New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-11

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NY answer Is: The West hanged the Anarchists Her
visionary men Will soon come to their and chi
becoming Ia NcwYorh, or Boston. or Phsdei I tS
sneer az Shlcago They have the growth Of 200 years
man, was in Chicago when it was mere village g
aiSerwaid saw square miles Of her burnt district;
Sne Is wonderful city, the product Of the wonderful
west or course. the West is not without her faults
her Peope may need more culture, lofter standard
OIL political ethics they perhaps lack reverence for
poetry and the fine arts Are you people Of the East
perfecta Where can you find a worse governed city
IMAM can be named among those bordering the At
lantc ocesnl In the East you sometimes have small
Rox and cholera and you are never entirely free from
OF such people should always be proud"f
THERE is PLENTY OF ROOM STILL.
You ask is not the West full is II not time to
stop repeating this talismanlc sentence of Horace
Greeley? Far from it. The West has just begun TO
grow. You can put the entire people of the United
states into Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and the two
Dakoas and they will not be thlckly populated
is Great Britain to-day. More than that with proper
cultivation those five States furnish food for the
whole 630OoOO0 of people. The possibilities Of the
West for the production OF food have yet hardly been
conceived The valley of the Mississippi alone will
some day be swarmlng with 600o0000O human be
ings There is nowhere else the face of the earth
another such tract of productive land Its future is
beyond all calculation almost beyond comprehension
Horace Greeley realized somewhat of these lockedup
treasures He was always in sympathy with the men
who titled the soil His vision never tired Of watch
days. through The Weekly Tribune, reached nearly all
their homes. No other man did SO much TO people
to do with shaping their beliefs and moulding their
character.
by the VINO told me they had been readers OF
that Weekly Tribune for more than iory years and
nifty OF manner that reminds one of devout Catholic
mel a e name 0r soe To @ aeope of this
city here and now: You have the location winch should
Wod There e sr So Why not aspire to
become the commercial centre OF Doh heInlspneres
on iona! bSss es BUT do What You VIII
nothing to be gained by belttlng Chicago ana the
" %e the Teges do sS Of land m the aes
q the globe She n is and Will Ws continue s6s to on be
about fifty years old, and yet she is already the
second city this continent She intends to be the
first sT really SaE G Sas e shs e eaU
succeed in filling that immense area with people and
With T hGF at er 9en
Young man. he hardly dreamed Of igSh y result fcntI
Years yeM ro@ 0da W be possible me to
two and onehaf millions of people in that City OF inc
Lakes How people t Will s s city vi hen bmsness
men. If she reaches out and gathers in, as she
should, her portion Of the commerce OF the world,
she shall get fast hold on the high seas, and does
her part Of the carrying trade that belongs to this
Nation-n short II she will supplement her trade
from the Countries of the Old World, and carry on
that trade in American ships built and owned es ay
this, my prediction this young city 2f the West
in this country OF ours; Indeed, both are needed
You must not forget that, while the West Is great In
her agricultural and mining products she too is build
ing up enormous manufacturing industries. But more
than all this 2eT aria Of Ser Bravo neW
perseverng people Her sons are largely made up
Greeley's advice and went West. Some good men re,
mained behind. could name several from Maine and
TRe advice adv then given by Mr. Greeley
is still good advice. There is still room in the West
only for the very best What the West wants is
practical business men. She has no place place
1 Or mn es. IN politics S ' she needs no Magwumps in
literature and Journalism no dleantSm' GG09 pam n
Franklin and the incislve sentences Of Horace
Greeley suit her tastes and take with her Tas like me
sentences described by some one falling from the
lips q Oliver Cromwell. "such words are alive,
The drones Of the East the dudes whether in liter
aure politics business or o the Msar BgdS d
gloves and patent leather boots, may as well remain
where they There is little room and no need tor
Thousands Of openings can sti be found for ntelli
gent energetic no fenbes have Ve
to be made, must be earned; they are not picked
up The ne advice was, aGo West young man." 1t was
not given to the middle aged, the old only to those
who had lifetime of active work Of mental mem IaS Snd
still holds good. In going, however, 40 not 1orget
3 st Counts noS e and the ina
some one once said if you would let him write the
a i sTe bes s soed nSS sS early
day in the development Of the human Sn race Sfl
give me- eo' control nitro ' Of the business men Q,
Ins Nation care not who writes It's songs and will
perIty and building up of our great Republic;
Horace Greeley did wonderful work NJ ThT se great aSs
preached more fervently clearly the gospel of Pro
lection. He was true friend OF all American IN
Of mo man e SS more lie Hss always e de-
lender of the weak, the friend OF the oppesscn te
Till the soil With him agriculture was a passion 1t
was his love Of crops and cattle his vision of growing
rural farmers homes that never permitted him to
cease crying out: go West, young man. zap
plause)
READING Mr.. sTEDMAN's POEM.
Then the charming verses of the poet of the
occasion, Edmund Clarence Stedman, claimed the
attention of the house. The chairman prefaced
the poem by the following remarks: Some
Years ago our leading American critic wrote
paper, in which he insisted that this was the
twilight of the poet whereupon the muse of poetry
furnished complete refutation by pointing to his
own poems / take it this was the finest bit OF
argumentum ad hOminem furni shed in literature
Mr.. Stedman is unable to be here tonight, for the
very good reason that he has been called at short
notice to take the laboring oar in preparing for
celebrating the great copyright victory. Ills
poem, written at short notice, is designed merely
70 express his love for paper with
which he was so long and so honoraby
connected. 1t will be read by Professor Charles
Roberts. of the Union Theological Seminary
The poem was received with immense enthu-
iasm. 1t is as follows:
ON THE OLD DECK.
The heads are boar and the hands are falling
OF those who watched by the harbor-bar
When the stout young ship on her quest went sang'
When The Tribune cleared for port afar'-
Put blitheIy out on of storm,
with master and mates and an eager crew,
~ --.,- L.. c1ir,n 1uhnro the skies