East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-04
MONUMENT FOR
PIONEER MOTHERS.

! PIONEEh NlOIhEttS. |
Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, the well
known Oregon authoress. in an ad-
dress before the Daughters of the
American Revolution, In Portland
saturday, pleaded for an enduring
monument in memory OF the pioneer
mothers of the west Her address was
filled with stirring patriotism and was
in part as follows:
The names of the wives are lost and
| forgotten. Here is a work for the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. Monuments are rising every
day for the brave men, show me one,
or more than one. for the brave wom-
en-, the pioneer mothers of Oregon.
would suggest memorial In marble
of the Pioneer Mother. to be exhibit
ed by the Daughters OF the Ameri-
can Revolution at the coming Alaska
Yukon fair, and to be set up in Ore
gon for its final resting place. What
would the world say to $4,000
group of the pioneer mother shielding
her children from the hatchet of the
savage? If you would have It for the
Alaska Yukon fair 1t is time to be
about it,
Great is the work for the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, the
sole object of their existence is the in
culcation of the spirit of patriotism
in the rising generation. Where are
the tablets to your poets, Sam simp-
son and Joaquin Miller; where any
proper recognition of your writer's
and historians who have striven to
give Oregon an honorable place on the
literary map of the nation?
Where is your tablet to Colonel Ed
ward Dickinson Baker, whose elo-
quence has become a memory and a
tradition. and who fell as your repre-
sentative martyr on the battlefield of
the civil war? Where are your in
scriptfons to Chief John of the Rogue
Rivers. to Piopiomoxmox, Chief JOS
eph and Kamiakin. Indians as brave
as any that ever fought the whites?
Where are the scutcheons of your old
governors-Aberne Joe Lane, "the
| Marion of the Mexican war" who
came to Oregon with the sword of
Santa Ana at his belt. or Curry. who
| served during almost the entire terri
| tOrial era, a period longer than any
other governor of the northwest?
Where are emblazoned the deeds of
your heroic women. Narcissa Whit
man and Eliza Spaulding, the first
white women to cross the Rocky
| mountains; Anna Maria Pitman, the
bride of Jason Lee, the first Cauca-
| sian to plight her troth in Pacific
America; Chloe Boone. great grand
| daughter of Daniel Boone and the
| bravest bride that ever graced a gov
/ ernor's citadel; Tabitha Brown. the
! heronie Of them all. who in night and
! cold and rain. fireless and foodless,
held her lonely vigil preparing her
! heart to become the founder Of Pa
| cific university?
Where is your memorial to the for
| gotten Mcdonald of Oregon, whose
| bronze statue should stand and point
| toward that Japan he knew and loved
| before Commodore Perry ever bent
his steaming prov toward those dis
| tant seas? Unless We honor our To-
cal heroes, no one else will; unless
we write our story on tablets OF en-
during brass, they may yet go down
in the cataclysm of flood and earth
| quake.
Go on with your memorials to Lew
is and Clark. heroes of that marvel
Gus journey comparable only to- the
| Anabasis, the march of the 10000
| Greeks into hostile Persia-they were
10000, while Lewis and Clark's lit
tie band was only 80, crossing more
savage lands than Persia ever knew,
cordelling up turbulent rivers and
scaling peaks of snow as Hannibal
scaled the Alps. Cooperate with the
Oregon Historical society and make
possible what they have long desired
a perpetual reminder of courageous
hearts that have throbbed upon these
shores. Last and best of all, / would
encourage your influence for the. erec'
ton of an Oregon Historical building
a Westminster Abbey of the state
wherein may be treasured the names
and deeds of the hOnOred dead