth shall make us free"
i he declared and the Anglo-Saxon love for
i truth gave that race it's pre-eminence and
would lead it more fully to dominate the
world than 1t does at present. The An
glo-Saxon was essentially a. truth seeker
and truth was the strongest hand that
ever welded a scepter. Among other
nations there was SO much in them that
was based on the myths and the traditions
of the past that they were unequal in
the contest with truth. AThe qualify of
the Anglo-Saxon mind toiabsorb, assimi-
late all that was best in other people and
!. still retain its own strong traits was what
gave it supremacy. The speaker con.
Etinued: n
{ Here is Off heritage, 1t ID a legacy of he.
Z roism. Our forefathers have made the old
and the new world all billowy with the graves
of their heroic sons. ~ X
& BY our progress through invention, discog.
s cry and education we are fitted to-: be The
trainers of the world. Wesare destined tosa
/ world wide Influence and power because We
q believe in man. A nation that wageds this
Il greatest civil war of all time for an ignorant
q and an oppressed people and had for its
{ founder Washington and forts protector Z
Lincoln cannot be held to one hemisphere.
Tonight there are no hemispheres. There
is one sphere. and that is the great world
s itself. Wherever the American citizen goes
Il he leaves the leaven. I would love tonight
to stretch hands across the Atlantic and join
hands with our kin of the island kingdom To-
gether we can give to the world a stem o
popular education which blesses every rank
s and degree ofssociety. we can snap the chains
]. Of oppression from the ankles OF all peoples
81 upon the one hand maintaining unbroken col,
/ umns, while ION the other ptling up broker
letters
We and the world need q REVIVAL OF Lin
colnism Let us teach Li1icolnism in ou1
schools. let us teach it to our boys and girls
q and the immigrants TOT our shores: let us
teach 1t to all mankind; let us go on unit
every public man who does not stand or
Lincolnism shall suffer everlasting defeat
let US go on until Lincolnism girdles the
earth over, until Lincolnism overarches the
sky even until time itself shall have come
to an end
/ Mr.. O'DOnnell Was Eloquent.
il Patrick III. O'Donnell's effort was q
worthy climax 20 the evening OF oratory
He interoolated bits of humor and wit
. between his eloquent periods and quite