The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-09-27
THE FIRST STATE FAIR
Contiaued from Pace I.

Tor some greater recognition, some ceas-
ing OF To that strange law OF discrimina-
ton? Why sliould not he? Who is this
American farmer? lie is the man who,
at the landing OF the Msyfiower, lesped
from Plymouth Rock amid the savayes in
the unknown forests of this land, suffered
the privations and distress OF sickness
and death To plant the soil, and before
his harvest yielded to the sickle was
called from his pluw-hare to sustain the
shrek Of liberty which pierced the hearts
OF freemen through the throat OF Patrick
Henry. From Lexington to Concord and
from Bunker HUI to Yorktosnit was this
American farmer who laid the blood of
the tyrant upon the soil, who real zed the
Declaration of Independence, and gave
birth by his dying life to American free
dom. This while his humble wife, pa
tlent and careworn, lighted his way with
every fash of the flint that lit her tallow
candle as through the weary nights she
rocked the cradle of her babe with one
foot and padded her spinningwheel with
the other, weaving the cooked hat and
the drabs and grays of his continental
suit, the coors OF the colonial freedom
Not only this but when the republic so
born had to be saved and preserved, il
was there this American farmer, who
went from his p!owshare, out of his rip
ening fields, into the carnage OF death
aud left his bones whitening upon every
field from Manassas to Gettysburg that
the republic OF his fathers might live
and not perish from the face of the
EARTH" And is it too much that he
should now ask, not favors from this re.
public, but justice? That he shall be re
garded rs one OF the sons of the republi :.
not one OF its slaves and dependents
That the laws of his country shall no
longer hold him as creature crying for
benefits and as king for exemptions, but
as one who has fought for the right to
ask Tor Justice; as one who has given the
sinew of his life and the blood OF his
heart TO maintain and support his coun-
try, and but asks Tor an equal division OF
his own creation? 1t may be that We
will never be able to devise for our law
makers or those in power any rule or Law
which shall prevent men like Hutchinson
OF CHICAGO from wrapping the whole
wheat crop Of 1883 into the four corners
OF his handkerchief. while sewing women
starve at their needles. 1t may be that II
will not be in the power, under the pres
ent form OF government, of our lawmak
ers or those in authority to avoid the
heartless money changers from again sit
ting in the temples OF the Christ and
making banking exchange with the
hearts Of the outraged aud suffering poor
OF the nation, and that the process of dis.
elimination may still continue; but be-
lieving that these questions and this sim
pie justice so demanded arises above all
party differences. descends over all po-
litical expediencies, and remains near to
hn nf all Il fol
Ii at it is not distant when the plain farm
ers OF the land can write their praises in
the sands Of their doorways, and that
their prayer of gladnes- shall he their
thanks to God that the hour has at last
come when they enjoy equal rights to
AN and special privileges to none" This
and cslis alone must bring happiness, for
the poets truth is strong to-day:
ali happiiess has not its seat and center in the
breast
We may be rich or great, but never can be blest.
Bringing my observations TO close, |
shall pay heed to the state only by way
OF encomium. l cannot further dwell Oh
the details 30 fully expressed by your ex-
cellent president. | cannot assume to
speak of the resources of our state--it is
task too limitless. One may begin in
the morning of the first day and woud
have task unfultilled in the hours of the
last plight. But around us and about us
is the
STATE OF WASHINGTON.
Behold in what grandeur she sits, the
occident of the earth. From Okano'
gan, where her head is rbaned in snow +,
she stretches in languid ease her queenl,
form until her feet, sandaled in daisies,
are dashed with the spray that leaps from
the hand of the Pacific. While pillow
ing her head at evening on bed of crys
tai quartz and gold in the range of the
yonder circling Cascades, she reaches TO
the Olympics and draws out of her Jew
elled casket a coverlet of silver to inter
lace with the stars. Sirs, it is in this
state the miracles of the Christ may be
wrought by men. For every fisherman
from the seas of Gallilee to the Bering
from the river Nile to the Mississippi,
when despairng OF his labors, casting b,
day and night, may strangle his nets
with the finny fruits of the deep within
our waters; while the loaves, nodded
from your granaries, will feed the hungry
of the world if lined upon the shores OF
the earth. The giant trees which are
born from her salubrious soil, rise so high
that they brush with their tasseled tops
the mists from the outer walls of heaven,
and are so exhaustless that when yield
ing to the refined industry of our arti-
sans, they will furnish rooms OF shelter
to all mankind from the Golden Horn o.
OF the crescent Bosphorus to the Golden
Gate OF the peerless California. Indeed
the coal which SAUNDERS yet undisturbed
within her ribbed sides is of such guam
tty that it shall, when earth is done,
feed the eternal craters, keeping the end
less furnace of his Satanic Majesty's
court of flaming execution" ever burn
ing, ever glowing. So spacious are her
harbors, so peaceful IN their serenity tina,
the harbingers of commerce, exhausted
with batting against the storms OF Nep-
tunes decree, turn from "old ocean 3 ruff
fled front" to told their white wings in al
lent ease and steal to the protecting bosom
OF her shores. Thus, taking her for all in
all, this state shall be to her people all
that the republic of Plato, the Tito )ia OF
Moore or the Oceana of Harrington may
have promised in their dreams. And rs
to her people, what can l say but that
they truly wear the stamp and image OF
their Maker IN beauty and honor. In
deed, when l recall how these people
have labored and waited, struggled and
suffered through the night before the
morn came, am persuaded that if the
Creator of men shall offer place of hon.
or to those who have borne best the bur
dens laid upon them, that then, when the
last day is done, amid the hierarchy OF
angels, close in the shadow of ii e King.
will sit the children of the state of Wash
ington. Unable she may be to defend
against the reversals, the temporary cas-
ualties and sometimes expressions which