Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-05-09

short time the estate was administered
and netted about $4,000. The money
was loaned out and later, in 1874, 1t
was paid into the treasury Of the pro.
visional government, which was pledg
ed to refund the same to the heirs or
creditors of Young whenever they should
appear. Fifteen hundred dollars of the
money was appropriated for the build.
ing Of a Jail at Oregon City, the first
west of the Missouri river. don't
know what use they had for it, but
they were probably providing for flu.
ture contingencies. And so you can see
that this first effort for the establish.
ment of government in Oregon was for
the purpose of doing justice to dead
man. This was one of the primary rea
sons for the organization of the pro.
visional government and his estate gave
the treasury its first funds. 1t might
here be said that in 1854 an heir in the
person of son appeared, and, % years
after this estate came into the posses.
sion of the probate court, over $4,000
to the exact cent was paid to the as.
signees of this heir. Now, my friends.
could there ever have been more serup.
ulous justice and fidelity, notwithstand
ing unusual difieulties'
1 would like to call your attention
to the sentiment of patriotism which
animated these founders of the provis-
ional government. Here were hand
full of Americans by birthright or by
inclination. They were men from ev
cry stete in the union-every state then
in the union. These men had been prac
tically neglected, practically forsaken by
the government to which they offered
allegiance. They had wandered over
1000 miles. They were the kind of
Americans who, under all circumstances
stay put" as the President would
say.
And let us not forget the other men
whose names are not engraven on the
monument here. These so men who
voted "No" and rode way, were they
not patriots also7 Were they not as
faithful to the government that claimed
their allegiance as well as the Ameri. |
cans to the Americans to the American |
government What of the glorious and
grand character of DR.. John McLaugh.
lini Was he any the less grand char
acter simply because his interests and
the interests of the government here
were not the same7 These |
men are as good Americans as any 9TH
er patriots of the original Oregon. With |
prejudice and jealousy mellowed by |
time we can now look back upon the
of the thirties and the for
ties and see that they were all pat. |
riots. 1t matters not whether they were
Catholic or Protestant, English, Amer
lean or Canadian, they were patriots
Now there was another particular |
character of these original pioneers Of
Oregon. These men who established |
and carried out the provisions of this
first government were educated men.
They were uneducated, however, many
Of them, unlettered and untutored in
the ways of learning, but they were all
in what / deem the true sig
nifeanee Of that term. Education don Z
mean the loading of the
mind with lot OF literary lumber; it
don't mean storing it with dates and
quotations. But these men had minds
that were trained in the school of hard
knocks; they had minds trained to see
the right, trained to see the right in
every way. Uneducated as they were
in the ways of polite learning, they
were, nevertheless. educated men.
Now, friends, / know there are
lot of other speakers to follow, so
i shall not take much more of your |
time in discussion Of subject in this
manner. There are vietors of peace no |
less than those Of war. There are he. |
Toes in the ordinary walks Of life that
are no less heroes than those who play |
their parts amid the clash of arms; and |
the grandest heroes of all time, the
srandest heroes Of any nation, are the
pioneer men and women who have car
ried the American ideals and the Amer.
lean home from the Atlantic to the Pa. |
eihe; across the Aneghsnies, over and |
through the valies Of the Ohio, the
Mississippi and the Missouri, over the |
Rockies, down the Columbia, over the
Cascades and TO the bar Of the Western
ocean. These men and these women
accomplished a conquest Of peace vet