Show THE EMPIRE THE WEST BY ito nothing shows better the rapid of our country than iho fact that the geographical conceptions our west itally changed within generation from the atlantic coast Eu ropes f turdy sons have be en pushing west ward in an uninterrupted march of for him boan in the last century or n tho beginning of tha western part ot itaw york state the valleys of the in the mountains at tho headwaters of the potomac iri virgenia the far ft a wilderness into only the mot daring pioneers ventur td and where there existed scarcely any but llie roost back coola in a few bearg however the arim and afterward S nan of ohio Ind lann michigan and iolli form d jt if W unil the ginnif othi nf tp future were advanced n joir a aln linka of alte ay iy mis iiii f tins antry try frontier lu i nirad at ii by bold r whan if lul ii pular iiii in llin of nd 19 rhu fl anre of ocr 11 in to awk alic lir liverty erty they cull nl and in alie fatherland under the of the ever hospitable tir uil inces in pes alie State ii aranna Ark nna texa or not wat alic teutonic i in migration direct fl tit howarda he Nonh wet appellation michigan wi conini illinoia nd IHM warr l minnesota Minne ROta a eliat beginning to alio public attention toils anil denne timber i riyu nil nd the political toman tom ln anni as and nebraska into everybody mouth i bill today n here west OH it colorada Co lorada and joew mexico I t arizona and nevada even they ahre not ltd limiti the real yeat properly speaking isnow to be J aund only on the shores of tho pa ailio orean and it isome are yet in he habit of designating by the ap lahti the territories of cikota Di kota Wyot and and ti portion of state of mauno sota i e the danl between the river fetid thai canadian t contier the sweat aiato iato be in oregon and Waa hington territory ibe real northwestern border lands of the united staica between the rocky mountains and tho pacific ocean thero is the jenuino west baat of these mountains to the doiy lying alois of the alleghenies spread out the fertile valley of the mittis valley with a future more than any recorded in alsto ay iy destined to become iho real of a new empire en pire on pace and humanity the thirteen old of the revolutionary lutio nary erf form the such will be lh new geographical division union 11 bound lik ft talc of and anft nights t pw in review the rapid carides of made rince alio laet centary cent nry then by far of the fiig iiii valley wn unexplored only a raw fr trip iari had partially visited viii ted abi con ahne and of ahe wilderness by ending tho billier Pil lier of water on thir apt iverd trip amro ahn hakea and itil hi lognon arouh kro uh llie tilI neB of i rime iiii foica halt Hw lt aniva i llie country there are llie beautiful billowy emya of foiw ever rolling in arli Hr li luxuriant li ur of lo eai mul lher wondered tin anft alo dirril lir ril klinl all elk and the wolves and li lielot ilot ri derle borreo alio weary with aw tho brihm of ili maeli children desert with blood and idrovo their terrible war oraila circle aal biln aloft on pinions the vulture lure soul of chief litin jn bittle bitt lc dy ftc ending and tho on the ohio sani B settlements ettle ments had lern banded bun ded and on the coast of liu pacific the jesuit haa mis siong who e ruins are yet numerous par in california but nothing at fall wan known of what liy between two opposite boundary lines in the beginning nt century two I S lewis aej dark ircle the aret to cross alio wilberne wil derne but it was long before they lound fol lowera on their perilous path it ans only fremont called after bis hold enterprise tho pathfinder who ventured ventur rd on ft similar tour and in the dreary fall of it WM the latter day saints who crossed the pathless ind fountan noun tan to find a nw rod homo had acon ao cruelly driven t rom their homes in illinois in aad on their arck followed tho hundreds hun dreda and thou Bande whom tho dream of a new eldorado allured o afier butter jb thowana Tho uana noris bed OB tha rood often under heartrending heart rending uncaring un cring and but thousand inora on from tha rear impelled by the for gold and determined to their all in the fortune even then it was belic Tl bat iain the froan th north to tho south tho lideh in eternal enow anil ice and the south parched under the fierce un glare with aly i amatt central portion permitting a perilous clogs ing how different our preen The American desert round the great suit like can ti nth fully lia said to llo som like the byise aad the dreaded north u preparing vigorously to become the deary not only of tho union but of the whole world they fabled of perpetual enow and ice thero are now golden harvest field smiling in endless expanse square miles of verdant rnea lorn covered wilh grazing cattle are spread out before tho enchanted out of the brooks and nooks of the mountains industrious banda aro extricating tho metals gold and diver tho samo isotherm which extends in europe across the wheat region of southern russia enters tho united states at naw york progresses n a nearly straight line westward weg to the mississippi takes there a bold curve northward along the upper course of the and meets the dacan abtin in upper oregon and towards this region tend not only the immigrants from abo scandinavian countries tho children of albion and germany but also numbers of amer icons for whom life is too narrow bound in the old states and who follow the father of waters to warda its source in the virgin regions of the rich north while the population in all the abovementioned above mentioned northwestern states did not number bouls in the year f adof chomg a human tide i which bo ed by in tho entire territory composed by the states under con three timea iw miles HK the thirteen original ind nearly three time a inucci iu north of olibo which o daiy diy have henrly alt n part of the went ia alm with theca emption of texan binl if it oil rt clies the delilly of population prevalent in inglima 44 iolli but it we should unit lefure of population alie len sity of frn my loula to tin square we would arrive in marvel ous we would for our wet have eigil ei uil to of globe never a rendered liin lf to tho public ridicule than lord did in diw recent at Aylea burg when herald the american pioneer of ahe northwest liitt either alre tily firms or were about doing to bec butic they could not raise the and could not campeto with whence they were making ready to emigrate thither who may have ande the liia diplomatist believe auch a illy filly f yarn an english statesman ought certainly to know a little about the lax america then he would know that in the northwest a farmers pays only indirectly federal aceb by having his comforts anc necessaries of life raised somewhat in price on a count of the so called protect iva taris otherwise tho community county or territory does not burden him with very heavy and the settlor of new country anc new own is avci the disagreeable of municipal indebted nea to talk about the farmers of minnesota etc selling out and emigrating to canada ia really tho height ol 01 jingo no these carmera of the northwest aro going to may and increase daily in and wealth influx ence and power out of the vast territories one after another is |