Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-03-21
MR. Vests Criticism.

49, u.s. . ~ NASASAAMa
Mr. Vest followed in criticism of the
secretary's course. There was time"
said Mr.. Vest, when a cabinet officer
who violated law would be brought
before the bar of this senate"
This reservation" said the senator,
contained the greatest beds of asphalt
tum in sufficient to supply
this country for centuries A law was
passed directing the opening of these
lands, but the secretary of the interior
nullihed it. 1t was nullifed on the ex-
cuse that congress did not know what
it was about. The secretary's course
was in behalf of rich investors, who
were the only ones who could bid on
pnblic auction of the lands"
Mr. Vest said he had protested per-
sonally to Secretary Smith, and had told
him the entire western interest would
oppose his plan, and that no western
man would propose 1t to congress.
.Ihereupon, Secretary Smith answered
that he would get friend from Georgia
to introduce it,
u am sorry TO say said Mr.. Vest,
"but there seems to be disposition on
the part of the present administration to
| treat the western people as If they were
IN condition of pupilage, that they did
not know their own rights and their
own interests, and that they must be In
formed, ex.cathedra, from the east In re-
| gard to what is best for them and what
should be done for them. Even the
president of the United States lately, on
a missionary occasion laughter spoke
of the west as the land of immortality
and Grim He stood with the CHASTITY
light of the hell-holes of the rum sellers
of New York blasting upon him, and
cantingly said home missions must be
used to civilize and Christianize the
men who have left their homes in ths
civilized east and gone out among the
mountains and valleys of the wild ane
woody west. Laughter.
Our president stood, with Rev. DR.
Talmage on one side and the Rev
Sheldon Jackson on the other, and gav'
us new version of that blessed mis-
sionery hymn which we have heard 81
often in our childhood:
From Montana's sinful mountains,
From Utah's wicked plains,
They call US TO deliver
Our land from errors chains.
There was long and loud laughter a
Mr. Vest repeated the lines in tones O
intense sarcasm.
1--WE are told,n continued the senator
"by high ecclesiastical authority, tina
his excellency has lately laid down hi
honors at the foot of Jesus. am gla
. to know IT, It has been the general In
preston of the democratic party tia
the mugwumps and incense-burneT
i have got all those honors and intend t
) keep them.
! II have respect for the Christian reiie
: ion and missions, at home and abroas
/ but, Mr. President, 1t is SANDER npo
j the men who, with rifle in one hand an
f an ak in the other, have gone out an
blazed the pathway of civilization |
I those western wilds. / am a wester
/ man I went to Missouri when 1t wa
] frontier, in sight of the Indian an
buffalo. have lived there nearly fit
/ years, and | say TO our president nov
5 that If he will interrupt hunting duck
: in North Carolina and silver democrat
: in Kentucky long enough to come on
We will show him churches In whic
i there is real and unaffected piety Gu
! church spires may net reach SO near
. heaven As those Of the east, ana on
: church organs may not have the me
lifous tones of those In the east, bl