The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18

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q Ancient q @5niy'ratHa' eTers vote cast ana
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ouUuuo o01oo the tn It, Republican la
thinking of who calls himself a Silver
Republican, or who can vote for Maguire
because of the silver issue? That is as
dead anything by possibility can be.
That question was submitted to the peo-
pie of this country in the last election
the Democratic ticket in this State would
not enable this Government to put silver
on the par of gold at the ratio of IL to /,
nation on the face of the globe. 1t would
not move them toward ii at all. Sut
these gentlemen who talk so much about
the condition of these foreign countries
will remember perhaps what regret was
expended upon the blessed portion Of the
land in which we now live by the great
statesmen of the time when California
came into the Union.
Now here is something l am going to
read to you:
Fffty-nne years ago last spring Daniel Web
ster in the course vi ADDRESS his fellow
Senators opposing the plan To organize
land mail service to California aid: What do
we want with this vast worthless area this
region OF savages and wild beasts, of deserts,
OF shifting sands and whirlwlnds? To what
use could we ever hope to put those great des-
ertS or those endless mountain ranges, I'M
penetrable and covered to their bases with
eternal SHOWS? What hope to do
rock bound, cheerless and uninvitng with
no harbor in il? What use have we for such q
country? Mr. President. 1 will never vote
one cent from the public treasury place the
Pacific Coast one inch nearer Boston than il Is
to-day"
That was the view of the greatest
statesman of his time We know how
every inch OF the territory that has been
acquired by this Government has been
met with opposition. resistance on the
part of very many thinking men, who
believed the constitution OF the United
States could never be stretched over SO
vast territory without cracking and
going to pieces.
When Thomas jefferson. favorably
mentioned. l am happy to say, in the
other day, purchased the Louisiana terri
tory of the French Government from the
Emperor Napoleon for fifteen million and
odd dollars that great genera and con-
Queror laid down his pen and said, y
have this day signed a decree which Will
make the United States the rival of Eng
land. And yet on our own soil Mr. JET
ferson was abused, lampooned even by
the people of his own party, and 1t was
with difficulty that he could obtain the
| necessary appropriation to acquire that
splendid territory that until recently has
been supposed to include all of our north
west territory from Washington to the
| Gulf of Mexico. How was it in 1919, when
we took from Spain the F'loridas? 1t was
attacked on every hand an unneces-
sary act. How was il when we annexed
| Texas2 The voice of half of the Ameri-
can people were protesting against it. and
| that magnificent empire, SO rich and fer
| tile, filled to-day with between seven and
| ten millions OF American citizens came
| into the Union more strongly resisted
than any other portion of this country
| has ever come. And when under the
| treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo we bought
| from Spain the land in which we now
| live, including Nevada. Utah and Arizona.
men like Mr.. Webster thought that coun-
| try was such as l have described it to
| you.
| They tell us that the Hawaiian Islands
| are 2l00 miles away from here. And yet