The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-21

western country. driving your white
topped PRAIRIE ScnOoners with the slow
OK trains or mules or horses, the men
waking beside the wagon But you
nave ali seen the women and the
smaller children in the wagon and the
larger tow-headed lot walking along
side, and the big boys driving the cat
tie You know it all. You came out
here with your cattle and household
goods 10 make homes and build up
great commonwealth. In the words Of
Lowell, TO pitch new states as the old
world men pitched tents. Now, how
did you do 1T? Did you do ii by seek
ing 10 have an easy time, by making
up your minds if you came to any diff
ncuities you would shirk them and see
II you could not get something softer
than the reward that is to be got IN
the end2 Is that the way the west has
been built up? No, it is not The west
has been built by the men and women
VINO have been willing to face through
conditions involved in the situation and
to overcome them
On the issue of expansion he said:
Goes on About Expansion.
Eve have never had q movement for
expansion in this country where there
were not a large number of excellent
people who did not hold up their hands
in horror and predicted the death OF
the country. Right after the revolu-
tIonary war some people OF the sea-
board Atlantic states objected strongly
to taking in the Ohio valley. One of
the foremost statesmen OF my own
state predicted what would happen II
the white savageS were going to take
possession of the Ohio valley when I'M
der the control of the national govern
ment. I, a New Yorker. am now run
ming on ticket that has at its head
representative of one of the states
which that excellent New York gentle
man thought would be peopled by white
savages-Ohio.
Then we came to the Mississippi and
a lot Of excellent people said it meant
ruin to the land and the dissolution of
the government if we stretched over
the Mississippi When President JEFF
ferson, in 1903, acquired, by treaty and
purchase, the land beyond the Missis
sippi all that region beyond the Rocky
mountains, he acquired it just exactly
as President Mckinley acquired the
Philippines, and then a number of eX-
ceilent gentlemen said that meant the
final ruin OF the country A senator
from Colonel Guilds own state of
Massachusetts said that if the worst
should come to pass, and we should
ever have states erected beyond the
horror that would come to pass and the
confusion that would follow when We
saw senators and representatives from
the banks of the Mississippi and the
Red rivers. Now the Missouri and the
Red river countries are pretty we'll in
the east. That was in 1911. You viii
find the speech in the Congressional
Globe of that day, but we went on.
Results of Mexican War.
Then came the Mexican war, and
any number of people said that if we
stretched on to the Pacific, that, of
course, our country would come to an
end. The idea of taking in what are
now the states of Idaho, Oregon and
California was sufficient to make them
despair of their country. 1 have just
passed through Idaho, of which as
great man as Daniel Webster said
that the land was only fit for cactus
and jack rabbits We see what it is
today.
For the last forty years, through a
combination of events, the Democratic
party has been forced into a position of
the party that hung back. We. have to
take it along. You see it is in the same
nation, and it has to come 1t does not
want to come, but it has to come Each
time it has got forward it has found it
was not nearly as badly off as it ex-
pected to be. Six or eight years ago
Hawaii, under President Harrison,
wished to be annexed to the American
nation, and the American flag was
hoisted. Then came in President Cleve-
land, with a Democratic adIninistra-
ton, and to use their own language,
they hauled down the flag We have
hoisted il again, siPee, gentlemen, and
for keeps this time The Democrats, in
justifying in congress- the action of
the president. used precisely the argu-
ments they have used against our keep
ing the Philippines at the present mo-
nent. In the first place they objected
because, being republic, we were not
fitted to do the work that other great
nations do; that we were not fitted TO
do what aTnniraS and KINGDOMS
do; that we could not venture outside
Of the limits of the continent. In the
next place, TO bring in the islands
would be to bring in an oligarchy.''
At Brigham City an open air meeting
was held and the speaking was done
from the band stand, in the center of
the village, a mile from the station.
Speeches were made by John Henry
Smith and Governor Roosevelt. In con-
Guiding his remarks here, Governor
Roosevelt said:
L ask you to support the man whom
We have nominated because the prom
ises we have made have squared with
our performances; because the prophe-
cies of evil to which our opponents have
given utterance have been absolutely
falsifed by the events; because you de-
sire the maintaining of the material
conditions. which have so we'll secured
our wellbeing in the past four years,
and, above and beyond all, for the
sake Of the destiny OF the greatest re-
public upon which the sun has ever
shOne; for the sake of proving at the
beginning of a new century that Ameri-
ca intends TO be what she boasts she is
the leader among the peoples of man
kind, and that the nations of the world
shall know that we take no backward
step"
RECEPTION AT LOGAN.