Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-23

from boyhood the excitement OF the dis
covery Of gold and had always distantly
followed California's growth. The
acquisition OF California was second
only to that OF Louisiana, and the con-
troll of the Mississippi river. It secured
us this great coast, and made impossi-
BILE the ownership OF foreign power on
any of our coast lines. 1t had helped
to perfect our magnificent isolation,
which is our great protection against
foreign aggression. He thanked the gov
ernor and committee for their kindly
reception, land assured them that if he
should have any complaint to make of
his treatment in California, it would be
because its people had been too hospita-
BILE.
INDIANS PRESENT AN ADDRESS.
The president then shook hands with
large number Of people, including
several Indians, among them Chief
Cabazon, chief the Indio tribe of In
dians, who is over 100 years of age.
They presented an address to the presi-
dent, asking for justice and assistance.
The ceremonies took place on the plat
form of the station, and were very in
teresting. The governor and party left
here in company with the president
at s 80 am, for Los Angeles.
FROM INDIo TO COTTON.
The run from Indio to Cotton was
through beautiful valley, abounding
with picturesque scenery, not the least
interesting of which were the snow-cap-
ped peaks of Grey Back and San Jacinto
mountains. At Banning the president
was welcomed by all the inhabitants
and the Indian children being educated
there. They all bore boquets OF wild
flowers, and filled nearly all the cars
with them. The president and Post
master-General Wanamaker expressed
their thanks in a few felicitous remarks,
and the president afterwards shook
hands with all the children. The sta
tion was decorated with flags.
The presidential party also received a
cordial reception at Beaumont. The
president shook hands with several
hundred people. The next stop was at
Cotton, where the president was well
coined by large and enthusiastic
crowd, nearly all of whom pressed up to
the platform OF the train and shook
hands with him. The public school
children, with flags, helped to swell the
throng. The president was introduced
by Governor Markham, and made a
short patriotic address. Speeches were
also made by Secretary Rusk and Post
master General Wanamaker. The mayor
OF Los Angeles and committee OF citi-
zens, including several ladies, boarded
the train at Cotton and accompanied
the president to Los Angeles.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH AT COTTON.
Following is the presidents address at
Colton "My fellow citizens We have
travelled now something more than
$500 miles. They have been $500 miles
of cordial greeting from my fellow citi-
zens. They have been $500 miles of per-
petual talk. 1t would require a brain
more fertile in resources, more diversi-
fed in its operations than the state of
California in it's productions, to say
something original or interesting at each
one OF these stopping places; but 1 can
say always, with warm heart, to my
fellow citizens who greet me so cordially,
who look to me out of such
kindly faces-I thank you; / am
your servant in all things that
will conduce to the general
prosperity and happiness of the Ameri-
can people. Remote from us of the far
east in distance, we are united to you,
not only by ties of common citizenship
by the reverence and honor we joyfully
give to one flag, but by those inter-
changes of emigration which have
brought so many people OF the older
states to you. At every station where 1
have stopped since entering California,
some Hoosier has reached up his hand
to greet me. Laughter and cheersl.
And ~. Il
course, have found everywhere. / was
were making their full contributions to
the development of your country, and
that they had possessed themselves of
their fair share Of it. | have been
greatly pleased this morning to come
out of land of desert and drifting sand
into this land of homes and smiling
women and bright children. l have
been glad to see these beautiful gardens,
these fertile fields, ,and to know that you
are now, by economical collections and
distributions of the waters of the hills,
making all these valleys to smile like
the garden OF Eden. We do not come
as spies to look at your land with any
view of dispossessng you, as the original
spies went into Palestine; we come
simply to exchange friendly greetings,
and we shall hope to carry away nothing
that does not belong to us. [Cheers. ]
If we shall leave your happy and pros
porous state freighted with your good
will and love, as we shall leave ours with
you, it will be happy exchange"
PoMoNA's GREETING.
POMONA, April 22.-The presidential
party reached here at l O'Clock and
stopped twenty minutes. Only two
hours notice of the stop had been given,
but the whole town turned out and a
special train was run from Chino. H.
u. Osborne introduced the president,
who spoke as follows:
"You will surely excuse me from ex-
tended remarks. l have been subjected
to such strain that my brain needs IT.
rigation to put it in trim again. This
reference to irrigation was Justify
cheered.l 1 am glad to look at the
faces of American citizens. No such
people gather in any other country as
greet me at every station. They come
from good homes-the safety of the
commonwealth. am pleased to see
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