The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-07-02
JASON LEE, Observation-Disclosures
An ADDreciatiOn

In Appreciation
The purpose of these citations
for national pride but because msun
desood and because his and deeds heritage untold
value to the Northwest That the United
on the Pacific and has therefore
the providence Of God preparing full
the greatest problems
due to the establishing Of mission Willamette
which became the FIRST AMERICAN
settlers rallied.
THE world Oregon herself has never
known this in the Wilderness OF his e"
REV. H. X HINES, D. D.
The interest at the beginning country
unknown entrance marked the opening
Of purpose" gsH@
j r. WILSON
any individual deserves to cannonzed for his grand
work In Old Oregon 1t should be Jason Lee
HON c. B. BAGLEY. Seattle
Jason Lee remarkable He possessed great de-
termination wonderful foresight Like other
:. Of his race he was not understood in his time"
JUDGE MoRELAND
conspicuous his contemporaries are thus
exalted their true place history the relation OF the Church
to National Life will become more clearly visible
REV. JOSEPH 3 WILLIAMS D. D.
When the Macedonian Of the Flat Heads heard
the Church asked Who will go? Dr. Wilbur Fisk who college
president young under his who after
became famous said: II know Of like him
1T missionary rather than in the commercial agr
cultural elements that find the which underes all human
There present plant
mora fair cvies which belong to the higher Christian
civilization glance the present condition Of the people
sufficient to that they succeeded.
this point (1sSS) regard Jason Lee less mis-
colone He had discovered that the
tribes the Willamette Valley hopelessy diseased and
depraved. Cover 10000 died from 1929 to 1S320
emgants frontier Of the states
his paradise results Of his eurng tour in the
churches after crossing the Mississippi in 1888
I'm all things he sought to do the best and he certainly
doing work. beneficial mankind and
paeworhy coonizer than he had formerly achieved
missionary.
II have termed Jason Lee colonzer
that His well directed efforts behalf Of his church
could not in their effects be restricted to that body
the history of the first American colonization Of Oregon
There Is imputed him the who
successful completion the dream OF Hall Kelly and
Ewing Young.
H. H. BANCROFT Historian.
attempts settlement
the coming Of Jason Lee but they failures
1.-The Protestant missions the main instruments that
pied Oregon with Americans.
"No the missions
the Cascade Mountains with view to establishing pema-
nent homes in that region
regard emigration inauguraed by Jason Lee
elsewhere throughout the country his greatest
in behalf Of Oregon" #a sa s
HON. H. W. SCOTT, Portland oresonian.
Wyeh sold to the Hudson's Bay Company
left the country in defeat But though he left. an
important remained. That Jason Lee.
sacrifice than entered the dreams Of ancient
od love and beneath his feet In his heart
there lay memorial to Congress
asking for a United States government for Oregon.
missionary ectured in the states He stirred
entire country He woke Congress mission OF
fyhee ministers mechanics farmers and teachers
sailed Lausanne from New York harbor"
EVA e.. DYE, "McLoughin and Old Oregon"
The bark and his fortunes b6ge not half
burden did the beast that bore JaA Lee on his
Oregon. ~
MANY Church could not understand that Dis mission
should the expansion dea that
Gospel must exempfed behind the plow,
blazing foges anv at the bench and
shuttle everywhere life lawful for itself In this he
than his masters and who were with him In the mis-
sion field.
Mr.. Lee comprehend the terms
OF the great problem civilization which he chosen
this coast chrstion missionary colonzer
an American a statesman.
Al through Africa China America, the missionary
the pathfinder Cecil Rhodes
was not the real Mofatt and Living
stone the becomes the high
the road bed the Pullman and the line OF
telegraph.
Having pioneered the Lee and his COMPANY gave
those original impulses life the Oregon which have held
that life through the history of the commonwealth =