The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-03
NEBRASKA Day ArxEw ORLEANS.
4 Speech on the Occasion by Hon. John d..
1hurston, of Omaha.

1ay. Inc orator or the OccaoiOh was nv
} John NJ Thurston. of Omaha, whose remsrA
are here given. He said:
"This magnificent exposition fills us wit
, patronism, wonder and joy. Patriotism,
feel what grand and glorious land is ours
wonder, to find, gathered together here, tn
choicest products OF the agriculture, the arr
the science, the invention, the manufactur
, and the commerce of the whole civilize
world; joy, to know OF the great era of uni
versal prosperity and peace. of which thes'
dumb witnesses so eloquently speak.
Seeing the flags of all the great powers
floating side by side in the air above US, W.
feel assured that the great International mil
lenium has nearly or quite come; wnen inc
sword of the soldier shall no longer leap iron
Its .cabbard TO settle disputes between GIVE CIVIL
lied nations, but shall be kept forever sheath
ed by the wisdom of the statesman ana tne
arbitration of the just. -,
"Shal we who have seen these things be ned
as dreamers If we prOphesy that In the grea'
future our own beloved United states is 10
become the Arcadia of the poets dream
where universal knowledge, universal indus
try and universal love shall prevail! Where
the inmate of prison shall be thing
OF the past; where the man of the mob shall
become the man of the farm ana the manu-
factory. and the man OF the bludReon ana or
crime shall have Disappeared forever betore
the man of the temple and the man of law!
1--WE slso believe that this gathering together
| own people, that 1t will do much to forever
| destroy all lingering traces of the old time
sectional feeling. and that in this temple or
industry VIC may gather from ali portions OF
our common country and aroundits altar once
again partake of the sweet communion OF our
remunerated love and faith.
For but little more than century the ex-
pertinent of peoples government has been
tr ed upon American foil. Born of the ire
sistible love of liberty springing up IN the
hearts of the people, rocked In the cradle or
revolution blood
martyrs, this heaven-inspired experiment has
become a grand success. We look abroad
throughout the land and we see the cities,
towns and villages, growing and thriving
upon the hillside and IN the valleys, ut the
foot of the mountains, by the shores of the
Sea. We see the forests disappear before the
woodlands AK and the prairies broken by the
plowman's skill. We see the stesmboats
blowing the lakes and the rivers. and the iron
bands of the railways spanning the land. We
feel that ours is indeed the land of all others
Where the schoOlhOuse is upon the hillside
and the church sDire in the air. Where the
forge fire is aglow, and the smoke of the man
Where the joyous ringing of the pick and the |
musical hum of the spindle delights the ear OF |
well-paid labor Where the rivulet and the
river the cataract and the waterfall have |
been chained by the ingenuity of man to turn
the wheel that tolls for him. Where every
man, rich or poor. may own the land he tills
and liberty, equal rights and justice is the
heritage of all.
zone hundred years ago the sovereignty of
the thirteen original colonies was as yet I'M
known upon the shores of the Gulf of Mexico,
and had scarcely penetrated into the I'M
broken wilderness beyond the Alleghanfes.
Now all changed. By cession, conquest and
discovery we have advanced our boundaries
until from the lakes of the north to the gulf
If the south. from the rock-bound coast of
he Atlantic to the golden gates of the Pacific
We have glorious country, where nearly
ixty millions of free people pursue the pI os-
,erous paths of peace.
by far the most important acquisition of
G ~. ~ nf rlE0 |
ma. In 1903 the wise craftsmanship of
'homas Jefferson, operating with the warlike
COMPLICATIONS of Europe. induced the great
'apoiean 10 perform one of those grand acts
national sacrifice, more heroic than any of I
is fnnumerable conquests, and this vast ter Q
tory so necessary to the future develop (
lent and power of this great government {
as ours. or this province, now subdivided '
ito seven states and four territories, Ne 9
raska was an almost unknown and uncon- ,
dered past. For many years distant, wilder
ess and savage tribes separated her from the I
ouisiana of to-day. BY various acts Of con- 4
ress she became part of other territories and n
as known By other Names. i
I'm the later times the terrible tide of civil t
ar ebbed and flowed for four long years be- f.
