The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

| than New, England, not only in territory,
or in farm acreage, but III railway mile
| age and tonnage, in volume Of farm, for.
| est and mine production, and in low per-
centage of illiteracy ana high percentage
| of school err rolln1ent. Double Pennsylva-
| MIA in area and one-half greater in farm
acreage, Minnesota this" season will pro-
| duce ten times the iron ore Of the famous
| keystone state. First among the states
Of the union in the production Of bread
and butter. white pine lumber and red
iron ore, Minnesota produces a bushel Of
wheat and a pound Of creamery butter for
every American man. woman and child,
a barrel and half Of -four and a ton or
| iron ore for every Anne rican home, and
lumber enough to make a double row Of
twenty fve-foot sidewalks around the
globe.
Our iron mines in 1905 are predicted to
| turn out one-half the iron ore Of the
United States and one-fourth that Of the
world. Our creamery butter has captured
the gold medal. at every national and in
ternational exhibit In twenty years. The
| 10000, 900 barrel flour product Of Mime
apolis alone is greater than the combined
output Of all other principal milling CEN
| tiers Of America combined. Our state
university Is the second greatest inst!tu
|
lakes make the lake park region Of Min
neso in midsummer the mecca Of the
flower of southern civilization, a second
Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia.
Minnesota as Maritime State.
You picture us, perhaps, as a great in
| land plateau, isolated from either ocean
because Of our location in the center OF
the North American continent. You for
1 oct hot 1,ox In Q1,a
or chain Of seas, en- the globe, with out
lets both to the Atlantic and the gulf.
4 Minnesota began it's maritime history as
far back as 1860, when 1t sent down to
Il Montreal over the Great Lakes route a
flotila Of sixtysix btrch-bark canoes
laden with the furs of bear and beaver
and propelled by 800 Sioux Indians. To-
i day Duluth Is the fifth greatest mari.
) time port on tho globe, with a greater YES
sci tonnage than Boston or Philadelphia
and the freight of Minnesota which passes
thru the $500 canal, bound for the At
; lantic coast and world markets. is greater
than that which passes the Suez canal /!
the commerce, between Asia and Europe
There will yet come A day when Mime
sofa will transform its iron ore on Min
; nesota soil into pig iron and steel billets
and into iron and steel frames and shapes
thereby providing the materials for thu
, greatest shipbuilding industry on tn
) glcbe-leaving to you Of the Atlantic coas
only the riveting and the launching
| which you do so we'll. d.. ~.
r Minnesota produces not only wheat
:. -four iron lumber, bread and butter
: mills and factories, cities and commerc
+ 1t produces men,, and beautiful women
v 1t takes the raw material from ever
b cline and nativity. It converts the son
q Of German peasants into, merchants an
9 bankers. a. plain Irishman from Canad
Z into one Of the greatest railway magnate
n on the globe and; raw immigrant lad
# from Norway and Sweden into Unite
q States senators and congressman, 1t hon
: ors alike the sons of old England and Ne1
- England, of, Maine and Virginia. Mime
= sofa is yet young; but last fall it ripene
a. into full sovereign stature a native so
: as governor Of the commonwealth tn
II virile scion of Minnesota manhood, who1
I have the honor: to- represent. here *toda.
John A. Johnson - T. e., T. :
Ours, repeat is a young state, but 1t
memories run back two and a quarter. Ger
u tJries when those two famous sons {
e France-Daniel Grevsolcn Du Lhut, tn
% mighty hunter, and Father Henneptn, tn
great missionary Of the northwest--rne
II Fat the Falls Of st. Anthony. on the Fa the
- of Waters, and there, a. century befol
l. the battle of Bunker Hill, Joined hand
IS to dedicate Minnesota to destiny.
T. valor, faith and progress.
F. Her War Record.
! That Minnesota has fought, the goo
n fight and kept the faith, the nation ca
- bear Witness when in 1861, one-sevent
i, of the total Minnesota population and ont
:, half Of the males capable of bearing arm
~ enlisted in the war for the union, beside
r. putting down at home the greatest India
h war of modern times, and again In lS9
, when Minnesota was the first state in tt
r. union to respond to the call of the pres
ne dent for volunteers to fight in the W;
,n with Spain. OF what stuff Mlnneso
~ patriots are made. history bears witne
ri on the bloody field of Gettysburg. u
g. able to stay the retreat of the union fore
I'D before the victorious legions Of Lon
e. street and Hill, you recall! how Gener
Hancock dashed up to the undismaN
old First Minnesota and cried: ''Wh
regiment is this?'
g.. '"The First Minnesota replied the sc
liant Colonel Colville.
charge that line" shouted Hancoc
and the brave 262, with bayonets fixed,
time to fire, dashed at double-quick a
full run into the center Of the oncomi
victorious confederacy, received the co
centrated fire Of the confederate arm
dashed on with the speed Of a maestro
stopping the confederate advance a
, treating union forces, under Sickl
could be swung back and turn defeat II
he victory. OF the brave 262, there lay
in the field after the charge 215 dead a
i'd wounded, including every officer, OF
a forty Survivors in line to testify
act the former existence of a regiment, a
Or not man missing.
lon History has written down the charge
eet the First Minnesota, not only as the m
re, disastrous in the annals of modern WI
uel fare, but without historic parallel, exec
lch the charge Of the 100 at Thermopylae,
use that of the Light Brigade
IA TO YOU who have built and launched
vessel and named it Minnesota. and
ich the nation whose cause 1T ever will defe
ay, the commonwealth of Minnesota has
,le- to say, that the name Of the flag VIII
err we behold out yon in Hampton Roads 9
ig- the cause of freedom for which tt
M stand, will never go unsupported by br'
or freemen as long as Minnesota has sons
of
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