The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-09-21
The Speech of Blaine. er Maine DeIiv-
cred at Topeka Friday
Forty Thousand People Presentsa at the
Fair Grounds-Senator PIn1s1'
Introduces the Speaker.
Who Holds the Vast Audience Spell
Bound by His EIoqnenee.
Description of the Sham Battle "A
Thrilling Initiation of u Real
Engagement.
Address OF COmmi siOner LOring RE
ceptiOn an the Evening at
the Windsor. &c.

anu Oh hdubhS. ne announcement
| that Blaine was IN speak, drew togeahe
and IL is estimate Il that fully fnriS
thousand people were an the grounds
The appearance of the Plumed Knigh
was the signal fnr such rounds at ap
planse as none but the most honored
sous of the Republic ever receive, AMI
the splendid reception rendered the
gifted orator seemed tn inspire him
with sense of pride and graiifcatinn
which found expression in more than
the ordinary eloauence of this wonder
full man.
The speaker was introduced by Sena.
tor Plumb, in f'l!nwing appropriate
manner.
FELLOW SOLDIERS: You have done
great many trying deeds before ihis
! ask you now it Sup caBn0t dn mare
trying one than ever hefOFe-ksep your
selves quiet. We Il nc here a man we'll.
known tn the population of Kansas
and without furIher words Int-odunce
10 you tho
HON. J a BLAINE.
The distinguish d speaker was recely-
ed with great applause, and spoke rs
follows:
SOLDIERS AND Fellow CITIZENS: l
am happy to be " iih you To-day. l am
glad to meet the penpl.. of Kansas. for
1 am uadeF great "aq dsep obligations
10 them. | anu glad ia meet aud greet
the soldiers OF Kansas because the
whole country is under deep
and great obligations To them.
CAME FROM \ DISTANT HONE
on purpose 10 he here this day. left
in the early morning of Monday and
travelling EDlil snHsrl AMI sunrise, ana
until the SUN set and rose again and
rose yet again and rOGe yGt another time
before l saw your place. And yet be
yond TO the west a man must go through
as many sunriscs and as many sunsets
before the imperial republic baths its
YesteFn shore in the great Pacific sea.
II is q great thing 10 bea cltiaen OF SUCH
repabtic. II is an immdrtal thing 10
have had any part In saving such re.
public, (Applausel and for this bright
Jewel of the thirty eighi--ihis
MARVEL AND MIRACLE
Kansas-what shall say?
In 1854, a period within the memory
of men who still coupt themselves
yonna, it lay hare :, pasl t,pe,i' waste, Of
as litlIe use To civilization as the
sIeppes nf the Caucasus or the plains oI
TartaIy Since then we have seen the
immigration OF intelligence and heroisin
and manhood, and before n single gen.
GRAFTON has filed ITS appAiRted iot on
the oaftn these wlids have been peo.
pied with more than a million free and
independent American citizens. | do
not believe the like has ever been
known in fhe progress of the human
race, and upon you, gentlemen, while
veg have discharged Weli the duties in.
cident tn this
GREAT AND RAPID GROWTH.
there are nevolved yet greater response
bilities
What have you done in the material
world? Out of this grand waste YOU hare
created ysigatIqn OF mors than IW0
hundred millions of dollars. Why, gen.
tlemen this is hui little more than your
annual product, .and the valuation of
hi rs Is to- day in any money scale that
repfeSenls iis relations 10 PfiapipIgs and
true progress gould Ge well estimated
at
ONE THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS.
Ana,her fact is ,ha; during the period
since Kansas hecame q state, and unIil
this hour the progress of the people of
the United States and Of the world has
been more marked than at any other
era, and Kansas has Int just attained Its
majority as n state. Yet during the 81
years since its admission to the Ameri-
can union, twice as much wealth has
been created, as was added To the ae-
cumulaiiOns of the civilized world, from
the time Of the disOOverythf America by
Christopher Columbus To the commence
ment of the period referred la.
