Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-11-02
THE MIRROR HELD TO NATURE.


ucncy. 1t has already been repeated
twcnty-three time, and The end is not
yet:
FETLow-Crri2ENs; aln delighted TO
be with You once more, for this is nv
home; cndearcd to me by n thousand
precious memories. Here l gambled
(not like IL lamb, for l was often, too
often, flccccN in my cally prime, here
practiced at the bar, how effectively
let the past bring to your lccollections;
here worked hard from dewy eve till
morn If l may he rardoned the trans
posed quotation) 10 secure scanty pit
t;snce for my family; here learned the
noble art of statccrift, the art 1 now
pursue. Pardon my emotions, fellow
citizens, l must give them vent, for
Mid pleasures and palaces though may
BE il ever SO humble there is no place like
home
Cheering by two boys. Fellow cit
liens of Shutdown, we live in a great
country and have before us IL mighty
destiny. 1t is ours to hew down these
zation may fill their places. 1t is our
grand lot to make y pathway through
the wilderness that the tceming millions
of old Europe may come III, occupy and
possess the land. Glory TO us, say,
who has vent'ircd beyond
"Whcrc rolls the Oregon,
And hears no sound save its OWE dashings,"
have laid the providing, scowling saw
age PROSTATE eat the feet of the
American Eagle Igreat cheers by
the delegation from the new and thriv-
ing town of Lesche, led by Samuel
Smiler, Esq, its prospective Mayor
glory to us! repeat, who have achieved
the impossible. attained the unatt alma
bic! We live in u great age.
| I'm an age On ages I. ling,
To he living is sublime"
And we are sublime. All the world
is looking to us, aud taking note of
what we are doing. 1t is not oar fields
of waving corn, our pears beautiful as
the maidcn's blush, or berries prolific.
our melons, potatoes and squashs; no!
nor vet even our cnhbagchoads. six to
each parent stem, (on which, by the
way, l have had the honor to enlarge
before many an intelligent Eastern au-
dicncc) that attracts the wonder and
admiration Of all The civilized world.
No! thousand times no. The great,
the all-rcivuding interest il this coun-
! try is founded On the fact that to us, us
only has kind Providence given in trust
the great isothcrm0l Inc which thrap-
ing the gigantic trees of our beautiful
shores, winds It's devious way acrosst the
continent, and is secured by II thousand
sercvatc strands to the rocks and hills
of the booming old Atlantic. You
know al about this line Its benig-
nant swayinG through ournorihcGst airs
gives us the winters of Norfolk aud the
summers of sunny France. You know
ELL about this line, for You had the hon
or to hear M lecture on il las: spring,
and mavhnp some of YOU have read
about it in the standard work from
which that lecture was copied.
Fellow citizens of Shutdown. my fail
ing voice (my throat still troubles me as
of yorc and warns nc to he lricf.
Cries of" go on, go on, from the post
master and county surveyor. Thank
you friends. l know You are anxious
to hear all l have to tell you of my Con-
gressional achievements. Fellow citi-
zens, You shall he gritiiied. Iaccopt it
as plain axiom of Holy Writ that cv-
cry man must give an account of his
stewardship.
For four long wears I have been con-
stan., III season and ont of season 70 do
your service. You have 10 idea how
much is expected of Il delegate. One
what Il grand, Il hcnciiccnt institution is
A1,nl
pulses tin-lc ut receiving letters "whcn
far from the loved ones at home"
Friends, have got all the post Offices
for you the department will allow, and
filed them with men | knew l could
depend upon. IT'S true the people pc
titioncd for mail service, but who in n
popular government like ours ever reads
petitions, unless an earnest and inhuen-
tial man like myself insists upon it.
Fellow citizens: great complaints
were made to me about the Germans
coming here t. crowd out old settlers.
l rallied to the support of my bclcayured
constituents. l saw we must begin at
the fountain head, damned that foun-
tain head, and you see the result.
Where the troublesome Germans were
pouring in by thousands, they have
ceased to come except in isolated in
stances. These here, am sorry to
say, are so Woodworking and thrifty,
and SO proud of living under the benign
influence of the isothermal line that
they must either starve or leave. We
cannot poison them nor drive them off
shall make it my duty to present this
sad condition of things to the President,
and obtain from his well-known wisdom
such suggestions as shall guide me in
this terrible dilemma. OF course, if YOU
elect my opponent, "a monstrous thiny,
! too dark, too villainous for me to con-
ceive a possibility of, all, all is lost for
ever.