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

lincoln. They made durable our posse ssion
I the Missi, q ppi. from It's Itssca springs In
Minnesota, and It's mountain riyulets Ii
Montana and Wyoming, to the deltas and
bayous in the sunny south.
"The Mississippi once ours, partition be
came as in~ apostolic az the separation OF colo
from the rainbow. Every drop Of water tina
oozes from the little fountaios OF its smalles
tributaries, holds In It's cryetal purity thu
sever -hued covenant OF union. Every freshe
Of the Missouri, that brings down in solution
Wepster's empire OF flee soil every ~coniuen
from New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, anC
from the country below as well as above th'
Missouri-all the vast slluvial Bottoms OF thu
35, 900 tributaries which produce that tIinit,
In the wealth OF natiOns-cattle, corn anC
cotton-are eternal pledges OF the fidelity o.
the people who produce and live by these
riparian Dounties, to the iptee rity OF our I'm
perial covenant.
THUS, out Of the philosophic forecast o.
Jefferson, Illuminated In the mlsssl OF inde
pendelce, bound up with the jeweled clasl
Of the ordin ancc or l1S1, which dedicated tn,
northwest 10 freedom forever; out OF The
yellum, vital with law and liberty, upon
which IKE established order IL inscribed, out
OF the cessious OF the elder states, under wise
and generous conditions; out OF the legisia-
ticn Of congress IN this wonderful centennial
year, by which the once remote Missouri do
main Is apparellcd fer stately independence;
out of the sources Of prescriptive and imprc-
scriptible rights nay, out OF the very divine
origin OF all law-G God himself, has leaped
other new statcs-eecl panOplieJ, Ike
another Minerva, for defense, yet bearing the
olive rs a type OF wisdom and good Will.
"Cberc glebae atque potens Srmis!'
Mr.. Cox then referred TO the dedication OF
lands to settlers by the earlier and later con
crosses for educational purposes aud, more
recently, for the homestead. He dila'ed
/ upon the necessity Of education and hurled
an anathena against those who would Impair
The great endowment for education. Still
discussing The matter OF lands, be referred
TO the recent events connected with Indian
reservations and treaties, and laid down the
doctrine as follows:
The effort 70 often repeated by c%!yiliza-
ton was ended, after the method OF the
ancient Hebrews, who conquered and held
the promised aboriginal land. Fate may be
hard upon the savage occupants, but after
all, under the laws Of evolution and OF con
| gress, the superior civilization when en-
Couutering the inferior must succeed. 1t Is
inevitable that the superior must encompass,
control, absorb, and in the end, ~civilize and
elevate the weaker race. 1t Is the philosophy
~ the history of social Advancement, under
IN. divine order; IL Is for Us 10 apply IL II
The true spirit Of humanity"
He thus dissected the American instinct
for land
| Owe OF LAND.
you cannot eradicate from the American
the love OF land. By the laws OF heredlty
there is IN instinct for the dignity o. possess
irg the sell. This fact Is attested, whether
by the holders OF the poorest socter In Nor
way or the minutes tracBlet In P.cardy or
Prussia, the biggest bonarza farms OF North
Dakota, the lordly acres Of Scotland and
Hungary, or the cattle ranches Of Wyoming,
Texas and Colorado. 1t is exaggerated IN
the American. He combines In himself the
avariciousness for acres OF all the races. You
may say that the Mexican Is an exception.
Some one has said, looking at the ~sloyenly
bodies OF the peon, that the soil IL more e.
tached to him than he TO the soil. This may
be true, for soap Is a legal tender and g
medium OF exchange In some parts Of Mex
leo, 1t is so precious and scarce. The Sioux
also, though a nomad, has a like attachment
10 the toil, which Is said 20 be natural
though dissolved only at long intervals by 4
suppositious bath. Mrs. Custer relates thi:
fact OF one OF the tribe, but she adds that bs
took the bath by the agency OF his wife-faci
per olium facit per sc.
Captain Clark, in his description Of tn,
aborignes whom he found upon the uppe
Missouri In 1905, records one OF their Gus
toms: They struck their weapon Gu tn
earth thee times and, like the old lady
swore by thee lands sake Their reluctanc
to part with their lands although using then
only as hunting grounds, indicates sOmethin,
Of the spirit OF their ancestors and their 10
madic congeDers In Asia.
PHYSICAL AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS.
physical progress and the application o
steam and other motors upon sea and lauC
have made transportation and immigration
easier. Immigrants arrive at Castle GardeI
at TIE rate OF eighteen knots an hour. The
; food supply OF the world has not only beer
greatly increased In the ratio OF population
but better distributed and no other country
shows SO well In this regard a. our own. The
annual income from agriculture ia the
United States was estimated by the present
superintendent OF census, in ls80, at g., 900,
OOO, 900. In this revenue we still lead every
nation Of the world. In forest wealth, In the
precious metals, in iron and ste FL, In manu-
features OF all kinds, the present decade has
been the great progressive epoch OF our his
tory.
at is impossible or an occasion like this e
show the poetic and columnal grandeur OF
your fields OF grain, the product OF sky, soil ant
rain. From one object we can learn all. TAX,
corn as the object lesson-the Representative
American product. It will also furnish it
tasseled beauty and golden utilities for art
commerce and economy. There are pluine'
as well as ears In the battalions Of ma nc II
your peaceful fields. But we must return tC
statistics-to figures of arithmetic, no
rhetoric, to show the benefactions Of corr
land, not only 10 Our own but TO alien PEG
pies.
Last year our corn crop was , 000, 900, 00t
bushels. 1t was raised upon 1862 .63 acres
II would require 3, 000,0 0o cars with over 60.
600 locomotives In a train TO draw IL TO the
scaboard. II would take a year to pass sucl
a train through Chicago.
"Talk OF your corn palaces, Why, such
D recession of corn cars belts the globe. After
leaving seed for many millions Of acres, on
last year crop gives 10 each inhabitant thirtl
bushels! am not here to say how he coz
sumes Il; whether In the solid or LIQUID state
whether roasted on the ear, or taken In pork
But one thing remains 10 be considered, anC
that is, that only 4 per cent. OF this Immense
crop reaches a foreign market! The subtle
chemistry which makes out Of our rich loan
and smiling fields, food for man and fodder
for cattle, fails Of It's perfect purpose, unles,
our market is enlarged SO as to give the
farmer his merited reward, and so as to pre-.
vent the product from rotting In the rows
becoming a drug on our market, or beire
burnt for fuei.n
The speaker fortified his statements by
fresh figures from the departments, and Their
gave some relief to his elocution by etching
a picture OF the early and later exploration
along 'he Missouri 70 its sources aud theme,
TO the PaciRc, beginning with Macker zle ant
Lewis and Clark, and winding up with Custe
and those who explored and fought for tn