The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-03-27

startling rapidity. 1t is aston
ishing how people from the east
become infatuated with the free
dom and happy-go lucky life of
the west. Those who have
crossed the continental divide
and westward watched the course
of empire take it's way become I
attached to the land of the set |
ting sun. This applies more to
the men than to the women; wo-
men being of fine texture cling
to the old homestead and friends
and reluctantly sever the old ties
to become pioneers, and yet af-
ter a longer period they too be
come as ardent advocates of the
west as the men. The writer
after nearly thirty years on the
, plains and in the mountains of
i the great west is forever wed to
the land of his adoption. All he
: asks is to spend his remaining
years in peace amid the glories
: and possibilities of the richest
: and best part of the land of the
free and the home of the brave"
4 the Pacific northwest. People
of great wealth have no need to
: pioneer. They are so positioned
S that they can create any envior-
# ment. Then again there are
people who are so constructed
|. that they cannot break away. It
J. is best for such temperaments to
: remain in the old nest. For the
ambitions man or woman of mod
r crate or small means, the west
is their Mecca. As a result the
west is being populated by the
flower of the east. Our new
people are neither very rich OF
is very poor. They are norma
h human beings with healthy bod
y les and mentally sound.
The horrors of overcrowdeC
CT cities, the steady grind of gen
O. teel poverty, the vain struggl
ty for the unattainable that is cruel
k; flying and destroying manhoo'
rs and womanhood, do not exist il
K, the west and will not for man,
L. years to come. People in tn
A. cities, unless they are in tn
swim financially or socially, sim
O. ply count as one human being
They work amid conditions 5
IS. strenuous that old age prems
en- turely engulfs them and prid
(false) is their hard and exactin
IS. master. Competition is so shar
ler and the cost of living so hig
that at the end of the year th
IN average ambitious city person
worn and weary trying to occup
a position that their means d
Ill not Justify. The result is thS
life is a cold drudgery instead I
J. a pleasure. 1t is not the intel
lhe of the writer to find fault wit
city folks, but the facts promi
d. entity remain that the averas
Co. person in cities at the end
lis the year are not a dollar abe;
of the game of life, and yet mo
Nc of these would not leave if thu
led could. The die is cast for thel
they would rather be hitchil
'os. post in city than landlord
the the country. However, the we
is filling up with the young
son. generation of easterners who a
welcomed to our land of opp
Div tunity. The west viii be
proud possessor of the fin'
IAN. citizenship in the United Stat
in twenty-five years. Railrof
w. are doing great work along tn
tut lines, the great reclamation
m. terprises, a better general und
standing of the mineral wea
of the west, are all imports
factors in making the new W
lred attractive. The lumber int
rom ests are also working westwa
our The harnessing of the 81
10 water powers and transmits
the of the same in all directions
pc creating opportunities that
any few years ago were unthou
ana of. All machinery and mech
ana ica1 aDDliancaS are new and