Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-02-12
we already have the best hotels on the
coast and others are building.

ABOUT Il HAIL liilllOH uOi.dAo ""S
raised in Portland by popular subscrip-
ton in a few days and the Oregon
legislature has already passed a bill
for a half million more, with other
local appropriations to follow as re-
Quired.
The governors of most OF the states
west of the Mississippi river have
taken up the matter and bills are
pending in most if not all the legisla-
lures of this region.
We take it for granted that you will
have a c%reditable exhibition at st.
Louis. We would like to have this
transferred after the ST. Louis fair
direct to Portland together with such
new and additional specimens and eN-
hibits as you mav desire to add
thereto.
While the st. Louis fair will be a
grand one. its very immensely will act
to lessen the value of any ordinary eX-
hibit, which will be lost in the maze
of immensely. while your exhibit with
us will not be a subordinate. but an
important portion of our fair.
The large and the small fair
will draw a relative large local
patronage. Our exposition, al
though smaller. promises to bring
a larger number of outside Wis
itors than any of the more recent
general fairs. If any of YOU will can
vass a number of your friends ! think
this will determine to your satisfaction
where the crowd will go. Simply
ask them whether they would prefer
to go to one of the ordinary large ex-
positions in the interior or TO a small
err one on the Pacific coast and ] be-
lie~e that eight out of ten will respond
in favor of the coast institution. The
ST. Louis fair is q proper object for
which to make an appropriation. We
are giving $4,000 in Oregon. but Port
lands is a better Cne-that's all.
In addition to the Lewis and Clark
feature we are going to show up our
newer Pacific possessions. Hawaii
and the Philippines will be there as no
whore else. We will have an oriental
feature which no fair elsewhere than
on the Pacific ocean can possibly OBJ
tain. Already the nations and states
in the orient are preparing for II on
a splendid scale. for they feel that it
is an exhibit of the merits of the lands
upon their own ocean and that the fair
is to be given thereat.
The coast is full Of your people. We
Dakotans are a migratory lot; that
brought us here in the first place.
The people out there do not desire to
lose any of these Dakotans. but you
know as well as | Go that to see the
old products and to talk with the old
%neighbOrs will WOO hack a good many
to this home of an earle love. The
railroads following the streams and
rough sections through Dakota in
so many places do not give a
fair picture of this state or show
what it is able to produce. If
the e OF thousands who go through
here shall have an opportunity to
study in detail Whit You do produce
after they reach Portland YOU will gain
a host of settlers from those who go
and manv Others from those to whom
others will talk OF their return to their
homes in the east.
Your wide awake governor says he
believes in advertising in business.
and that state building is a business.
say, therefore. advertise your state
and do so literally at the Lewis and
Clark exposition in which YOU must
-is-' = w AAs't' sentimental III St II NdI
a commercial interest
When | look back to my life here in
North Dakota to my early study of
the local history of Lewis and Clark
while they We're soiourners in this sec
ton: to certain ~archaelogic work done
by me in the mounds of the old
Mandans for the Peabody museum
of archaeology and ethnologv of
nur "a ~
also some circumstances connect.
ed with the life of these early
whites who were temporarily among
the M%andans; when | recall the
TACT that l was a member of the frs
legislature to hold it's session in this
building upon this spot of historic
interest to h present Lewis ant
Clark movement and near which too
at Mandan. for ten years | was a resi-
dent; | feel that there is possibly som,
htness today in my own advacacy be
fore you, my friends and neighbors O
years ago.. of an appropriate part in /;
commemorative movement touchin.
these stirring local events of a centur,
ago.
know the calibre and character O
the men who have made and are max
ing Dakota. They have acquired a fit
ness in a multitude of WAYS not nee
essary to success in other regions
They are the peers of the best of ever
other people; and a few years train
ing here has developed a phase O
manhood and business ability whicI
marks this state at home and wbicI
everywhere else today in other state
Is forging the North Dakotan tn III
front. Would that the Sage of PEN
blna. the Hon. Judson LaMoure III
honored and accepted Ncrtor of mi
BODY for a third of a century mas
with his rich store of krowIedge mr.
lltical and otherwise. should write
history of this region. past and nre,
ent, in which manhood is mour
and activity the cardinal virtn,
Roosevelt, himself was a Dakotan h,
Iore ne wrote of the strenuous life
There is, acknowledge an elemer
or personal pride in this whole matte
wnen ask o to properly represer
this state in this exposition of III
states lying west of the Mississinn
once a Dakotan If you have caual