Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-16

| their Territories until | started a fss
DAYS ago from 81. Paul. | have said
before, and repeat II here nov. enc o,
the greatest interests | have felt in N,
journey from the Mississippi to the z.
enc Coast b = been that everywhere
nave met the people Of Illinois, from
Indiana. from Iowa. New Jersey. Penn
svivanla and New York. and all the
States IN this Union. without mentioning
Them and II Il one of the proudest thing
10 the today. that they have been max
ing Homogeneous people by these emf
gratIons. whe have left the olden States
and have came here to people this IN ~
| nitlceni. beautiful shore of the Pacific
coast am Il I'd of having An oppor-
tunIty AZ this present day of expressing
the gratltude | have felt during this
|earisome journey. And yet. long
as II has been, every day has brough.
some new interest: every day has given
some additional Joy. And. as friend
Of mine SAID 20 me, i think yesterday
was the most interesting to me of all
! tue days have spent since | left my
home. until thu present hour Ap-
pause. When | look upon that grand
mountain covered with perpetual snow
| pointing from this beautiful and
magnificent sea of water-this great in
land sea here-l feel an Inspiration |
have never felt before; and am glad
not ONLY that have come to Portland.
and to halama, and to Tacoma, but
am glad | came to Seattle. and rejoiced
last, as my friend Kasson has already
expressed himself. When | Saw the
brightest illumination in this CITY in the
| University and in the schools. and the
! No hrlat e
of my friend here. Governor
| Ferry, though he has been
away many years, | am glad to know be
has home among you here in this part
| of the Territory 50 rich in its wealth
and IN ali Its resources. / know these
| people here In this neighborhood. who
came from the neighborhood whsre |
now live. but | know that there are peo-
pie here from that neighborhood who
live on this Sound. who started with
their OK teams thirty years ago and live
| rlght here IN this magnificent North
wes.. am glad to come here: | would
| be glad TO meet them and to greet them
| | am glad TO meet you and rejoice in
| the prosperity which | now think be-
gins to dawn upon you in the compile
ton of this great national and interna-
way. Ii is now to bring YOU into closer
union with the older States of the
Union, and | trust it will give you an
additional and new prosperity. Long
may you live and prosper here know
| this great country of ours will daily
grow and prosper through all time to
come. will now close my renarks by
| saying to the people of Washington Ter
ritory and of this beautiful city of Pu-
get Sound, and all Washington Terri
tOry-long prosperity. Applause
Hon. Carter Harrison, Mayor of the
city of Chicago. upon being introd aced.
spoke as follows:
Mr.. President, ladies and gentlemen:
In Turkey they have An old legend; one
of the Sultans having two favorites to
whom he wished to give a gusrdon of
his favor, and not knowing how to dis
criminate told them that the one who
should on the morning first see the ris-
ing sun should have his favor and a bag
of gold. 1t was problem easily to be
solved. one would think. One of them
turned his face to the east, and looked
toward the rising dawn. The other one
back to him turned his face to the west.
and resoluteiy looked until the morning
sun struck distant msnntain. He got
the gold. You have on your gate the
! old motto of Bishop Berkeley, West
| ward the star of empire takes its way."
| For long ages civilization having its
| birthplace in the far off East, has been
going with the sun In his grand march
day by day in times flight of thousand
years. The people have been Watching
him and have followed him. Civiliz,-
ton, however. has come here, and Won
| have barrier, the great Pacific. On
the other side lies new civilization
We turn our b ok with the light from
the east. We want no civilization from
the west. 1t is to the east that we look:
and You of Puget Sound will meet us in
the east. and make the great ce,ter of the
United States the city of Chic ago, into
| which its wealth will he poured. Great
applause and laughter. They tell me
| that Puget Sound and some city on its
border will be the western terminus. /
am willing that it should be. They saw
that st. Paul or Minneapolis, the twin
sisters OF the Mississippi, are its other
termini. But the great terminus of the
| East is New York, and let it be. The
East and the West will march OH until
they meet in Chicago, where we will
gather all the wealth in our laps.
have been told that it is one of the
boasts of your people that your CITY is
the Chicago OF tha West. Laughter
Hold on Ia it. Laughter | remem-
Der when first went To Chicago twenty
eight years ago. They told me it WAS a
myth and bubble: that some NOR ing
| would awake and find it gone nine
hundred feet deep IN Lake Michigan;
that we had no hope. | told them that
10 e. h..r 81 Al
! Union, and we now are nearly that.
They tell me there is not Seattle man
but believes that Seattle will be
| larger than London. Laughter
| What man determines to do man can
do. Then determine that this is going to
be the bi2ges. city on the Pacific Coast.
| II not of the continent. and do not
doubt il will he. When | went to price
some of the corner lots down here
Applause and laughter but my friends,
the real estate men. do not let tina
sroakers throw you into despair. have
known them TO say the same things in
/ Chicago. Why, one of the corner lots
there, IL IL WAS solid ground. would not
be worth the price YOU put upon il.
| Mr.. X ,sson rem ,rked that the hist Ter
ritory WAS named after the Father of his
| Country. | can remember some people
speaking in Congress that giving the
name TO this God forsaken land out here
in this Western wilderness was heasing
dishonor upon the name of Washing
ton. Probably il WAS not patriotism.
They did not know what was here; but
We who have come over. and have seen
your tall ceisrs aud your mighty pines.
By the side of which sur pine trees of
the klleohanies and of the bottoms of
the Mississippi are mere sapiings, and
| when we sea aud find here on your
mighty Colum' Ia river vast palisades,
into which the palisades of the HUDSON
could be thrown down into one of the
crevicss when we find on the other
side mountain on which Mount Wash
ingto., in New Hampshire, conld be
thrown and IL would be but a wart on
its face. [Grett laughter The Mis-
sissippi river, with its vast tide and long
stream. dwindles into iusignificance be-
fore the vast expanse of the Columbia
river. The New York harbor. of which
they boast. they ara filling up today
with the sewerage of that city-what is
IL compared with your own Puget Sound 7
| Applause You don't look for deep
water when your Mr.. Mariner comes in