Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-04-28

er place in the national galaxy. In speak
: ing eloquently for South Dakota he spoke
also for Montana, and answered every ar
gument that has been advanced against
investing her with the dignity of state
hood. Henceforth this Grafton will be a
textbook, as luminous on the subject of
territorial rights and national duties as
are the mastery decisions Of Marshall on
constitutional law.
Senator Davis did not limit his argu
ment to mere questions of abstract right.
He appealed to the people at large, hop
/ ing that they would discern the expedi-
ency as well as the justice of according
to the popular will in Dakota, the weight
and authority with which it is invested in
the smallest states. Thus referring to
the current of trade and the part it plays
in determining union Or division, he said:
Trade, like migrations, moves in paral- |
ellis. South Dakota is tributary to Chi
cago and reaches the seaboard through
that city. North Dakota is bound com
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| Duluth, and its products find their way to
the seaboard through those cities, thence
by way Of Lake Superior during the sea-
son Of navigation The railroad recently
completed through Northern Wisconsin
and Michigan to Sault Ste Marie, and
which there connects with the Canadian
system of railways furnishes winter
ontlet, and saves the necessity of a detour
around the southern extremity of Lake
Michigan. The instinct of railroad build I
crs has from the beginning acted under ,
the impulse of these conceptions. The
east and west lines from Chicago traverse
South Dakota and are directed toward
the Black Hills. Far to the north Of t
them lie two other east and west systems, i
the Northern Pacific and the St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Manitoba, each running
into Duluth. The effect of this mandate t
of nature and Of this obedience to it by Ii
man will be strikingly manifest twenty fl
five years from now, when each Of these :.
regions will contain more than two mill II
ions of people
But with the instinct of true orator
Senator Davis likewise appealed to the
sentiment Of national grandeur which is =,
leeply implanted in the American heart,
although to the world at large we seem "
more intent on the requirement of wealth VI
han the acquisition of fame. Speaking
ng of the part which the territories have VI
'layed in promoting the greatness of our va
ountry the orator said 81
OF all the causes which have contribute ~"
d to the grandeur of the republic and IL
lade it the first power upon earth, the in!
cqusition of regions which have been sill
coupled by the most courageous of our M
eople, have become territories and then ~
tates, has been the most potent We ac- at
uired Louisiana, a vast empire, watered an,
y the largest navigable rivers in the ne,
,orld, rivers which run southwark and
tford the means of commercial inter
purse and exchange of every product of for
AMY degrees of latitude from the wheat exl
the extreme north to the sugar of the he
itreme south. We acquired Florida, -
I'd the Gulf of Mexico became the Med III
7rranean of this nation. We acquired fol-
exas, and look at the magnificent result. por
e acquired California, and it became at g
ice the principal producer of precious c.,
etals, and stands now dominant upon i"ii
Pacific, destined to engross the com sou
cree of Asia. By cowardly diplomacy the
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Oregon and enabled Great Britain to r.
are with us the most important military slue
q naval position on the Pacific coast v
ON Cape Horn to Behring's straits, tin
ny shall we not be at least meanly lust, otto
generosity has long been out of the 'i'.
estion-toward Dakota? Why DELAY pom
lger this great act Of national Justice? atte
ny shall we not be taught by the lessons
history and understand that Justice r.
lg deferred eventually works retribu- col
n IN direct proportion to the obduracy 80
its denials ETY.
senator Davis won this popular suit so 10
as the senate is concerned Tho long
18th Dakota bill was passed by vote lore
IS to %. 1t now goes to the house are
ere the democrats are pledged to sup soil.
It Mr.. springer's omnibus bill, which Inc
nlts four territories, including Dakota that
single state. There is no real reason IMAM
y this should be treated as party amb
'stlon any more than the payment of oeh'
public debt or the inviolability of our with
'ltory We hope that the public will as N
ch opened the door for the confeder- IL.
prodlgal will also remove the barriers edge
ch stand in the way of true national Evel
ty. mos
Enjt
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