Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-04
A NOZZLE THEME.

A NOBLE THEME.
Among the orators who spoke at The
New England Society's banquet in New
York, and who created q sensation by thu
revelation he made of the spirit which ami
mates the great and growing West equal to
that created last year at the same board
by Henry Grady and his new South" war
E. O. Wolcott, of Denver, q gentleman well
and favorably known in this community
Henry Grady came forward a year ago as
the exponent Of a class OF young mon in the
South who have the same ambition for
their country's progress a. their brethren
OF the North and who desire to join heart
and hand with them in all that tends to
foster the development OF a common coun'
try. He became famous al the apostle o.
the New South and kindled the fre OF
brotherhood between the two sections to
an extent that has become historical. This
year the West has found her orator in the
person OF Mr.. Wolcott, and the sensation
he created 10 pronounced by the New York
press fully equal to Mr.. Grady's effort in
brilliancy and originality Of thought. Mr.
Wolcott's theme was generally OF the
States and Territories west OF the Missis.
sippi," and particularly Colorado. with
room about her hearth for all mankind"
The West, he says, is only a larger and in
some respects a better New England. 1t
has no very rich, no very poor and no
almshouse. "Our mountains slope toward
either sea, and in their ~shadowy depths we
find not only hidden wealth. but inspira-
ton and incentive to high thought and
noble living, for Freedom has ever sought
the recesses of the mountain for her strong
hold and her spirit hovers there" This
take home to themselves as equally true OF
them and this Territory, which is only a
few wears behind Colorado in progress and
Statehood, and whose mineral
are only in the infancy OF their develop
ment.
According to Mr.. Wolcott, New England
is the mother OF States, and her influences
predominant everywhere along the parallel
of latitude in which her sons lave moved
to their destiny OF making a mighty ma
ton. Not that the South has not had
it's influence too; cut Mr.. Wolcott
thinks that of those from that section
who have found homes and citizenship
in the West "most OF them are now hold.
ing Federal Offices" In this he stretched a
point for the sake OF an epigramme, though
he ought to have added that it is only
within the last three years that these in
stances occurred. Before that time the
men who held down Federal Offices in the
West were distinctively from the north OF
Mason and Dixon's line. Blu the austere
thrift OF New England relaxes under the
broadening influences of the great, liberal
West-the New England pennies became
dimes-"Ruth would find rich cleaning
among our Western sheaves, and the
palm of fOrehandedness opens sometimes
too freely under the wasteful example
which nature sets all over our broad
plains" The severity Of views OF the New
England'ancestry OF the West has softened
and there is more l~iberality of religious
thought out here, more tolerance Of differ
ence OF opinion, "but the old Puritan
teachings, softened by the years and by
brighter and freer skies, still keep our
homes Christian and our homelife pure"
Here in the West Mr.. Wolcott contends is
q patriotism that 'overrides and tran
sends all other emotions"
The West is still provincial and, Mr..
Wolcott thinks, has not reached that high
moral elevation of political thought that
breeds the independent voter. Attic same
time he omitted to add that the voting ele-
ment in the West is divided up on about az
many issues as at the East, at a recent
election in Denver there being six tickets in
the field, which shows enough of independ-
ence OF thought and freedom OF control by
the old parties to satisfy the most exact
ing. The West claims M OF the estheti-
cism that has developed in the East, and
stands toward it still much in the relation
OF country to city cousins, and feels quite
satisfied with its condition. There is some
thing more manly about it. Where SO
many OF her sons are wrestling with the
forces of nature in mines and on the broad
ranges, such a condition is bizarre and out
OF place. The West develops men of brain
and Drawn, who are workers in the best
sense OF increasing and multiplying
and replenishing the soil. She does
not forget the most important feature OF
hsr New England training, but looks closely
to the schooling OF her children. As he
nobly says: There is not in the broad
West a ranch so lonely or SO remote that q
public school is not in reach Of it," West
ern colleges are ~elevating and directing
Western thought, and men busy making
states yet find time to live manly lives and
to lend a hand. All this may not be
aesthetic, but it is virils and it leads up and
not down." Its people are actively engaged
in turning the arid desert into smiling farms
and homes OF busy industry, in the truest
sense of the words, making the desert BIOS
som as the rose, with a noble future before
it, almost within reach. "A high and gloli-
Gus destiny awaits Us; soon the balance OF
population will lie the other side of the Mis-
sissippi and the millions that are coming
must find waiting for them schools and
churches, good government and happy
people,"
He has something, too, to say OF the need
for placing restrictions upon immigration.
He thinks the invitation this country has
been extending to the nations Of the
Old World too general. That it calls for
some restrictions being placed upon the
heterogeneous elements dumped from Eu-
rope upon the Eastern shore. The task OF
a~ssimilating into the system of the repub.
lie the strangers in tongue and ideas was
simple while I'VE had the honest and indus.
trious to deal WITH" but the character oil
recent arrivals convinces the thinking that
1.-THE sacred rights OF citizenship should be
withheld from q certain class of aliens in
race and language who seek the protection
OF this Government Until they shall lave at
least learned that the red in our flag is com
mingled with the white and the blue and the
stars" Much more Mr.. Wolcott said in his
speech that, addressed to an audience o.
Eastern hearers, was novel and suggestive
and calculated to bring before them with
vivid distinctness the high place that the
West already occupies, and it's still create,
destiny in the greatest Republic upon which
the sun ever shons.
DEFECTIVE steel has been found in that
suppiiod for tho rrnisar Cho rloa&op pov