Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-17

II me growth OF fINuOuLn mas Deen
so great in two hundred and fifty years,
what may we not expect in two thou
sand years? New goods will be put into
the stores, no doubt, new cars put on on
the railroad, and new fresh air into the
cars, real estate will advance to unheard
Of prices and farms will many of them
be resodded at great expense.
Looking back now upon the broad and
liberal platform upon which the Pilgrim
Parents erected their altar for the wor-
ship of a Colonial God, am not sur
prised that they succeeded 1t is true
that they were in some respects severe.
They allowed themselves few methods
Of relaxation aside from the contempla-
ton o. a supe-heated hell for those who
disagreed with them. They even de-
MED themselves the pleasures of a prayer
rug, preferring to suffer certain depriva-
tons publicly in order to get good
notices.
The Pilgrim was queer mixture of
iron endurance, patient industry and
pious pigheadedness. l saw yesterday
the pond at Cohasset wherein these
devouC men drowned their witches, and
the public square in which they burned
them also. VIII not the generations
Of two hundred years hence possibly
see where we, too, have been over
jealous, hidebound and intolerant? OF
course we joke the Pilgrim now regard
ing his mistaken zeal in burning old
people by means Of green birch wood.
which is a poor fuel and apt to spoil
the best job of roasting that we can i'm
| agine, but supposing that your eagle eye
had discovered that your own mother
shovel signs of being a witch. Most
anybody would resent the burning of
his mother, if she had been a kind and
obedient mother. l suppose that there
can be nothing more painful than to
stand ny and see ones mother burned at
the stake. Especially is this the case if
one sh )uld resent it and write a piece
regarding it, and then either find 1t
| markell communicated" or thrown ont
altogether.
The result has been in Massachusetts.
believe, that in the past 100 years
| there has been more iberality than
! almost anywhere elsa sort Of reaction
| from the spirit which led TO the use OF
lilV va NrAA Oltl NLlFlC llpN lllt bdhtll
bean Is found to be far superior.
Plymouth is beautifully situated 80
also is Scituate) and in summer is a very
| popular place for the flannel covered
| health seeker of the bargain counter, as
well as the overworked but purse proud
newspaper man. You would hardly be-
lieve that the fishing and hunting We're
still good around Plymouth after the
growth OF 250 years, but they are said to
! be so, and within the past ten years at
! least 200 deer have been killed within a
few miles Of where the Pilgrims landed.
That shows that Plymouth has been a
quiet town. See what Chicago has done
in one-ffth of that time, and without
| Dragging over iteither. No matter what
| Chicago does she is never boastful. Chi
cago lets her work show for itself That
| is whaJ Chicago sees most to admire and
applaud in herself.
Attached to Plymouth is a very enjoy
able harbor, which has not materially
changed since the deck hands of the
Mayflower, with that painful delibera-
ton which marks the efforts of the deck
hand who does not swear. made fast the
gallant but poorly ventilated little craft.
In fancy, now, see the Mayhower tack
ing to and fro, and moving toward
| Plymouth Rock, where she had adver-
Used to make landing. As look over
the placid bay with half closed eyes
seem To see, as the boat gets nearer, the
faces o. those whose children are so soon
to be successful and point back with
pride to these parents who stand upon
the decks of the Mayfiower.
Let is look for moment at these
fathers and mothers of the future aris-
tocracy of America. Here is one of them
engaged in holystoning the deck.
His haegard face shows how hard it has
been for him to be sailor in rough
weather and under adverse circum-
stances without the use Of plug tobacco
or proximity. Here is another head OF
| grea5 American family line. He is