The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-17
THANGES THAT HOVE BEEN WROUGHT
oooV I'm THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

children after the manner Of the an
GENTS and not I'm accordance with the dr.
mapds Of modern life. Tho drift Of the
present contest IL 90 establish larger
measure Of cooperative sympathy be-
tween remote communities and sections.
The social characteristic OF our colonial
life was isolation. Eeach community CON
stituted q neighborh5od by itself, more
jealous Of any other ncighborbcOd than ~
present one siafe Ia Of another. or even
ono continent 10 Of another. All strangers
were deiested. This was In part an In
heritsnce from EngiLzh kfe. But IN New
England a community mean, q group %
those who specially sympaib'z.d IN reiig'
ioua affairs. An outsider WAS suspected,
and warned on. A poor person from ans
other town was never harbofed. hat sent
home asain In 1895 ths Simple Gobber ~
Agawnm wrote that zone Of the great evils
IN America was tho crowdins ~ tho ma
t;ves 10 the corners ~ the earth by for
eIgHers." This was only sixteen years after
the first native had been born on the Amer
lean soil. Boston. NJ late as 100. required
the registering Of foreigners. lest they be-
come chsfgeabjs. In TIA citizens were pro-
hIbited BY Law from entertaining Strangers.
without giving q description Of tho per-
son and his circumstances 10 the town ag-
tbori:ses. Thls popularity ~ social sfs
was characteristic OF New England down
into the present century. Steam power and
RAPID INSTRUMENTATION soon began ~
break IN upon specialized community life.
and create a broader state spirit. Section
siisrn ala not pass away until after the
civil war.
We close the century sith an easy abb
ny to feel tire brotherhood tina, covers the
continent. II ~ a natural consequence ~
This that we are row reaching beypnd con
tsneniaI lines, and enlefing an efa ~ great
er expansion There remain traces, how
ever. OF New Enxiandiem and cher local
herediiies all over the country. That 20.
ciallsm should develop in subordinate re-
forms ~ not unnatural. AZ the beginning
Of the century thefs wers few hospitals
ard no insane asyiums. while the bind.
the deaf. the dspravsd ana the Grand wefs
all crowded together into town hggees az
the public charge. Everything was stsli on
the town basis. All this haa passed away
rithia the last sevsn'y-fvs years We can
hardly understand how great the changs
has been. Customs that had endured Tor
tens Of eenigriss-that, indeed. dated hask
20 the heglnnin. % Afysn lfc-nave been
abruptly eliminated. Common lands ard
common heriss we're q part ~ the s0risl
i!sa that has been swept away. Town
sheep herds sn8 fsnre yiewera and hay
wards and hog reeves are terms hardly at
present eoenFrshsmsibic Only seventy i've
ycafs ago. wher Haiph Wade Ensrson
becaine a hogsshal9sr in Concord. he vas
maize q hog reeve
Tut our present efforts az cooperation
ususs not 30 m.sanaeYsiood. They are sifR.
rly co-opefauon on n iargsr scale enf
broader basis. Co-epsrailpn existed quite
"a ON raatif ally ~ me aezlnniuz ~ ihe
century To- ieogie u each town acfei
"a q volt le hoase building sians hauling,
lard eleAriug corn hnskrg an4 IN ruai-
tseaking Thgy rad their common A0oi.
fasir common asids 81 commons and ~
al domestic affairs fHrY had "a NsY ~ sn4r,
iHR together Affer autchsrng every farm.
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meat
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