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combined Scandinavian countries of Europe; those 

 countries from which has sprung as wonderful a 

 race as ever imprinted its characteristics upon the 

 history of civilization. Exactly as the Scandinavian 

 peoples have left their mark upon the entire history 

 of Europe, so we shall see Alaska with its mines, its 

 lumber, its fisheries, with its possibilities in agri- 

 culture and stock-raising, with its possibilities of 

 commercial command, with the tremendous develop- 

 ment that is going on within it even now, produce as 

 hardy and vigorous a people as any portion of 

 North America. 



AT SPOKANE, WASH., MAY 26, 1903 



Senator Turner, and you, my Fellow- Americans: 



I am in a city at the eastern gateway of this State 

 with the great railroad systems of the State running 

 through it. On the western edge of this State in 

 Puget Sound I have seen the homing places of the 

 great steamship lines, which, in connection with 

 these great railroads, are doing so much to develop 

 the Oriental trade of this country and this State. 

 Washington will owe no small part of its future 

 greatness, and that greatness will be great indeed, 

 to the fact that it is thus doing its share in acquiring 

 for the United States the dominance of the Pacific. 

 Those railroads, the men and the corporations that 

 have built them, have rendered a very great service 

 to the community. The men who are building, the 

 corporations which are building the great steamship 



