The Lamar register., 1891-05-16
rae PRESIDENT AT DENVER.
An Enthusiastic Welcome Given to the
Nations Chief at Coiorado's
Capital

izens. The party took carriages and were
slowly driven through the streets to
Capitol Hill, where the President delivered
a speech, which was listened to by 1900
people. The buildings everywhere, were
decorated Ia honor of the day and the
streets were crowded with people, many
of whom came from neighborins towns
The President and the other gentlemen OF
the party were entertained at an elegant
lunch provided By the managers OF the
new Hotel Metropolis, while Mrs. Harri-
son and the other ladies were entertained
at the residence OF Governor Routt, after
having listened TO an organ recital ten
dered to them by Professor Pfefferkorn at
Trinity Methodist Church.
After driving about the city in the
afternoon the party visited the Argo
smelter and watched with much interest
the process of extracting silver from the
ore. The special train left for the east at
6p. N.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
G0ueruor Rontt, lfl'. Mayor, Pioneers
of Colorado, Comrades OF the Grand
-iln,y Of he Republic and Felloae-cit-
izens;-This scene is inspiring. This
beautiful city, the fame Of which your
journeying citizens have not failed 10 carry
10 the far East, had become known 10 me
as we can know by the hearing of the ear,
and l am reioiced to add 10 my pleasant
impressions Of Colorado and Of its CON-
merclal and political capital this sight OF
the eye, which has but deepeued and en-
larged the favorable impressions which
brought TO your state.
1t is a marvellous thing that we are here
in state whose existence dates from the
dawn OF the second century OF our national
life. What tremendous testimony to the
organizing power and energy OF the
American people this great state is. That
these wastes, SO unpromising to the eye,
in that early time should have been
invaded by the restless energy of indom-
liable men; that they should have seen in
visions that which was 10 fellow their
heroic efforts for the development OF these
hidden resources; that no drouth or drift
ing sand, no threat of mountain or sky
could turn back these brave hearts who
had set their faces to pierce and uncover
the hidden riches of these mountains. The
pioneers OF Colorado are worthy Of honor.
Those who have entered into their
labors, who have come, not toilsomely, but
upon swift and easy wings into the her
itage that they have opened, should al
ways and everywhere gratefully acknowl-
edge the services OF those who made this
easy pathway for their feet. Your state
is blessed in diversity of resources. You
do not depend upon any one of the great
industries of civilized life. You have
taken from your mines immense stores Of
precious metals, out when these are gone,
or their supply is diminished, you will
tarn your eyes towards those metals that
we call base; but that, after all, enter in
so many ways into human life that they
supply more enduring and, in the end,
more profitable industries. Your iron and
coal and lead and building stone will be
sources OF income inexhaustible. These
valleys, touched by the magical power of
irrigation, win yield to your population
abundant food, and you viii yet have
wllhin yourselves that happy commercial
condition OF a state producing and ex
changing within its own limits nearly all
the neeessaries of life. Transportation is
always d burden. The industrial con-
dition is always best when the producer
and the consumer are near together.
am glad to know that you have not
been SO busy in delving into the earth /,
you have not so much turned your mind TO
precious metals as 10 have forgotten that
there is a blue above YOU; that there
are aspirations and hopes and sIories that
are greater than all material things. You
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children, the blessed children of your
household that are now coming on, are
made secure in the possession of well
ordered and well endowed school system.
What testimony it is to the American
character that, however intense the push
for the things Of this lire, however eager
the pursuit of gain, you can never assem-
BILE community of 200 people that they
do not begin to organize schools for The
children These common schools are not
simply nurseries of intellectual training;
they are nurseries of citizenship. 1t has
been most happy sight to see the same
old banner, that we bore into the smoke of
battle and carried over dying comrades to
place itin triumph on the ramparts of the
enemy, now in the hands of all the children
of Colorado.
Proof has been made thousand times,
proof will be made whenever the occasion
arises that much as we pursue gain and
personal ends, we have nothing, property,
life, that we do not freely lay down upon
the altar of our country and the general
good. But my fellow-citizens, this as
semblage is too vast and the demand upon
my time for public speech has been too
protracted to enable me to pursue these
remarks further.
Comrades OF the Grand Army of the
Republic, survivors OF the great war,
whose success preserved al that our
fathers had devised and established,
whose success brought back this flag in
honor and established it again, the undis-
puted emblem of an indissoluble union
God has bountifuliy heightened out your
days that you might catch some glimpse
OF the glory that has come from the
achievements in which you bore an honor
able part. But only the vision Of the
prophet, reaching out over centuries to
come, can catch the full glory of what
your deeds have wrought. give you to
day most afEectionate greeting. I give
you regretful goodbye. May you hold,