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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1878)
THE WEST SHORE. Mil fession may be, it is Impossible for any 1 impartial observer to deny that it has ' been a complete failure. Outside of' he Caucasian race there does not at 1 present, nor ever has existed a race of1 people, or any material portion of a ' race, which has embraced the doctrine 1 of Christianity, or voluntarily become 1 -amenable to the laws of civilized life. And is it not to our advantage is it not our very duty to take a lesson from the past? How many of the hardy pioneers brave men, gentle women ana innocent children have been cru-' cllv slaughtered, ton frequently after SufieHnff torture; tlio m -.,1 1 ! 0 . ihvi iviivhihi of which is sufficient to make the blood curdle in our veins and cause every white man to swear eternal vengeance against the perpetrators, victims of a policy which, the whole history of the world tells us, has never once been suc cessful? While begetting a morbid and sentimental sympathy for a race of men who arc themselves utterly incapable of either sympathy or gratitude and in whose nature we find scarce one re deeming trait, people are apt to lose entirely that far nobler sympathy, which should exist in every breast for those of their own race and color, those who. forced in the hard struffffle for exist-! ence from the over-crowded centres of civilization, boldly and manfully, with unflinching courage and determination, face the uninhabited wilderness, willing to give up every comfort, to sacrifice every enjoyment in the effort to make by their honest industry a home for themselves and their descendants. Ex perience teaches us that the red man is tain tamable the inherent wildness of Ins nature cannot be eliminated. Like the caged hyena, ever pacing back- I'HK ANGLER, OR FISHING FROflb rewarded by an smr e page 1(4. YELLOW LUPINE. wards ami forwards within the narrow limits of his prison walls watching an opportunity for escape, and snarling and showing his teeth at the very hand that feeds him; so the Indian on his reservation broods silently o'er his fan cied wrongs, until driven by his own dark thoughts to a state of desper ation, overcoming the natural coward ice of his nature, he rushes madly forth, and like the savage beast, thirsting for blood, wreaks his vengeance on the in nocent and unprotected. For how long is this state of things to be endured? How long arc we, one of the foremost nations in the world, to be held in cluck-fot, it is true, by a handful of Indians, hut by a band of puling sentimentalists who have eyes and ears tor nothing but the wrongs of the poor red man, even at the very moment that same red man is engaged in an indiscriminate butchery of the unprotected frontiersmen and their families! The missionary has had his day the church has proved powerless, religion of no effect in its futile attempt to change the blood-thirsty nature of the lavage or restrain him from deeds of violence and crime. Then let the priest give way to the soldier let the hand of iron crffch that which kindness and gentleness has failed to suUluc. No longer let a mistaken mercy dictate terms of peace with an enemy that has never bccnj known to miss an op portunity to break a trcatv, no matter how solemn and binding that treaty may have been. No longer let the In dian escape unpunished for crimes which, if committed by a white man, would surely 1 minions death. Ami when, in the not far distant fu ture, the last of the "noble redskins'' shall have taken his departure for those hunting grounds where the buffalo and elk are ever plenty and the white man never intrudes when the Indian is a creation of the past and lives only on the page of history or novel when the stories of his misdeeds and atrocities, though mellowed down by time, will still be sufficiently 'arrowing to excite the dire indignation of their readers; then our descendants will thank us that we have blotted out from the face of this beautiful country a race that from the first landing of the pilgrim fathers on Plymouth Rock until the present time have blurred the pages of history with one uninterrupted succession of bloody outrages and murders. THE YELLOW LUPINE. This is a remarkable and exceedingly i a'uable plant, sectls of which can be bought at our leading florists, 01 pegged from the Government seed-shop at Washington, or what is still better, gathered on the Blue Mountains, es pecially on the route from Cayuse Sta tion to Pelican's, where it tis found growing wild in great profusion. For reclaiming sandy wastes, nothing w ill equal the lupine. The Golden Gate Park at San Francisco, once a sandy waste, has been transformed into a blooming garden by this plant. The yellow lupine starts slowly and even matures slowly, hence it has to be sown with rye, winch grows faster and makes a rank stalk to protect the young lupine from the encroachments of the sand. lint once the lupine gets above the ground, it can not only protect Itself Hi all hazards, but it absorbs all the life of the rye, and soon turns it yellow. In the fall the lupine .ieds its old leaves and new ones begin to sprout, while the old ones form a rich paste like muck, and cover the ground. At the end of five years the lupine dies having fulfilled its mission. The ground must now be sown with grass and harrowed over, for no plowing is needed. lp comes a rich crop, and the once barren plains glow with verdure. Such is the his tory of Golden Gate Park, the greatest pride of San Francisco; and such too will be the history of the lands along the Columbia from Hood river to Fort Colvllle if our people only take bold of the matter with a determination to go in and win. HON. S. C. ADAMs. The subject of this biograph ical "kotrh, one of Oregon's eurly plonetra, di'servoa mow extended notice than Die limited space of the WxaT Siiokk can accord. Mr. Adams, who is a brother of Dr. W, L Allans, whose biography we have already published, wm lwm in Huron county, Ohio, July M, 1694 removed to daleshurg, Itllnoii, in 18,17, ami received tun education in Knox College, ft mom for iU thorough disciplinarians at teachers. After finishing his education, he dewted hit time to teaching. Ilia wonderful faculty of imparting instruction, tonrie