The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-07

ton. And his skillful adaptation of 1
means to ends, begun with the con-
struction Of a transportation system
across the continent, followed by the
establishment of markets in the Orient
for the products of our soil, buttressed
by the union in harmony of plan and
operation between all the transporta-
ton agencies naturally available for
this work, draws near to its success
full close in the building of these ves-
sells that are to cheaper the cost of
transportation upon the sea as the de-
velopments and improvements of the
last half century have cheapened it by
land.
Look at every step of the process,
conceive the finished result, and see if
it be not beneficent. To commerce
everywhere there is an assured and
ascertained lessenfng of the cost bur-
uCl lIS1I Ids IlCdAy QA1NCII 1lNot0 WIZ
follow old lines and rust in old ideas
to despair. To America there is guar
anteed the mastery of the Orient if the
idea that we trace is permitted to de-
velop into its perfect work; and in
stead of the Suez route for the fabu-
lousy valuable trade of Cathay, in
these times of ours, it will speed across
the plains covered~a few years ago by
the crowding buffalo and across the
ocean so long deserted by keel and
prov. To the whole world there will
be given the blessing that everywhere
follows every material lessening Of the
labor cost of life.
To us of the Northwest it means far
mere even than is contained in the
pride we feel in our close relation to this
colossal and successful plan, our idenA
LITIGATION with the names of these con-
quering toilers of the sea, our civic
possession of the master spirit who
has evoked the whole in its complex
simplicity. To us it has already brought
wealth's increment in the shape Of in
creased demand fer our great staples,
a more generous reward for the tiller
Of the soil. 1t is placing US in touch
with those who are to be friends and
customers and who but yesterday were
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affairs of our daily life it is stepping
with its lessening of the burdens and
it's increase of the comforts of every
household. There is no more potent
force at work today for the betterment
of human conditions than the mastery
of the problem of world traffic and its
direction along lines of least resist
ance.
All honor to the genius that has
called into being and with admirable
steadfastness has pushed forward
against every form of opposition and
misunderstanding a plan so com
prehensive and so benefcent. The
ponderous bulk of the Dakota and
her sister carrier become emblems
Of many things. Helpful giants
are they, toilers of the sea as
ll-powerful as old Neptune himself,
but without his tyrannous caprice,
workers and wonder workers for all
mankind. They will run on errands
that become, in the last analysis, those
of the missionary at one end of the
scale and those of the workingman at
the other. They, too, will help to lay
PROSTATE the forest, to build the city,
to redeem the wilderness. They will
be active in that nobler architecture to
which all these contribute, the enlarge
ment Of intelligence, the distribution
of enlightenment, the slow growth to-
ward its infinitely distant period of
flower of that larger humanity which
one Of the greatest Of modern phil
osophers has dreamed and spoken of
as 'Beyond-man." There is history
and poetry and religion as well as COM
mercial supremacy and millions of
wealth embarked within the poten-
tialities of these wooden walls that are
to brave the seven seas
THE CONVICTIONS OF HEARST.