Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-06-01

Rf000lv0 6Cl0nt1nC 0plflt.
Rev. VIM. Gibb extols the beauty
and attractions of jamestown before the
medical association. In his address Of
welcome he said:
GENTLEMEN: On behalf of the mayor
and citizens of jamestown, permit me to
express the great pleasure it affords US
to have in our city another annual meet.
ing of your important and honorable
body. Most heartily do we greet your
presence here after q brief interval, and
extend most cordial welcome to you, in
making our city once more the scene of
your learned deliberations.
We readily admit that there are larger
cities 10 North Dakota where you might
assemble, but we do not think there is
one where you would find more sincere
and generous welcome, nor do we believe
that there is one that possesses more at
| fractions and advantages as meeting
place for such an association rs yours.
We have heard so much from visitors IN
praise OF its natural situation and sur
rOundlngs that We have come to
regard our city as the prettiest
in the state. Nestled in the bosom of a
valley unsurpassed for the fertility of it's
soil; surrounded by those bold bluffs, in
! which the imagination can discover
glimpses of the sterner beauty and rug
ged granduer of the mountain ranges OF
the further west, intersected by a deep
winding river, whose waters abound with
| numerous fish, and whose banks are
tianked with romantic groves aud shady
retreats, We have come to regard our city
as the queen OF beauty among the rising
cities OF this northern region. But if
nature has done much for us 1t has not
led her citizens to repose with Incidence
on the lap of her generosity, For energy
and enterprise you will find them fully
in line with the material, moral and edu-
cational progress Of the cities of older
and more populous state. Though com.
paratlvely young, as a city, they have
already laid for it the foundations of a
most advanced and comprehensive civil.
zation. In comparison with any city
IN the land, the comparison would be in
many respects in It's favor. We have
numerous and handsome churches,
we'll equipped daily and weekly news
papers IN the English and German Lam
guages, an opera house unsurpassed for
attractive beauty and comfort between
St. Paul and the Pacific coast. Here,
too, you find, on what was until few
years ago wild prairie land. the home Of
the buffalo and the scene OF bloody bat.
ties between the white man, and those
fierce visaged aboriginal tribes,-here
where, but lately, all the landmarks OF a
barbarous civilization might have been
seen, We now find the college, academy
and school; elegant and commodloue
stores, prosperous banking establish
ments, handsome hotels, extensive and
electric lighted streets, numer0ns. beau.
tiful and capacious mansions, and though
last, yet not least, this splendid edifice,
which like great fortress overlooks the
valley below.
Gentlemen, 1 need scarcely say that
the fame Of our city, which has reached
the distant east, and crossed the ocean to
other lands, is closely Intertwined with
the success of this, the best managed of
all our state institutions, and I need
scarcely inform you on whose shoulders
the burden has fallen OF bringing to it's
present state Of perfection the varied
and intricate machinery OF such hos.
pital as this. I would only say that,
whatever be the future OF this inst,tu.
tion, whatever architectural additions to
1t may be deemed necessary to meet the
needs of our growing population, what
ever changes may be adopted in the
methods Of treatment by future admin.
istratlons, Whatever policy may be pur-
sued towards it by future legislatures,
the name of one man and the memory of
his zeal, and unwearied efforts for it's
prosperity can never be forgotten or
effaced.
Gentlemen, without entrenching on
the ground that would naturally fail to
be occupied by other addresses Of well
come. think you will admit that no
city in the state can furnish you with a
more convenient and desirable spot for q
convention of this character than our
city with such an institution as this in
our midst. II the state should ever
established medical school this would
be the location for 1t. No science is more
empirical and less metaphysical than
medical science. Hypotheses must be
tested by experiment, and theory con-
irmed by practice, and with a general
hospital and special one like this in
our midst, the best facilities would be
secured for the cultivation OF medical
| science.
Gentlemen, in extending this welcome
to you, on behalf Of the mayor and citl-
zens OF jamestown, permit me to express
III CONCLUSION my COnVlCtlOO OF CD0 great
debt that civilization owes to medical
science. As physicians you stand at the
gateways of existence, and preside over
the destinies of the race. To you the
prince and the peasant alike turn for
help in the hour OF extremity,-andt to
you humanity looks with earnest gaze,
and entresty, for the modification OF it's
disorders, and the mitigation of its suffer
ings.
High therefore as has been tie esteem
IN which your art has always been held,
1t is destined to command an ever widen.
ing respect and recognition. The modern
mind is awakening to a conception Of
the all pervasiveness OF Law, how that
not only the operations OF external
nature, but the activities OF body and
mind are links in that chain Of causation
with which the creator has girded his
universe, and when men perceive that
disease and suffering flow from the vio-
lations OF natural law, the time will
come, believe, when the Doctor will be
called to visit them not in sickness, but
in health. when the function Of the ply.
oiCian v1ll not hA mainly curative. hnt