The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-17
EULOCIzFS OUR
Dutch FORBEARS
Gov. Van SAINT Takes OratOriC.
al Flight at Holland Soci.
ETY. Dinner.

CHICAGO, April 16.-Three hundred
and fifty members and guests Of the
Holland society, of Chicago, were pres
ent at the annual banquet Of the so
ciety, which was held tonight. There
were addresses by the officers Of the
club and by local guests. The chief
speeches of the evening were made by
Gov. Van SAINT, of Minnesota, and
Lafayette Young, of Des Moines, Iowa.
Gov. Van SAINT said:
'Our country is the greatest triumph
of human progress. Four hundred
years ago this hemisphere was I'M
known. Today it teens with the life
Of a score Of nations, one of which
seems to hold in it's grasp the destinies
of the human race. One hundred and
twenty eight years ago our nation had
its birth It was then the weakest 'of
all. Today it ranks first among the
powers Of the world.
while this is true, we must not ac-
cept our exalted position in boastful
spirit. Man HVeth not to himself
alone We should help and encourage
other people as they have in the past
helped us.
I'm my Judgment we owe most for
our liberty, for our constitutions; for
our very existence as a nation, to Hol-
land. 1t was the Dutch who first set
tied in New York, New Jersey, Penn
sXlvania and Delaware. They were the
first to make homes in the new world,
and their determination to have free
institutions, their humane treatment of
Indians and their attachment to their
new fresides, created the hope in all
Europe that the colonies would sue
coed. The Pilgrim fathers, the first
real colonists of New England, came
from Holland, where they had lived
for many years, going thither from
England to escape persecution.
They Blazed the Way.
ut was thus the Dutch who first
blazed the way to the new world and
proved that it was inhabited and safe
for others. Holland was the first to
salute our flag and the first to recog-
nize our independence. In making ou1
constitution the Dutch constitution was
a living example, and we copied many
things after it. She loaned us money
when we needed it most and when she
could least spare it, for, while helping
US, she was engaged in the fiercest
struggle for commerce and was fighting
the battles of freedom at her very
| doors.
Across the wide seas wa stretch
! hands Of fellowship, brothers of Hol-
| land. You are near and dear to us
! Your history is most like ours. YoU
kept lighted the fires of liberty In
| darkest night. You colonized oul
! shores when others shrank from the
| danger. Your offspring in the new
world will never forget you. May nc
| oppressor's heel ever grind you into the
| dust, is the earnest prayer of every
| HOllander in America.
Holland was the hope of free gov
| eminent in the past. Our country i:
! the promise that it shall be maintained
| in the future. What Holland com
menced 1t has been our privilege tr
| complete. Let us, then, remembering
| the struggles Of the past, the opportu-
| mites Of the present and the hopes OF
| the future, ever cherish her memory
/ and highly resolve to do our full share
to preserve and perpetuate this mode
| republic"
| Mr.. Young paid his respects to the
Hollander as an individual, and found
many things in his character calling
for high praise