The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-11-28

Sioux City Journal has intelligence that
the Indians are again becoming trouble
some along the river above that point.
Col. Wood of the Chicago Museum offers
500 for the first gallon of wator taken
from the Lake Tunnel an affidavit must
accompany the glass jar of water to show
that it is the first. We will furnish lOO
barrels of as good water as fish ever
SWAN in for less moncy-he to furnish the
glass Jars.
Judge Hubbell.
This eentleman's speech was omitted in
our outside report of the r. r. Excursion.
We insert it on our inside columns thus
making the amends. To the first regular
toast Westward the Star of Empire take,
its way" the Judge made the following
most interesting response:
MN. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLE.
MEN We, your neighbors of Wisconsin,
have come over here to make you sort OF
family visit; to look in your faces, to meet
you and to greet you-to congratulate you
and to bid you God speed to your CONNER
cial affairs, in which you have shown SO
much interest and Enterprise.
well remember the day, not long ago,
when Iowa and Wisconsin were but one
territory, governed by the same laws, 'en-
acted by the same legislature. They held
that Union in most friendly and amicable
manner so long as it lasted. And now gen.
<1o,oo,, onotha,. TI,~so has tol >n,, ,,1nno W.
are now about being bound together by
stronger ties than any legislature can bind
by bands of iron, and by the golden
chains of commerce and of mutual interest
"a tie which no legislature can sever, and
which passing years will only make strong
or and stronger. Applause.
The toast to which | have the honor to
respond asserts great practical, historical
truth-"Westward the star of Empire takes
its way" We live in an age Of progress.
We ourselves are progressing rapidly. 1t
was but thirty years ago that Wisconsin
was erected into territory. Then Wiscon-
sin, Iowa and Minnesota all together con-
tanned barely 10000 inhabitants; now
how many have they? In those thirty
years they have accumulated n population
of more than two millions and half,
spreading themselves over a territory as
fertile and promising as ever the sun shone
upon. (Applause.) The whole history of
our country is history of progress, and
progress westward.
Only sixty years ago the people of Al
bany, N. Y, constructed turnpike to
Schenectady, ID miles west, and they had
greater celebration over It than we are
having to-day. They advertised to the
world that great stage route had been
opened to the West! In 1899 they finish
ed railroad to the same point; in 1886 they
had pushed it to Utica; in a few years more
it went on to Buffalo. In 1862 the great
gulf between the East and the real west was
leaped, and railroad was opened to Chi
cago; and now, Mr.. President, where do
not railroads extend, still travelling west
ward ? Not only do they traverse our own
state and yours, but they are still galloping
on towards Nebraska, and are pushing out
into the arid plains beyond, and over the
mountains to the broad Pacific, whose foam
is amber and whose sands arc gold The
locomotive to-day is blowing in from the
Pacific eastward to the snowy peaks of
Nevada, and screaming to her sisters on
the eastern slope to come and meet her
Cheers. ..t..
1t is, and should be, matter Of reioic-
ing with us that we are engaged in the
grand effort to bring the world nearer to-
gether, and thereby to render all mankind
more prosperous and happy.
You, neighbors; are located ut one of
the most favorable points on the globe.
We, Of Wisconsin, boast of our noble
State and its superior, resources; no thew
of Illinois and Michigan; while they of
Minnesota invite immigration from all
parts of the world, and lure them with no
false promises; for nowhere on the face of
the globe do we find more acres of fertile
soil, more springs Of living water, brighter
skies or purer tmosphere-nowhere more
independence, intelligence and sobriety.
more domestic virtue ut home or more pa
triotism and heroism in the field than here
in Iowa. Immense applause. Proud as
we are of our Badger State, we are no
less proud to come and take you cordially
by the hand and give you our hearts, and
what is needful of our purses, in further
ing this cause of social and commercial
Here lies Wisconsin, sandwiched inIbe-
tween the Mississippi river and the great
lakes of the st. Lawrence valley.-one
flowing to the Gulf of Mexico and the
other to the Northern Atlantic-and all
this broad expanse has but those two nat
ural outlets. 1t was left for the enterprise
OF man to do the rcst-to strike through
and supply the wants of commerce-and
they will do so. From Lake Michigan
west thousand miles there are no natural
of commerce to the westward !;
railroads must do the businoss-and if YOU
know your interests, your resources and
your power, you will do still more to open
these means for an interchange of COM
e
Westward the star of Empire takes
its way" Why, my friends, nobody ever
went east and prospered The only his
torical fact of the kind which remember
is that where Cain, after numbering his
brother, went out and dwelt east of Eden.
Great laughter and applause. But when
our Saviour came upon the earth the wise
men came from the East to visit his cham
Der. So, in populating and civilizing the
world. Persia came to Greece, Greece
came to Rome, Rome to Western Europe.
Western Europe to America, and God only
knows where America will find an outlet.
think she will have to bridge over the
Pacific Ocean and colonize Asia. Loud
applause.
The speaker called the attention of his
auditors to the fact that railroads were
'ostly affairs, and that after the people had
leiped to build them, their management
lad to be entrusted to a few persons-to
luman hands, and human hands are all
Ways imperfect. You must expect errors
nut be patient and recollect that it is only
or the public good that such powers are
lelcgatcd to railroad corporations. If they
equire it, restrain them, but remember
hat some mistakes will always occur, man.
sc it the best you can. Railroad corpo-
atoms are bound for the good of the public
take the shortest and cheapest route,
nd that may discommode many who like
to come to their own doors Haro .uo