St. Paul daily globe., 1889-07-05
withstanding they have not acquired
the Volapuk as medium.
TRADITlON AND POETRY.


The stories and traditions from which
poetry is derived-its very argument
abound throughout your territory, from
Devils lake, with its wonderful snake,
to the shadowy giants which once
guarded the Black Hills from human
intrusion. Wherever forests grew
there is found the weird ancestral
tree" in whose boughS the dead indians
are sepuichred, entombed like the coffin
of the Arab camel driver, between earth
and heaven.
Your Missouri is itself a flowing epic.
AS the early explorers found it dlfh-
cult to comprise in any general descr!p-
tiOn the characteristics of the Missouri
so extensive and fed by somany streams
which have their sources in great
they wrote, 'the great river was
sufficiently powerful to give all its
waters something of common char
acter." Its very face, its banks. its
channel, its bluffs, its productions. its
timbers, may undergo changes, owing
to the variety of it's tribute, but 1t may
be said that its deposits, unlike some
which are put into other banks, tend to
the enrichment of the country. Out OF
its local variety is evoked that unity OF
which the constitution is the symbol
and the bond!
Finally he made glowing picture of
the progress of the West and its future
as dominating element, controlling
the excesses of the sections.
CAUSE OF STABILITY.
''If there has been any danger to our
Union or its constituents. it never came
from the new states. 1t will not come
from them hereafter. 1t came from the
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Younger children are not prone to be
within the charmed circle of the
Union, the young states not only
revere each other and all, but ack-
knowledge that blessed centripetal en-
ergy which, whatever may be the cen-
ter of population and the relation of the
sections, will not allow the states to
make flash like meteors athwart the
political sky, but enables them to re-
volve and shine in appointed orbits on
their own soft axle. Saratoga and
York town called into existence the Fed
eral Union under the constitution, but
Appomattox settled foreverits stability.
Washington and his compatriots evoked
from the Revolution the established
order, but the embattled bravery OF our
own epoch gave assurance of its inviO-
liable Z perpetuity. The order may
be lkened to the sun with its
luster and orce-illuminating without
consuming. orbicular and not erratic.
The states preserve under its attraction
their proportions of equality and inde-
pendence. Within the same shining
pathway, out of their territorial nebulae,
there bursts forth in your Northern
heavens, set in the forehead of the cen
fn1 or nj N
but each giving their special qualities
to the system-each repairing with
their golden urns'' to draw light and
add fresh illumination, so that
like the stars at the dawn OF ere
alton, each and all move in their orbits
with symphonies attuned by the har-
monies of the everlasting law of God.
There are now thirteen states west of
the Mississippi. Soon there will be
seventeen. They are with US. or will
be with us before our centennial year is
over. When the next census is taken
there will be, most likely, 100000
of inhabitants embraced in the seven
teen states and territories upon this
side of the Mississippi.
Since our three millions in the small
strip upon the Atlantic coast, we have
leaped forward with such progress that
nearly six times the original population
which achieved our independence will
become partakers of that union in that
territory alone which Mr.. JeffersOn'S
grand project incorporated in the treaty
of 1903.
Steadily Westward, since the begin
ming of our career, has the ''star of the
empire" wended its way. 1t now looks
down upon three states in the heart of
our Union-Kentucky, Ohio Indiana
but the light which it sheds is so SUI
pernal and lofty that you may catch its
CLEANS in remote Washington and dis
tant Florida. or from the pine woods of
Maine to the orange groves of Cali
fornia.
CONGRATULATIONS.
Therefore, my fellow citizens, as one
who has had something to do in watch
ing Dakota as Graded Hercules, it is
my pride and pleasure on this natal day
of states and Union, to congratulate you
and your colleagues further West, upon
the happy outcome of the long contro-
versy by which. without further petit
tiOning congress-, or further action from
that body, and by the application of
your own popular system, you renew
under these wide skies and plains that
allegiance, love and loyalty to the whole
country, without which we would all
suffer disastrous eclipse.
He, indeed. is unworthy of citizenship
in such land who simply looks upon
the marvel of our newly created states
with an eye to party aggrandizement.
Parties may come and go. but the new
commonwealths which have added their
luster to our ensign, shine by right and
not by sutferance. They are in the full
radiance of statehood. They are the
subject of patriotic cOngraUulation, not
less than those old commonwealths who
have recently rejoiced over the inaugur
alton of our constitution and its first in
comparable president.
Would it were in my power to make
horoscope of that future of America
which now looms upon her horizon. 1t
| would not be bounded by state lines,
nor by ocean, lake and gulf. Its pOpu-
lation would count up, even within the
lifetime of many who hear me, to 10O.-
| OO000 people, instinct with enterprise;
intelligent through education; free
through its institutions and banded to-
gether by common memories for glow
| ing and glorious future. States and not
territories, not ignoble dependencies
but independent sOveregnties, these
| make up that refine ement of civil polity
which is the attribute of the American
system, and which has no example in
the annals of mankind. Its people
may be composite, its system COM
plex, but it's destiny is one
and its forces compensatory and
beneficent. Its very machinery is
worthy of the prophetic vision of the
Hebrew prophet when he saw wheel
within wheel, even as states within
states-imperium in imperio-and all
moving under harmonious conditions
and evolving the greatest happiness for
the greatest number-all working
under energetic, vital, elemental forces
which give to life that liberty which
cannot but by annihilation die.
Tine great event which stands most
prominent at the head of our new CEN
| tury, which the next census will make
| still more illustrious, is the fact that
the Western country, along with the
cities west of the Mississippi, from st.
Paul to Portland, from st. Louis to San
Francisco, and from Bismarck to Gal
weston, will add such percentages to
their growth in population and in
| wealth that cotton and commerce will