The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-11-05
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| A Western Speech or weIconne. ID
| When the Presidential party, consisting O
President Hayes and wife, Secretary Ramse,
and General Sherman, reached Walla Walla
the following characteristic western address
of welcome was delivered by '.- Z
asrr JUDGE s. c. ,wINGARD.
j Mr.. PRESIDENT: A few years ago W.
were visited by some distinguished states
men, whom we were pleased to greet ant
treat the best we could, and they left us, nc
doubt, sincerely expressing their admiration
at what they saw. We have likewise been
visited by the genial and renowned General
j Of the Army, and we are satisfied that our
treatment of him was not distasteful, If Ii
was not la piece de resistance, or he would
not have come again. And now, Mr.. Presi-
dent, by your considerate courtesy, we enjoy
a crowning honor in the presence of the
greatest political parsonage of the world-a
President of the United States (Cheers).
Aside from the salient features of the. Terri
tory, any one Of which might attract the at
tention of the ordinary tourist, such as our
grand ocean beach, our inland seas and arch
ipelago, our majestic rivers and cataracts, our
monarch mountains, our interminable forests
and far-spreading prairies, we, have much,
also, common and uncommon, which the
President would hardly travel four thousand
miles, to see, but which might draw the curl
Gus. The products of our soil and its mar
gelous fecundity leave to your observation,
rather than to the Munchapsens, of whom
We have afew-I am glad to say only afew-
Who are famous. On the Sound you will see
some Of our saw-mills, aud for logging camps
you may let your Imagination run to the
busy workers on the slopes Of Mount Leba-
non, under contract with King Solomon and
tae ancient Hiram as chief logger. laugh
tg). You will take for granted what You
hear about our precious and other minerals;
we have gold dust and other dust, and we
are are not stingy with it-it is a product, Of the
soil Applause). And as for iron and coal
suffice it to say that discoveries have shown
that ip Pennsylvania phrase 1--WE have fuel
enough to warm our, friends, and iron enough
to cool, our enemies" {Applause). We
have only had grasshoppers once, but we have
had enough--and we never have bad worms.
Cheers y We have population of 1900,
exclusive of, Cinnamon and Indians, dead and
alive. Our people are generally brave, indus
trous, intelligent, and, as afrontier ,rea-
sonably moral. We have the fore-rupners of
almost every nation under, the sun; nearly
every living tongue is spoken here, ,which, If ut
tered at once and together, would astonish
Babelite. Uauehter.) And, moreover, we
have the most modern OF all speech the |
vigorous or "skookum" Chinook. CHEERS. |
We have, as YOU may know, Mr.. President,
. Constitution that has been adequately pre-
served and has peacefully slept for the last
two years, and which we fear may shrink |
and dry up, even il, as, in the, opinion of |
some, twas not born mummy. Applarise.)
We. are pining to become a State and to re-
lieye the general government Of our expen-
are fond of taxes-and to relieve
your Excellency OF The annoyanc Of sign,
irg commissions. (Great laughter.) We
have two governors, one, OF whom we, lost of
never saw, and if the occasion permits, we
would like to inquire whether any Of your
party has found him., Gap
,lause.) We have U. S. Senators and Con-
sressmen ready, cut and dried, to last for a
narter Of century, and there are serious
nisgivings that age may disqualify or death
emove some Of these able statesmen before
he fulfllment of the high destiny for which,
hey believe, God and their natures designed
hem. Indeed we are not hopeless that the
,oming State Of Washington, il, not the Ter
itory, contains a Presidential egg, and in
his hope we are family aided by the remem-
france that your illustrious predecessor
pupd the arena for his youthful exploits at
and Vancouver. Why may we
lot furnish President? OF course we ex-
,ect to, wait until Ohio gets through. (Great
aughter, in which the President and party
oined.) Our motto is Alki-wait. Mr..
resident, in behalf Of our people who have
asst upon, me this pleasant and honorable
ask, ], thank you for your coming and bid
,ou q hearty welcome. Welcome, also, are
hese companions of your journey, and es-
socially welcome is she-dearest of all to you
whose surprising. purity of life and
loneliness of demeanor are unshadowed by
my antecedept and who will abide as a shi-
ling exemplar to all her successors. (Great
heers.) Ladies and dfellow-citizens, have
be honor to introduce the President Of the
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