New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23

% possibly Hd more than tho president Of NcwEhana
S SSc{ s6ng %ss q Maine and and i 4 6
desirable TO have hnc Pctoraton the ~n ope of The
strongest and most powerful mem Of california a
land Of IN n2 Long S6 S Ss0 England Society
10y his deciantion-thai had Tho I1lg1m Iaom,t I'LL
civnIIStjon Would never have got east OF the ROCKY
Mountains. The people, after California, NO.u noncr
Whoever warmed By the almost unendIng summer
and standing the rtch soil of those sunset angs,
thinks Of The far.of rockland regions and sterile
coasts of the Northern Atlantic may well indulge ~
west of the sierras had all the energies which have
made this Republic great have been concentrates on
mistake what seem to be the chances of history are
always the DEGREES Of higher law, and ms was NO
is most bleak there sho is the weakest and there
must be the first successful attack NewEngiahd sou
without capital and capital is never irst setler.
Had these men, equipped only E Win b "clp
dropped upon the san joaquin Valley they would have
persisted miserably amid the riches Wcn o ,no se y.
the wealth which the Atlantic coast could garner or
attract in hundred and fifty years to begin the
exploration of the West tApplauseJ
THE MARCH OF PROGRESS.
Did you ever think how the map Of America, two
hundred wears ago. could he have had II, would have
deceived the wisest observer to future history
He would have seen the Atlantic coast narrow
strip shut oil from all the rest of tho Continent by
chain of mountains stretching from the White Hills
almost 10 Florida He would have the great Valley
OF the Mississippi open to access only from tne Gu
OF St Lawrence and the Gulf of Mexico. knowing
that France held the one and spain The oiho not even
the boldness of patriotism would ever have dared 10
people the banks Of that rches-bearng rVer ana ls
richer tributaries with an English speaking race. Inc
West settled in defiance OF the map, across INC
rugged mountains and across the mighty river. ZAP
The spaniards wasted their energies in vain
pursuit of tabled fountains Of youth ana
M more NOR fabulous to ct bs rs5e, g %Scb cost
nothing they losf the riches which TO-DAY astonish
the world That wealth was reserved Tor the ,a de-
soil OF the Atlantic Coast that great lesson that
must pay Just price for what he has lAppauseJ
That the French had the n0ber motive OF gufy for
their native land and the sll fticr hope of bringing
within the Christian fold the rca ming savascs, dld
not preserve for them the empire of the great valley
Thy left their names and their whitening bones on
the banks OF many a western river. bat the land
of glory and stlll fewer designs for the conversion
Of Indians. All history shows that 1t needs certain
grims and Purtans both had It, and gid their mem
cries however we may, they had as firm grasp on
Npplause) We cannot spare as many fine words on
hem on the others Success IS always prosaic
Poetry clusters thickcst over failures as vy over
ruins The losers have the garlands for 1t IS not
always the saints who possess the earth. LOnlest
motives often bring smallest returns. II is hard
thing 10 say. but II IS the truth. that an honest ana
persistent desire for six per cent interest, with
willingness To take ten has dcBe moro To cvilze the
world than all the courage of the crusaders. And
what a world # has won! Did you look AT
map Of hundred and twenty years agol There
lie, The narrow strip close to the margin Of the
ocean, which IS the germ OF The great rcDuDhc OF
miles, and then lose themselves in a vast unknown
To lay few spots unexplored lie under the daily path
way Of the sun from ocean 10 ocean.
THE VAsTNEss or THE COUNTRY.
What vast empire It IS speak with no thought
Of boaslng, but in simple wonder. Most Of It lies
beyond the Mississippi. The Mississippi itself Is con
sidered West no longer Ohio has ceased TO be
Western State except at political conventions The
great plains which stretch toward the sunset we
have carved into states and Territories So immense
that We have utterly disguised their greatness even
from ourselves How many men who listen to me here
Of the richest soil the sun ever shono on. under
the most benignant that ever shone, capable
q filing the world with grain and oil and wlno ana
fruit and rearing stalwart monsi How, many
know that the great Empire state OF New orr eonld
California and have pienty OF room i0r NcWJcrsey
York and every NewE gland State. and then IL yon
added PENNSYLVANIA only the bare edge would hang
and Massachusetts,. II made into convenient shapes
could be slowed away in Montana aud not loste each
other. Dakota, which they refuse to admit into this
Union, could admit within its borders nine out OF
the thirteen original States
are the least that owe the West. Much that
goes to make up American manhood has come from
settled lndivIdualify gets LOST in use and want But
when men are forced to- face new conditions, when
old formulas cease to solve the world then whatever
Of power The brain holds comes forth In fulness Of
ygOr. The Western man had TO meet his new and
untried problems face 10 face. and out OF thai
struggle came, with much that was eXtrevagant and
much that was giOcSquc energy which knew no
obstacles. courage which rOarcd defiance TO all lis
foes. The e,trayagant and the grOtcSquc adorn
fiction IN Elijah Iocamr and The POgram De
fauce' but the final resul adOrns history IN Abraham
Lincoln. name blessed forever! While we I'm the
East untying The lnois Of Old cntanglemens
and losing ourselves in sophistlcal difficulties about
cons buttons aud statutes, the West was marching
On the gulf (ApplaHse)
II New England has given 10 the West capital and
men, the West has given back TO New England no
small measure Of vigOr Of thought, unlimited re
lc0se from the haldOm OF Old traditions and
many useful lesson IN craftsmanship and war.
Much OF the West mains 1ncOnQuered Away OF
beyond the Mississippi and beyond the turbd waters OF
the muddy Missouri yOu may travel day after day
and night after night plains without human habl
taOn. watched by the melancholy mount aims. But
man comes back from such travel to-day wi bout
abiding certainty that the third century Of the Rrpuh
lie VII! those trce Watcrle-s plains which Ito
out 50 lonely under the lonely shy. swarmlng with
millions of rich, happy and cOntcnted citizens Of this
Republic, made stronger By successful battle with
nature and made frcer by faith IN themselves which
has been often Tried and never found wanting.
tPr0longd applauseD
WHAT Mr.. ISTIAM SAID.
The Ready Adjustment of the Descendants of
the Pilgrims to All Sorts and Conditions Of Life
The next toast and Edward 5. Ishaia replied