Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-02-09

| scious-the little Indian blanket clasp.
AS 1t lay before me / felt seized of a
| sudden hatred for 1t, and let fall ON
it heavy hand. AS did so. heard
a voice at my ear.
''Mein Colt, man. do not! You
break it, surely.
| started at this. had not heard
any one approach. / discovered now
| that the speaker had taken seat
near me at the table, and could not
fail to see this object which lay be-
fore me.
81 beg pardon" he said, in broken
speech which showed his foreign
birth; but it iss' so beautiful; to
break it ISIS wrong"
/ pushed the trinket along the table
towards him.
"'Tis of little value" ] said, land is
always in the way when would find
anything in my pocket"
! but once some one bass made 1t;
once it bass been value. Tell me
where you get it?"
North of the Platte. in our west
ern territories" | said. Il once traded
In that country"
you are American
YES"
so" he said thoughtfully. 80. A
great country, very great country.
Me. / also live In It,"
"Indeed?" said. In what partr
TT iss five years since cross the
Rockies"
You have crossed the Rockies! |
envy you"
You meesunderstand me. I live
west Of them for FIVE years. am now
come east"
| was afraid my eyes showed my
+, interest; but he went on.
Il hat been in the Columbia coun'
try, and In the Willamette country.
where most of your Americans are
| settled. ! know somewhat OF Califor-
MIA. Mr.. Howard. of the Hudson Bay
Company, knows also of the country
| of California He said to those Eng.
| lish gentlemans at our meeting last
night that England should hat some
! thing to Offset California on the west
coast; because. though Mexico claims
California, the Yankees really rule
there, and will rule there yet more
He ISIS right; but they laughed at
him"
"Oh. I think little will come Of all
this talk" | said carelessly. 1T -
! very far, out to Oregon" Yet all the
time my heart was leaping. So he
had been there. at that very meeting
of which could learn nothingl
"You know not what you say. A
thousand men cane into Oregon last
year 1t ISIS like one of the great mi
grations OF the peoples of Asia. OF
Europe. | say to you. 1t ISIS a great
epo~l. There ISIS a folk-movement
such as we haf not seen since the
days of the Huns. the Goths. the Van
dals, since the Cimri movement 1t
ISIS an epoch. my friend! 1t ISIS fate
that ISIS in it,"
so, then. it is a great country" l
asked.
1T ISIS so great, these traders do not
wish 1t known. They wish only that
it may be savage; also that their
posts and their harems may be undis-
turbed. That ISIS what they wish.
These Scots 60 wild again. In the
wilderness. They trade and they trav-
ell, but 1t ISIS not homes they build.
Sir George Simpson wants steel traps
and not plows west Of the Rockies.
That ISIS ALI"
They do not speak so Of DIR. Nc
! Laughlin," l began tentatively.
MY friend. great man. McLaugh-
| lin. believe me! But he ISIS not Nc
Kay: he ISIS not Simpson; he ISIS not
Behrens; he ISIS not Colville; he iss
not Douglas. And say to you. as |
learned last night-you see. they
asked me also to tell what knew of
| Oregon--I say to you that last night
| Mclaughlin was deposed He ISIS in
| charge no more-so soon as they can
get word to him, he loses his place at
Vancouver"
After lifetime in the service!" l
commented.
"Yess, after lifetime; and Nc
Laughlin had brain and heart, too. II
England would listen to him, she
would learn something's. He plants, he
plows. he bass gardens and mills and
houses and herds. Yess. II they let
Mclaughlin alone, they would hat a
civilization on the Columbia, and not
a fur.trading post. Then they could
oppose your civilization there. That
iss what he breaches. Simpson
breaches otherwise. Simpson loses
Oregon to England. 1t may be-"
Then you think there is chancg
of trouble between our country a.~
England. out there?"
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