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

fresh water sea, equally unlimited il
extent and capacity for the purposes o.
commerce, having 4 length of TWENTY 81,
| miles and an average breadth Of foul
miles l think, ladies and gentlemen
that this shore line here of fifty mile
before you and shore line of NOR.
than sixty miles upon the fresh water
back of you. will be sufficient To accom-
| modate the commerce of this city 70,
the next ten years at least. Great APP
plause-
Music by the Arion Sing Verein Of
Seattle. Applause.
Gov. Ferry-I have the pleasure Of in
Producing Senator kasson. of Iowa.
Mr.. kasson said-Mr. President. Ia
dies and gentlemen: | have thought
| during the long journey which we hav.
been taking across the northsrn part oil
our vast and splendid territory that the
people regarded Member of Congress,
as sort of town pump that any com
mlttes could without notice take hold oil
the handle and witness a speech rush.
| ing from the spout. laughter and ap
plause. The truth Is we have had yery
much of 1t 20 do, because we have had
much admiration for ourselves and oil
the country, and hav. had hearty greet
lngs from the people everywhere; but il
instead of nature the enterprise of the
people originated the Northern Pacific
Railroad. and had originated that in or
| der that the greatest surprise of all thi.
long Northern road should greet Us a,
its terminus they could not have done
better than to leave Seattle for the last
Great applause It. would seem tina,
in making these inland empires. one
af or another. AZ they became merged
into Territories and into States
the Congress of the United States
had left the Father of this country
only the last chance upon the north
western border, applausel and We, like
certain mine, II | remember, of tn It
namethat turned out an unexpected ex-
tent of wealth when developed. and it
| seems 10 me like the ordering of Provi-
| dence that one of the richest Territories
| of this great Union as il shall merge
| from Territory into Statehood, you will
give more wealth and greater character
70 its people than almost any that have
preceded IL, and more honor to the name
of Washington tapplause). have long
lived in what was once the West aud
| know some hing of pioneer life and of
| the early emigr 'tion, and Of the patient
waiting for communication with friends
left behind Us: and | can come into
| none of the Western communities that
have gone through that period Ct wait
ing without trembling in the heart and
a tear in the eve when | see at last the
bond of union restored, and the feeling
of coming into closer fellowship and
being brought into closer life. Here,
year after year, AS immigration ha.
travelled westward, and year after year
as they have waited for the establish
| ment of schools and churches, the
friends of society and the rich promise
of future good children, and in all those
communities as We came along each one
seems to have leaped like Minerva full
armed from the head of Jove in the
realization of perfect civilization. La
dies and gentlemen, | have no words
with which TO adequately express
my feeling of qualification. / am to
some extent surprised as | witness al
last this terminus OF the transoonti-
mental line and the members of society
who have taken possession of it. We
have been in search for long time OF
the terminus of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. We found it first at Portland
and We hurrahed over it. We next
found it in the neighborhood of Kalama.
and We hurrahed over it. We came over
here. and We were sure that we had
found it at Tacoma; but after we had
come to Seattle my first words were.
and my original and present judgment
is. that for the first time, and for the last
time also, We have found the West
ern terminus of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. Great applause. | must
not detain You. | have not fitting words
to describe the promise of the future
which has been presented to the eyes of
those who have visited YOU today. So
far az your material prosperity is con-
oerned one sentence should express it.
That country which has coal and iron
has the positive and definite assurance
of unlimited development and wealth.
| For the first time here we find
ourselves in section OF the country
which is thus blessed with these
elements. You have also second rs
surance, which is the magnificent har-
! Dor for the commerce of that famous
East which has been sought for CEN
| turies, and which can erter and find
! safety and means of transportation to
| tho vast interior. | have no need. gen
tlenen. to- engage in Dragging the sim.
pie statement of the facts and of the
si,uatinn are enough to assure you that
during such time ~ you must wait to
gather the means. about you, you can
wait IN perfect confidence of a glorious
future. Not only yonr material wealth
and elements of prosp ritv deserve our
admiration. Aswe came over the water
Yesterday evening, and looked at your
town sitting like queen upon her
throne. among the lines of light whose
| illumination tFaversed those beautiful
waters, WAS the light of clean, fresh
| looking. large and beautiful school
| house. Say what you may of the phys
ical elements of prosperity and wealth,
there ia no element that strikes an intel
| licent man, whether statesman or Chris
tian Ilaughterl, WHISTLER peer from Eu-
| rope or laborer from America, there Is
nothing that appeals TO his judgment
and his heart like the common school
| prosperously maintained. tApplaus9.
Ii is here in your school houses that
| the fu'u re of your country IL tn be
wrought out, and if | have one final
word to say 10 you, fellow eountrymeu
here. il is pay without CRU milling the
| last penny of taxes going To the support
of your schools. aud to build school
hauses with freedom, and to reward the
sch ,ol teachers. aud then the future OF
the Pacific Co ,st is sure beyond n per
| adventure IA the characteristic oil
| this country | regard this element rs
| the social bond of union; a. the bond
,ha, shall ne perpetuated among all the
people of t his land From this coas,
and this Sound shall go forth not only
through this country but IL the CONT
nint of Asia with its tsemIng millions
influence from this Sound. that here
there il a power concentrated and vast
power. May your prosperity be eaua
Ia voar deserts. "a they appear in oul
eyes today. May Seattle become Queer
OF the Poetic Coast, having no superior
as tie future seems ~ me today to indi
cate. IGreit applause.
Music by the Queen City Band.
In introducing General Thorn q j
Henderson. OF Illinois, Governor Ferry
said Fourteen Years ago when | lief
Illinois he was representing one of thl
interior districts in Congress. and he il
representing that people today; aud II
is yery likely they VIII keep him ther'
for his natural life, for which ",
wnnld rejoice, bee .use know that dur
ing sill that time he has been wtru