New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-04

lied within yOur own borders The tendency OF all
yOnr industry IL toward the accumulation OF
independent competency, aDo does not favor the up
building of colossal fortunes. lOu are dealing daily
with the essential thinesof life. and are not warped
in your judgment detected from your course
by speculative and illusOFy scheme9 OF advance
niept and gain. You are landowners, freeh0lders.
proud title that comes TO us WIN cen
turtles of civilization and strengl-a title That
every man in this country should make IL ms
among the owners Of the soil in America Is an ~
stinct and where that ownership is widely dist1D-
uted, good government - the RUE Whateter aus,
turbances therefore may threaten the peace and
order of society, whatever wild theories, trans
planted from other climes, may seek tOOthotd mere,
the Republic of the United states rests securely on
that basis of agriculture where the farmers OF the
Revolution and the trainers OF tho constitution
placed it. The man who possesses broad acres
which he has earned by the sweat OF his own DfOW,
is NOT ant to fall in with the doctrine of the Com
muuist that no one has right TO ownership IN tne
soil the man who has the product of his labor ~
wheat and i'm corn in pork and IN beef IN hides ana
in wOol-commanding gold and silver, as they al
ways have and always Will in the markets OF the
worlds not 10 be led astray with theories OF nat
paper and absolute money, but lnstmctiVeiy con-
signs such wild YagaTies TO the appropriate DOMAIN
of fiat folly and absolute nonsense.
The farmers of the Republic Will control It's des-
tiny. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures, are
the three pursuits that enrich natlon-Dut the
gTandest Of these is agriculture for without pro-
dnGtS the nTDsbes the conserVative eie
Iuent i'm society and in the end IL the guiding re-
stTaining, controlling force IN government Against
storms OF popular fury; against frenzied madness
that seeks collision with established order; against
theories of administration that have drenched other
lands in blood against the spirit OF anarchy that
would sweep away the landmarks and safeguards OF
Christian society and republican government, the
farmers of the United States viii stand the shield
and the buwark-themselves the willing subjects OF
law and therefore its safest and strongest admins
traitors -
Gradually the government of the Republic is
passing under tho control of the farmers OF the
Mississippi Valley. Indeed it Is practically there
to-day. The swelling and On-rushing tide OF poDu-
that lie between the two mountain ranges OF the
continent The soil is fertile, the land 80 inyit-
ing the area is 50 broad, that man may dare cal
culate the possibilities OF this great region, either as
respects production population. Your own State,
peopled no more densely than NewIOTk, would
have population of o, 100000; peOpled as densey
as Massachusetts, yOu would have population OF
I6,OUOOOO. With the transfer of political control
from the old States to the new, there is also
transferred a vast weight of responsibility.
1t is yours to-day; IL will be yours still
more tomorrow. Take it; use it wisely and well Tor
the advancement OF the whOle-fOr the honor OF all
The patriotic traditions of the old thirteen" that
fought the battles of the Revolution, formed the
Union of the States. and planted Liberty III the or
ganic Law, will be your safest gulde-yOur highest
Inspiration. Many OF you to-day mIngle with Your
love for Minnesota your earlier affection for the old
home and the old State far TO the last where an
est memories cluster around the familiar scenes OF
days long past lt Is this klnshlp OF blood, these
ties of relationship, that make us indeed one peC-
Dlr-unitiug the East and West the North ana the
South I'm the indissOluble bonds OF common, and
1 trust always Den.tieent Government.