The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-10-10
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The good woman made . slight mis-
take. when hearing the lamsnted Dr..
Billiard say In an eastern pulpit that
he was about to return 70 the Mississ-
ippi Valley. she asked him 10 take
out for her small bundle to friend.
She could only tell the DR.. that he
lived In the Mississippi Valley, having
forgotten the name Of the town, but
he could not help but see him there
somewhere. She thought that dis
tant valley not much larger than Cold
Brook valley. lined with snug little
farms on it's two slopes, and having
the Red Mill at the lower end.
Steamers above Omaha! Why, mat
of Wall Street. after stenmer has run
three hundred and fifty miles above
Omaha. on the Nebraska shore. she
runs on somewhat diagonally across
Dakota Territory, tas large AZ seven
Empire States. a- large As forty Bay
States,) and then IL nine hundred
miles below Fort Benton, where the
Success took on board your $500, 600 10
treasure.
And as vast as these distances, and
territories, and steamboat excursions
seem, to one going West. the idea Is to
be taken into al eastern mind, II posi-
bic. that our geographical center for
the national domain, Is long distance
beyond the head of steamboat naviga
ton up the Missouri. that being thirty
one hundred and seventy-five miles
above St. Louis. Our present center
10 near the mouth Of the Columbia on
the Pacific, measuring from Esstport,
Maine, to the extreme western Aleu-
tian Island In our Russian purchase.
n one would measure the whole, by
two Titanic steps, starting from East
port, his dividing footprint would rest
somewhere about John J.cob Astor's
old Astoria. Our extreme northern
limit Barrow's Point, is seventeen
hundred miles farther north Of this IN
Its latitude. as well as being SO much
farther west About one third OF the
circumference of the globe Is now
spanned by our territory!
When the Engiishman boosted To
the Indian that the sun never sets on
British soil. the Indian replied: sThe
Great Spirit no trust Englishman Ia
the dark l; certainly is to be hoped
that our pride will not swell with our
domain. or our spread eagle sprain his
wings by stretching them to our two
extreme limits in some national flu,-
ter.
The mileage now drawn by the dele
gate IN Congress from Washington
Territory Ii about $1,000 for each
session; for ~ delegate from New
Archangel 1t must be IT least $50, 600
and wher one shall come down from
Barrow's Point to Represent in our
national halls his polar bear ard wal
rus constituency, his mileage must go
vastly above = score Of thousands. I
cannot compute It exactly, az Mr..
Seward has not made known by what
sledge path and line Of ayacks, the
Esquimaux delegate shall take his
route to Behring's Strait, and Sitka.
Lively work 10 politics, no doubt, the
mileage aud pay will make among
our Esquimaux citizens, and will give
US In Washington politicians more
oily, II possible, than we now have
there.
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And eastern ideas are quite as crude
about the growth and population. ard
power of the West. Indians log
cabins, immense forests, clearinga and
vast prairies. as many suppose, are the
''far West" out beyond Buffalo and
Chicago. They cannot realize that If
All the population ~ View England
were dropped from the census. ii would
not reduce II one tenth, nor can they
imagine how the entire area of New
England could be taken out of Mime
sofa, and yet leave land enough for
four States and over like Connecticut.