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Show THE REFLEX WAVE. From the earliest settlement of this country, the tendency of migration has always been westward; necessarily so. Indeed, as tho beginnings of occupation occupa-tion were on the eastern shore. So tho pioneers have always followed tho setting set-ting sun. As a stated proposition, It would be substantially accurate to say that the streams of emigration within our own boundaries have deflected but llttlo either northward or southward, but havo boon steadily and unvaryingly unvarying-ly to the west. The Gulf Stales were settled from the beginning of Georgia, save such settlements ns were made nt the mouth of the great river, by the French. Tennessee was settled from North Carolina, Kentucky from Virginia. Vir-ginia. Ohio from New York nnd New England, and so on, tho process being varied from tlmo to time by smaller northward spurts Into Indiana and Illinois from Kentucky or the settlements settle-ments down the river. Westward of the Mississippi the streams of settlement became moro Intermingled, In-termingled, but they keat ovor westward, west-ward, pushing Into the arid belt, and thence jumping to the coast. But there was ever tho clinging to a chain of settlement, set-tlement, and the mines niado centers of wealth nnd occupation in hundreds of places In the hills. Th? western ocean being reached, and there being no moro frontier, some restless spirits pushed on to Alaska, most for gold, but a few for settlement, settle-ment, and a large fragment pushed northward Into the provinces of the Dominion of Canada. But theso outlets out-lets are now becomlnc clocrged. The coast Is heavily settled In many places. The tide of settlement has begun to turn backward. The reclamation service ser-vice will sld In this reflex wave of migration, while at the same time the stream of settlement yet forces Itself westward from the thickly settled East. And It Is sure to continue to flow, steady and strong. We have heretofore stated our conviction con-viction that eventually this reflex wave of sotl lenient, meeting the steady flow from tho East, will Join In Utah, and will fill the State, settling all disputed dis-puted questions and making Utah a good free commonwealth, that will shake Itself free from the ecclesiastical clutch. Senator Kcarns, In his talk with The Tribune yesterday, substantially substan-tially coincided with the view that the tide of emigration would roll back from the coast Into Utah. His Idea Is that within five years the effect of this will be strongly felt. It began last year as a stnrter, when the business men of Los Angeles visited this city and invested scores of thousands of dollars, foreshadowing! the Increased growth this city Is certain to have, and expressing the confidence of the investors in-vestors in tho nenr future developments. develop-ments. The colonizing from the East Is In active operation, and that form of settlement Is growing in magnitude year by year. The west coast will also need the same sort of relief. And there Is nowhere c-lse for this movement move-ment of population to settle than right among the mountains of the Interior. Idaho Is getting largely of this sottllng this year, as It did also last year. It will soon be Utah's turn to get It In overwhelming measure. And when It comes it will make all things new. |