The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22

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an increasing regard for the higher
things of life--whose ancestors have
fought ana who have themselves fought
for civil and religious liberty?
AS during the tor HEROES tee
throbbed adj the reverberations of foot
steps that sounded like their own; as
the granite obelisk ON Bunker Hill
spoke to the boys in blue of 1861 in
a voice melodious as the song of i'm
mortality upon the lips of cherubim;
SO from the sacrifices and martyrdoms
OF the mighty past come admonitions
to favored people that they stand
fast by tho foundations upon which
our supremacy rests. Those admoni-
tions do not fall on needless ears. The
sacrifices were not made in vain.
The dominating force in American
history, as in all history, has been
combination of intellect and morality,
of culture and character. The prospec-
tive homebuilder may very properly
seek with earnestness and accept with
ditions and the environment, the inter-
fusion Of races and the climatic con-
ditions, the educational systems ana
the moral atmosphere, all unite IN
prophecy of that unchallenged ,pre-em-
inence that will install his descend,
ants in the nervecenter of social and
political power for generations yet I'M
born.
When the Mayfower cast anchor in
the harbor of Plymouth, all the forests
and mountains Of the majestic contl-
nent insight well have Frustrated them
selves in the presence of the predes-
tined conqueror. Fer $50 years the
impulse then communicated has pene-
trated and permeated and ramiied and
ffructitied. From six eragg3y +,s st Sane
flowed out the influences that have
made America what it is. Their laws
and customs; their free school, free
press and open Bible; their energy and
persistence; their independence and
self assertion; their iyceu;ms ana
Goldfish and college yells, have become
domesticated and familiar institutions
from the Hudson to the Rio Grande
and from Lake Champlain to Puget
sound.
furnished the schoolmasters for the
children of the republic during many.
generations. Down in Arizona, near
tho border of Mexico, at Territorial
Teachers convention recently assem-
gates were Of New England birth or
But the scepter has departed. The
New England Of the past is, already
eclipsed in many of it's most significant
features by the New England OF the ~
ture Along the Great Lakes and on the
headwaters Of the Mississippi, once tho
Of the continent, lie the six states that
are to constitute the he, New England iSd lo of
It'll of the republic, like an arch of tri-
umph or Of promise-and of that arch
Minnesota is Enthusiastically the keystone.
Here in this breezy and buoyant new
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of the twentieth century; on her TEEN
ing and boundless prairies; by the
banks of her amazing rivers; w!alstdeep
in her million acred harvests-here can
the fullest inspiration of our national
life be caught up and ass andaa1o +ire-
less activity and unconquerable trust.
Here are all the prerequisites of exu-
berant soil, healthful climate, the Judi
cious mixture Of the worlds best races
as to, physical and mental vlgor, upon upon
which to found the model commonwealth
of our free empire, in which to evolve
the dominating population of the hemi-
sphere. .
It was not ,rhansody, but prophetic
say in St. Paul, in 1860: Here is the
place, the central place, where the agri-
culture of the richest region OF North
America must pour out It's tributes, TO
the whole world. I now believe th 3;;t
great continent will be found somewhere
Within circle not very far from the
spot on which I now stand
Seward was not deaf, to the viewless
voices whispering in the airs OF ever
and war, who fights with the, nortl
wind at his back The New England Of
the past is stamped on all the events
of our country's progress. The NeV
England of the future, with broade
1or
portunity, will continue in unstinte'
flow the necessary output of strenuous
aggressive, average Americans.
The home, in its social, moral an
of the chief concerns of rational exist
ence. The true home is the nursery 0
civic virtues, an EXPRESSION IF tina
which is best in man s aspirations an.
tendencies Out of it come the splrl
of freedom, unselfsh patriotism; purit
of politics, cleanness Of life, domesti
tranquility, the sanctitv of parenta
filial and fraternal affection.
He who would plant home where tn
moral and educational advancement o
assured, will naturally. measure, wit
Jealous eye, all the attributes on whic
that assurance is founded If the &C
vantages offered by Minnesota in thi
resnect shall, be deemed sufficient, thei
abundantly confirmed by an inspectio
Of the other claims upon his after
ton. Rich in inexhaustible fertility {
soil; weighted to unsounded deptl
with stores of mineral wealth.; uni:
vailed in beauty and unapproached
healthfulness; developing. industriall
commercially and financially with rapi
strides: prosperous in her farms. hi
mills, her marts; she stands, pride
the west and star of the north, pee
less among the daughters Of the rege
Grated republic.