The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-08-15
COZ'S CONCLUSIONS.
Excerpts from the brilliant Con.
gressman's Speech ON Da-
kOta's Admission.
|. The Great Territory Stands Unparal
leled in It's Growth and
Prosperity.
And III People Are Governed Is Indians
Are Governed, BY Remote OH
cials In Washington.


ulation, in area in wealth and in progress
stands unexampled in the annals Of man
kind for material, political, and I may
say, intellectual and spiritual advance
Ment. RI
There can be no greater indignity than
In keeping 90 vast q country, with .
population SO energetic and hopeful, %
industrious and foresighted, under tsr-
ritorial form Of government.
il divided into two states, both will
have an area greater than any one Of the
states except California, Colorado, Kan
sas, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon or
Texas. Each would exceed the whole Of
New England with New Jersey thrown
in. & sa. 4
You cannot chain this Prometheus to
rock. Its organisms counties, towns
and cities governed just now as Indians
are governed, by remote department
in Washing gton, cannot afford to wait
upon congress whose recreations are
filibustering and whose best business
habits are the ridicule Of the nation.
Her surface il nearly all arabic land.
{ It is easily titled and miraculously pro-
ductive. There Is no necessity to clear
trees and remove stumps.
The old fort, Sitting Bull, and all the
wildness Of early days has given way to
cities and towns, and railroads, and
farms. and q population larger than that
Of many states looms up in majestic pro
portions, with all the paraphernalia 81
government and all the refinement Of
Christian civilization. E5s5= ISL.
This energetic and hopeful people have
in their veins the vigorous blood Of many
races. They have inherited the material,
intellectual and moral triumph Of the
old and new world and their civiliza-
tions. They have settled upon soil which
has no rival in richness, and no peer ii
production.
What Europe is to Asia, what Eng
land is to the. rest Of Europe, what
America is to Europe and England, that
the Western states and territories are to
the Atlantic states.
Western America is the most inter
esting subject of study which the mod
ern world has seen, because our planet
contains no such other favored tract Of
country. II,
y The spirit Of this people Of the North.
west is thatof unbounded push and en-
ergy. These are the men who have tull-
neled our mountains, who have delved
IN our mines, who have bridged our riv.
ers, who have brought every part Of our
empire within the reach Of foreign and
home markets, who have made our
grand growth and development. They
are the men who have made our national
life. There is no parallel in history to
their achievements. You cannot hold
them as captive to the federal system.
You must give them self-reliant state
hood.
These people are intoxicated by the
majestic scale Of nature in which their
lot is cast. Their imagination reyels in
every sight. They gid their own strug-
giles with the belief that they are the
missionaries Of civilization and the in
struments Of Providence ia the greatest
work the world has ever seen. They
live in the future rather than the pres
ent. Not that they fail to work while il
is called day. but they see the country
not merely as it is, but as it will be ii
twenty, fifty, or one hundred years
hence. when the seedlings shall have
grown to forest trees.
The frontier spirit Is passionate eager
ness and strenuous effort. It would ex.
tract the greatest amount Of value from
mining, hills, territories and fields, and
with q passion so absorbing as to be un-
selfish. It makes from its very vastnesa
. twinge of ideality. II makes routes
for exchangeable commodities with .
rapidity which seeks 8 market with one
hand and throttles q monopoly with the
othss.