The Red Cloud chief., 1893-11-10

ITO Rcnaud, from Lamar
tine. Courageous service in the
of order, 1873"
Chateau-Renaud's service was this: In
February, 1918, when the French CAPT
tai was in the throes of revolution, u
mob surrounded the Hotel de Vile and
menaccd the deliberations of the assem-
bly,, which vas sitting within.
AT the Thcater Historique, where
Chateau-Renaud happened to be, he
heard OF the turmoil, and q bright
thought came to him. He put on the
costume of q representative Of the peo-
pie in the year 1893. Then he hunted
up an old white horse, mounted it, and
with a small crowd at his heels rode
straight to the Hotel de Vile and
through the mob which was shouting
about its doors.
~Dismounting he went into the hall,
where Lamartine was presiding.
"Citizens," he shouted, deliberate in
! peace! No one shall come in while l am
here!'
He went out and remounted his white
horse, and no one did come in. One
Enthusiastically attired man, with a terrible
countenance, had completely overawed
the crowd, which probably would have
detied successfully a regiment of soldiers.
When to n matchless assurance there
Is added the strength to back it up to the
last, we have o resistless combination Of
forces.
Nor is this strength in any sense n
matter Of the imagination. 1t is physi-
illogical fact.
The west is giving to the world for the
first time the composite a
Here we have the mingling Of all peo-
| pies, races, kindred and tongues from
| the uttermost limits Of the earth in the
fertile womb Of Anglo-Saxon national
ity.
Out Of this mingling, with the process
of time and culture, must come the i'm
perial manhood Of the twentieth CEN
fury.
The west in the breadth of its human.
itarian spirit is already giving evidence
Of the world breathing into its nature.
When faraway frozen Russia was starv-
lllS. ~ Naso thO gouiS NNpb nav NV
first her keen eye and strained it across
the seas, and turning with tears Of SYM
pathy sent -four and grain and meat on
a mission of love rs high as God and
as broad as humanity.
"TIE IGGEs THING on EARTH"
Third resources. The
vastness of the fair is symbolic not so
much Of the nation as of the west. 1t is
the inimitable incarnation Of the west
ern ideal-''the biggest thing on earth"
Conscious that they have the biggest and
richest country on the globe, anything
that stands for it must be the biggest.
Their boast is not an idle one. II Is n
solemn reality. 1t may be u more SOL
emn one to Us in the future.
Let us turn just here to DR.. Strong's
review Of this western empire to refresh
our minds upon the subject:
or the % states and territories west Of the
| Mississippi only three are as small as all New
England. Montana would stretch from Bos-
ton on the east to Cleveland on the west, and
extend far enough south to include Richmond
| Idaho, IL laid down in the east, would touch
Toronto on the north and Raleigh on the
south. while its southern boundary line Is long
| enough 10 stTtlCll lIOIn w lSlllnklDn CITY 10
Columbus, o., and California, If on our Attain
tic seaboard, would extend from the southern
line of Massachusetts, to the lower part of
South Carolina; or, in Europe, II would extend
from London across France and well into
Spain. New Mexico Is larger than tho United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The
greatest measurement of Texas Is nearly
| equal to the distance from New Orleans to
Chicago or from Chicago to Boston. Lay Tex
as on the face of Europe, and this giant, with
his head resting on the mountains of Norway,
directly east of the Orkney islands, with ono
palm covering London, the other Warsaw,
would stretch himself down across the king
dom of Denmark, across the empires Of Ger
many and Austria, across northern Italy, and
lave his feet in the Mediterranean Dakota
might be carved into a half dozen Kingdoms of
Greece, or. If it were divided into - equal coun-
ties, we might lay down the two kingdoms Of
Judah and Israel In each.
Place the 100000 inhabitants OF the United
States in 1850 all In Texas, and the population
would not be as dense rs that of Germany.
Put them In Dakots. and the population would
not DO as dense as that Of England and Wales.
Place them In New Mexico and the density Of
population would not DO rs great as that Of
Belgium. Those GO,0U,0O might all be COM
fortably sustained in Texas. After allowing,
say, $1,000 square miles for desert" Texas
could have produced all our food crops IN 1879
grown, as we have seen, on Gi,2l5 square
miles Of land-could have raised the worlds
supply of cotton, l2,0Oo,OO bales, at ono bale to
the acre. on 1900 square miles, and then have
had remaining for q cattle range u territory
LARGER thar the state OF New York.
Accounting all of Minnesota and Louisiana
west Of the Mississippi, for convenience, we
have, according to the census Of 1850, 2,ll5, l3j
square miles In the west and sji,S6j In the east
that IL, for every acre east of the Mississippi
we have nearly "a west of it.
THE VESTS WONDERFUL WEALTH.
Tho great deserts, SO called, Of the
west have either proved II fiction or are
being rapidly transformed by irrigation
into some Of the richest garden spots OF
the earth. Mr.. Strong continues:
Nor have we finished our inventory Of west.
ern wealth. Its mineral resources are simply
inoxhaustiblc. The precious metals have been
found In most Of the states and territories o.
our western empire. From the discovery OF
gold TO June %. lssl, California has produced
g ,li0.NO.OD of that metal. The annual prod.
uct Is now from SiS,0OO,OO to S2j,OO0,OOO. From
1863 to 1850 Idaho produced S@,u0,OO0 Of gold
and silver, and Montana, from 1851 to 1879, not
less than Slb.,"O,UO. In ~ years Nevada pro.
duccd SHe,Sl5,NO of the precious metals. Tn,
production Of Colorado during thc2i years pre-
ccding 1853 was SIS. ,OO,O0O. Her output FOL
lSS. was 81 ,OO),WO.
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