The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-01-02

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Iful results of the abuse Of power and
taught the world that kings existed
] for nations and not nations for kings.
1T belong to an age that shed much
intellectual light over the world. Men
found the compass, and also gunpow-
der, and blast # they didn't use it with
! great vigor. Feudal barons went out
of business and the rise of government
took place. While my successor says
he gave the world its greatest power
by movable types, the Seventeenth says
he gave the world the newspaper and
it has been coming ever since, and the
subjects of many centuries are con-
signed to eternal horror for not having
paid for the press and it's opinion. The
press knocked the ecclesiastical power
into a cooked hat and the printing
office took the place of the monasteries.
The people became 1--WE" and have been
so ever since. SO the Ninteenth Gen.
fury says, and the Twentieth informs
us by Marconi code that they are I'VE"
but all powerful. They are kicking
for the whole earth and big share of
heaven, but think many of them will
never get the proper credentials for a
celestial seat. Rockefeller is kicking
because they will not allow the use of
kerosene inside the golden gates, and
Carnegie is mad because he cannot
surround the great white throne with
a 500, 0oo,Ooo library"
"Mr. President, I think the Four
teenth has talked long enough for an
old, settler'' cried out the Eighteenth
in stentorian. tones ''The Seventeenth
had quite an honorable career and he
gave the world Milton, Bunyan, Rich
ellen, Louis XIV, but he was getting
the world ready for great crisis and
the Eighteenth witnessed it. Histor-
ians have called my time the ''Age of
REASON" and remarkable discoveries.
We got the world ready for the age of
electricity, and when we played with
an air balloon we never dreamed that
man would paddle his own canoe in the
air, as [ understand he is now doing.
In my time political economy began to
show its mighty figure, governments
were getting more tolerable, and lib
erty was crowned king when the Eng
lishman threw up the sponge at York
town and the greatest government on
earth was born. It is true that we
witnesseth many great disturbances
but man was reaching up to immortal
heights in his great researches and
studies, and the Nineteenth tells me
that the world was in its day a mighty
force. Mind and matter were. supreme
and messenger boy was made of light
ming, the X-ray, the telephone, kineto-
scope, gramophone,, and many other
discoveries in science have made the
old world fairly tremble. There has
been the doctrine of evolution and the
cell theory, and germ theory, anaes-
thetics and antiseptics, the modern
hospital, the free dispensary; and
\ numerous agencies for the. good of man
kind. They have biology, phiology,,
sociology, anthropology land apology,
and the grandest mixture of 'ologies'
and sisms' in the history'of the world.
Labor saving machinery and inven-
tions and devices of all kinds to tighten
the load of mankind have been given
the world, and if the thing keeps up
the Twentieth Century, the little in
FAINT of Time down below, will startle
this gathering at some future meeting
when it relates the remarkable strides
made by the world during its reign"
When the Eighteenth Century had
concluded his remarks the Tenth
moved that the president appoint a
committee of three to draft cOnstitu-
ton and bylaws for the order, and to
report at the next meeting. The mo-
ton was carried.
After motion by the Fifth Century
that formal invitation be extended to
Jonah to address the convention at it's
next meeting on the anatomy of the
whale, the convention adjourned.
The State good roads convention will
be held in St. Paul on the 10Th of this
month. The convention is called for