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

At the request of the Clam Dig.
gers Society, Mr.. l.. d. Pangborn
mas prepared the following admirable
Sound:
obeying an impulse as old as the
race and as universalas human nat
ure, the Pioneers seeking a better
land, hardening and needing the cal
or the wild, and in accordance with
Bishop Berkley's prophetic utter
ance Westward the star of empire
takes its way" journeyed to
the North Pacific Coast.
lie migration of the pioneer was
In accord with great economic law
as exact and fnexorable If not as ap-
parent as that which governs the
ebb and flow of the tides
lie was the potential factor in the
scheme of subjugating the forces
or nature and adapting them to the
use of man.
1t was his province to carry back
10 his old home the grapes of Es-
chol" that told of the marvellous fer
Unity OF the soil, "a land flowing
with milk and honey"
1t Was nOt.the lure of gold and ad-
venture that inspired and directed
the pilgrimage of the Pioneers
They We're distinctively home-seek-
ers and hOme-builders.
They We're not weaklings. 1t took
courage and intrepidity to cut loose
from their old associations and en-
vironments and dare the perils and
problems of the Wilderness For
Puget Sound, when the first Pioneer
came to the coast, WAS practically q
terra incOgnita. an unknown land,
so far as its climatic pecuHarities
and agricultural possibilities were
concerned. True. Gray, Puget and
% Vancouver had sailed along the
coast. entered the bays and beheld
the forest-clad hills. but of the vast
wilderness stretching leagues on lea
CUES back from the coast they knew
nothing.
In very real sense the Pioneers
were the true discoverers of the coun-
try. They were charged with the
arduous and responsible task by
continuous residence, to discover
and develop its hidden possibilities.
Their task was largely experimental
and of that task right nobly did the
acauit themselves.
With much consistency they may
adopt Caesars laconic war bulletin
"Veni. .Vidi. Vici." l came. l saw. l
conquered.
The Pioneers have a proprietary
Interest in this country. 1t is theirs
in very real sense, by reason or
discovery, conquest and occupation.
Their prior patent is proof against
all writs of eviction whether of King
or Kaiser.
or course we are not so radical
as to advocate appropriation, never
the-less there are valid rights that
do not depend for their maintenance
on any legal guarantee and to those
rights we will never sign quit
claim deed.
The Pioneers came to land OF
perpetual green, Of lofty snow-clad
mountains, of towering forests, OF
noble rivers rushing from the noun
tains to the sea and to the shores
of that beautiful inland sea, so fe-
licitously phrased by Henry Ward
Beecher. the Mediterranean of the
Pacific A land of marvellous see
mic WIN a. cS""'y
n fascination all its own, a land in
which the sublime, the beautiful ana
the picturesque blend in perfect har-
mony, land upon which nature mas
bestowed her most lavish gifts.
Standing in the somber shadow
of the pines, the Pioneer had a Wis
ion. That vision was: Home, Sweet
Home in which was blended all
those associations which make Home
one of the two sweetest words In TN
language. A picture as fair IN MS
nrophetic vision as the Garden OF
the Lord.
Thereafter, with those militant
weaDons. the axe. the saw ana IRE
.s~ toiled- liz winters frost and sum
,,or,s.beot in lonely vigils as he wat
obad his beacon fires at night unt'l
Sis haautiful vision became the bles-
, sed reality.
z Tn the bright lexicon of the P1o-
,oar faith. Hope, Charity and Cour-
age were writ large. He made ho
truce with danger and difflcui'y'
The pioneer was an heroic flgure
T, the twilight Of n new ciV'iiZ"t-
lon his verile personality adorned
with the elemental qnailties is I'M
nod on the page of contemporaries
,s history. He has left the 'ndei-
ihIa impress of his tolls and triuin-
nhs nm the highest type OF CHRISTIAN
civilization. -,
II was his responsible task to butt
ress a splendid political fabric
masnjficent commonwealth on the
immutable pillars of the state.
Tbey did not build with untemper
cd mortar. bricks without straw put
the foundation stones were iaia up
on and cemented by the lndestruu,,
ibie principals of righteousness anu
truth and justice.
rbo Pioneers were the vanguard
a., ,idettes. the sappers and miners
tse o,viI;zation. Eliminate the pio-
OF from the scheme of civilization
nes' - would be the play OF Halnie.
,th anu Hamlet left out las meahihsseSs sis
WIN anic poem with the heroic l's-
as an Conspicuous for their absence
e on tbe Eastern littorai nt ,.io .nt ',''si viii
ON ','e ,ne he planted a civilization Sn,, MatI
faci.as ti'n -fs.tile elements. ina, nnr,d sn,
ne,nn al the highest type 'he "'' ~
has hSo etI the pioneer. life was reduced