Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-09-17
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS
GREAT SPEECH AT OMAHA.
r" continued from our last."l

According to ali rules of public de-
bate and public speaking l ought no. 10
be here tonight. Twenty or tnirsy
sneeches, were | on a political campaign
would be thought enough for any man.
Now YOU will admit that. rave a
s,sd many thousand miles by STEAMBOAT,
bv stage and by rail, and yet am no.
s;ck' There is a little secret about ~
that YOU should know. will tell you.
never. tasted a glass of wine, or gin'
or brandy, or whisky in my life. lap
Dlsu,e.l / intend to 60 on in this way
week after week, month after month,
ear amer wear, until l am President Of
The United States in 1872. Laughter
and a%pplauss.1 y Omaha is to be tue
great central city Of the continent, MID.
way between Europe and Asia, one 1901
standing on the Rocky Mountains anu
The other on the Allegbanies, and view.
inc the Colossus of Rhodes; n hand
grospiue SOC, Oo0, 900 Of Asistics, and
The other 400, 600, 900 Of Europeans
TWO oceans to US, and the continental
railway. From Paris to Pekin in 80
days-passeugers for China, this way.
rApplause.1 \ will be the President
Of the United States Of America in 1879.
All those in favor Of it say "ays.'
Enthusiastic cheers and cries Of aye
ayell. All those opposed say emo"
"a voice, "nop'1 l see there is a
stranger in Nebraska. Applause. ~
l went to see tho Big Trees. 1 rode on
horseback through the trunk of one FOL
q hundred feet with q plug hat on
rLaughter.1 On the stump Of ons o.
them we had four quadrilles. 1t wal
80 feet in diameter. never saw AM
thing like these trees. They have beoI
trying to find out some philosopher
reason for the Yosemite. saw it IL
a minute. The fact is, it was al
granite and the bottom dropped out
leaving 65, 900 feet walls standing. n
The Nevada mines yielded sixteen mil
lions in 1867. In 1868 they yielded tel
millions. This year not Eve millions
There will not be fifteen millions of golI
taken out of the California mines thiI
year. No chance there for working
men. 1t is q shame for excursionists t
hold out inducements for emigrants t.
60 to that country. We have got LIANT
here in Nebraska such as the world hai
never seen before. We have land tina
will yield twenty, thirty and forty bush
els to the acre, that you can buy TO
from two to ten dollars per acre. Th'
speculation of the future is in Omahi
and the Platte Valley ! n \ wen
to deliver O Fourth of July GRAFTON a
Portland. sent the $500 received
from the municipal authorities to Susal
B. Anthony, Of the Revolution. Peopl,
came from all parts of Oregon, and tina
day they took the census in Portland
[Laughter.l Portland has a great fu
ture. X Tomorrow night / viii
lecture for myself. am a poor man
aud l have land enough to keep me poo
all the time. But one Of these days
expect to be one of the richest men il
the nation. This is all coming in goot
time. All those in favor Of my speak
ing tomorrow night say aye. y \ A
the end of tho century there ought t
be n million of people here in Omaha
l have already made you all rich, and
have got nothing from you. / don
know that | have your good will. an
going to take hold Of Omaha. Why
don't you pave these streets2 1t is O
disgrace to the people OF Omaha to walk
through this mud. n X believe thai
the first thing for US to do is to get our.
selves into debt, pave the streets, and
carry out our project for a university.
I--[big l aud little ul--1--l
and lit.