Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-22
4 GRAND EVENT.
Salt Lake Tribune. I

salt Lake Tribune
IL there are any who think there Il
something like affectation in the ureua.
rat1ons which are being made by Preai.
dent Willard for the opening Of -
Northern Continental road, they shoQId
recall the idea II is big event In IT,
United States, but when the full etoYv
10 told in Germany It will reveal 70 ths
youth OF that country Q pict1re of the
Possibilities Of this country In coutrsst
With their own, such as they never BE-
fore contemplated. In the year IN
which the boy Willard sailed to lmsrim
probably 10000 German boys entered
the German army. Many of those slesp
IN the pits which we're dugjfor thsm g
Sadowa, 0favelot.e, Sedan, Metz and
other fields some have returned 70 tiu
the soil or tend the shops, q few havo
reached the position Of second Iienten-
ant IN the great army. But the boy
who came away TO America has supreme
command over somsthing more power
fui than the German army; of an en-
ptre more extensive than manv States
OF Germany, and q realm, too, which
holds within II the germs of wealth
which cannot be computed. What
story u Will b 70 tell In Germany, that
poor Gesma1 boy, who . few yeaxs
ago sailed away from Fatherland, now
10 at the head Of railroad which oon-
tinues In unbroken line a. far a.
from the Atlantic coast across France
aud Germany. Austria and Turkey to
the Black Sea; and that the same COM
pany - possessed of lands enough 10
give 300. 900 families ample estates. And
this, too, u IN q country where there IL
no call for soldies; where the poor
young man has the right to make the
girl OF his heart his wife, and. With her
70 make home outside Of tho demoral-
ization OF camps and without the heart.
aches which come of waiting. Ii 10 Q
land, too, where no cast rule places an
embargo upon brains, where no laws
place their restrictions upon birth or en-
deavor. IL ID land, too, where No tre-
nendous armies have TO be supported;
no royal families; but rather where the
highest gift Is open to the hand which
Is brave and deft enough to reach mp
and take the prize. More, schools "a
Tree and as thorough as those of Ger
many stretch now in three lines all the
way between the seas. From such
picture no edict of Bismarck's against
American pork will prevail, and after
q
OF tue Grand Army" would lose some
Of Its magnificence, for all the armies of |
the earth passing in review would make |
but an indifferent picture compared t.
the conquest which the 50,OO0,OJO work |
ers In America, where every one is q |
sovereign, are making. 1t ia no wonder |
II, with pard0nabis pride, Willard seeks |
10 have representatives from his native |
land come and witness the kissing of |
tho locomotives In mid con ntinent, sthat |
they may have more wonderful his
tory to relate upon their return than /
Joseph's brethren had to tell their
tather IN their return from Egypt.
Il, too. will be big event in our own
souutry. 1t gives to trade new high
way; IL locates for commerce new cap
tais. IL seems but yesterday when We
'ead the story Of the Custer massacre.
g was days after it happened. and
shen the place was told, the impression
{ left upon the mind was that it was an
nhnite distance away. But now tho
'euQeful Sioux have sought the walks
II peace, there are smiling homes and
,he voices of children at play ON the
Rosebud, and the locomotive makes the
pot . breathing place as it rushes
scross the continent. This new path
axes about the last terror from the
and il places convenient to
markets East and West region which
} little while ago was voiceless because
of it, remoteneas from civilization, and
which 10 sufacieut to support millions Of
people. The arniea Of old Rome cen-
turies ago all mouldersd back to dust,
but the roads and viaducts which the
Iron Natisu" built still remain as wit
nssses Of their energy, their thorough
ness, and their enlightment. But what
road Of Rome compares to this lsvelinR
and piercing Of the hills. this exalting
Of the valleys. this making q smooth
path for the chariot which is cloud by
day and pillar Of nre by night, 70 lead
the modern world ON new exoduses? Il |
10 q tremendous work to fetter Q conti-
neut with iron bands, and the exploit 10 |
not lessened, though others have ac-
oomplishcd the same feat. Every rspe-
tition 10 simply new exhibition Of |
American energy. Mr.. Willard has q
right to celebrate his triumph with as |
much ostentation ~ he pleases.