| Show IF HB HE COULD COMB COME WEST A pretty air fair idea of the area and topography of this vast country may be had from an ordinary chool school atla atlas and a reasonably fair estimate cut imato of the character of the population may be obtained from a perusal aa of the census reports but though a man knows to a cubic foot the surface measurement of the united states and know knows within one ono pair of white twins or colored triplets the numerical strength et of the nation he may yet bo be as a ignorant ae as an in english editor ie is of the real nature of thie this country its people peoples characters charac tere and thu the local interests inte reste to dwell for a lifetime on ort the atlantic seaboard or in an interior town of a far eastern state and yet be able to grasp the questions which particularly affect the western part of this mighty land requires a miracle of comprehensive genius president cleveland hae has worked assiduously to inform himself but his necessity or hie his inclination in cli nation has tied him to his desk and books while the great andreal and real opportunity to understand hia his country and her people has been perforce sacrificed lie elems tor realize his hit own losa loss in part at least judging by a few sentences in his chicago speech lie said it wai was soon after tho the election ot of 1884 that an old resident ot of your city was earnestly argi urging in rn mo t to n 1 pay you a visit he ile remo remove dall il t alie I 1 te 0 objection that were started and insisted with unyielding pertinacity that the invitation should be accepted at laet last after all persuasion seemed to tail fail lie vehemently broke out with this explanation the people up where I 1 live dont th think ink a man is i fit for president who ho has never seen chi chicago cago I 1 have often thought of this since th that t time and sometimes when I 1 have fe felt lt I 1 was I 1 not t doin doing for the people an and d th the public li C welfare all that might be doue done and all that I 1 would like to do I 1 have wondered whether wb whether ether things would bare have one on better had I 1 visited chicago indeed it has ha I 1 believe been boon publicly stated on ono one or more occasions of late when the shortcomings hort comings of the present chief executive were under discussion that nothing better could be expected of a man who had never been west of some designated place or river and this I 1 suppose oie means the same aut thina thing that my chicago friend meant and an involves the same accusation and conclusion underlying the pleasant satire of the presidents speech there teems te to be a consciousness that ilia country grows bigger in his mind the more inore he sees of it with such success achieved in the contracted circle around which he ile is swinging how fauch more gratifying would be the benefits of a circle whose western verge was at san bart F francisco ran I 1 if the president finds that the country is magnified by contact it is possible that western people might discover that be he too crow grows larger by contiguity it tt Is a great pity that mr and nd mr airs grover cleveland were unable to s tin the junction city LAUGHS and bt st 1 auls swears because tho the president eaid said in la the latter city 1 I believe thero there was A time when st louie louis was a determined and jealous rival of chicago j |
