The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12
ADDRESS OF
HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY

HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY
Delivered October 4th, at the Eighteenth
Annual Exhibition of the Minnesota
State Agricultural Society.
FELLOW CITIZENS Il regret that my
many duties and labors have not left me
the leisure in which to prepare such an
address as this OCCASION demands.
can only offer you a few thoughts hur-
riedly thrown together.
The latest scientific researches go to
show that the region OF country which
we inhabit, and that Immediately west of
us, was the scene of the development OF
much Of the animal world. The extraor
binary discoveries made recently by
Prof. O. c. March, OF Yale college, in
the Bad Lands of Wyoming and Nebras-
ka, show that the horse, the elephant,
the rhinoceros, the camel, the hog, the
tapir, the lion. the OK. and
the MONKEY all had their origin here.
In the mud deposits, 1900 feet thick,
filling up during countless ages. what
was a great fresh water sea, larger than
Lake Superior, their bones are found de.
posted between the different strata Of
rocks, like pressed flowers between the
leaves of herbarium. Here can be
traced the gradual development OF the
different forms with which we are now
familiar.
It is surmised by many that our con-
tinent was also the birth place OF the
human race. 1t is believed that vast
geological changes have taken place
since that time, and that continent
once existed where now rolls the Pacific
ocean. The identity OF various land an
finals, such as the cave bear OF Europe
with the grizzly bear of this country,
the OK of ancient France with our buffalo
and the presence of the musk OK on
both continents, demonstrates that Asia
and America were once parts OF one con-
tinent, and from their birth place in the
then tropical regions of Nebraska. Da>
kota and perhaps Minnesota, they spread
over what we now call the old world.
On a small barren island in the midst
of the Pacific ocean, known as Easter
Island $500 miles from the American
coast, have been found hundreds Ofgreat
stone statutes. measuring from thirty to
fifty feet in height, wearing crowns,
the features resembling the faces OF our
Indians. The Store from which these
figures are carved is not to be found on
the island, nor upon any neighbering
land; ana the few savage inhabitants OF
the country have not even Il Tradition as
their to origin. 1t is believed that Easter
Island was once a mountain peak OF a
continent now submerged; and hither.
as the waters gradually Overspread the
land. the people brought their sacred
statutes for safety from the rising
food.
A glance at map OF the world shows
that over an immense region of oceyn,
eaching from the shores of California to
China, the whole surface is thickly dot
ted " it'll islands, known to geographers
rs Oceanica. 1t would appear probable
that thu Sc were the remains, the elevated
regions of drowned continent.
1t is very certain that close relations
ship exists between the Indians OF our
Pacific coast and the inhabitants of the
opposit, lcoast of Asia. The resemblance
between our Chippewa Indians and
the Japanese is most marked. Travel
ers north of the Amoor says they could
hardly resist the impression that they
were among American Indians. In pas
sing from Alaska to Asiatic Russia,
thence to Mongolia, thence to Japan.
thence to China, thence to the Tartar
populations. we lind the races merging
into each other by almost insensible
gradations.
Bancroft says: The American and
Monaghan races OF men on the two sides
OF the Pacific have near resemblance.
Both are alike strongly and definitely
marked by the more capacious palatine
iossA, OF which the dimensions arc so
much larger that Il careful observer could
out OF heap OF skulls, reading seperate
the Mongolian and American from the
Caucasian. but could not distinguish
them from each other. Both have the
orbit of the eye quadrangular. rather
than oval; both. especially the American
have comparatively narrowness of the
forehead: the facial angle of both. but
especially in the American, is compara-
lively small lin both the bones OF the nose
are tlattcr and broader than in the Cau>
casian, and in 50 equal degree. anG
with apartures so similar. that on indis.
criminate selection of specimens from
the two, An observer could not, for thi:
feature, discriminate which of them be-
lonced to the old continent. Between
the Monaghan OF Southern Asia and o.
Northern Asia there is a greater differ
ence than between the Monaghan Tartal
and the North American. The Iroquoi.
is more unlike the Peruvian than he il
unlike the wanderer OF the steppess O
Siberia. Physiology has not succeeded
In defining the qualities which belong t
IN indigenous American; still less cal
geographical science draw boundar,
line between the races. The Albapasca.
cannot be distinguished from Algonquin
Knistenaux or the other. The dweller
on the Alentian island melt into resem
blances with the inhabitants Of each con
tinent. and at points Of remotest distanc,
the; difference is still inconsiderable
The notifications Of race are Target
dependent upon the mode Of LIE.
race OF hunters Is necessary : sparce
nomadic. warlike and barbarian racs
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