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the best watered regions in the west. Southern Dakota is equally 
well watered by the Big Sioux, Vermillion and James rivers, and 
numerous beautiful lakes. Along the banks of these streams, 
both in Minnesota and Dakota, is to be found all the timber in 
that country. 
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Dakota seemed to me a colony of Wisconsin, so many of our 
people have settled there. Many of our people have also settled 
in Iowa, and still more in Minnesota, so that everywhere you travel 
in that direction, you can scarcely appreciate that you are out of 
your own state. Still we are increasing rapidly in population and 
wealth. And it was pleasant, I assure you, to observe how kindly 
the people everywhere remembered their old homes in young Wis¬ 
consin. 
What I wish to say in conclusion is, that we are deeply inter¬ 
ested in the advancement and improvement of that section of coun¬ 
try, and in any system of internal improvement which shall bear 
their products through our state to market. Wisconsin, Iowa, 
Minnesota and Dakota, and even the country still farther west, have 
a common interest and a common destiny ; and we should stand 
together and work together in harmony, to accomplish a more 
perfect equality, and a more just and equitable division between 
labor and capital. 
SPEECH OF GOVERNOR WASHBURN. 
Upon being introduced, the Governor said that he had told the 
worthy Secretary of the Society that he must not expect to hear 
from him at any length. The reason why he had said that was, 
that he knew how hard it would be to obtain a hearing after the 
able speaker selected for the occasion should be heard. But hav¬ 
ing listened to his speech with great interest, he felt impelled to 
depart from his intention not to speak, so far as to say that while 
he agreed with very much his friend, General Smith, had so well 
and ably said, he would not by his silence assent to some state¬ 
ments that had been uttered, which in his judgment were errone¬ 
ous, and calculated to produce discontent where none should exist. 
He did not assent to the proposition that there was any natural 
antagonism between capital and labor. Their interests are ident¬ 
ical, and when they work in harmony both are prosperous ; when 
