Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-04-03
The New States Of the West.

The following glowing tribute to the
new states of the west is excerpt from
Senator Pierce's response to toast at
the recent Michigan republican club
banquet at Detroit;
The new states! The new states want
justice, they are patriotic, but they are
poor. They love the old flag, but mas
much as they have Just set up them
selves, and gone housekeeping as it were,
they have an indescribable longing for an
appropriation. Laughter For 10,
these many years they have contributed
to the national debt, but the dollar of the
daddies has not cast it's sh1mmering face
toward their rivers and their towns and
their harbors, to any great extent. They
have joined IN the music but no seats in
the national band wagon have been re-
served for them. At last they have
climbed in. In the western vernacular,
they have Caught on" and now they
come forward in the true modest Ameri-
can way and say to the boys that now is
the accepted time to apologize for the
negligence of the past and make up for
lost opportunity. They are not greedy.
They have not reached that state posses
sed by their sister states where they can
ask for the earth and then look down
hearted because they are no more worlds
to appropriate for their use. [ suppose
they will reach that sublime stage pretty
soon, but they are not there now. AT
present they only ask to be recognized as
out of their apprenticeship and as part
ners, though only junior partners, of the
great comPaay. Mr.. President, the best
people in the world are in the west.
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III Detroit, for you are western people
yourselves out here, although the crowd
ing years are fast pushing you into that
as the efTete east. jApplausel. [ could
safely say that same thing. I make no
doubt, in New England, for this senti
ment would be replied to ALTERNATELY by
the fathers and mothers whose children
inhabit our western land. and in whose
veins runs that blood which lent spirit
to the pilgrim father and beauty and
fragrance to the old Maytlower OF the
Massachusetts coast. Ah, MIR. President
the people there are Young and youth
counts for SO much. Youth explores,
dares, cOnqners; age reflects. hesltates,
cOunsels. The people OF the east see in
our youth the renewal OF their own youth
and not only that, but in its population
they behold reproduction of the old
vim and patriotism of their own which
makes their aged hearts beat anew.
The new states: believe the new
states have not disappointed their friends.
They have known who their friends were
aud their friends have been able to trust
them: they can trust them still: in our
own western parlance politically they
will stand without h!tching. [Applause
and lauGhteri. But, Mr.. President, they
have leaned well in those western states
the lesson OF liberty and obedience to
law. No army is required to maintain
order there. No federal election law is
necessary to enable a citizen to cast his
ballot for the candidate of his choice
and to see that ballot fairly counted.
No police are necessary to suppress riots:
to protect property Or prevent intimida-
tion and violence. The agricultural
west is the rock upon which treason and
anarchy, lawlessness and democracy,
alike go down in shlpwreck. IApplausel.
The brawny farmer marches with that
political party which Abraham Lincoln
led: and, inspired with that great spirit,
he keeps step to the music of the union.
IApplause!. I want the republican party
to touch elbows with the men of the west
II they have claims. hear them. If they
have grievances. redress them. Meet
them in this broad. liberal spirit and it
Will be in the future as il the past. The
farmers nf the west. from Kansas to
North Dakota and from Michigan to
Montana. and Washington viii remain
faithfUl to Othat great party whose historic
glory spans like an arch the entire con
tineut. IADplause.