Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-31
:. : sseesEan FROM THE EAGLE.
A Passage From Pat DOnan's
Famous Fourth Of July
Speech.
Chicago News, JulyH.

Chicago has claimed to possess the
only real, live, genuine owner of the
American eagle. In the Mayor we
have had an orator who could pick up
the fowl and handle him with perfect
freedom and entire safety. We have
boosted that no other city had so sue
cessful a manipulation of the bald
headed bird, and we have boosted with
reason, for we have stood practically
alone in this peculiar and familiar
relation. We say have, because it is
not so certain that VIC do stand there
to-day. A new city in new country
sends out with the rush and roar and
brillisncy Of meteor pew candidate
for this distinguished honor. The
wild and luri6 elequence of Colonel
2. Donan, of the Fargo ID. T. Ar
gus, is not unknown to the world,
but he eclipsed all his previous
records, as the sporting editor
would remark, in the speech deliv-
cred on the 4th of July last to the
assembled thousands Of the great
Wheatflded region. The manager Of
the Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad
was so impressed by this speech that
he has had it printed in a brightly
Illuminated pamphlet. He dubs it
"a Scream from the Aneri-
can Eagle" and says it is reprinted
Tas characteristic specimen of the
fertility of the new Northwest in
eloquence as we'll as in produc-
tons of the soil, showing conolusively
that mind as well as matter is exuber-
ami" The following passages have
never been equaled on the American
continent:
DO other lands boast oftheir great
Tivers2 that could take up all their
Niles and Thameses, their yellow Til
bers, castled Rhines, and beautiful
blue DaRubes, by their little ends,
and empty them into majestic Missis
sippis and Missouris, Amazons, Sas-
katchewans, and De la Platas, without
making rise enough to lift an Indiana
iatboat off a sandbar. Do they brag
Of their seas aud lakesP We could
spill all Of their puny Caspians and
Azovs, their Dead seas, NyanHas and
Maggiores into our mighty Superiors.
Michigans, Fries, and Ontarios, and
scarce produce a ripple on their peb.
bled brims to wash away the eighteen
inch foot prints on the sands of
time left by the fairy like slipper of
a st. Louis or Chicago girl.
DO they prattle about their Etnas
and Vesuviuses2 With our noses
turned sOmersets Of ineffable cor.
tempt clear over our heads, we thun.
der forth our COtop1xies, Popocata.
petls, Chimborazos and score of
other jawbreakers whose very names
alone are too huge for common
tongues.
Human eye hath nos foreseen,
neither hath it entered into
the heart of man tc conceive. the
greatness, the population, tho wealth
and power and prosperity ultimately
TO be attained by this American land
this American people. this American
nation. The mystical figures "A. D.
1900 find us all-Canadiaps, United
Statians, Mexicans, Guatemarlans and
Nicaraguans-brethren and friends
and fellow citizens, marching beneath
the starry baAneF Of the free and
brave, to grand common destiny of
illimitable wealth and power,
and renown. Then shall Colum.
bias proud pet eagle (which is
being so numeFopsly and diversifedly
squeezed until he squawks to dayl.
perched on the loftiest ninnaolo erag
of the royal>ore ribbed Aoeky noun.
talls, epreaa his cloud bathed wings
from the .multifloral rainbows and
irost-wroupht splendors of the aurora
borealic realms. to where the beloved
sunshine Of HonduriaD guIis chants
its ceaseless anthem to shores of ever.
lasting green and gold, and trumpet
forth in se-reverberating tones
his Cock a>doodle- Yankee doodle.
doc of exultation and defiance to all
the world and the rest of mankind"
We repeat that Chicago must be
up aud stirring il she would not loose
the belt. 1t MIR. Harrison has not
loaf his grip on the bird let him come
to the 'front.' and show this proud DaA
kotian that there is still something to
be said on this subject. 1t looka BOW
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