The daily sentinel., 1910-04-07
JOHN |. EDDy'S
SPLENDID TALK

On every nand most favorable COM
ment has been heard on the brief but
| vigorous and virile address delivered
at the Chamber of Commerce banquet
| Tuesday night by John l.. Eddy, for
merly managing editor of the Boston
American and now engaged in the
fruit raising business in this valley.
The Sentinel is able today to give Mr..
Eddy's delightful address in full. 1t
follows:
| Mr.. Toastmaster. Ladies and Gentle
| men:
| l would have been at home per-
forming the painful duty of watching
the thermometer and preparing to
smudge had | not anticipated that
there would be enough hot air to
warm the fruit crops of the entire
valley here tonight
The very great honor of being in
vited TO appear before this assembly
| to prescribe medicine that shall
make Grand Junction grow, reminds
me of that celebrated Chinese ply
sician Sin Lou. Perhaps you have
heard of the case of the American
who was stopping in China, and be-
came i'll and needed doctor. He
tried various ones and finally asked
one of the head men to send for Sin
Lou. This man said Sin Lou, he
velly, velly good doctor, he save me
life" The American asked him how
that was and the Chinaman replied
me velly vely sick, me send for one
doctor, he give me velly velly bad
medicine; me send for mother doctor,
he come and give me more bad medi-
cine; then me send for Sin Lou, and
he not come, and he saved me life"
Grand Junction is very much like the
Chinaman. 1t is suffering from the
prescriptions of too many doctors,
chiefly among which is an overdose
of freight rates by old DR.. Rio
Grande. Let us tear down the high
freight rates. believe that the
building up of great distributing
center here in this large inter-moun-
tain region with no other cities of
any importance within 800 miles is
as inevitable as the golden sunrise
over the Grand valley.
But in speaking of doctors, | wish
to disavow any prejudice against the
profession. Regardless of my name,
like them all and hire them all In
spite of New York and Denver doc
tors of high finance, let me say that
you are making remarkable progress.
Ii has been my pleasure in the
past few years to travel over the bet
ter part of the United States and
spend much time in many of the
worlds greatest cities, but nowhere
and at no time have ! seen better
evidence of rapid and material
growth than is shown in Grand juno
ton today. Look about you on ev-
cry corner, and in the middle of al
most every block, and you will find
house going up. New public build
ings promised, higher office build
ings projected, new residence houses
in every direction of the city, and a
new interurban line reaching out its
bands of steel to bind together and
make for Grand Junction daily job
bing and trading center.-the center
of the richest and most favored fruit
valley in the world.
Those of you who are on the down
ward side of forty,-I am on the sum
NIT so that | can look both ways
but those on the further side can
remember the time in our boyhood
when the chief subject of the news
paper ioke-smith was the mother-in-
law joke and Chicago. Chicago they
were chiefly concerned with in show
ing up the windy and bluff side of
the people, and they dwelt very
strongly on the rivalry between st.
| Louis and Chicago. The mother-in-
law situation we find today, but Chi
cago is no longer joke. ST. Louis is
a good live, thriving city, with 700,-
900 or 100000 population, but Chi
cago is one of the worlds greatest
wonders; they have coined their bluff
and wind and hot air into twenty
story buildings, great commercial
center, and have the terminals of the
greatest railroads. 1t is the second
city in the United States and prob
ably the most important distributing
center. They had their wind and hot
air but back of it was action. Their
words were backed by deeds.
Coming along a little later. about
is years. | started to go West. /
read all the books and railroad liter
ature of the period. | decided Seat
tie was the coming city of the North
west. Tacoma and Seattle were the
| same. they had the same resources,
but Tacoma had one advantage
they had big railroad back of 1t
that had established its terminal.
Seattle had no railroad so they had to
boost for those things they did have.
Today 1t is one of the most mag
nificent cities of the country / know
of no other to compare with 1t ex-
cept New York,-miles and miles of
houses on the green clad hills. with
100000 souls in the city and growing
all the time. Take car over to
Tacoma YOU get off. look around
and ask where is the town. The car
winds around up the hill and goes
back to Seattle. The Seattle trolley
car is the livest thing in Tacoma. The
/ first thing you hear in Seattle is
Seattle spirit; back of that spirit is
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