Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-08-25
WESTWARD no!

not tile new, DlE Tile Oh WOFlu; tnaI
the era lie Of civiliZ ltion was first
rocked upon the soil of this continent;
that it was first carried East instead
Oi West; that through it the wild
tribes Of Egypt, of Syr1a, and Assyria.
we're tanned and made reasonable be-
inRs; that the last words spoken by
the Savior of the world when his
spirit was about to take its fight from
the cross, were in that language which
first was reduced to intelligent and
written form in what is LOW Central
America. TO prove sheir words they
hold up the tablets of stone, upon
viii h The record is written; they
trace the cycles of the years back to
a time winch was SO many thousands
OF years before the first page Of his
tory. sacred or profane, was written,
that in contemplating it the human
mind becomes confused, and when
we attempt by any measurements OF
earth, to comprehend the breadth OF
the ocean Of space between our little
earth and whore Sirius keeps his sem
tinel wat III ON Il lonely outpost IF the
universe.
II this is all true, ii because of a
WORKOUT soil, or because of the vices
and crUeltIes of man. it was determin.
ed that the race should be swept
away and even the presence Of the
continent be hidden for centuries
enough to permit it to recruit in it's
savageness, it was moi more strange
than many another secret that has
been made known to mortals an their
later years.
But rs the mind broods over these
possibilities OF the past. it If prone TO
try to fathom the design which was
hidden behind all these phenomena.
Since our Republic was founded, it
has been II favorite speculation with
both writer's and speakers, to assume
thaa our continent was reserved tor. a
placS where man, turning away from
the tyrannies OF the Old World, might
work nut here a higher aud greater
ciVilisRtioD, and where the oppressed
might at last find respite from their
wrongs. That thought has taken a
broader range during the past one
hundred days. We expected, Of
course, to triumph ovsr Spain; we ex-
pected that on both sea and land our
cause would triumph, but none Of Nc
expected that two powerful fleets
would be sunk by our little navy,
without the loss Of IA ship on our side
and with the death Of but ono man in
battle on all our ships. When the
Greeks were threatened by an v
whelming enemy that was approach
ing, the oracle advised them to trust
their fate to their feet, and there has
been unwonted sacredness attached
to the victory Of Salamis ever since.
Those who try to read the sy mboIs
which events reveal, see In the saving
Of all our chips the very finger of
God, and to such people that finger
seems to point a new destiny for a
people. Not to sail East to plant a
new civilization beyond the pillars Of
Hercules, but West to begin the re-
demption OF the millions on the other
shore Of the Pacific. To them the
ships themselves seem to point the
way. The "Olympia" wal western
born. and it led the way across the
t~orpedoes sunk in the entrance Of
Manila harbor to victory. In the
same harbor it was another western.
born ship. the Monterey" that SCUM.
ded the most solemn note OF doom
when the day came for the final
breaking Of the arm of Spain in the
Pacific. Another western born shin
the charleston" took the Ladrones
But the signal triumph was when the
western-born great glory of the feet
unweary after her 5000 mile race
was given rein in battle, only to OK.