Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-17

people In this city. With only 40 per cent
OF the land in the state developed, what
will this city be when 100 per cent is de-
veloped7 The growth Of Omaha is identl-
cal with that of the state This Is the
have established my residence in omaha
and 1 am beginnins to feel that my home
Is here. l feel like cooperating with you
In this city at every Opportunity, not only
but fer, the good of Omaha. know 1 have
been subjected TO. some. criticisms Of late
for certain tnnIs but note 81. that omaha
Of alleys left, and perhaps It Is not so bad
MI Hartman the head of the Union Pa
road men In the country. Since his con-
nection with the property he has spent
money outdoors He il making a perma-
nent railroad for your city which Is bound
to prove to your further benefit later on
John l.. Webster spoke on THE Develop
ment of the West" He said:
webster on the West.
We people of the west, owing perhaps, to
exhilarating Influences OF our magnificent
climate, sometimes acquire very enlarged
notions OF our present Importance, and are
filled with buoyant hopes OF the future,
The present population of the west is
four times az great as was the Population
OF the entire United States at the time when
George Washington entered upon his second
term OF Office as president 1t Is so per
cent greater than was the entire population
OF the United States at the time when
Andrew Jackson defeated John c. Calhoun
and John Quincy Adams for president. The
present-day population of the West ID 90
per cent greater than was the entire popu-
states at the time when the Civil war began.
And yet there are men in this room who
mans home was established in the city Of
Omaha, the Union Pacific gateway TO the
west.
II | were to undertake to speak of the
products Of the west, would ind myself
involved in tables Of figures, mystifying and
perplexing, | will dispose OF IL with the
thought Humboldt said that a follower OF
CorteE, finding three kernels of wheat In
his supply OF rice. planted them upon Amer
but yesterday that last years production of
| wheat shipped from the Omaha market was
5000 goo OF bushels. Wall street has never
developed a dividend paying stock issue
The men who have made the west were
They They WEI were 4 moving army or agricultural
Invaders. They were vigorous and daring
: SET of pioneers that carried civilization
across plains as vast as the seas ana over
noun taihs as difficult to scale as were the
walls of medieval fortresses, The men
who conquered sthe west from natures Wild
, They were men In whose life currents
/ there flowed, in modified and eLilightened
OF thai Macedonian chieftain who Won for
himself the title Of Alexander the Great.
They possessed something Of the bold and
/ venturtsome spirit possessed OF the army
Of the Black Prince OF Normandy that
vanquished the armies of Harold and gave
! him the realm OF England for a throne
4 and the name in history's page of William
| the Conqueror. They possessed something
, OF that restless and untirtng spirit for dis
covery and that faith in the westward
| that induced Columbus 70 cross the track
/ less ocean to md a new continent that
! the world might move onward and without
which America would have remained IN
known. f'-'
Our western life presents wonderful
J example OF the amalgama ton OF races. IL
! Is a process OF taking the Swede and Ger
man, the Frenchman and Englishman the
Italian and Austrian, and welding these
conflicting races OF the whole world into a
new people. II takes Celt and Saxon,
/ Teutoni and Dane, Finn and Goth, and
molds tlseIn int0 the same image and the
I In the development OF the west the ran
roads have played an important part. II
has been said that IL there were ~ be no