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


get through all right. She asked ne
have yon go, vonr r-voiverF
Mr. Hard does not want rs to carry
very much baggage. Nv youn, wife
came to the and pat her hand on my
brow. and sud: ''Yoa might i,a killed
by Chinsman nn. there. bat no In
dian will ever take yonr scalp" am
glad that | did not make NV will. he
cause would have left out one thing
two corner lots that Mr. Leary Is going
to buy for me out here in the
suburbs of town on Lake Wash
in0ton. | want to leave them to nv
Youngest bov. By the way. INV friends,
| don't like Seattle. / have got some
Indian blood IN me. | would change
from Seattle to something else. | will
tall you IN MINI e. | have some feel
ing of sympathy for that old chief.
They tell Ne that as this town grows.
every time the word Seattle ia man
toned. the old fellow has been turned
over IN his grave. Nobody knows how
big you are going to become New,
tell you this in soberness. This Terri
tory Is named in honor of the father
of this great land. He gave 10 this
country a grand inheritance. Ne have
honored him by the name, that is bv
what followed. | advise Won 20 call
Seattle the Washington of the Pacific
slope, and let INV Indian kinsman rest
In peace Down here you have noun
tain, the highest snow cape mountain
in the United States. That rival town
of yours calls lt Tacoma. and Won are
has Tacoma on it. Now. TO settle that
IL nall NJ e A. II
clnc slope. Here you have the city of
Washington vet to- come, with bonnd-
less forest that will ALWAYS remain
boundless. / said to man, the other
day. who has homestead on the Uppar
Columbia in tue British Possessions !:
Why do you burn down the trees here?'
de replied: 1t Is good to do. 1t
gives the prospectors better chance
The Idea of burning noun
tain covered with these mon ,rchs
of the forest for the purpose of reach
ing little filter of gold below, when
every splinter of the wood will be worth
an ingot of gold that will be dug. Those
girls-l am young man and cannot
help it. Laughter They recognize
that the Bible SAYS that a woman's hair
is her glory. They will not cut i. off
even though bangs are f4shio4a able.
they cut off little in front. but they
leave on soma behind. TLaughter.1
Preserve your trees, keep taem and let
it be understood that the man who
would without .use barn mount in
forest Is vandal and ought to be
hanged to the nearest tree top. Remem-
Der where trees grow comes water fail,
and where the water falls the grain
grows, the mill follows and there are
inhabitants. Every one of your valleys
will TEEN with people, bat if You cut
down those forests it will become as |
have seen in far off Asia. where have
seen vast plains of wild oats range up
TO my saddle girths, with no head in it,
because early winter comes aud gives il
start, but the rain ceases falling and
the head never fills. have seen land
there that was once teeming with count
less population, and today Won traverse
for hour aft r honr and sometimes day
after day, meeting here and there only
A noTsadic family. That will be the
history of this great fertile land If Won
cut from the mount .inS all your trees.
There is an adage in Arabia that no one
oan be called man until he has dug
we'll, pitched tent, and has boy bora
to him. In Italy no one is man until
he has built a house, dag we'll, and
has boy. Up here, might say to you,
the man is a man who plants a tree,
builds house and digs ditch. We
will send the boys to YOU from the East.
We ara glad to get rid of them. laugh
ter Ny friends. this whole trip has
been a wild surprise to me, and to all
of us. / had heard of the magniticence
of the mountains and the fertility of the
plains | met here this morning man
who was once your Representative in
Washington: he used te tell ms about
it and thought there WAS not word
truth in it. l called him Munchausen
nov We know it. He iring
is believing-Sut seeing and eating is
the naked truth. We are going back to
the East to tell orr psople what we have
seen; as one of the evidences of faith
| Am going to tell nv 22-year-old boy,
who has inst merged from law school.
to go west young mani bat to stop
when he gets to Puget Sound. Ms
friends. thank Won. Applause
General Hazard Stevens, of the city
Of Boston, son of Gen. Isaac |. Stevens.
the first Governor OF this Territory, and
the man who surveyed the first line IF
the Northern Pacific Railroad from ST,
Paul to Seattle, next took the stand and
said:
thank you Mr.. President, AMI ladies'
aud gentlemen. for the recognition vUu
have aft arded u the name of the first
Governor IL il lifting th,t here up,a
the shores of this Sound that the ,me
of him who in tS1, 'ndncted the first
of the Northern Pacific
Il ,ilroad from 81. Paul to Pdget Sound.
should be rec ,gnize5. That WIS an ex-
ploration which covered in breadth up
wards of two hundred mIlss. Ii wlsno
scamper across the continent, but u
broad and tn ,roughly scientific exam
ination of the country, aud developed
tse avigability of the MisSoari RIVER
and of the Columbia; which perfected
the great doctrine of climate and isn
thermal lines and which made known
the great resources OF that line aud es-
peoially of its western end. 1t is fit
that he should be rscoJniz Il here who
Was the first organizer of the civil so
ci-ty who organized the Territory. and
still more fitting that upon this spot
his name should be held in reverence
who established the military standing
of the few people who were then the
populations; who called together from
population of six thousand fighting
force of thousand men, who drove
east of the mountains the Indian. en-
envy who nearly obli,erated this people.
[Great applause Thirty years have
rolled away and his name is held in rev.
erence. as well as the names of those
early pioneers who assisted and worked
with kim to lay the foundation of the
empire of which You now reap the
fruits. II is not your big trees only: IL
is not alone your forests or your mines
or your fisheries that will mike yon
great. II is your courage. your indus
try, your elf-devotion, which make a
man and make nation alike. APP
plause. | cannot refrain this time
from rendering my acknowledgment
TO Mr.. Willard IN inviting the friends of
the first explorer, Capt. Mullen and
Others, to the celebration of the COM
pletion of that road, in consideration
and appreciation Of the past, which gives
promise of a broad-mindei man-it
shows that he has heart-that he is
not all absorbed in money getting. Ii
shows that be looks upon the country
upon its past an future. shank you
for your kind attention. Appiause.i
Rev. DR.. b riiett. of Washington
City, was intro iuced by Governor Ferry.
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