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Mr. Dutton Peabody, Esquire.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman,
for those kind words,
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but tell them the whole truth...
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founder, owner, editor
and I also sweep out the place.
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Fellow delegates, like all of you,
:48:27
I've listened in awe and admiration
to the magnificent oratory
:48:33
of the Honourable
Major Cassius Starbuckle...
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the cattlemen's mouthpiece.
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The lowing herd is still with us.
:48:43
But, seriously,
under the spell of his eloquence,
:48:47
I could see once again
the vast herd of buffalo
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and savage redskin
roaming our beautiful territory
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with no law to trammel them
except the law of survival,
:48:58
the law of the tomahawk
and the bow and arrow.
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And then, with
the westward march of our nation,
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came the pioneer and the buffalo
hunter, the adventurous and the bold.
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The boldest of these
were the cattlemen,
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who seized the wide-open range
for their own personal domain,
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and their law
was the law of the hired gun.
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But now, today have come
the railroads and the people.
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The steady, hard-working citizens,
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the homesteader, the shopkeeper,
the builder of cities.
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We need roads to join those cities,
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dams to store up
the waters of the Picketwire,
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and we need statehood
to protect the rights
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of every man and woman,
however humble.
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How do we get it? I'll tell you how.
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We get it by placing our votes
behind one man.