The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-01
THE EAST AND THE WEST.
a COLORADO MANS TELLING SPEECH
AT A NEW YORK BANQUET.
What Mr.. wolcott Said at the Fore
fathers Dinner-An Address Which
Has Won Great Applause Everywhere
The Common Heritage.


From the New York Tribuncs Report
Judge Russell then introduced the next
speaker. ms follows: at was an English
lawyer who said that the farther he went
west the more he was convinced that the
wise men came from the east. With this
remark / shall introduce the next regular
toast, The Pilgrim in the West, TO which
Mr.. Wolcott, OF Colorado, will respond"
Mr.. Wolcott was warmly applauded
when he rose, but three times MS loud was
the applause which was awarded him when
he finished lie spoke as follows
Mr.. President and Gcntlemcn-1t was
with great difiidenco that j accepted the
invitation OF your president TO respond TO
a toast tonight ! realized my incapaclty
to do Justice TO the occasion, while nj the
same time recognized the high compl-
ment conveyed. | felt somewhat as the
man did respecting the Shakspeare-B Bacon
controversy; he said he didn't know
whether Lord Bacon wrote Shakspearc's
words or not, but II he didn't, he missed
the greatest opportunity OF his life.
Laughter
The west is only larger, and in some
respects better, New England. ! speak
not Of those rose gardens OF culture, Mis-.
souri and Arkansas [laughterl, but other
west Of the Mississippi, and more pariicu-
larly, because more advisedly, Of Colorado,
the Youngest and most rugged Of the thir-
ty-cight; almos, as large in area as all New
England and New York combined; with
room ABOUT her hearth for all mankind"
with fertile valleys, and with mines 40
rich and 30 plentiful that We occasionally
though reluctantly, dispose OF one TO our
New York friends. Laughter We
have no very nch, no very poor, and no
alms.houscs; and in the few localities
where we are not good enough, New
England Home Missionary societies arr
rapidly bringing us up 10 the Plymouth
Rock standard and making us face the
heavenly music. I4anghter.l We take
annually from our granite hills wealth
enough 20 pay for the fertilizers your cak,-
ern and southern soils require 10 save
them from impovcrishmcnt. We
have added 500, 100000 10 the
coinage OF the world, and al.
though you call only for gold We gcncr.
ously give YOU silver, too. Laughter. |
You are not always inclined TO appreciate
our efforts To swell the circulation, but
none the less are we one with you in patri.
oiic desire 10 see the revenues reformed
provided always that our own peculiar in
dusirics are not affected Our mountains
slope toward either sea, and In their shad-
owy depths We find not only hidden wealth,
but inspiration and incentive 10 high
thought and noble living, for freedom has
ever sought the rccesses OF the mountains
for her ronghold, and her spirit hoycrs
there; their snowy submits aud the long,
rolling plains are lightcned all day long by
the sunshine, aud we are not only Col
orado, but Colorado Claro. lApplauscl.
Tnr EAsr's ATTITUDE TOWARD THE WEST.
Practically ~ little is known of the
great west by YOU oi the east M was known
century ago II .Ncw England by our
British cousins Your Interest in ns Il.
unfortunately, largely the interest oi our
mortgages. llauehtcr.l Your attitude
toward Us II somewhat critical and the
New England heart II rarely aroused NJ
spccting the west, except when some
noble Indian, after painting himself aud
everything elise within his Nach red, ia
sent to his happy hunting grounds.
Laughter, Vet toward the savage, ~ In
all things. do not blame ~ II We follow the
christian example set us by our fore.
fathers. We read that the court nj
Plymouth more than fifty years after the
colony was founded, ordered THAT whose
ever shall shoot oil any gun ON any un.
necessary occasion. on NJ any game what
soctcr, except an Indian or a wolf, shall
forfeit rs for every such shot and or
pious ancestors popped over many M
Indian on their way Ia divine worship.
Laughter. Hut when, in Colorado, Mt.
tied less than generation ago. the old
New England hcrdity works itself Oui
and an occasional Indian ~ peppcrcd, tho
east raises its hands In horror, and on
offending cowboys could not find admit.
tancc to an Andovcr probation society
lIanghtcr.l
Where We have n chance 10 work with
out precedent We can point with pride OF q
certain sort 81 methods at least peaceful.
When Mexico was conquered We found
ourselves with many thousand McNicnn
ON hand. | don't know how they man
aged !, elsewhere. but Ia Colorado We no
only took them by hc'hand aud laugh
them our ways. hut both political partic
inavgumicd beautiful aud generous sus
tom, sincc mom honorcd In the tsarl
than IN the Observance. which gave thcs
vanquishcd people an snsight into and N
Interest Ia the workings oi Republican IN
ftitutions which was simply marvellous;
custom al presenting 20 each head OF
household, being a voter, on election day
from II 20 - In our native silver lGra
laughter
xEw ENGLAND rnE MOTHER % STATS.
II Virginia was the mother Of PRESIDENT
New England is the mother Of States q
the population of the western States borl
IN the United States romo per cent. are q
New England birth, and Of tho natv
population more than halt can trace n Ne,
England ancestry. Often one gcneraiiol
sought a resting place Ia Ohio, and Il
fucccs~or IN Illinois or In Iowa, but yo
will find that the ancestor, less than
CENTURY ago, was Gud.icafng Nankc,
New England influences everywhere ~,
dominate ] do not mean 10 say that man
men from the south have not, especial
nnoe the war, found homes aud either
ship In the west, for they have, and mo.
81 Them arr nov holding federal Office.
tiaughtcr.l II u nevertheless true iha
from New England has come the grca
The overwhelming influence In moldin
and controlling western thought. tAl
plausc.
New England thrift, though a hard
plant. becomes considerably modified whc
tnnsplanted TO the loan II the prairie
the penny becomes the dime bcionc
reaches the other ocean; Ruth would fin
rich cleaning among our western shcavc
and the palm II forchandcdncSs opci
sometimes too freely under the wasicil
example which nature sets all over OF
broad plains; but bccausc the New Englau
ancestor was acquisitive, his western d
scendant secured firsl Of all his own hom