The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-01-13
THE PIONEERS
AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE PAPER READ BEFORE THE PERIN
CHAUTAUQUA CIRCLE


By Pendants,
The subject used theme in this brief paper
posed thoughts beginners
ideas. theories. and facts
They something they who expression rad
who fields endeavor;
the and make the trail for those who enlarge
amend ecf otherwise the work of attempting make
complete the ideals of the pioneers.
The poineer is ideast He is visionary. He aar
the ideal. He patient He is
genius
Columbus poneer. Westward the trackless
ocean, strange horizon the
d and full of terrorshe made his He brave He
alone pointing when his sailors became hearted
back. He Remember his many efforts
support for his venture.
Cromwell was pioneer He pioneered way the
sanctuary king ship Before him
kings was upheld tradition you of his
his Saint Ives? Have read of him
Marston or strding Parliament
Cromwell the
brave breaker of preceden Cromwell the pioneer of
democracy.
The Puritans the of political nsurrecon,
began Ives and gained impulse Yorktown that
sent The Putans the pioneers
of revolt which and took
world and which has development that
today North and South America and which has
component factors nearly hundred million people
The pioneers the Lakes
inland the ackess regions beyond the Great Mississippi
River the CroHennepn Marquette Duluth. Dubu
que Jovaan pioneers of the Gospel of Christ the
stronghod of the weird gods OF the Soldiers of
fortune Voyagng
Giving monarch unappreciated realm, full of
great possibilities Pioneering the for Jeerons gift
the nation-THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
There have rnany pioneers progress political
developments with his ideals democracy Hamilton
pounding Washington steadfast his faith
government Franklin with his the intelligence of the
mon people with his sterling integrity finding
means by ideals Back those
others of the early political stands the heroic
who with sword pioneered the beEeds Of
Revolution the for the Flag the Constitution, and the
United States a nation
the pioneers of the nations social and
greatness Pioneers like Boone, Crockett, Carson, Bowie Lewis
Houston Clark many others who wilder
the trails through the wild forests who explored the
rivers who ventured acrost the lonesome plains.
Sometimes it if these frontier makers
magic spell bewtchng who ured them and
on beckonng the horizon beyond the wilderness We
of words what their impulse in
spraon. dimy rough image of them
campfire gazing from hilltop far off into
the Now voyagng the
which the realms of conjecture Now far
plains forward towards receedng Utopia
The pioneers of institutions endured amidst
primitive hadships Those who settled in the tim
ber patiently the land Those
who plains making their houses of sod and
breaking the virgin True pioneers
these early builders They cleared the forests made the
prairie ruunes pioneered the social beginning and
brought reality back the starting from the
old home places
The pioneer of our conditions using ideas of
Watt and Franklin like Fulton. Whitney, Edison Bell
Wright Morse Marconi Carnegie Rockefeller Hill and
others much useful hepuness Pioneers
who have eirded with cf STEEL who have the
poken word through the atmosphere who
have challenged eagle his flight who have harnessed the
reams and waterfalls have dug the sorehouses of the
earth and "copper" gold silver zinc COAL OIL and
the other industrial develop
The pioneers social political and economic epoch
hbod this unequal distribution
are irving as best they the Pioneers with