Year: 1879

in New York many were originally from New
England. The homes that we have made for
| them you know. They leave the country with
the most wonderful alaority when they get
money enough to travel and we have taken
them out to Michigan and have taken the cor
ners off them, and rounded them up and made
them smooth and rotund, jolly and good ne
tured. We have taken that east wind look out
of their faces, and We call Michigan the
Massachusetts of the West. In all our trade
with New England they get the advantage of
us. We send them down our succulent corn and
We send them pine boards and
potatoes and they send us professors and
preachers. We send them wheat and wood,
and they send us back wooden hams, and yet
after all we are very proud of New England.
We are proud that we have done so much for
her. We are proud that we are on the line of
travel, and we have Interstate commerce be-
tween Massachusetts and Michigan, that will
eventually bring them to us and make them
good citizens of che State and Empire, which
after 1880 you are going otind located ON these
lakes right near where we stand. And yet,
throwing all testing aside, we as Americans
want to get into a little broader style than
simply our States. We want to find and realize
and feel that humanity is the same on
both sides the fence. That it is the same on
both sides of any imaginary line. That the
prosperity of one is the prosperity of all. We





to the line Of the State. We want pride and
ambition and business brain that will take
US all over our own line and show us that the
prosperity of one State is the prosperity of all.
That growth of one is growth of all. 1 stood
on the steps of factory in New England last
summer as the hands went out to dinuer, and
they poured out and poured out and poured
out, and finally, after they had all gone
the superintendent said to me, s'How many
people do you think are leaving here to-day?"
I said can't imagine, but 1t looks like a
bridge. He asked the foreman, who said there
were on the pay rolls 500 people, who had
just gone out the gate and thought what was
West, where there are no factories, and where
we raise grain and corn and wheat. I said
my duty is, after all, to remember these 5,070
people, to feel that they much my
neighbors, that their interest is so much mine,
that in my public and private action I
should do as much for these 5000 people as
1 would for 5, 900 people living in my own State.
That ought to be the spirit of all Of us, North,
South, East and West, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, that we are one people and one nation,
with one common veal, and in which we should
all be interested. That is the platform of the
future American citizen. Keep up our States.
1t is we'll enough to have our little pride in our
State in that sense if we don't carry it too far.
I like man of that kind. I like these folks
who come up here from New England and
tell us what a wonderful people they are, and
how high Bunker hill is, and how salt their cod
fish are. They make better American citizens,
perhaps, for that. man, think, who loves
the place where he was born makes better
citizen in some other land than if he did not
love that place. think q man who loves one
woman devotedly will love all women moder-
ately, and the man who loves his neighEor has
a heart for mankind that is all right, but we
do not want to carry this notion Of State or
Of or r1rhf 70 ol, %Io1 1,,,o
of our duty as American citizens in the greater
and wider sense. Keep up our States just as
we have and name our children
with the last name of our States
as Gen. Grants father named him q. s. Michi-
gan, U. s. Massachusetts, U. s. Mississippi,
and So on through, and the time is coming, and
it is not far distant, when that will be the
mark and the Distinguishing brand of every
man that loves the land he lives in.


MASSACHUSETTS TAKES A HAND IN.


To the toast God Save the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts" Governor Lang responded
He said the names of Winthrop and Adams
and others of his State, would live not only in
Massachusetts, but in Illinois or Michigan and
all over the country. They were not the prop
erty of one man or of one State, but of all.
Whatever is creditable in literature art, science
and commerce in Massachusetts,, the glory be-
longs to other States in equal proportion. No
one would narrow to State lines the noble
names of Lincoln, Grant, Sumner and Adams.
They rose above locality, they were the nations
names. He mentioned that Chicago had grown
from the flames like city of fairy tale, and
that these Boston gentlemen whe came to see it
were impressed with the sight and with the
idea that nothing could retard the city's pro-
gress. He made a complimentary allusion to
General Grant as man who had seen the
workings of all governments and was most
fully satisfied with his own country's institu-
tions. He expressed the gratitude which he
and his associates felt for the hearty welcome
spontaneous hospitality and warm fellowship
extendad them.


Ezra Miller, of Omaha, responded to "Omaha,
the Gateway of the West. through which the
Pacific pours its golden hood.''


Horace Porter responded to "War and Com
merce." ''The Great West" was answered by
Hon. John F. Wilson, of Iowa. W. II. Brown
spoke for Cincinnati. E. P. Nudge, of Boston,
answered "Our Manufactures" Chas. Calby,
of Milwaukee, spoke pleasantly upon the great
lakes and their outlets, and after few more
toasts and speeches, the company dispersed.