The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-02-23

IllzatIon, may appeaf 10 some Scnhe'
men as rather incongruous, as rather
too great q strain on the ''blankets" OF
I.yeracity. But, to my mind, there is
/ no difficulty in the matter whatever.
The phenomenon is very easily ac-
counted for. 1t is evident, sir, that
the Piegans sowcd that wheat there
and plowed it in with buffalo bulls.
ETGreat laughter.l Now, sir, this for
tunatc combination of buftaloos and
Indians, considering their relative po-
| sitions to each Other and to Duluth, as
they are arranged OH this map, salts
| fies me that Duluth is destined to be
the beef market of the world.
Here, you will observe (pointing to
| the map), are the buffaloes, directly
| between the Piegans and Duluth, and
/ here, right on the road TO Duluth, are
| the Greeks. Now, sir, when the buff
! faloes are sufficiently fat from grazing
on those immense wheat fields you see
it will be the easiest thing in the
world for the Plegans to drive them
on down, stay all night with their
friends, the Greeks, and go into Du-
luth III the morning. [Great laugh
| ter j think 1 see them now, sir,
| vast herd of buffalocs, with their
heads down, their eyes glaring, their
nostrils dilated, their tongues out, and
their tails curled over their backs,
tearing along toward Duluth, with
about thousand Piegans on their
grassbellied ponies, yelling at their
heels! [Great laughter.] On they
comet And as they sweep past the
Greeks they join in the chase, and the
way they all go, yelling and believing
ripping and tearing along, amid
clouds of dust, until the last buffalo
is safely penned in the stock yards of
Duluth! [Shouts of laughter.
Sir, might stand here for hours
and hours, and expatiate with rapture
upon the gorgeous prospects of Du-
luth, as depicted upon this map
But human life is too short and the
time of this house far too valuable to
allow me to Hnger longer upon the
delightful theme. Laughter /
think every gentleman ON this floor is
as well satisfied as l am that Duluth
is destined to become the commercial
metropolis of the universe, and that
this road should be built at once. l
am fully persuaded that no patriotic
Representative of the American peo-
pie, who has proper appreciation of
the associated glories of Duluth and
st. Croix, will hesitate q moment to
say that every able bodied female i'll
the land between the ages of eighteen
and forty-fve who is in favor of "wo-
mems rights" should be drafted and
set to work upon this great work with
out delay. ROars of laughter. =
Nevertheless, sir, it grieves my very
soul to be compelled to say that l can
not vote for the grant of lands provi-
ded for in this bill. ,.fea u
Alb sir, you can have no concep-
ton of the poignancy of my anguish
that l am deprived of that blessed
privilege! Laughter There are two
insuperable obstacles in the way. In
the first place my constituents, for
whom am acting here, have no more
interest in this road than they have in
the great question of culinary taste
now perhaps agitating the public
mind of Dominica, as to whether the
iIlustrious Commissioners who re-
Gently left this capital for that free and
enlightened republic would be better
fricassed, boiled or roasted great
laughter]; and in the second place
these lands, which am asked to give
away, alas, are not mine to bestOwl
My relation to them is simply that of
trustee to an express trust. And shall
L ever betray that trust? Never, sir
Rather perise Duluth [Shouts of
laughter.] Perish the paragon of
cities! Rather let the freezing cy-
clones of the bleak Northwest bury it
forever beneath the eddying sands OF
the raging St, Croix! [Great laugh
ter.