Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-26

early English colonial stock has left
deeper than all other upon Our ma
tionai life the mark of it's strong twin
individual ties, the mark OF the cav
alieI and of the Puritan--n6verthele ss.
this stock not only from its environ
ment but also from the presence with
1t OF other stocks. almost from the be-
ginning began to be differentiated
strongly from any European people.
AS ] have already said, about the time
the FIRST English settlers landed here,
the FrenChman and the Spa niaTd, the
Swede and the Dutchman. also came
llither as permanent dwellers, who
left their seed behind them 10 help
shape and partially to Inherit our ma
tional life. The German, the irish
man, the Scotchman came later, but
still IN colonial times, Before the out
break OF the revolution the Am erican
people not only BECAUSE OF their sur
roUndings. physical and spiritual but
because OF the mixture of blood that
had already begun 10 take place, rep
resented Il new and distinct ethnic
type, This type has never been fixed
In blood All through the colonial
days new waves of immigration from
time 20 time swept hlther across the
ocean now from one country. now
from another. The same Ihlng has
gone on ever since our birth as u MAJ
KOHL ana LOT llat A1HA OU 9ttIA ANt
tide OF immigration has been at the
full, The newcomers are soon alb
sorbed lntu our eager national liGe-
and are radically and profoundly
changed thereby, the IA pidity OF their
assimilation being marvellous But
each group OF newcomers as it adds
Its blood to the life, also changes II
some what. and this change and growth
and development have gone on stead
lily generation by generation, through
out three centuries.
PIONEERS OF OUR PEOPLE.
The pioneers Of oar people who first
landed OH these shores ON that eventful
day three centuries ago. had before
them a task which during the early
years was Of heartbreaklng danger and
difficulty The conquest of a new oOnti-
nent Is iron work People who dwell
In old civilizations and find that therein
so much OF hUmanlty's lot is hard. arc
APP to complain against the conditions
as being solely due In man and To
speak as IL life could he made easy ard
simple IL there We're but virgin con-
tinent In which 10 work., II is true
that the pioneer HE WAS simpler. but
IL was certainly not easier AS a mat
ter OF fact the first work of the pio-
neers In taking possession ~ a lonely
wilderness Is so rough, so hard so
DANGEROUS
spirits fail The carly Iron days or
such a conquest search out aliRc the
weak In body and the weak In soul, In
the warfare aEains. The rugged stern
ness Of prtmeval nature, only those can
conquer who are themselves nncon-
querable.- 1t is not unill the ftrst bitter
Wears have pissed that he life be.
comes easy enough to tnYl7c 1rass OF
newcomers and 50 great are the risk,
hardship. and sOil 0f the carly years
that there always exists a threat OF
lapsing back from civilization,
WHAT THEY SUFFERED,
The history OF The pioneers Of James
town. of the founders Of virginia,
illustrates the ruth OF all this. Famine
and pestilcncc and war lnrnNctd the HIT
Tie band OF daring men who had planted
themselves alone ON tho edge OF
downing continent Moreover. us men
ever and whether In the tIniest from
Tier community On n the Vastost ana
most highly organized and complex
ciyillged society. their worst foes were
ln their own bos0ms. Disse nsiun dis
crust The inability NJ some 10 work and
the unWilllugnrgs OF others. jealousy.
arrogance ana envy. folly ana la1lneSs--
In short an the shortcomings With
which we have to grnppc now, were
faced by those pioneers and at mo-
merits threatened ihelr vhoie enterprise
With absolute ruin. II was some iino
before the ground an which they had
Handled supported them In spite of Ing
fertility and they looked /
across tho sea far supplies Al ono 1
rnolncni IN hopeless dld thoy become I
that The whole colony embarked, and 1
was only slved from abandoning lhe |
by tho opportune arrival OF |
hal9 from abroad
SETTLERS TOOK ROOT
Al last they took root In the Land
md were alrNady proslerAnE when |
hc Pllgrl1is iandod al Plymouth. ia |
a few years "a gseat Inflow of settlers /
began. -Four of rhe present states VI |
New England were founded, Virginia |
waved aDace, THE CarollnaH grew np |
10 the south Of H. and Maryland 10