With her vast forests, her people share
with Maine, our own great frontier State, those vast lumber
interests, for which it has been our own policy to demand
protection. Daughter of three mighty lakes, she takes a large
share in our vast inland commerce. Her people are brave,
prosperous and free. They have iron in their soil, and iron
in their blood. Great as is her wealth and her material interest,
she shares with Massachusetts the honor of being among the
foremost of American States in educational conditions. Massachusetts
is proud to--
Claim kindred there, and have the claim allowed.
"But our guest brings to us more than a representative title
to our regard. The memory of some of us goes back to the
time when, all over the great free Northwest, the people seemed
to have forgotten to what they owed their own prosperity.
The Northwest had been the gift of Freedom to the Republic
on her birthday. In each of her million homes dwells Liberty,
a perpetual guest. But yet that people in Illinois and Michigan
and Indiana and Ohio seemed for a time to have forgotten their
own history, and to be unworthy of their fair and mighty heritage.
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