Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-07-03

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Up everywhere, towns and cities were
springing into existence as If by magic
al over the broad expanse of territory
drained by the Mississippi or washed
ly the lakes.
THE prosperity everywhere preva
lent was, however, doomed to inter
rnption, The jewel was too great to
sacrifice without another effort and
again the tocsin OF war was sounded.
gain the same old enemy wended his
way to our shores and once more was
our peaceful. prosperous land con-
vulsed with war.
1.-THE old revolutionary spirit was
burning brightly, We had tasted the
fruits of liberty and would defend it
at any cost, every hazard General
jackson behind cotton bales at New
Orleans and Commodore Perry with
his dugouts on Lake Erie. taught them
that liberty was a priceless treasure
and that it would be triumphantly de-
Tended against even the combined eff
forts of the monarchial world.
Peace being declared, that same
old unsullied flag waving proudly over
the land. enterprise followed with
alacrity the receding steps of war,
end prosperity perched itself above
us in letters as fixed as the stars in
heaven. tApplause). Here went the
pitcher.
THE west and southwest became
the mecca for the homeseeker, states
were being carved out, stars added to
the flag and the little republic, rocked
in the cradle of pride and patriotism,
was developing into a nation of gi-
gantic proportions. feared and envied
by Christendom. The phenomenal in
crease Of our agricultural and mechan
/ ical Industries demanded cheaper ant
more rapid highways to market anG
railroad construction became an excit
ing and beneficial epoch. These great
arteries of trade, reaching out in every
direction. like a mammoth octopus
gathering from the wheatfields ant
workshops the products of toll. II drop
i led them into the capacious nav o
commerce
Our Mexican troubles in conjunc
ton with the discovery of gold in Cali
fornia, turned the faces of adventur
GUS mankind toward the shore of tn,
placid Pacific. and OK teams com
menced their slow and dangerous tril
across the Indian populated plains o
the far west From every portion o
our broad domain human beings, a
mred thither by a love of gain, wer
fiocking toward the new FL Dorado t
share in the golden harvest and aid i
the building up of an empire lashe
by an occidental ocean. California
Oregon, Idaho, Colorado and silve
bound Nevada, were pouring their fal
ulous golden wealth into the spaciou
and endless channels OF finance and a
If touched by the migician's magi
wand. the occident was rapidly becon
ing the great theater of industry an
. announcements An appiro ,,ae III,
! formed of chaos and the Monte Cri,
, To output of precious metals was lubr
. eating the heavy wheels Of commerce
all over the union. Our nag was floa
ing from the masts of vessels upo
, every sea and our cereals and the pr,
ducts of American toll were bein
transported DER trackless oceans [
every country and every cline.
In the midst of this prosperit,
, when ambition and enterprise wei
! marching hand in hand, when tn
whole civilized world was gazing wit
, admiration and envy upon our phi
nomenal advancement, off toward Ii
! south arose the cloud of disconten
+ gradually growing denser and denst
) until restraint passed its boundarit
/ and civil war with all its horrors bur
, forth upon us. The causes that pr
I duced the struggle and the strugg
) itself are upon the wings of time an
! being carried down rapidly recedir
. path never to return and to that epoC
in our history patriotism extends II
. scharity of silence. Annually the Il
4 tie mounds scattered over the cou
:. try, marking the lest resting places
those who fell in the great struggl
!. are smothered beneath the bed
a flowers, the blue and the grey alik
!. (Applause.)
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