The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-21
THOSE WHO
EXPANDED

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am 1 able to speak to you? Because your
fathers were not timid weaklings, be-
cause the men and women of the middle
Of the nineteenth century came out into
this western country, driving your white
topped prairie schooners with the slow
OK trains or mules. or horses, the men
walking beside the wagons. But you
have all seen the women and the smaller
children in the wagon and the larger
tow-headed tot walking alongside and the
big boys driving the cattle. But you
know it ALL You came out here with
your cattle and household goods to make
homes and build up great commonwealth
In the words of Lowell, ito pitch old
states as the old world men pitch tents"
How did you do it, Did you do it by
seeking to have an easy time, by making
up your minds if You came to any diff
culties you would shirk them and see if
you could get something softer than the
reward that is to be got in the end? Is
that the way the west has been built I'D
by the men and women who have been
willing to face the rough conditions in
volved in the situation and to overcome
them?" .
On the question Of expansion he said:
I'VE have never had a movement for ex
pansion in this country when there were
not large number of excellent popI who
held up their hands in horror. and pre-
dicted the death of the country Right
after the Revolutionary war some people
of the seaboard 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 un-
der the control of the national govern
ment l, a New Yorker, am now run
ming on ticket that has at it's head a
representative of one of the states which
that excellent New York gentleman
thought would be peopled by white saw
ages-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 Jefferson.
in 1893, acquired by treaty and purchase
the land beyond the Mississippi and all
that region beyond the Rocky mountains.
he acquired it just exactly as President
Mckinley acquired the Philippines. and
then a number of excellent gentlemen
said that meant the final ruin Of the
country. A senator of Massachusetts,
said that if the worst should come to
pass, and we should ever have states
erected beyond the Mississippi no man
could imagine the horror that would
come and the confusion that would fol-
low. when we saw senators and repre-
sentatives from the banks of the Mis-
souri, and Red rivers. Now. the Missouri
and the Red river countries are pretty
well in the east. That was in 1911. You
find the speech in the Congressional
Globe Of that day, but we went on
Then came the Mexican war, and any
number Of people said that if we stretch
ed on TO the Pacific our country would
come to an end The idea Of taking in
what are now the states Of idaho. Ore
gon and California was enough to make
them despair Of their country. I have
just passed through Idaho. Of which as
great a man as Daniel Webster said that
the land was fit only for cactus and Jack
rabbits. We see what IL is fit for today
For the last forty years. through a com
bination OF events. the Democratic party
has been forced into position Of the
party that hung back. We have TO take
ii along You see il IS in the same ma
ton. and Il has to come It does not
want 70 came. but It has 70 come Each
time it has got forward Il has found Il
was not nearly as badly OF as it expect
ed 70 he. six or eight years ago Hawaii
under President Harrison. wished 70 10
annexed 70 the American nation ana ths
American flag was hoisted. Then came
in President Cleveland with Democrat
ic admintst-a ton. and. to use their own
language. they hauled down the flag We
have hoisted IL again since gentlemen.
ard to- keeps this time The Democrats.
in justifyins. in congress. the action of
the president. used precisely the arEu-
ments they have used against cur keep
ing the Philippines, al the present no
nent In the first place. they objected
because. being 8 republic. We were not
fitted 70 Do the Ec- that ether great IA
tons do: that We were rot fitted % u
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