Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-12

tlmated solely by the rate per cent.
it is able to bring into the pocket of
some remote disinterested owner,
who, without regard to neigborhood
or society, gives possession to man
of foreign birth, foreign sympathies,
the votary of hostile faith and the
advocate of q social system subver-
sive of all that our New England
Fathers held so sacred. This is
but one of thousand Of Tie exam
Piles seen all over the East, in the
rural districts. Irish and French
inhabitors are coming into posses
sion of the old estates, either as
tenants or owners. Where once was
the orthodox church (by the side of
which fourished the district school)
and society able to support a
settled pastor and enjoy all the
privileges OF evangelical religion,
NOW stands Catholic Church built
in the most approved taste. in which
either a local or an itinerant priest
gathers a full congregation from
those abodes, the traditional homes
of the fathers of New England civil
lization. The old New England sys-
tenn of business and of social life,
as the country expanded, became
too contracted for the sons of the
hardy yeomanry, reared to industry
and schooled in habits that never
fail to lay the best foundations Of
character. The generation of child
ren, advancing to the stage as the
railroad system of the country be-
gan to advance and rs the gold
mines began to be developed, burst
the shell in which, rs in embryo, the ir
life began. Disconnected with the mar
row fields and still more narrow bus
mess methods of the ordinary Yankee
farmer, they, like the prodigal son,
gathered oil together and took their
journey into far country, some to
the factories, some to the railroad
country, some to the cities, some to
the mines and some to the prairies;
all to seek their fortunes with :, new
adventure, in new fields of activity.
1t is possible for hive to swarm
periodically and send out colonies
without interrupting the outgoing life
Eof the old hive. For the first half of
7 the present century this process want
on in New England without materi-
ally affecting the old forms Of rural
life. The oldest son of Deacon
Jones could marry the Oldest daugh-
ter of farmer Davis and move West
without at all interrupting the affairs
of the neighborhood or being missed
from the families which they respect
lively represented. The State of
New York. with the exception of q
narrow valley along the Hudson and
Mohawk, was an unbroken wilder
ness at the beginning of this centu-
ty, as was also the whole country
lying West. 1t took long time for
the children of New England to
colonize and subdue the great State
of New York. In that early period,
a journey to the Genesee river occu-
pied more days than it now does
hours, and was actually longer than
u Journey now to the Pacific ocean,
and he who emigrated to the Cayu-
ca Lakes, or to the Holland pur-
Chase, (as all in New York West Of
the Genesee valley was then called, }
was said to have gone to the far
West. On the opening Of the Erie
canal, in 1925, extending the CON-
merce of the seaboard into the
great Lakes, emigration extended to
New Connecticut, called the Western
reserve, in Northern Ohio, as also to
Michigan and Indiana. For forty
years the various sections OF the
country were being colonized from
the old New England hive; the mo-
tive being to plant homes, open
falms and lay the permanent foun-
dation of tho social and religious
life of their fathers. This process
of emigration into Western forests,
though constant and ever increasing,
was not regarded as anything more
than healthy depletion of New
England society, until the opening
of the railroad system which rem,
dered the vast treeless prairies OF
the upper Mississippi valley avail
able for occupation and settlemen t,
and at the same time the discovery
of gold and the fairy land of E!dora-
do on the Pacific coast. Then wheI
. farms, ready made, as it were, ano
waiting only to be occupied ano
titled to ensure speedy and abun'
dant incomes, were spread out al
over the prairie country, and wher
fortunes of fabulous richness were
! lying around loose in the sands o
, California, waiting to be gathered
up, no barriers could longer conhn'
the yeomanry of New England tt
!, the stony hillsides and sterile soil o
that historic land of promise. Thel
, it was that New England began t.
be depleted to exhaustion. Then |
was that /" My Fathers House" al
over the ural districts, became evac
uated OF the loved inheritors ane
, osed associations. and became tn