In 1861, the valuation of the United
States. counting as property. four mil
lions of meh he'd as chaittls, was but
sixteen thousand million dollars; leav-
ing out that part which is represented
as slave property, il was twelve billion
dollars; today it is fifty billion dollars.
What does tins Indicate for the future
The time will be in the memory of some
of those whose young faces are now be-
fore me, when Kansas will haYe
FIVE MILLIONS or fEpF4E,
and will export more largely than the
whole United States did when Kansas
became state:
Speaking Of the praiFies Qf the wtst,
Douglas JerTald once said. 'Jhey needed
but TO be licklcd with n hoe To laugh
with harvest" that is what they have
done for you. With hut onc-eighth oil
your lands in cultivation. you are now
sending to the markets of the world
enough 10 feed the entire nation, was
about TO say.
Our people is an English speaking
people. A large number 81 Yea, how
ever, came here with apothcr tongue, but
we are people Of rapid assImil aiiOn
Those coming TO us from Germany, fr'Rl
Denmark, from FRANCE. fran Italy, he
come in the first, and assuFedly il
the secanu gHncTaIiGn, American
people, speaking the English tongue
When our fnTefatheTs won The battles ri
the revolution, there were not In the
world M re than 10000, 600 people who
spoke the English language. To-day
the number exceeds 100000, 600, and
they control large msjoriiy 0f tbt
commerce of the world.
Now, ther' f'Fs, IL - Riai only As CHI
ns !0i Kansas, hai only as elliztTs %
the United STATES ~ America, but a.
| helnaSing to The
GREAT ENGLISH sPEAKING RACE,
| that responsibilities are laid upon you
which will he handed down, not We
fully performed, tn your childTsn anC
your children'G Children. l reIHembe
| mysslf. very we'll, tand ! d0 nOt cnun
myself anything but young man yet
! [Laughter1 only 52-yOu call lha
young, don't you:) hearing Gov. Rit
ner, of Pennsy lvania, say, when a'lud
| ing to the mountain districts of ihat state
/ then great waste, the time would conn
+ in the eyis!eace OF that state, when thu
/ valleys aud fields would be insufficient
to furnish TODD to the men working tn
mountains. / have lived 10 see that be
| come true The relati01s GF Kansas Il
the mouR,ains and mines OF the wesl
! closely resemble those described b.
! Gov. RiIner and a like change is com
| ing upon her. l believe, as ] heliey
anything yet developed thas ihe tim
will coMa when the productions @
| Kansas will be carried westward owe
her border instead of eastward 'rh
time will come when the workers &
the great mountains and great mine
will be so numerous thai even these
FERTILE PLAINS
will be taxed L. keep them living an
| growing.
That was u strange civilization tia
came upon Is when Coftez Came upo
Lhis romantic GRAND 10 Mexico. A co
Tony came up under the DAke Of AlbI
| They were there fifty years before on
STRUCK PLYMOUTH ROCK;
a century before William Penn sale
up the Delaware. The ciyiliZaiio
planted by that colony has ye9Isipf
there intact, end has ,heen RreseryI
there to this day aud il was my foFtur
in three successive congresses TO me
men as delegates from New MexiG
, | whose fathers had settled there
/ | Spaniards forty five years before Il
/ English landed al jamestown II
t civilization of .he Spanish HfdAlgo J
) remains there, and Is still preserved.
II AS to addressing this great congreg
{ tion, might IS we'll attempt 10 addEe
5 New Mexico or Arizona Is voices q
, all New EDgland'0 50 far Is space
a concerned. Well, We of New Englal
; all have q shaEss in you. | rememb
q some years ago when they disputed
I congress about the improvement of
e Mississippi river, the representative
the north west declared: ave own
Mississippi river because We furni
s the water" In the same way We cisl
n large ownership in Kansas, becau