The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-06

number Of visitors present. President
A. G. Anderson presided and the assoc
citation quartette sang several selec-
tiCns. The business of the evening
consisted in a welcoming address by A.
B. Driscoll president of the st. Paul
Y. NJ. c. A, and the selection of officers
and committees for the convention.
The feature of the evening was the
address of Gov. Cumnins, who said in
part
4 am here responsive to your very
generous invitation simply because /
want to give to the people of the state
of Minnesota the best evidence 1 can
give them of my deep, abiding, per-
sistent interest in the work of the Y.
NJ. c. A. (Applause.) That work has
two phases. OF it's religious phase
am not competent to speak, that is too
! high, too mysterious for me- but 1 shall
rather occupy the few moments at my
disposal with the work from a secular
standpoint. I do not disparage, though,
that beautiful phase of it's work which
concerns our relations with the other
world, but there are so many here who
can deal with that part so infinitely
better than l that l shall pass on to the
and shall deal with what the Y M. c.
A. has done, what it may do and what
| it will do to secure our safety in this
world.
Il happen to be for the moment the
chief executive of the commonwealth
of Iowa and 1 have been much concern
| ed as | was long ago, in the peace and
! order of society and the betterment of
| humanity. not alone because it is a
| condition precedent to happiness in the
! world to come, but because it is prece-
dent to happiness in the world of which
we are now a part.
Factors in Good Government.
81 look upon the church, the Y. M.
| C. A, and the Salvation Army as fac
tors in the cause of good government.
| look upon them as essential parts
of the great defence that protects the
| people of this and other countries from
| the diSintegration of immortality,
Not long ago l stood upon the same
| platform with that great and noble
| character, that great humanitarian Gen.
| Booth, as he was speaking to an i'm
| mense assemblage in my own city,
| and | thought as l left that meeting
| that of all the assemblageS that l had
| ever attended and Of which l had been
| part, that | never heard phrases so
| eloquent and so effective for the pro-
| lection of society and for the preserVa-
| ton of good government as l heard
| issue from his eloquent lips, and |
know that that meeting, thrilled as it
| was, not so much with the facility of
| his speech as with the intensity of
his spirit, did more for purity of gov
| eminent and more TO make it sure that
| republican institutions will sustain,
| than any political meeting it ever was
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cupy this secular standpoint and
| from it l intend to view for few mo-
| ments the relationship occupied by the
Y. NJ. c. A. and all other kindred
| moral teachers, to the actual material
work of the world and the develop
ment of humanity.
Il doubt not that this relation has
often impressed itself upon your minds
as it has upon mine. We however
Oftentimes shrink within ourselves, we
are so absorbed with the work of life
so occupied with our professions and
| business that we sometimes forget
what world it is that we carry on our
parts in. Here we are seventy or
| eighty millions of people within the
borders of the United States, and i'm
mense as our country has grown
within it's original territory, it has but
| recently remOdeled it's limits until we
! well nigh encircle the whole earth
| because, altnOuSh L am standing mere
near the midwatch of the night, the
morning sun is just lighting up the
beautiful colors of the stars and
stripes as they proclaim the sovereign
ity of the United States in the far
away islands of the Pacific. Cap
plause.) l mention this, not to infame
your national pride, but to give you
some adequate conception of the great
work which the Ruler Of the universe
has committed to your care.
High Order of Citizens Needed.
"There never was time when sc
high an order of citizenship was re-
quired of Americans. Simplicity has
given way to completely. Our greai
material forces have developed new du-
ties, new responsibilities, which tax no.
only the minds but the hearts of the
best citizens of the age. There nevel
was a moment in our history when Sc
many great questions remained unan-
swered, when the forum of American
conscience was so occupied with an
peals for justice, and it is for this gen.
Grafton and the one which shall sue
| coed it to deal out justice to those mel
who sit about and around the bar o.
the great American heart asking for it
Il was much struck the other day IL
reading a sentence of that great hu-
manitariaQ sss1 educator. Horact