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

final salute, and sailed away, her
crew singing Home, sweet Home"
Then the nations, looking on, were
forced to admit that never before
since the first page of history was
written, had SO grand an act been
c~onsummated by any nation; never
before had the results OF free govern
ment been SO splendidly shown; nev-
er had such majesty been given to a
nations flag as on that day shone on
our more than royal standard.
When a century after our country's
independence was achieved had rail-
ed around, the changes amounted to
a transformation. The land was
gridironed with railroad tracks. Then
the locomotive had become more than
a common carrier. 1t had become
an evangel, the herald of a new and
irrepressible progress. 1t had ross
ed the Hudson, and moving west
ward, answered back the hoarse chal-
lenge of Niagara's roar; it had cross
ed the Alleghenies and swept through
corn lands of the north; it had rolled
on over the prairies, on over the
Mississippi and Missouri, a cloud by
day, a pillar of fire by night; it had
climbed the great Rockies, in the crags
mingling its screams with the eagles;
IL N descending the long Vscarpment,
it had met and kissed its brother
that, starting from beside the Sacra-
n.ento, had swept up over the blue
Sierras, with their SHOWS and their
pines, thence across the desert that
had SO long held concealed, Under
its robes of sage its treasures, to a
meeting place by the great inland
dead sea.
1t is hard to beat back the impress
sion that as those two steel sons #
touched noses, they did not
together; did not tell each
other of the engineering feats they
had performed; OF how they had
made the savage beast and savage
man flee before them; of how the
on throbbing pinions fed away
as they answered his scream and
shook with their tread his aerie in
the crags; how even the frontier sui
lenly retreated before them as they |
swept on in their great race; how |
the valleys had been exalted and the
hills bowed down to make their path
smooth, that civilization on unsoiled
might follow, and how they
had toiled until the continent was
and a mighty space bel
the seas at once changing the
thoughts of men and the paths of
|
The mines had already given up
treasures enough to found and equip
md embellish an empire; the tele-
,hone had awakened its still, small
'oice, not only to help man in his
work, but to thrill his soul with the
bought that. if it was possible for
he voices of friends far removed 20
ONE through storm and night with
II the old familiar tones to cheer!
IS it may be possible that in a softer
ir, the voices of other friends that
ong ago were stilled, may yet be
Weakened to enchant us.
In the meantime, too, Gods great
working agent, electricity, had de-
cended to earth to become the ser-
ant of man, to do his heavier and
work; to add new comforts to
lis life; to light his homes, his cities,
lis ships and mines; to turn his ma
to run his chariots; to make
fertile his fields.
And all the wilderness between the
Mississippi and the western ocean
melted away, ovc. ali the mighty
happy homes and temples 70
Freedom, to Learning, to Religion, TO |
Justice and to Industry had been
ar ected, until at last when the nations |
anniversary day came and the hymns |
to lerty, as today, were awakened
the cliffs Of Maine grew radiant
under the dawn, those hymns. 60
lowing the sun and keeping company
with the hours" rolled westward in
strain until their last echoes
back from out the air beyond
tho Golden Gate
Today those anthems are being
where the oceans meet in the
Panama canal-that eighth wonder OF
the world-in the Hawaiian and the
Philippine islands and up where the
flag reflects the white light of the
midnight sun beside the Boring Sea.
What l have said is but a brief
synopsis of history that should be
repeated once a year.
The connected story is sublime;