veen us. We thank God that great conflict a
long since over. The smoke has lifted from II
scenes of carnage, and the sun of promise =
lines again. Rich harvests have been gath II
ed from the fields that were plowed by the "
OF and by the shell. The fruit has ripened a.
the vines and trees whose roots were a!
altered by the blood of the brave. The homes a.
We been rebuilt the plantations reincosed, OF
d the angel Of peace has folded her white tt
ngs and nestled in the land where stalked in
G destroying angel of war. And now, in this -,
Id time of reconciliation, the baby girl, Ne !.
aska, grow to the full stature of her wo- vi
inhood, comes home to her mother, Louisi- GO
a, once again. Comes with her hands over ii
wing with the products of her bounteous to
rvests and her heart filed with reawakened so
al love. We come to-day and say to Louisi- fri
a and to her queen city, New Orleans, let 10,
enter into an enduring commercial alliance 90
nehcia, to both The Davigable waters of
Missouri, the mighty tributary of the still 30 80
yhtier Mississippi flows past our very 90
'rs. Reach out your strong arms. extend
great arteries of trade. Let your vast
aith secure from us the surplus products
our fertile SOIL Restore the great watery ",
hway to its former glory, and keep for us ~
gate of commerce to the world of COM
rec beyond.
And now come to speak of Nebraska. her
ources and advantages. This is something
oh much dislike to do. 1t is very embar- th
sing for a Nebraska man to even half de- mi
be her wonderful productiveness and fer -,
y. strangers are apt to look at one with IL.
3 askant, and with rare expression OF I'M lat
Ell. But modestly yet firmly assert that =,
men of Nebraska never lie. Every one iea
hem wears next his heart miniature Ju
ion of the historical Ratchet: Nebraska, nm
va phcally considered, lies between the pu
10 b and torty-third parallel of the north the
.,sde, and the ninety-fifth and l04th de- LOT
- of longitude west from Greenwich. 1t -A'
,nds from the Missouri river westward, no
a gradual ascent not noticeable to the Th,
toward the foot hills of the Rocky noun hoy
/. =. ms an eStreIne length OF Az ana hel
"a se - 20 900 40 alca IN anout the
0rezing lands uns1rnaesed ~ fort iatn viii
luctiyeness and ease of tiilsoa Inv a1y bee
{ In America In the whole state there il IN {
q square mile of swamp land or a section the
cannot be successfully titled or grazed. CAP
whole section consists OF rollingpraires. Thi
isp,ersee1 by numerous beautiful valleys, FREE
~, W i tno eonheess streams ana NV AID
soil is r;cb aiInS,iaI ~ cue suhsuine. Her
n and inexhaustible fertility. Its porous puii
acter enables il TO withstand excessive rear
or drouth. / shall sps ak no further Of one
ric Nebraska. but shall refer to the ad- the
ement of the last twenty years. Cap
p TO within that period there were, prac- dow
y, no settlements except upon her ex- cuef
Q eastern border along the Missouri sari,
For the most part her virgin prairies go
nbroken, roamed over by vast herds of Wv
10 and by the unmoested Indian. But noll
were few in the land whose daring deaf
S had conceived the gigantic project OF to {
eat transcontinental railway, which o'clo
ID bridge the rivers. traverse the plains, was
the mountains, anuihilate space and ter 4
a le cmU vA.netnes OF our land unto com firen
enterprsing giants brought to the ac- n ,,if -
ishment of this scheme great energy, gu "
verance and dar ng. They poured into uro"
accumulated riches of successful ven dren'
and gave TO it the best years of their them
IL became magnitic ent success 1t was
ICED the fnvQiprrnant Of .