Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-13


Finally, he made q glowing picture OF the
great west and ns future as q domina.i1p
element, controlling the excess OF the sec.
llUns.
ULATIoSs.
therefore, my fellow citizens, as one who
mas had something ~ do In watching Dakota
az Graded Hercules, II is my pride and
pleasure on THIS natal day OF states and
ualon, to congratulate you and your colles.
sHtsl r'aei west, upon me happy outcome
.. tue long controversy by winch, without
iUrthcr letitioning congress- or further
action from that body, ana Dy tns application
OF your " popular system. you renew uuuer
.hesc VIDE skies and plains mat allegiance,
rove ana Loyalty to the ah1,e cuun ny, with
out winch We shouiu All sufYcr disastrous
eclipse.
lie, indt ed, is unworthy OF citizenship In
such a land "ho simply looks upon the mar.
vel OF our newly created states with an eye
10 party sggfandizement. Parties may come
ana 20, out the new common ealths which
nave added their lustre TO our ensign, shine
by night and not by suifersnce. Taey are Ia
the 1uu radlence Of statehood. They are the
sublect OK patriotic congratuiation, not less
nan those older commonwealth who have
recently rejoiced over the Inauguration Of
our constitution and its first able
president.
Would it we're In my power to make a
horoscope OF that future OF America which
nov looms upon her horizon. 1t would not
be bounded by state lines, nor by ocean, lake
and gulf. Its population would coant up.
even within the lifetime OF many who hear
me-, 10 100, 100000 Of people, instinct with en-
terprize; intelligent through education:
Tree through its institutions and banded to-
gether by common memories for a growing
ana glorious future. States and territories,
not lgnoble dependencies but independent
soyercisnties, these make no that refinement
OF civil 20 ley, which Is the attribute
OF the American system, and when has no
example In the annals OF mankind. It's pto-
Ole may DE composite, It's system complex,
out us destiny is one aud lts forces com
pensatory and beneticent. Its very ma.
cninery Is worthy OF the prophetic vision Of
the Hebrew prophet when he saw wheel
within wheel, even as states within states
imperium In i'm p~erio-and all moving under
harmonious conditions and evolving the
greatest happiness for the creates numDer,-
all working under energetic, vital, elemental
forces which give 10 lie that liberty which
cannot but by humiliation die.
The great event which stands most prom
ineIt At the head Of our new century, which
the next census viii make stlli more illus
tricus, Is the fact that the western country,
along the cities west OF the Mississippi, from
st. PAu 10 Portland, from 81. L.u.s ~ .Ssi,
Fraocisco, ana from Bismarck 10 Galveston,
VIII add such percentages 10 their growth IN
population and Ia wealth, that cotton ana
commerce Will be discounted, and the west
with rs land can give command to both north
and south, and by It's potential voice stop the
dlssensions aud ,~alous!es OF the sections.
cEKEs-rHE QUEEN.
"Tbe vice Of the west will be omnipotent.
for IT il "A voice which cries out from the
earth, who Ia oar mother.
'ln the delicious mythology Of Greece, the
goddess nf the earth was the sister OF tie
god OF the heavens-Jupster. AS Ceres she
became the pro'ectress OF tn growing grain
aLd the copioue harvest. Hymns were sung
ana temples erected In her honor. Al her
bidding earth yielded or RI fused q yield It's
products. If che tade, the oxen draw the
plow IA the fields; or # she forbade, in vain
the seed was cast into the ground.
"She was an inventress as well as a god
dess. She invented agricultural i~mplcr cnts.
II Is tabled that she gave TO her feporitc
plougher n the sotl-'thrice ~plougher' or sub
soiler "a chariot drawn by dragons, in which
he flew through the air distributing corn tC
ing-if II we're not an anachroni-m-ty the
myth that a~tstr.but.ys force whicl comes
frOrl the locomotive.
"Maiest.c ~ stature and amiatse IN charac.
Ser, she was TIE uersOnidcation 9f the pro
dMctive principle Of the eartb.
IL . W. clTtlCn V lIt 'lltGiIAts ron - "A
t,tat Am.r ca hos recrowr ed her. Her thrDn,
IL In thu wesr: her suutle roirlsters art
greater than blOOt and iron. He's ministers
are steam and -on. Her s'eptared AUTHORITY
Is yb+yeA 50 tina. not only to all oarstates
but ~ al. the world, her professions ar,
sent. Hers Is the div nelly anoiutcG royalty
IIei" crown Is iiSc the Old ir.n LOmbai
crovgp, on which is written: God has giver
1t to me: let hin, beware who w5uid touch
It
"Ss9nding upon the threshold of thes'
young states, aud n the morning OF anothcI
GENTRY, may we not have glimpsrs If the IA
future Of their destiny. 1t may not be tina
Of n Paradise regainei II may not re that d
a New Atlantis rising from the wave, auC
where 40 frost crngeals and no storm vexes
II may not he a + ~gtonian ideal, yEere tn
abstracr aud the object are one, and that one
IS all ieSUtiful with truth AVID virtue II ma,
not BE- some indefinite Utooia wearing it'
coronaf Of unreal happiness bencath Equa
torial realms. but as men reason, r. 1t no
probable that in Z tese Re states, liz the YER
heart OF the continent, may be found III.
shining nucleus and the concentrated geniu.
OF the MOST mira nlous progress .2nown Il
human society? Already We may hear III,
cheerful music OF requited toll, inspiring th'
builderYot new homes and the taundcrs o
new commonwealth, with the incentive t
and the fruition Of the best human eucrg'
under the most favored institutions.
MANIFOLD MEAN Nos oGTHIs DAI AID YEAR
"TouF celebration here ana now Is mani
fold in meaning. IL combines Jefferson An,
the declarations, WashiNgton and the cOnsti
tuition. J"ifersoi2and Louis lana and there
fore oe terson and Dakota. II embrace
France with her revolution and oar own, auc
Franco with lo asiana, Washington, JefTrI
son ard Dakota, and all inbO1nl in tn
g~oldcnrigol of republican institutions an
human felicity. Said I not rightly, as me:
count the periCds OF time-it 10 a WonderiL
year
al other Gel ,bratiOns OF tais day be on
the IL aiation IT the historic pas% then the,
will he "A mere ostentation which will "a
with the year. But your jubilee unites hors
with history and advancement with memory
"Gours, citizens OK the northwest. IS a ceIe
hratton that bids tbe gloWiog sJenes If -,
future 1T distance, hail. No more the ap
prelenslou Of the stealthy tread of the Uac
cas.n. No more che plGSh, OF the Freaci
traders oar in Jour lakes &nd streams
Touch the ,Mlse % orr active age and 1s
win feel the throb Of tte mighty mechsnt'
me vement which ipterweaves your inter
changes with the world. Place yonr co. Z
t:se earth and yo2 will hear the tramp, tramp
tramp OF The coming generations. Stretch
pur vision from rOuS dawning centenary
eminence, and %! Chaos ard ohd n'gtr roll
away before al auroral spIeE&or, 'f~ar-s.nkinl
| into splendor ~ithout end
a hail! Sisters IF the northwest! A
one Dot altogether unfamiliar with vor ter
ritory and its, aspiratons--as one who has IL