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-