St. Paul daily globe., 1889-07-05

from their present useless condition, for
the higher economics of cultivated life.
The people of South Dakota, in which
lies the largest reservatlOn-56, 900
square miles, as large as Michigan-are
to be congratulated. They will soon
have an amicable ending of the confer
ences. and an increased immigration IN
consequence of the calm, clear, saga
cious policy which has obtained with
respect to their domain.
LOVE OF LAND.
You cannot eradicate from the Amer
ican the love of land. Bv the laws OF
heredity there is an instinct for the dig
nitv of possessing the soil. This fact is
attested, whether by the holders OF the
poorest soeter in Norway, or the min
utest tracklet in Picardy or Prussia, the
biggest bonanza farms of North Dakota,
the lordly acres of Scotland and Hun
gary. or the cattle ranches of Wyoming,
Texas and Colorado. 1t is exaggerated
in the American. He combines i'll him
self the avariciouSneSs for acres OF all
the races. You may say that the Mexi-
can is an exception. Some one has said,
looking at the slovenly bodies of the
pOeD, that the soil is more attached to
him than ne to the soil. This may be
true, for soap is legal tender and me-
dium of exchange in some parts OF Mex
leo, it is so precious and scarce. The
Sioux also. though a nOmad. has a like
attachment to the soil, which is said to
be mutual; though disSOlved-Only at
long intervals-by asupposititiOus bath!
Mrs. Custer relates this fact Of Que OF
the tribe, but she adds that he took the
bath by the agency OF his Wife-facit
per alum facit per Sc.
Capt. Clark, in his description of the
aborigineS whom he found upon the
upper Missouri in 1908, records one of
their customs: They struck their
weapons on the earth three times, and,
like the old lady, swore by the 'land's
sake" Their reluctance to part with
their lands, although using them only
as hunting grounds, indicates some
thing of the spirit of their ancestors
and their nomadic congeners in Asia.
The people who settled the North
west Territory-Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
roughed it with fever and ague, qui-
nine and whiskey, log cabins, frontier
wars and domestic privations. In our
time, that avatar of the new civilization
the Ocomotive-pioneerS the way,
and emigration follows; so that in
your own territory you have every day
an example of the advanced condition
of our whole country, and our living
present, as distinguished from the dead
past of hundred years ago.
JEFFERsON'S IDEAS.
My friends, the institutions based
upon the republican ideas which JEFF
ferson taught, not alone in the declara-
ton and in the ordinances which he
championed, but by his majestic faith
in humanity, give emphasis to this cele-
bration. | have said that we cannot too
highly praise his philosopbic foresight
in looking beyond the Appalachian
chain which in his day hemmed in the
original colonies, to the banks of the
Mississippi-and even beyond that
mighty river--sO that future genera
tions might breathe more exhilarating
atmosphere, and our freedom have
wider and purer azure as the dome of
magnificent future.
In this analysis the orator found our
greatness to consist:
First, in the general physical and
agricultural progress, next the special
pro ress of the ten prairie states and
Western territories, and last, the adj
vancement of Dakota. and on each head
illustrating the marvellous growth
which belonged to the new states which
were stars set upon the forehead of our
country.
"Great as was the anticipation of
Jefferson when he acquired Louisiana,
great as was the hope of those who eX
plored our territories nearly century
ago. no one at that time could surmise,
much less anticipate. the great extent
onA ualnQ nf fhIa hnrito fn xryi,i oh
were born. AS we'll might Capt. Clarke
when lowering in sight of the Black
Hills, and reaching out and following
with his mind the streams that came
from them to irrigate the plain,. have
guessed that there would be taken out
of these hills, $50, 100000 of precious
metals in a decade. Who could have
dreamed that in 1900 that these, then
uncultured lands of the West, now
known as the prairie States" would
produce in 1880 326,000,OO0 bushels of
wheat out of the 460,000,000 raised in
the United States that year? Who
could have then anticipated the
great influx of immigration, the
enlargement of commercial facilities,
the inventions of mechanism, the pros
perity of all classes, and especially our
extraordinary agricultural progress
since the beginning of the century?
Who could have believed that our edu-
cational systems, with their largesses
from the treasures of the states and the
lands of the federal government, should
have been so priced and Datured as adj
juEcts of civilization? Who could have
imagined that so soon the hardShips Of
the pioneer, the danger from Indian
massacre, and the difficulties of break
ing up the vast pralrles and OF building
horse, would be Obviated, and that so
soon your harvest would be golden and
your civilization fill the highest aims of
domestic comfort and intellectual prog
reSS?