Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-12

WeeS fAppIAuso.l anu wan OOe0 ~ mean!
1t meana relief for tho East. Tho surplus of
tunity for employment Of labor and industry
there and here. and in the new
States, they are making their homes; and they
are furnishing them; they are furnishing them
y market for the supplies from the old States.
But it has more than double advantage; it has
relieves the old States; it furnishes market
to the old States, and with their products
in the new States, they help to swell tho tide of
exports to the old countries. That is what this
chage Of population means. You know much
move about it than do. You have lived here
and seen it.
OUR LOCAL GROWTH AND OUR FUTURE.
To-day, in conversation with n very young
gentleman, Gov. Ramsey of Minnesota,
Great laughter aud applause l thought
some Of the people would be pleased to hear
me call him $50 young [laughterI remembers
about thirty years ago, when In this whole ter
itory of Minnesota and Dakota, they managed,
by counting half-breeds and all sorts of good
counting, to make, in a census, $500 people,
In this town Of St. Paul they perhaps had $50
know. And now, if You are
not q million in Minnesota you soon will
be, and St. Psul-well, can't venture upon
| tuSt 1 am llttie alIAlu, DuC Inc CruLn IL, my
friends, and tho neighboring flourishing city Of
Minneapolis, whatever you may think. are one
in interest, one in the future, one great city, in
! spite Of present difficulty. Laughter and pro-
longed applause.l They laughed at me a little
as being disposed to conciliate you. I may bs
a city here of 100000 or 200, 900, embracing il
its prosperous folds both tho cities Of St. Pau
and Minneapolis. Great applause.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY.
And now this movement Of population, wha
is it doing? Here We three great States
one in the distant south, one i,
the center, and the other here. There is Texas
an empire in itself, having received into he
population perhaps more than were ever re
ceived in any State whatever in the present de
! cade,-and raising sugar, cotton, wheat anC
cattle. There is the State of Kansas the pic
neer in the great struggle which dedicated al
America to freedom and the stars and stripe
forever. Enthusiastic and prolonged sp
plause,) and she is having her share of thi!
prosperity.
And Minnesota-I,need not say God bless Min
nesota-He is blessing her Renewed ap
plause And here let remember what grea
blessings We have. 1t is not merely materia
prosperity, it is not merely great crops o
wheat and corn and cattle, but the faces Sc
around me show that no shadow of pestilenc
is upon the community or perhaps ever can be
while down Your noble river affection is sprea,
over all that country. We admire and sympa
| hlze with the noble men and women who a
physicians and nurses are carrying succor t.
Grenada and Memphis and New Orleans an
the other cities afflicted; aud 1 am told tina
You of Minnesota, of Your abundance, propos
to-day to do something towards giving relief t
those stricken communities. Applause
WHAT OF THE FUTURE.
And now, my friends with this picture, as
| h;,,1- FILL rHo& ~ ~ s.
you and l as individuals? do not ventur
with confidence upon predictions of prosperit
reviving; have spirit of prophecy, bu
: re soning. Let us see how it stands. The deb
is Z great burden upon capital and labor, an
productive industry. 1t is greatly diminishe
burden upon labor, upon capital, upon exports
i. greatly diminished and is still diminishing
Expenses of the government the same. An,
then that which helps
Is sound currency coming, an
emigration coming, may l not CONFIDENTIAL
are marching to the threshold OF reviving ger
eral business prosperity.
. FOLLOW THE OLD PATHS.
Aud now shall we look around for new way
to pay old debts, or shall we march in th
paths marked ont by the fathers the paths {
, honesty. Of industry, Of economy? Shall "
do what Washington and franklin would &C
, wise? That is the question before the peop]
to-day. My friends, l enter upon no argr
ment on a disputed question, but I say as M
opinion I'VE may be mistaken, all of U.S. but
believe it, that restored financial prosperit
. depends largely upon an honest currenc,
Great applauEeI. And why do l say this
r The commerce of the world is the commerce i
which we are now taking part, and that is or
I thing the globe around. We have with us t,
day, the gentleman who is at the head of tt
signal service of the United States. He
e known properly Is odd Probabilities Gre,
r laughter. He is not old, and fear he is NJ
: always probable. Laughter But certainl
y i'll tho science of meteorolcgy he has go1
further than any other. And what does he te
us? He says that this atmosphere of ours tn;
] surrounds the globe is one. is
Y unit. and that they have discovere
: by observations all over the clot
/ that Il great commotion. q great disturbant
= on any sea or continent sooner or later is fe
g on every other and every other col
tinent.
t And so the commerce of the world is on
g Where there is very hard times in one gre,
s nation, sooner or later it goes clear around. v
o should then bear our financial system on pri,
e clples and by instrumentalities that are san
y toned and approved by the best judgment
8 the whole commercial world. Then, repea
IT we want our standard of financial prospe
g ity to be based on sure and safe foundation
r let US remember that its best security is a
q untarnished national credit and q sound CO..
IS stitutional currency. Great and prolonge
e applause.