The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-11-26

luxury was the unknown quantity.
Necessity is said to know no law
and likewise to be the mother Of in
ventiOn. Nevertheless, there wa
scrupulous observance of the grea
unwritten law, of tolerance, kindli-
ness and mutual helpfulness. Like
, wise, on the inventions the Pioneer
took out no patents and demanded
no royalty.
Isolation, transportation and met
ger postal facilities with an almos
total lack of medical assistance IL
case of sickness or accident, sugges
eloquently some of the hinderance'
and difficulties in the settlement
of the country. In the stern schoo
of hardship and privatiOn, the Pho
neer developed the rugged Spartan
virtues of self denial, courage and
fOrtitude. The absence of aids pc
culiar to an older civilization devel-
Oped the spirit of self reliance &c
the highest degree. Stripped of The
conventional, complex and the arti-
ficial. life in Pioneer days reverted
largely to the primative. He lived
close to the grass The symbol OF
his life was minus rather than
plus and the former was the more
beneficient factor of the two.
He could truthfully say with Pope
"man wants but little here below,
nor wants that little long"
Measured by the current standard
of social ethics prevalent in so-called
polite society" the Pioneer may
have been somewhat lacking, bnt
measured by that higher and truer
standard of genuine courtesy inspir-
ed by innate and intrinsic kindness
of heart, he lacked nothing. With
him, forms meant little, the spirit
much. or the mint and anise and
cummin, he took little note, but to
the weightier matters of the law. he
gave due consideration.
There was little of Statute law
but the great unwritten law of the
Brotherhood of man was honored,
not so much in, its breach, (as in
later days) as in it's rigid observ-
ance Jealousy, suspicion, rivalry,
were eliminated from the social
scheme Democratic, tolerant, his
own faults bulked large, while his
neighbors, "ere leaned toward vir-
tues side" VIM. Cullen Bryant's
felicious verse aptly symbolizes the
Pioneers environment and spirit.
what cordial welcomes greet the
guest
By the lone rivers of the West,
Where faith is kept and truth
revered,
And man is loved, and God is feared
Tn woodland hnmpS
And where the oceans border
fOams."
On the cenotaph that towers over
the ashes of the Pioneers, might be
traced the simple yet eloquent cpl
taph:
HE loved his fellows and his love
was sweet,
Plant daisies at his head and at
his feet
To him civilization is greatly deb
tor and it will not outlaw the debt.
He is the indispensable factor in
the beneficient scheme of civilization
and although the Hall of Fame may
not be hOnOred by his heroic sta
tue, his memory will be kept green
in the hearts of a grateful poster
ity.
In passing, l want to pay spon-
taneOus tribute of praise to the ell
ect Pioneer women who bore so
large and honorable a part in The
settlement and development of the
cOuntry-the more so that the writ
er's mother was a pioneer woman at
an earlier date and in far distant
state.
By their dauntless courage, by
their hope that sprang eternal, by
their fortitude in the endurance OF
hardships and privations, by their
infinite patience as they kept their
lonely vigil by the hearth stone. and
while husband. father and brother
were on the firing line, by their
sweet ministry, through woman's
presence and woman's touch;
threading the dim trails of the wild
erness by day and by night 10 The
homes of sorrow and suffering, 10
place the cup of cold water TO par
ched lips, or with the touch of min
istering angels, wiping the death
damp from the brow and closing The
eyes of the dying.
BY her peculiar environment she
developed those traits of character
that adorn and beautify the highest
| type of womanhood.
With barred heads and grateful
hearts, let us join with Bryant IN
! his sublime apostrophe addressed 10
/ the "Woman of the West"
Space forbids the quoting of more
than the closing stanzas of that
| poem, which chants praise to the
wild free West and the noble Wo-
men who helped to make it what 1t
is.
There's freedom at thy gates and
| rest,
For earth's downtrodden and
oppressed.
A shelter for the hunted head,
For the starved worker, toil and
| bread
Power at the bounds,
Stops and calls back his baffled
hounds
"Thine eye with every coming hour
Shall brighten and thy form shall
tower.
And when thy sisters to luxury born
Would brand thy name with word O
scorn
Before thine eye
Upon their lips the taunt shall
die"
Comparisons are said to be od-
lious and where all acquitted them
selves SO nobly, We will not make