Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-01

to their native mountains. | know
that it win not prevent you from do
ing as you please, but my advice is,
''Rather bear those ills you have
than fly to others that you know
not Of"
The motto of Michigan has
always appeared to ME both
philesophic and poetic: ISL quarts
peninSulam amoendm, circumspice
If you seek a beautiful peninsula,
look around YOU" Varying that
to the exigencies of the case, | say
to all the world, ''lf you are in search
of IL magnificent commonwealth be-
hold il here" Missouri is indeed
an Imperial State-in possibilities
the richest in the radiant sister
hood-in situation the most favored
under Heaven. Possessed of 6S,-
| 500 square miles of land more
fertile than the far-famed valley OF
the Gauges or the Delta OF the
Nile, with two of the greatest rivers
which an All-wise and All-merciful
| God has vouch safed to the service
of mankind, capable of bearing upon
their broad bosoms the commerce
of the world, with the most equable
OF climates, neither too hot MOI toe
cold, with the largest available pub
lie school fund of any state in the
Union, with a perfect net work Of
railroads connecting her with all the
important marts of trade, with 81
900 900 of as good, intelligent, law
abiding, energetic, God-fearing peo'
pie as the sun shines upon, with
churches, colleges, school houses
and charitables institutions galore
lying across the great central high
ways of travel and of traffic from
the Orient to the Occident, with
priceless coal fields, illimitable beds
OF onyx, marble, granite and build
ing stones, with inexhaustible mines
of iron, lead, zinc and every useful
metal, with water power sufficient
to set in motion the wheels of all the
mills and all the factories in crea-
ton, with hardwoods enough to fur.
nish timbers for all the navies of all
the seas, adapted to the produc-
ton of every cereal, grass, plant,
vegetable, grain, flour and fruit
known to the temperate zone and OF
many indigenous to the tropics
fitted for the rearing and pe~rfectine
of every beast, bird and fish service,
able to the human race-located in
the very heart of the continent.
Missouri is great IN esse and IN.
e.tabIy great in posse. Fence her in
with another Chinese wall, cut hel
off from intercourse and communion
with all other peoples, kindreds and
tongues, she would still be luxur.
iously self-supporting and the mos
desirable place for human habitatior
beneath the stars.
After mature ~deliberation I vol.
UNFAIRLY choose this state as my
home and the field of my endeavor.
Here l found my wife, here my
children were born and here two O.
them lie buried. l am bound tc
Missouri by a thousand ties of graft
tude and love. In every fibre o.
my being | rejoice to think that my
little boy all the years of his life
wherever his feet may wander, car
look the whole world in the face with
honest pride and say: 81 am a ma.
tive of the grand imperial State O.
Missouri, where the women were
yirtuous and fair to look upon anc
where the men grew to heroic
stature"
When Stephen A. Douglass, who
was a Green Mountain boy, from
the region where brave Old Starl
won laurels enduring as the granite
of his native hills, was asked what
sort of a state Vermont was anyway
that great popular tribune facetiously
replied: vermont is a good state t.
be born in provided you leave it soor
enough" Missouri is not only ;
good state to be born in but also tt
live in, to love in, to marry in,
to get rich in, to prosper in, to be
happy in and, although dying ii
not a delightful performance under
any circumstances or at any time
Missouri is as good a state as any tt
die in.
She is only in her formative per
iod-in her chrysalis condition-he,
natural wealth unimpaired, hel
matchless resources undeveloped
She stands upon the threshold O
her marvellous career. Her face i.
toward the morning. The rising
sun OF progress falls full and fai,
upon her glowing and uplifted brow
When her soil, SO rich that ex.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed declared
that il they had it back cas-,
they would sell it ky the peck fol
seed, so rich that it needs only To
be tickled with a hoe to smile with +
bounteous harvest, when this sol
is cultivated as systematically. care
FULLY and scientifically as Belgium OF
Holland, Missouri can easily sustain