Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-15
MAINE AND KANSAS.
what James G. Blaine Knows Of the
Sunflower State,

lutctcst Us CNciy hahsoh 1t 'hio lihSs
Some of his prophecies have already
been realized, and before he leaves the
white house, all of them will be:
Soldiers and fellow citizens: l am
happy to be with you to-day. / am
glad TO meet the people of Kansas,
for am under great and deep obliga-
tions to them. am glad TO meet and
greet the soldiers of Kansas, because
the country is under deep and great
obligations to them. l came from a
distant home to be here to-day.
BLAINE's TRIP.
left on the early morning train of
Monday, and Travelled until the sunset
and again until the sun set and rose
yet another time before | saw your
place. And yet, beyond, to the west,
man must go through as many sun
sets and as many sunrises before the
imperial republic baths its western
shores in the great Pacific sea. 1t is
a great thing to be citizen eff such q
republic. IL is an important thing to
have had any part in saving such re-
public. Applause and cries of chats
business."l And for this bright star
of the thirty-eight, this marvel and
miracle of Kansas, what shall say!
In 1854, period within the memory
of men who still call themselves young,
it lay lere vast, open waste, as little
used to civilization as the steppcs of
the Caucasus, or the plains of Tar
tary.
E~rER DEEDS
Since then We haze seen the emigra-
ton of intelligence, heroism and man
hood, and before a single generation
has filled its appointed lot on earth,
these wilds have become pcopled with
more than a million free and indcpen-
dent American citizens. do not be-
lieye the like has ever been known in
the progress Of the human race. And
upon you, gentlemen, incident To great
and rapid growth, there devOlved
great responsibilities.
What have you done in the material
world? Out of this great waste you
have created valuation of more than
5000, 100000. Why, gentlemen, this is
bun little more than your annual pro-
duct, aud the valuation Of Kansas to-
day in any money scale that represents
its relation to principal and true pro-
gress, would be well estimated at 81,
900, 900. Another fact is, that during
the time that Kansas became state,
until this hour, the progress of the
United States and the world has been
more marked than at any other era.
And Kansas has justly maintained its
majesty as a state.
WEALTH CREATED.
During the twcnty-one years since
its admission to the American Union,
twice as much wealth has been created
as was added to the accumulations OF
the civilized world from the discovery
af America by Christopher Columbus,
to the commencement of the period
referred to in 1861. The property of
the United States, counting as prop
erty 4,000,0 of men held as chattles,
SIG ,0O0, 100000. Striking out that
part held as slave property, it was
$l2 900, 900, 900. To-day it is SGT, 000,-
600 900.
What does this indicate for the iu-
ture! The time will be in the memo
DRY of some of those whose Young face
es are now before me, when Kansas
will have 100000 people, and will
export more than the who'd United
Stotes did when Kansas became a
State. Speaking of the prairi5s of the
west, Douglas, Jerrold SAYS they need
but TO be tickled with hoe TO laugh
with harvest. That is what they
have done for You. With but one
eighth Of your land in cultivation, you
are sending 10 the markets
markets of the world, enough to feed
the entire nation. ! was about to say.
WHO THE PEOPLE ARE.
The people are an English speaking
people. A large number of you, how
but we are people of rapid assimila-
ton. Those coming to us from Ger
many, Denmark, France and Italy be-
come in the first. and assuredly in the
second generation, American people,
speaking the English tongue. When
our iorefathers won the battles Of the
Revolution, there were not in the
world more than. Is 100000 who spoke
the English language. To-day the
number exceeds 100000, and they
control large majority of the COM
merce of the entire world.
Now, therefore, it is not only the
citizens of Kansas, not only the citi-
zcns Of the United States of America,
but as belonging to the English
speaking race, that responsibilities are
laid upon you, which will be handed
down, not yet fully performed, to your
children and to your children's child
rem. | remember, myself, very well,
q do not count myself anything but
Young yet. laughter only 80. You
call that young don't YOU'D hearing
Gov. Rittner, of Pennsylvania, say
when abiding to the mountain dis
trict of that state, when the valleys
and fields would be unable to furnish
food for the men working in the
mountains. have lived to see that
prophecy fulfilled. The relation of
Kansas to the mountains and mines
west of her closely resemble those de-
scribed by Gov. Rittncr, and like
change is coming upon her.
WHAT SHALL BE.
believe, as | believe anything yet
nndeveloped, that the time will come
when the products of Kansas will be
carried westward over her border, in
stead of eastward. The time will come
when the workers in the great noun
tains and great mines will be SO nu-
merous that even these fertile plains
will be taxed TO keep them living and
growing.
That is a strange civilization that
has come upon us. When Cortez came
on his romantic trip to Mexico, a col
ony came under the Duke of Albu-
querque and settled in New Mexico.
They were there fifty years before our
forefathers' feet struck Plymouth
Rock. and IA century before William
Penn sailed up the Delaware. The
civilization planted with the colony
has remained there intact and pre-
served to this day. and it was my for
tune in three successive congresses, TO
meet men as delegates from New Mex
leo whose fathers had settled Span
iards there forty-fiyc years before the
English landed at jamestown. The
civilization of the Spanish hidalgo yet
remains and is still preserved
As TO addressing this great crowd. |
might as well attempt to address New
Mexico and Arizona cor all New
England" cried voice. meaning as
to space of course. Well. we of New
England all have a share in YOU. re-
member when they disputed some
years ago in congress on The improve
ments of the Mississippi river, when Il
representative from the northwest
said /: I'VE own the Mississippi river