New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-05
s. s. COX ON THE DAKoTAS.
A FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON AT HURON. OAK
DWELLING ON THE RESOURCES AND
FUTURE OF THE NEW sTATEs-No

FUTURE OF THE NEW sTATES-No
DANGER TO THE UNION FROM
| THEIR ADMISSION.
| Huron, Dak July 4-Huron was in gala dress
to-day, and immense throng of citizens and visitors
filed her streets The guest and orator of the day
Congressman S. s. Cox, Of New-York In the
morning Mr. Cox spoke before large audience in the
| Opera House. At p. m. there was procession
| two miles long, and later in the afternoon a great
open. air meeting. at which Mayor Rice presided. In
PRODUCING as the speakers Mr. Cox. Governor Mectte
and Judge Moody The audience Of 10000 people
gave warm greeting TO Mr.. Cox.
Mr. Coxs Grafton was taken up largely with a
sketch OF the history of the States especially Of
the two Dakotas and with statement of their vast
resources and their magnificent promise Of future
greatness portion Of the concluding part OF the
address follows:
am OF those who believe that our political
agents corrupt they pictured nor DO join In
Pharsaica cant from the pulpit the press which
srrogates itself out of its purity by derogatng from
the virtue others in a hundred years There are
creep Of their shells after long hbenaon 10
scourge money changers from the temple and the
devils out Of political body They are not en-
titled much emphasis those who, In the heat and
dust Of active c religious political social educational
and otherwise illustrate by daily living and manly strug'
gle the virtues which others only preach.
The great opportunities for gain, which have been IN
creased with lapse Time source OF danger
|
Influences who praise antique virtues look
through the msts Of and thus magnify their eulogy
II is always ideal based upon civic virtue
by which the future itself lie directed and measured
The great peril OF this country has been passed we
can look back from lofty height and from this new
part the country without shudder at The abyss over
which we have passed The keen eye OF that eagle oy
which we are pleased typify our height and Hight
here sweeps an extended horizon, and though nyhg I'D
unerrng circles IT gazes with unauenched sight upon our
full midday radiance. defyng all the augures OF iate'
There IS no pessmst cynical there is no politician 50
corrupt theorst 30 Wild who dares ignore the
spend secular strength by which we have enlarged our
domain enhanced institutions and glorfed our Repub
| lie during the last century.
IL puzzes such critics 1.-THE London Tirc% 70 unoer'
stand this remarkable advancement and stability III Is
impossible" exclams that paper "for unity Ike Amer
ica not 10 be transformed by the pungng into 1t OF realm
after realm"
This clear expression, but IT means that the cd
that States four at BIRTH Is uah
gerous to the system 1t thinks that the centre OF nation
al gravity must surely be altered by the accreon OF uch
new States rs those which are forming the latest
constellation. The Engshman has learned little about
us 1916 he has not learned that the coionla' ue
pendent territorial condition Is not our norman eo"ui'
ton Our people cltizds, not subjects Ihey nave
been cultured in communities before they venured INTO
Territories with the hope prospect and right of again be-
coming citizens in the full Romanesque quality
There are perls surrounding State not to be ignored
without thunder or crime but our danger not from
the causes and conoton predicted by the London Journal
lst There is Of tipping over by changing the
centre OF national gravity danger OF any modification
in the present or the future, to weaken the gatufe
which binds the citizen 10 the sovereignty OF the people
in the states and in the Union Our new States-rcam
after ream-when they come to engthen broaden
| and strengthen every atom or clement which makes
I'd that national gravity whose centre is In the hearts
OF an honest people and whose circumference is mtea
only by gulf, ocean and lake.
7, there has been any danger Union or It's con-
stItuents il never from States. it VIII not
come from them hereafter 1t came from the old states
with pecuar Institutions. Younger children are not
! nrone TO be matrcida Profoundly proud 70 be within
the charmed the Union the young States not only
revere each other ALL but acknowledge that blessed
centrpedai energy which, whatever may be the centre
~ popuation and relation Of the ecos Will not allow
the States to like meteors athwart the political sky
hut enables them revove and shine in appointed orbits
| on their own soft axle
Would It in my power TO make horoscope OF that
future Of America which looms upon her horizon 1t
would not bounded by State lines by ocean, lake and
gulf. It's population would count up, even within the
lifetime OF many me, TO hundred million OF peo-
pie instinct enterprise intelligent through education
free through It's institutions and banded together BY common
memories for a growing and glorious future
This evening Judge Campbell gave reception to
Mr. and Mrs. Cox, who start tomorrow for James
town. on their way to the Yellowstone Park