The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-07
immigration
<.-Past Human Migrations.a
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

The polished stone implements found
in the caves and river gravels of
western Europe, the kitchen-middens
upon the SHORES Of the Baltic, the
swiss lake habitations, and the burial
mounds all over Europe confirm he
belief that close hinsmen of the chi
nese were the first people of Europe.
What happened in prehistoric times in
the migrations of humanity into Eu-
rope has been witnessed in the coming
of the Hungarians and the Turk into
Europe.
Although the Aryan race is un-
doubtcdly the youngest. of the great
classes of humanity, it is, collectively,
the most scattered. 1t includes the
ancient Hindu and the modern Eng
lishman; the ancient Roman and the
modern Italian; the ancient Athenian
and the modern Greek. It's descend
ants have peopled the new world, Eu-
ROPE and Australia.
The original seat of the Aryan race
seems to have been in the Hindu
kooch mountain region of northwest
ern Asia. In the less than 5000 years
that have passed since the first pill
grims started out of those mountain
valleys to conquer the world, as they
progressed they have wandered all
owe the earth. Some tribes spread
over the table-lands of Iran and the
plains of India, and became the pro-
genitors of the Modes, the Persians
and the Hindus. The tribes which en-
tered Europe probably went there by
,.t., ~ ,f tho 1I,iI,r.,,,t ,,rl,;,,~ tI,,,,-
selves down into the %pcninsulas and
founding the Greek and Roman states.
The vanguard of the tribes which
swept across the middle Europe from
Asia to the west We're the Celts.
After them came the Teutonic tribes.
and the hard-crOWdcd Celts We're
forced out upon the Wcstern-most edges
of Europe into Gaul n Spain, and
across the hanne to the British isles,
where they are represented to this
day by the Welsh, the Irish and the
Highland Scots. Behind the Teutons
came the Slavs, and they pressed up
against the Teutons as hard as the
Teutons in their first days had pressed
against the Celts.
From the time when the first YEN
turesome tribes began to wander west
ward from the Aryan cradle home IN
til now, the wanderlust has possessed
the Aryan peoples, and perhaps for
1000 or 5000 years they have been
moving Onward and westward, and
the great migration to America is but
the continuing flow of the stream that
began so many years ago.
We find the history of this Aryan
migration written in the earliest books
of the race. The Rig-Veda, the most
ancient of books, is made up chiefly
of hymns which We're composed by
the sweet singers of the Aryan clans
which, during a thousand years,
marched steadily forward through the
Himalayas and across the Indian
peninsula to the Gauges. These hymns
are filled with the memories Of the
long conflict of the fair-faced Aryans
and the ~dark-visaged a~borigines.
They tell of the terrors of the noun
tain passes, speaking often of the
great dark mountains through whose
gloomy defiles the early immigrants
to India wendell their way.
The people of eastern Asia seem to
be the only great exception to the po-
etc statement that westward the
course of empire takes its way. China
was first settled by a band Of TuraA-