The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-09-11

crate OF all the DeSC eiemenIS OF ali
other peoples in intelligence, energy,
enterprise and courage, kept steadily
onward until he reached the Pacific
ocean, and is now looking beyond for
other worlds to conquer.
"It was the old settler who landed
| with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock,
with the Dutch at Amsterdam, with
Capt John Smith at jamestown, with
the Huguenots in South Carolina and
with Oglethorpe and his Scotchmen
| in Georgia For a hundred years they
formed only a skirmish line against
the great army of the savages who
confronted them. Yet they moved
steadily onward, and westward 9TH
ers followed and took their places as
they went down. The Anglo-Saxon
never turned back nor looked back
ward. While he accepted the teach
ings of Christ and revered his God,
20 him the star in the East had serv-
ed it's purpose; he had his eye fixed
steadily and unwaveringly on a star
in the West, which guided his course
and led him to destiny
George Bancroft in his history of
the United States has cited those
lines of Bishop Berkley, written long
before our Declaration of Indepen-
dence, in which he says:
| Westward the course of Empire
takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall end the drama of the day
Times noblest offspring will be the
Bancroft has referred to these
lines as a production embracing the
United States, which as a united or
ganized nation was not then dreamed
about He claimed that with us the
westward course of empira would end
that our country, peoples and govern
ment would be Times Noblest Off
spring. 1t seems as if such had come
| to be a reality
AT the time those lines were writ
ten comparatively few settlers had
left the Old Country. seeking relig
| ious liberty, freedom of action and
| thought, with room to exercise their
physical resources and for an oppor
tunity to develop the same untFam=
! meled by tyrannieal authority or the
zeal of the religious fanatic.
'If we keep up the pact which our
| forefathers set for us, and which we
have kept until now, the end of the
second century of our existence will
| make the dreams of Alladin appear
like mere child's play.
| @'It was in the Anglo-Saxon you had
your origin. 1t was their energy, de-
| termination, enterprise and courage,
which drove them like an iron wedge
| through the countless hordes of saw
| ages who confronted them. 1t was
] the Old Settler who brought the axe,
the hoe, the spade and plow. He felled
the forest, broke the soil, planted
seeds, built homes and towns. cross
10 r-fry nvf lai
No obstacle was too great for him.
Nothing cooled his ardor or impeded
plains.
He has tapped the earth and ex-
tracted the best life giving fiuids-the
water Of Nature-to refresh himself
and cause the seeds he plants to grow
fructify and produce in plenty, the
material to support life and enrich
the man.
The old settler laid out, and stalk
ed the trails and blazed the ways
leading westward He made. it easy
for those who followed. These trails
were marked with the bones of. those
who fell in their onward march and
the bones of the foe they oyercame
They blazed the way with their rifles
the axe. the plow. the hoe. the hous
es they built. the educational and re
iigious edifices they erected. so thai
none after them could go astray ol