Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-08-22
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that lIst was IN acquired passion
ike love for tomatoes or tripe;
that in truth he - :. Dor. Ameri-
can, only he did not know II. The
Scotch came, and though tie, v,re
often more English than the English
men, they all the time kept their
eyes on the main chance and swift.y
made up their minds that a maj
ould be fool to ever go
olck to the land of lakes and rocks
aid fogs. unless he might go as
did Carnegie to build a.'castle there
and show the peasantry what a
chief 4 Gin 3 Gad.,grown to be.
The Wti-h came h.re, aud " hen
the second generation had learned
the lang ,asr II this cUu4 Y, they
beca lie 'rst-c' American es-
pecially if they were able to pick
up an office or two.
The Scandinavians came. and
there was free air in the west
which to their nostrils, was even as
the air OF the sea to the fro e-boot-
ing vikings from whom they de-
scended, and now wherever they
are they are bulwark of liberty
and a square deal.
The Glrnans came, and whtn
they found beer equal to Il best
Bavarian, they took to it Ike
mothers milk, and while they con-
tinued to sing the hymns of father
Land, and to reverence fa,herland,
ard the fatherland traditions, they
recognized at glance that there
we're hopes here sweeter than they
ever could nurse in native land,
and promises of fruition which no
other land held in Its scope, and
decided that this was a lard worth
living for ala il nee,.s he worth
dying for. Scr,c Ir,n,hlen
came, and while they have ever
been among the best of our
citizens, as rule most of the first
generation of them wear a look
which seems to say, lone can
live in Paris, when he leaves there
he camps out"
The Hebrew came. and while he
holds this land as next to the Holy
Land while he accepts and fulfills
all the duties of citizenship he as
rule is as a current in the deep sea,
that moves among the ordinary
water of.the.ocean without mingling
with them, or rather, we should
say without merging with them.
1t is out of all this material that
our nation has thus far been cryst-
alizing, but now when we pass
along the street we hear corrup-
ton of the tongue in w cb Reg
illus and Herminius spoke in the
seven-hilled city; corruptions of
the tongue which was spoken in
Attica and Macedonia and Lacedes
monia; corruption of the barbarous
tongue, which Atilla and Alaric
spoke, and now and then a few
words which Saladin with the same
accent might have used. From
these we have omitted the Jaw
breaking jargons from beyond the
Pacific; we have omitted the
dialects of our Indian tribes. and
the "soft bastard Latin" that
comes up from the southern
countries of our continent, be-
cause their fathers were earlier in
possession than ours. But out of
all these the American people are
crystalizing into the new American
nation. And the question is, "Who
are we going to be hundred years
hence?' Will the red school
house and the churches be suffici-
ent to save what is good in all, and
to eliminate the bad? We hope so,
but are afraid. The morning dis
patches with their records of
crimes, are not assuring. There
must be higher patriotism
taught and more respect for law,
or we fear for the manhood and
womanhood of our people.-Good-