Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14

West long age to reach a control.
ing equality with the East in these
respects.
But the foundation of out future
IN the West is we'll laid. Let there
DC order, system, education of the |
laboring masses and let our pkysic-
al powers be we'll used as now, and |
the triumph will surely follow. We
must be material in q broad sense
before we can be ideal and rise So
cially to a high sense. We must
have food, raiment, shelter, and
wealth before we can be intellectual
and finished. We cannot take hold
of literature and the arts till we earn
the means. In the West we are al
ready practical, and this will insure
for US all the higher elements.
New England has the advantage of
general wealth. Is some part of the
State poor and undeveloped, the State
takes hold and contributes rail-
road to give them markets. Are
some of the children ignorant and
unproductive, the State lays hold of
them and sends them to school, even
clothing them..if required. Are there
idlers, the State allows them choice
to leave or go work at wages, and if
they dissipate their earnings the
public opinion favors dealing with
such for their good, and demagogues
have not enough influence to arrest
justice by talking of mems rights to
work or play, eat or drink what they
have mind to, and the like.
In these respects the West is far
behind New England. Our people
have but merged from poverty, and
are jealous Of property interests.
They fail to see that State aid to
some object not before their eyes
can benefit them and the whole peot
pie. They see but dimly that edu-
cation Of the masses adds moro to the
wealth of all than it costs to suppor~
the schools. They cannot see that
vagrant laws, for compelling idlers
to either work or leave the State
would add to the public virtue and
general wealth. They speak of
stringent laws to prevent drunken
ness and for regulating the evils of
| drinking as interference with mems
rights. Even laws to prevent an
excess Of dogs so as to better support
the wool industry are looked upon
as tyrannical
The people of New England have
grown rich by reversing our practice.
By supporting laws to build markets,
compel the education of all, drive
Migrants to work, stop drunkenness,
muzzle or kill the dogs and stock
their poor lands with sheep, they
have amassed almost capital enough
to control the government and by
their rich manufactures tax the West
enough to make as their humble SER
wants. This is right. Intelligence
and good sense ought to carry pow
er. They tax our,stupidity-we pre-
fcrlng to pay the tax rather than fol-
low their example and be independ-
ent. If we have masters we deserve
them. God bless and perpetuate
New England rulel
A month of leisure has enabled me
to visit the many places of interest
in Boston. The city directories
and maps point them out, and the
streets support net work of horse
car communication, so that in few
minutes and for six cents fare one
may visit any place within a few
miles of the Custom House The
, big elm tree where Washington first
f took charge of the American army
under order of the Continental Con-
gress still stands near Harvard Uni
versity, and is marked by a stone
shaft beneath the elm shade, and ia
scribed thereon, "Here Washington
stood when he took charge of the
Continental army and delivered his
first orders, ia 1872" Near by is the
old messy dwelling then occupied by
Washington, being a cottage, with
sky lights, and very ancient in apr
pearance.
! have seen some of the old ceme-
teries, thick with upright stones and
tablets and bearing memorial inscrip-
tions dating back one to two hun,
dred years, some of them two hum
dred and thirty years. [ noted very
many names of persons often appear
ing in national history and famed
for service in the Indian wars, in
the civil service as governors, in the
church as divines, in literature as au,
thors. There are any number of
obituaries engraved on these stones,
in prose and poetry, and generally
legible. How strange the taste of
the early Puritans, and what a fancy
for recording the merits of deceased
friends "Here lies Peggy Curtis,
who died June 8, 1864, of fever, aged
So, born in England, weaver. She
, gave full measure, was saint, and
rests with God" Gospel Howard,
died Mar. 6, 1852, aged II, book
, binder-he travelled the road to Zion
: above 60 years and lost not his way
: lie was prosecuted for righteousness,
. but conquered by pray er and faith.
Some of the inscriptions appear lu>
, dicrous to one of modern culture, but
| would not make sport at the ex-
pense of the dead by copying them.
These monuments and lettered me-
MORALS show that the people those
days wereindeed quite fanatical upon
religion and government, and words
relating to human rights are not un-
frequently seen. They possessed in.
tense faith, though being factious,
and splitting into bitter opposing
parties upon trifing issues, they fall
ed to tyrannize over feeble minori-
ties. The final result was truce of
all faiths, which fact no doubt &C
counts for the final tolerancy of all
religions in our system Of govern
ment--thanks to early New England
experience and example! But as
might be expected from an extreme
practice of religion, upon their eman>
cipation from the tyranny of fanati-