Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-04-26

great inflouU ~.
began. Four of the present ~ settler
New England were founded states q
waxed apace. The caroI,na. 'irginA
to the south of it, and Maryl s grew y
north OF 1t. The Dutch co ,auu to Ii.
tween which had already ~ b,
the Swedish, were in tbo;. aoscrba
sorbed by the English. pern sua al.
was founded and, later stin '1 y
There were many wars with 1eOrSiI
dams and with the dapr+,as the h.
whose banners bore the &c, raptat,
France. At last the British 81 'e'
without rival in all caste s new
America. Then came tho Nctt
struggle for national lndepenSso'' 'pl
FOR half a century after we hue
a separate nation there was o,O Oscars
lively little immigration ~ .s SVlnpsfs'
try. Then the tide once ..s, c0n'
hither, and has flowed in evar',n u @
ing size until in each Of tbo Ia. urea 'e
years greater numhar =. "re
came to these shores than h,a p0Ops
on them during the entire "a, uos
period. Generation by gon. Ona
these people have been abso.,@
the national life. Generally the,. aa
almost always their grandson, 80. '0aR
distinguishable from one anot,aU y.
from their fellow-Americans de.,..a
ed from the colonial stock ~
alike the problems of our ex,stsn.. ~
fundamentally the same and ~ M
alike these problems change from -
Grafton to generation. s'''
In the colonial period and a.. !.
least century after its close ~.
quest of the continent, the ern.,.p
OF our people westward, to the An.
enemies, then to the Mississipni a..
to the Pacific, was ALWAYS ors :, :"
most important tasks, and soms,,,.
the most important, in our ro.,..',
life. 'u''
Development of Country
Behind the first settlers the cora,
lions grew easier, and in the old..
settled regions of all the colonies M.
speedily assumed much of comfort ANA
something of luxury; nd through vAn,
erlly 1t was on a much mora aouo
cratic basis than life in the old world
it was by our modern standards,
and here and there, as in the tias
water regions of Virginia, a genuIu
aristocracy grew and fourished Ri
the men who first broke ground in In
virgin wilderness, whether on the Al
lantic coast, or in the interior, tough
hard for mere life. In the early stars
the frontiersman had to do battle vii
the savage, and when the savage va
vanquished there remained the hardt
strain of war with the hostile forces
soil and climate, with food, fever, Al
famine. There was sickness, and b
ter weather; there were no road
there was a complete lack Of all b
the very toughest and most absolu
necessaries.
> Under such circumstances the m
e and women who made ready the co
] tinent for civilization were able thel
Y selves to spend but little time in dol
r aught but the rough work which "
q to make smooth the ways of their 81
8 cessors. In consequence observ
: whose insight was spoiled by lack
sympathy always found both the s.
; tiers and their lives unattractive q
: repellent In Martin Chuzzlewit
description OF America, eliminating
I the description Of the frontier town
Eden, was true and lfelike from
standpoint of one content to Il
merely at the outer shell; and yet
was community like Eden that 81
: birth to Abraham Lincoln; 1t was n
!, such as were therein described m
I. whose loins Andrew Jackson sprans
!. Hitherto each generation among
: has had fits allotted task. now heav
a now lighter. In the Revolutions
i. war the business was to achieve I'M
a pendence. Immediately afterwa
j there was an even more moment'
4 task: that to achieve the national IN
and the capacity for orderly devel
ment. without which our liberty
< independence, would have been 81
Z and not blessing. In each OF y
o two contests, while there were MI
e great leaders from many diner
a states. It is but fair to say that
I foremost place was taken by the
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