Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-07-06

than the spectacle of those pioneers
on that march west. They were all
poor, each family on an average had
less than a Nevada miner receives
ter months work. But so fearless
we're they and so steadfast of soul,
that with every return of this anni-
ve' sary. they gathered around their
rude affairs and sang triumphal an
thems; when in the autumn they had
gatf cred their little harvests, they
held festal day of thanksgiving and
Ipraise.
The fame of the retreat of Keno.
phon has been ringing down the
years for three and twenty centuries.
He had an army of 10000 men and
distance of 3,4OO miles to reach the
sea. The men were seasoned and
perfectly disciplined soldiers. They
!were armed with swords and spears
and protected with helmets and
shields. They made the distance IN
seven months. They crossed rivers
and mountains and valleys and
patches of desert, but generally their
march was through productive
country where the people had no
weapons or organizations, to resist
them.
Our pioneers started on march of
| the same length, but they had 20
fight their way and fight for food
from the first, and they kenw in ad-
vance it would require three genera
tions of them before, like Xenophon's
command, the advance guard could,
from a height, behold the western
ocean. They had rifles, Bibles and
the Now for weapons. Their shields
twee their tenacity of purpose, their
faith in God; and the helmets they
wore were the helmets of righteous
ness. Which was the greater achieve
ment?
Soon other brave men and women
from beyond the sea joined them,
assinilated with them, and then De-
gan the creation of the new Amer
lean race.
Soon the deep respirations of the
steam engine began to be heard on
land and on the rivers and lakes, taxi
ing some of the labor from arms of
flesh and transferring it to arms of
steel.
Then the Louisiana and Florida
, purchases were made, and the Father
of Waters Aeld all its course through
the new republic.
New states were rounded into
form; new stars appeared on the flag.
A war came, but it was fought
through to. a glorious finish; more
appeared on the flag and on land and
sea the flag took on new prestige.
A few years later the magnetic tel
egraph came to draw men and ma
tions nearer together, and to be to
man what Mercury was to Jove,
messenger as swift as light; to carry
greetings to loved ones that would
seem, when received, like carresses
to herald events to guide mems busi-
ness, to be a new arm to commerce,
to declare wars, to whisper peace to
the nations, and it, with the perfect
ing press, opened new school for
the people through the medium of
the daily newspaper
| Then followed another war. 1t
was righteous war, though not
| for the reasons given for it.
| That, too, was ended gloriously
and gave to our country all the
mighty space between the seas, AMI
new stars to the flag. Our country
began to be called THE Great Re-
public and its PROCESS was the
marvel Of the world
But, because of mistake made by
the fathers. strife and heart burnings
had been awakened between the
northern and the southern sections
of the republic, which eliminated in
a war so terrible that the world,
looking on, declared that the great
Republic was doomed. The war rag
ed for four years, and when it finally
died of exhaustion, half the land was
a wreck, and the whole land was al
most as was Egypt on that dreadful
morning when in each house there
was one dead.
Then followed some bitter years,
but when the passions of men were
cooled and the tears were dried, men,
north and south, began to realize
that the mistake made by the fathers
was, in truth, the perpetuation of
mighty wrong which was recorded as
a debt against the nation, drawing
compound interest, and that the war
was but the insistence upon the part
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