him no popular ui a teacher that his services arete always in demand, He removed to Oregon in jjUO, and assisted his brother, Dr. W. I, Adams, in the conduit of a school in a log hut in Yamhill county, which, 111 the language of Wendell Phillips, "turned out Governor and great men." Of the (moils in this school, one, John It M' llt idu, was sent to Congress from Ore gon, was afterwards Cl.iuf Justice of Idaho, mid is now one of the ablest attorneys in Utah. Another, L, I. ltowlaiid, became I'resident of a College, and is at present the very popular Superintendent of Public Instruction for Oregon. Another, James S In-lti 11, Itecame the editor of a medical journal, and is now a succosifuliy practicing physician in Salem. Thomas It Mcltride, a young lawyer of tine promise, who is now practicing law with his brother, the Hon. J. K. Mcltride, in Salt Lake City, was alto educated in this sniuky log but in Yamhill-noUmnus for "great men." Another of the Adams pupils who Ss trained in this school, Oeorgo L. Woods, bsSSSM the Governor of Ore gon, and the writer of this article was informed by Oovernors, Senators, and other leading men in New Knghnd, that Woods was considered " one of the Hurst stump orators on the American con tinent." In mentioning these facta, wa write down a part of the history of Oregon and give our reader an idea of soma of the influences eiarted by the sub ject of our biographies in developing the intellect of this State, of which every old Oregoniau is ao proud. Mr. Adams was marriod to Martha K., daughter of Dr. James Mcltride, Minister to the Hawaiian Island in IU1, In MM, he look charg of McMinnville College, lu 1802, he Wat olected County Clerk of Yamhill county, and inch wat hit popularity, owing to his efficiency and accommo dating manner, that he was thrice elected to the tame office. In 1868, he was called by the SMSSN of Yamhill to serve them as State Senator, for a period of four yeart. During all the period in which Mr. Adams was teaching school or aerving his State and county, he was continually impressed with the idea that while the facilities for acquiring knowledge in other tielda had been much no proved in modern times, the student of history entered dark labyrinth of disconnected and jumbled Ji out ul which be emerged, aflat ywnre of study, with less knowledge than he might have attainod 111 a tvvr weeks. His great mind ttruek upon a plan for building a grand, luminous turn pike from A lam to our time, aet all along with mile posts, on which the student could read not only the history of all the nations, tribe and king doms that over oxisted. but see the program of the world in its architecture, its arta, its inventlona, SBjft -Ton in the change of form and expression given to the human head and face by the appli ances of a slowly developed civilisatu.n. The re mit of this reflection was " Adams' SvnchronoloB- ical Chart, or, Illustrated Map of History," whioh I baa given the author not only a national but a world-wide fame. To describe this chart. Would ' occupy too much space. At we gaao at It, it teemi, 1 in the language of Homer, to Iw the labor of u I god " The Itev. Mr. West, who had it on axhi I bition at the Centennial Fair, assured us that lit -I orary men expressed themselves that it excelled everything on the fair grounds - that it was, in I fact, " the greatest invention of the age." To give j the readers of the Wkst Siiohr an idea of the St. I tlmation In which it Is held, we give three teati ( mutiialt out of many thousand w might quote, to thow bow the literary world receive this Oregon production : The Hon. S. C. Adams' " Map of History," ia one of the moat ingenious productiont wa havo over Hi IN. S, C. ADAMS. atJblPjaVHj Law JK: ' ' THE SWALLOW THAT MAKES THE KATAMI.K NKsT -S page 164 eon. . . . The ingenuity which mark Its comjKisitiou and cona'ructlon is something almost lieyond praise. We can not Imagine anything which could mora interest a student or clam in history than this chart. It would form an in valuable means of iustriirtion in most school . . . A detailed description ia impossible, but its implicity, and the manifold fields whioh are opened for tnought by it use, give it all claim for commendation.- Ilmtim Trarflrr. Pram iron kkwtox iutkmak. LL 11. Stair Piiritiilrfiilrlt Ml luttrui t N. I 11(11 M 111. Having examined the "Chart of History," by H 0, Adams, and being impressed by its originality and )eauty, and mora especially by ita useful net and value, I commend txdh it and Ita aatimahla author to the confidence of evary community and enpln. Many have experienced the difficulties attending the effort to eliminate the great aalient facta of general history from the rolumlnoui net work of suUtrdinate facta and details with which they seem entangled. He who contribute to th meant of doing tint, deserve the grateful recog nition of srholara and toachara. No one ran glance along the graphic and pfctureaqua linaa of Adams' Chart without realising that in it Juat such a service baa been rendered. We have lately received an educational novelty, which, after examination, we can recommend to teachers and students a a valuable and useful aid to study. It is a Otftft handmelv mounted and printed in colon, '.U teat long by W Inobaa wide. The plan adopted i it very Inganfoua ona. . . , The arrangement of the maps is such, that the student . nice exactly the condition of the world at any given daU, and by tba aid of oolora, picluras. tc., ba la siren an idea of the progre of at u, namee and succession of rulers, andsimiUr facta, important k he rnmembared We need not point out the obvious utility of this remarkable production . . . Tba execution of the work ia atcelleut sod indicate an immense amount of labur and reeearrh on the part of th author, which should not go unrewarded , , , -..'.. Amiriemn. Mr Adaau It one of tha few pioaaan to this roeat who haa contributed to Oregon's fame and Oregon' glory, and it ia In keeping with th xaltad poaition tba VYar Haoaa aims to take a an exponent of tha profreaa of our MUU and an impartial record of tha deeds of the llloatriout one who have helped to make ua what wa are, that wa dovoU this muck of our space t tba biog raphy of ona member of a family, which haa so onaplcnoualy figured ia tha history f tkU BUta.