Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-17
DONE IN VERSE.
The California Changers Welcome to
Their Eastern Friends.


Isam Booth in Pacific Rural Press.
o brothers brave and sisters fair, good neigh
bors, friends and strangers,
Patrons and friends of husbandry, farmers and
brother Changers,
From the far East, and North, and South, come
whencesoeer We may,
With open hands and open hearts we welcome
you to-day,
To aid us by your counsel and to cheer US by
your song,
And to guide us by your wisdom and experience
large aud long,
From the farms OF old New England and the
pineries of Maine,
Where the soil is chary OF its gifts for labor care
and pain,
the purliDg rills
Which meander through the meadows of the
Land OF Verdant Hills;
From the fields of Massachusetts, where the
Puritans abide
And their fathers drove the plowshare with
their weapons by their side;
From the Land of Wooden Nutmegs, where to
a supplement the stocks
That fill the scanty hRryest-feld, they manu-
facture clocks;
From the Land of Little Rhody, where they We
little land to fence,
And where. to help that little they depend on
Providence;
From the Empire State where once they raised
the finest kind of wheat
Before the grain kings moved out West and
changed the Imperial seat
From the pastures OF New Jersey and the Land
of William Penn
We extend hearty greeting to the honest Hus-
bandmen,
From Maryland and Delaware with many a YER
dant mead.
And East and West Virginia with their acres OF
"rhe Weed"
From Carolina, North and South, our old feuds
all forgotten,
From Alabama's corn and cane, and Georgia's
fields of cotton;
From MisSissippfs marshes and the Land oil
Orange Flowers
We give you loving greeting to this Golden
Land OF ours.
From the Louisiana rice-swamps, and from the
Texas plains,
Wen try to catch a cowboy to dance in Cupid S
From Arkansaw, Kentucky. Missouri, Tennes-
We give you welcome to our hearths and hospi-
tally.
From Indiana, Illinois, Ohio. Michigan
Great Central States, whose men are wise to ex-
ecute aud pan;
From where, across river and lake, Wisconsin,
cold and sere,
Clasps frozen hands with Minnesota nearly half
From Iowa, Nebraska too we hail the sturdy
band
Who moved .out West to subjugate and civil
We greet from bleeding Kansas" the men of
Drawn and brains
Who built a free republic upon her fertile
plains;
From Wyoming and Dakota, which fling wide
their welcome gates
To the bold and brave of every land to build up
their new States;
From the mountains of Montana, and the wales
of Idaho.
Colorado. Arizona. and way down to Mexico;
We invite you, too. from Utah, where your saints
strange doctrines teach,
And to bring your wiyes-provided yoE bring
only one for each;
From silversdo and the States toward the set
ting sun
That occupy the great Northwest, where rolls
the Oregon;
From every State and county in our Nation
strong and great,
We give you all Changers welcome to our
Golden State.
To every brother of the soil, from whencesoe'e r
he comes,
We give the largess of our love. the freedom of
our homes;
And when the Grange is ended and ell over is
the feast,
And the guests have all departed to their homes,
north, south and east,
May each one bear, through all his life, pleas
Of happy memories otthe days enjoyed with US
while here.