East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-12

Portland, Jan. 12.-At the meeting
of the oregon Development league and
Press association In this city today, the
principal address was THE Common
wealth Of Oregon; Eastern Oregon"
by Judge S, A. Lowell, of Pendleton,
whose masterful eloquence elected
great applause.
Judge Lowell's address was one of
four on the Commonwealth of Ore
gon,' his subject being eastern Ore
gon, and was as follows:
Imperial Oregon, surprising in area
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
combined, nearly half of the Republic
of France in extent. larger than all
Great Britain, enters the new century
rich with promise. Resting for near
800 miles upon the western ocean,
she reaches eastward more than an
eighth OF the continents span.
The mightiest navigable river of the
Pacific slope washes her northern bor-
der, another pierces the fairest valley
of the great northwest, while tossing
streams in double scores invite with
surging waters the whirring spindle
and the turning wheel.
Three ranges OF towering noun
tains sentineled by hoary peaks, divide
her territory, guard from cyclonic
storms, and hold for human need the
mightiest forests yet heritage to the
states. Her soil, the product of vol
canic fires and countless ages of vege-
table decay, responds in matchless
IN nf a
plant and flower which enriches the
temperate zone.
The salt-laden breezes of the sea
and the dry srocco of the interior
plains, the snowy winds of the noun
tain tops, and the hazy calm of the
deeper valleys, all influenced by the
mysterious chinook wind and the
balmy Japan current, unite to assure
a climate varied, health giving and de-
lightful.
Mines cleaning with silver and
gold, quarries of finest sandstone and
whitest marble, fields sapphired with
all the grains, meadows green with al
falfa and native grasses, hills the
range OF shep and cattle, orchards
fruiting In glad abundance, rivers the
home of trout and salmon, gardens ra-
diant with Kaleidoscope bloom, con-
tribute with unstinting hand to every
pleasure, comfort and industry of
man.
Titan planned, she offers in emerald
setting her share of the wonder places
of the globe. The pictured rocks of
Harney, the water cave of Malheur,
the hot springs of Union, the jeweled
lake of Wallowa, the impressive pam
Drama of the Columbia, the falls of
Multn nomah, the cloud-kissed heights
of Hood and Mclaughlin, the mighty
trees of the coast range, the mystic
splendor of Crater Lake, all wait the
enraptured vision of the connoisseur
tourists of the world.
Upon her shores is being played by
wind and wave the wedding march
which celebrates the union of occident
and orient. The harbors of the Paci-
fic are too few and its commerce as the
day of its new life opens full, will de-
mand them all, and Oregon, sitting in
the pathway OF the majestic march of
empire westward through the accept
ed zone Of power, will surely see upon
her every bay an entry port of trade.
Over her even now begins to form to
prophetic eye the halo which marks
the leadership of the western slope.
In the new alignment, industrial and
commercial, her hand shall bear the
scepter; her head shall wear the
crown.
The commonwealth is to be born
again and for all her people there