Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05

with much tilling, and whose small
yield no longer gives adequate re.
turns for the sweat that it costs. -
It was such towns as this that sent
their best blood onward and west.
ward to carry on the work they had
begun. In the village graveyard sleep
those men and women who tanned the
New England wilderness, and on the
slabs you read hundreds Of names,
all of Americans of the pioneer stock !;
names which today are scattered as
far as the Pacific Coast, and which
still stand for the qualities of man.
hood and Americanism that have
peopled the prairie, the mountain, the
desert and the forest. g.
These pioneers, then, the town that
they made, and the churchyard in
which they sleep, recall the building
of the nation, in it's heroic beginning.
Their work is done, their towns are
little more than memorials Of what
they did, and the spirit that animated
then has vanished from them, but
only to inspire newer generations Of
kindred breed to far greater work 81
the. same kind.
It is true, also, that in all the other
country along the Atlantic Seaboard
the building and peopling were long
ago accomplished. The cities Of the
East find scope. for progress only in
rebuilding upon the foundations laid
by others. Their people have become
the consumers of the resources OF the
country to the westward, where the
great creative and pioneering forces
are still active in the fresh Joy OF
wrestling from the mine, the farm, the
ranch, the range and the sea their
hitherto ungarnered riches.
The town on the Kennebec enjoys
no distinction beyond the many other
stanch old settlements which wrote
chapters Of the same great story, from
New England south to Virginia and
the Carolinas. It finds mention here
only that contrast may be sharply
focused between the oldest and the
newest manifestations of the vital
spirit of this nation. ~
Two Centuries .Apars.
There are two centuries ms time
and two thousand miles in distance
between the New England village and
the stretch Of North Dakota prairie
upon which is staged the first Of the
scenes chosen from the mighty drama
Of the Builders Of today. III an ex.
panse Of country larger than many
Eastern states, it is possible to- see
unfolding, Hike q panorama, such q
movement of population as settled
first the Atlantic states and later the
Middle West AS saw this North
Dakota prairie in the autumn of last
year. It was cross section Of Amerf
can history in the making.
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