The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-17

the beautiful city of St Paul, which
stands, like ancient Rome, on her sew
en- hills, with all the beauty and grand
eur of that ancient city, in the name of
our ten Thousand lakes (and If you
will send 5000 delegates to our city
we will present each delegate with a
lake apiece to bring home as a SOU
venir, and will then have 5000 Ieft),
l invite you to come there and hold
your meeting. EX-Gov. Charles Thorn
as. of the beautiful state of Colorado.
told me a short time ago. while on a
visit to my city, that if they had one
lake like that out at Denver, they
would not ask for anything else, 'be-
cause" he added, 1--WE have got every
thing else Capt. Kaufman, late of
the Confederate army, said: IF we
had one of those lakes down in Vir-
around it and do nothing else but look
at it,
Il know no North. My North reach
eS around to the South, and clasps
hands, and the South reaches around to
the North, and clasps hands. I know
no West nor East. Every place is
home to me where God reigns, the sun
shines, and the Star Spangled Banner
floats aloft
My friends, last year you held the
congress at Houston. She is on the
gulf, and so is New Orleans Every
one of your congresses for the last
twelve years has been held below the
line of North and South. Why are
there no delegates here today, as I I'M
derstand, from Washington and Ore
gon, only two from Montana? Why
am / the only one from the great and
beautiful city of st. Paul, and from my
state, the great North Star State?
Where your interests are there will
your heart be. We believe in every
section, and we believe in the father
hood of God and brotherhood of Man.
Come to ST. Paul; come to the state
of Minnesota. We will receive you
with open arms and entertain you, and
you will come away strong and healthy,
filled with our pure air, which is just
as pure as it is in these grand noun
talns. Come there next year. and you
will have dozens of delegates from
every state.
None of you knows for a momerft
what territory we have up there.
There is great empire down South,
called the Lone Star State" Dele
gates from that state, be as brave as
your fathers were at the Alamo, and
join the North Star. State in giving
us the congress next year, and we will
receive you and entertain you, and
you will leave us alive and hearty.
and take away with you lasting recol-
lections of our hospitality and of the
John Henry Smith, the present pres
ident of the congress, in an article
On the aims and objects of the associa-
ton writes as follows:
Suggestive of Europe.
The very name Of our unofficial con-
greSS of Western men, Western states
and territories, Western aims, hopes,
industries and prospective develop
ments, suggests, say, those old Euro
pean times when the Romans talked
of their "trans-Alpine" provinces.
Looking backward along the line Of
human progress since that once great
national power fell into stagnating eff
feminacy and palsying decrepitude,
one can see the slow, silent but sure
working of the force that led to the
discovery of this new world, to it's set
tlement by varied peoples of the widN-
ly differing nations of Europe, a unit
the love of wealth and the greed for
gold. From the advent of the forceful
Arab in Spain to the sailing of the
Mayfower runs the connecting links
of sequence that bind today with long
ago and reveal the infinite working
still in mysterious way His wonders
to perform"
One hundred and twenty-f five years
ago progress in travail gave birth to
| 'the heir of all the ages and the fair
est born in time''-to human liberty,
to the right Of man, woman and child
and the denial of priestcraft's age
long assumption of the right to cork
troll mankind in all things temporal as
well as spiritual. Then the infant ma
ton was in it's swaddling clothes, and
so HURDLE was it's home that 1t might
be said of it, as Of the Savior Of men,
that it was lying in a manger. 1t, too,
is to become a savior-the savior Of
nations.
Known by Trappers.
Then the red people of the West
knew of the white man only through
the trappers and couriers of New
France or the bristle-haired Scotch
Sandies who represented the Hudson
Bay Fur company. A hundred years
ago enough had been learned Of the
West to convince the president Of the
United States that it was essential to
the safety, stability and growth of the
nation that it should own and control
@the Great Father of Waters"-the
Mississippi river-from mouth to
source. 1t is no disparagement Of the
men who made the Louisiana purchase
to say that they could have had no
conception, not even the most shadowy
dream-Vision Of what that bargain
contained of potential empire. They
worked, as all men worked who are do
DING the will of God, feeling that they
have a duty to perform, yet all uncon-
scious of what the outcome of their
work may be.
The nineteenth century was by far
the grandest the history of man re-
cords, and among it's splendors nothing
shines with a steadier light than the
matchless development of the United
States, and in the last half of the CEN
tury the Trans Mississippi land has
leaped to the forefront with such mag
nifcent strides as no youthful runner
has ever shown before in the history of
the world. Just as Utah has demon
strated in her superb advancement
what united, courageous, determined
people can do in whose lexicon there
is no such word as fall" so has the
whole vast Trans Mississippi country
come to the front under the persistent
grip and hold and get will of
the men and women who have turned
their backs on their old homes of the
elder East to sink or swim. to live or
die, to survive or perish with the for
tunes of the viii dand woolly West. Of
course it has been a motley population
that has captured this land of noun
tain and plain from the aborigines
They have not all or always been above
suspicion.
The Movement West