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“ New towns must soon rise up on the river, both above and below us. At the mouth of the Columbia and on the Pugets Sound there must soon spring up small cities whose extent and importance will in a great measure be determined by the intelligence, virtue and enterprise of the people of the tributary country. Our climate, our soil, our timber and our water power conspire to render our resources, when developed, great, for the extent of the territory, beyond that of any country I ever saw. ”

“ If this court gives the plaintiffs the benefit of the very words of their bill, and not the assumptions indulged in by the language of the defendant, it will see: that plaintiffs-specifically alleged that this money was not the property, nor in any way an asset of the government, because it was accumulated in the treasury contrary to the constitution of the United States, and was not the property of the Government; the mere fact that some money is deposited in the federal treasury under a mistaken idea that it is legally there, does not make that money the property of the Government ”

“ A brighter day is before us and we fancy that we already descry the first dawning light breaking over the tops of the eastern mountains. We must look to the older and more gifted states to aid in giving us a religious as well as a political and commercial character. Will not our Baptist churches aid in this work? Romanism is making strong attempts at planting deep its root in Oregon soil and availing itself of every inefficient effort of Protestant- ism to bring into disrepute the vital godliness of both it and its ministry. ”

“ Another form which criticism frequently takes, not alone in the United States, but among Americans in these islands, is that in giving the Filipino this primary education we are impairing his usefulness as a productive laborer, separating him from agriculture and the trades, making every school- boy ambitious to become an escribiente, and filling their minds generally with distaste for rural life. American investors and promoters in the Philippines at the present moment are deeply disgusted with the Filipino as a laborer and are clamorous for the introduction of Chinese coolies. ”

“ It is well settled that no action can be maintained in any Federal court by the citizens of one State against a State, without its consent, even [p8] though the sole object of such suit be to bring the State within the operation of the constitutional provision which provides that 'no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.' This immunity of a State is absolute and unqualified, and the constitutional provision securing it is not to be so construed as to place the State within the reach of the process of the court. ”

“ In considering the path of duty I see no field of labor which I can contemplate with so much satisfaction, or concerning which I have so little doubt of duty as an attempt to lay the foundation for an interest in Oregon. Our countrymen will go, and they will go too, without the Bible and the Sabbath, unless these are carried by the good and self-denying. Hundreds are crossing the mountains this year. ”

“ Counsel for appellee regard the case last cited as decisively against the right of appellants to maintain the suit at bar, for, if a slave could not create a property right in himself by entering into a contract with, and thereby establishing a liability against, his master, how then can these appellants establish a claim against the United States, which, in its essence, can arise only as a property right upon a contractual basis?
It is respectfully submitted that appellants have no cause of action, and that, therefore, there is no equity in the suit. ”

“ In the awarding of prizes only those persons are considered who are formally nominated as candidates by some institution, college, or scientific society of rank and character. Not a single American, we are informed, has yet been presented for consideration, and the impression abroad is that Americans are not interested in the prizes. ”

“ And to show that he relied on the Declaration of Independence as the abiding, faithful, and unrepudiated principle to which the American people had pledged themselves as to what must be the fate of that unholy institution, on his way to be inaugurated in 1861 he made a speech at Philadelphia which told his unswerving determination to obey the behest of the writers of the Declaration of Independence, when he said at that time:
"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. ”

“ The Society in whose employ he labored so indefatigably for nearly twenty-five years has placed the name of Ezra Fisher high on the roll of its missionary heroes. Many words of praise from men who have guided its affairs might here be quoted. But from a most unexpected source came a simple testimony from one who crossed the plains with him, and, since no better test of character could well be imagined than the trials and vexations which attended the journey by ox team to Oregon, it is here given. ”

“ Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith and reasonable diligence; where these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced, and, therefore, from the beginning of this jurisdiction, there was always a limitation to suits in this court.' "
Independently of any statute of limitations, courts of equity uniformly decline to assist a person who has slept upon his rights and shows no excuse for his laches in asserting them. ”

“ FAVORED with continued prosperity in 1904, the farming element of the people has laid broader, deeper, and more substantial the foundations of a magnificent agriculture. A period of some industrial depression during the last two years has been saved by the farmers from the severer conditions that must otherwise have befallen in consequence of the absorption of a large portion of the readily convertible capital of the non-agricultural classes into great and prevalent speculations. ”

“ There are new incidents arising each day of our lives in the general intercourse of public affairs, wherein there must be new precedents established to meet and settle meritorious contentions emanating from parties justifiably complaining. The fact that such a claim has never been asserted before, is the poorest kind of argument against the equity of a claim, otherwise meritorious.
The questions to be disposed of, are:
(1) Did the claimants labor to raise the cotton so taxed? (2) and did the tax so laid by the Congress, produce this money claimed by these claimants? ”

“ If they could sit down at night as they come in from their daily labor, take up a religious periodical and read their half-clad families some interesting accounts of the triumphs of grace over depravity instead of meditating and teaching the principles of revenge, how would the family circle be cheered and the lowering cloud of our Western solitude be dissipated ! The question is settled that Oregon is destined to be numbered among the states of our great American Republic ”

“ You can have no conception of the manner in which we are clad in our ordinary business. We are still wearing old clothes which we had laid aside as unfit for use in the Western states, and have purchased but a few of the most common articles, and those of the coarse and substantial kind when they could be obtained. We still prefer to practice this kind of self-denial to the abandonment of our enterprise, while we have the hope left that we may be made instrumental in laying the foundation of the cause of Christian civilization where it is so much needed. ”

“ Knowledge of English is more than this — it is a possession as valuable to the humble peasant for his social pro- tection as it is to the man of wealth for his social distinction. If we can give the Filipino husbandman a knowledge of the English language, and even the most elemental acquaintance with En- glish witings, we will free him from that degraded dependence upon the man of influence of his own race which made possible not merely insurrection, but that fairly unparalleled epidemic of crime which we have seen in these islands during the past few years. ”

“ The very circumstances under which our national life was created serves as a lesson which examplifies the truth, that in America, there is no condition, however [p11] complex, that there is not a way to the house of justice. ”

“ We are sure we do not covet the softest raiment for ourselves or families, but we do greatly desire to be able to give ourselves wholly to the work, and something in this way might lighten the expense of our support and add greatly to our usefulness. The subject of education, too, allow me to say, rests with great weight on my mind. Judging charitably, with all the laudable efforts of our citizens, it is beyond their power to do much by way of educating their children while they have so much to provide for present animal wants, and are placed beyond the reach of books. ”

“ The elements of agricultural science are gradually finding their place in the primary and secondary schools through the instruction of teachers. We buy over $200,000,000 worth of products from tropical countries that cannot be grown in continental United States. Through scientists sent from the United States to the several island groups the department is instructing the people of our island possessions to grow these things, such as coffee, rub- ber, fibers, drug plants, nuts, fruits, spices, and the like.
Our farmers buy $100,000,000 worth of machinery every year. ”

“ Our brethren will not forget to send us files of religious periodicals. We have now been cut off from all the blessings of religious periodicals and literally shut out of the religious world for 17 months except that we find occasionally an angel visitor of this kind in a Pedo-baptist paper. We trust it is our love for the cause of Christ in Oregon which has led us to forego, with our young families, all these privileges. Shall our wants meet with a response from the hearts and hands of our brethren in the Atlantic states? ”

“ As great as the financial successes of agriculture were in 1903, hitherto without equal, those of 1904 advanced somewhat beyond them. While some products have fallen behind in value, others have more than filled the deficit, and the general result is that the farmers have produced in value much more wealth than they ever did before in one year. ”