The Nome nugget. (Nome, Alaska) 1901-1904, 1904-06-11
A BRICK FROM INDIANA.

Representative Brick, of Indiana, is in
deed brick. He is friend of Alaska, and
he never overlooks an opportunity to say a
good word for the district He champiOned
the bill giving Alaska delegate in con-
gress, and on April 25, last, he told his col
leagues in congress some truths about
Alaska which may or may not have left
some impression upon their minds. We
Gull a few of Mr.. Bricks truthful and elo-
Record
Mr.. Chairman, Alaska has over 10000
brave and strong men, who have gone there
from every state in the Union, the most
manly, virile, hardy people in the world.
They say to us: "We want one of our
number to represent US at Washington. We
want to select him, and we want him to
know us and be responsible to US directly.
They say to us: "We know an election
means Inconvenience and some expense, but
we ask that privilege. 1t might be an in
convenience that would seem great to you
living in ease and luxury. To us it is but
the simple and usual incident of our lives in
this country"
Tenacity of purpose and power of endur-
ance are the vital qualities that moved them
there. They have been willing to forego
the pleasant opportunities of our life to de-
velop great country. The best blood of
any nation flows in the veins of it's pioneers.
There is that something about the pioneer,
the new settler, the innovator, the path
finder, whose life represents days of self
sacrificing toll and sometimes of martyrdom,
heroism everywhere unequaled and un-
paralleled, that shall always challenge my
admiration, invoke my reverence and enlist
my services.
They live in cabins that our children
may dwell in mansions.
They rear in the gray dawn of the wild
primeval strength of nature a new and
mighty empire, all for the glory of our COM
mon country, that it may wax strong and
grow great for our children's sake, and our
children's children to infinity
Don't tell me that an election is imprac-
ticable in that far-off vast country
Nothing is impracticable to these brave
men, to the builders of empires, to the spirit
that knows no frontiers of enterprise, to the
self forgetting reliant manhood which bears
all burdens that his heroic life may be round
ed out to posterity.
The best men that have ever lived, the
salt of the earth, are the torchbearers of
American endeavor. They began at Plym-
outh Rock. They braved everything they
stood up erect against the wrecks of the
ragged rocks of New Englands coast, beasts
and tomahawks, hostile hosts and winters
blast-and when their bleeding feet failed
them, their limbs trembled and their hearts
ached in the longing memories of home and
friends beyond the sea, they still walked
upon their courage.
They founded the only true republic that
ever existed. With the same old spirit their
children moved westward to renew the
nations lifeblood, to live and love and suffer-
They gave to us Sam Houston, Davy
Crockett, Lewis and Clark, La Sale, Mar.
quette, Abraham Lincoln, and to day every
one of us can stand up and say, through
their sacrifices, with prouder boast than
did the old Roman, II thank God that l. too,
am an American citizen"
They were the type and flower of virgin
and robust domain. And now come their
sons and daughters, with the bold frontier