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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1880)
June, 1880. THE WEST SHORE. 163 in a fair way of adding another million of subjects to our great com monwealth before the expiration of the current year. It is by no means an easy matter to predict the ultim ate results of this prodigious growth or portray its es sential efleetsupon our political, so cial and moral economy. T h c Pacific States and Territories may yet be considered as sparsely settled when compared with the Atlantic seaboard and mid dle States. This cannot much lon gcV be said of us, however, and the time is fast approach ing when it will be question to ask our " What shall we do girli It was a simple Greeley to tell West; but so long as the silent Pacif (ic receives the set ting sun, no such ready alternative can be ours. If such terms as the " oriental " a n d " occidental " ever possessed any ro mance or poetry, steam and the elec tric current have pretty thoroughly divested them of all their choicest sentimental ism. Within the mem ory of our chil tl rcn, telegraph wires and iron rails have caused the in flux of a new dis pensation among u s. Practically speaking, oh! things havenasscti awav, and all no longer an idle Eastern neighbors, with our boys and thing for Horace young men to go NORTH SCHOOL, PORTLAND, things have become new. In the days when it required six months for a rustling emigrant to span the continent with other three months ngs to complete mad, this coast CENTRAL SCHOOL) PORTLAND, OR, Photo bjrjoi fcubUl, OR From a Photo ly J his family, and an- for friendly grcct- the round trip by was practically iso Huchicl. stei n destiny decrees that changes must needs come, and the active concerns of life leave us very little time to indulge in the dreams of fancy or sentiment. Notwitstanding the inexorable laws of progress ; albeit there . a good deal of inspiration in the utterance, " West lated from the East, and a visitor coming among us from New Eng land or the middle States, could not fail to discover n clearly - defined provincialism i 11 our language, our literature, our so c i a I intercourse and business rela tions. Hut wc arc fast parting with these peculiarities, and even now, out old pioneers are wont to look back to the days of Ms old age looks hack to the hnly con days of youth. Much as many of us would desire the beautiful vista to remain intact, ward, the star Ol empire takes its way," yet do wc believe that there are certain ele ments 'hat go to make up our Pa cific coast society which ought to be perpetuated. There is an tin definable Western cast observable in our socinlstructure which should, by nil menus, crop out in our future citizenship. W believe wo nru giving expression to the honest con victions of every true Pacific coast er, when we say that our 11 11 tr mo ulded, free -arnica)' ways of liv-