The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-06

Yes, l see the flash OF the cardinal S
flaming coat through our ceoars, and hear
the sweep of the multitude of wings as
our teathered pensioners came for shelter
IN those circling and clustering trees. /
look into the great open fireplace in the
assembly hall and see the roaring flame
sweep upward around the hickory logs,
throwing with art no painter can ever
copy, its generous warmth and glow on
eyes and checks l feel in my nostrils as
the spring time opens, its glorious treas
ures, the understandable perfume Of the old
sweet briar after the rain and the varie-
gated honeySuckles that cling to the door
posts. And tonight on Memory'S ineXor-
able tablet rises another scene, when the
strong arm which would have shielded for
years yet to come my boyhood from life S
battles, and the clear intel ect viii ch
would have directed that struggle when it
did commence, grew stIlI forever Then
the old home was closed and the reaHza-
ton of new men, new scenes, new lanQS,
new duties broke upon my aStoniShed
vision
Remember the Past
Out of this past those memories come
trooping now, and looking into your kind
ly faces l know mine are not the only
Yisltants Each heart at this board re-
calls its own sweet, sad, tender recollec-
tons OF the cid scenes and the old homes.
| cannot obliterate or drive them back l
would not, if l could, because the man
VINO fOrgetS the mother who bore him or
the land of his birth will never be true to
the wife at his side or the home of his
adoption.
So l say to you Southern women and
Southern men, forget not the scenes of
the past. Let the grand men and stately
women OF the Southland still walk before
your retrospective vision. Those graceful
and gracious Women-rulerS and mothe RS
of men-thoSe miStresseS of Southern
homes, where hospitality ever sat en-
throned and whe4 the sweet name
mother meant simplicity, purity, gentle
ness and love.
While, however, we cherish these visions
of the beautiful past we must realize tina +
the past is dead That we with work,
responsibilities, duties resting upon each
one are here; part, and by no means an
insignificant. part, of the people with
whom our fortunes are cast.
Here in this buStling, mighty, growing
Northwest, here where the ways of the
waters part-for our rivers flow North
and south and east and WeSt-but where
the the tides of men flowing in from all
the states of this union and from beyond
the seas lin the well of a nation meet -
Here at the center of the North Ameri-
can continent, where the-commerce Of the
Orient and the Occident one day wi /
merge; here where an American states
man once located the seat of power of the
United States of the ruture when the
stars on our flag should represent SOW
ereignty from the Arctic ocean to the
1sthmuS of Darien. But of late the flag
has gone flaming over lands and seas so
widely severed that we need must take
new observations from the Sun of Des-
tiny to determine our political longitude
and latitude.
world. So true is that that Mr.. Dooley,
the inimitable philosopher of my race,
threatens in case the great powers of
Europe or any o. them make war on US,
to simply put an injunction on Armour
and Swift and close the ELEVATORS Of
Minnesoty'' and starve them out
Here in st. Paul and MinneapoliS-these
twin striplings, younger than some at this
table, yet stronger with their 100000 peo-
people busy in peaceful ways in school.
mart mill and mandatory in supplying