AlOKNINa ENTERPRISE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4T 1913.
Dr. John IVIcLougHlizr
-HIS HISTORY -,HIS PLACE IN .
OUR FAIR TEMPLE OF FAME
(By W. G. D. Mercer, Sergeant-at-arms
- State Senate)
"Nor -want we skill or art, fronr
whence to raise
Magniflcience; and what can heave i
show more?'
Milton.
Today I sat for a long, long timu
looking at the splendid painling of
Dr. John McLoughlin which hangs
above the president's desk in the sen
ate chamber of the capitol of Ore
gon. And as I sat in deep thought
and looked at the remarkable picture
of that overshadowing character
that mysterious admixture of melan
choly and merriment, of laughter and
tragedy, of mirth and tears I fan
cied that his gaze is one of friendli
ness and confidence that his eyes
are turned from the place of his
landing upon our shores and ar.
reading aright the lessons of record
ed wisdom that his back is turned
toward his former countrymen and
the Hudson Bay Company and from
his present commanding position his
look is on and on over our wide ex
tended and prosperous common
wealth, an outlook which is both a
promise and .a prophecy. We can not
know all that was in the mind and
heart, in purpose and in hope, as this
wise and beneficent man first put on
that far-away look.
- "A spirit fit to start into an empire,
And look the world to law."
But we do know that even this as
tute man, with all his forethought,
could only have regarded as a wild
imagining, an empty dream, the pro-
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duct of an unrestrained fancy if the
story of Oregon could have been told
him a story of magnificent develop
ment,: vast wealth, unthought of re
sources, a teeming population happy
regarded it as - the wild Utopian
dram of one intoxicated with visions
of more "than oriental magnificence.
- And as I sifr-and meditate upon the
life's work of the Father of Oregon
this man of romance and pathos,
of fun and logio, all wedged together
I fancy that like Elijah of old
he is listening to "a still, small voice"
which tells that the deeds of time are
governed, as well as judged, by the
decrees of . eternity And this thought
reminds me that the soil of Oregon
has time and again been made sacred
by the blood of pioneer patriots. I
also remember the simple dignity of
t ji . " - j
TOawm MLOWMLIM'S HOME RESTORED
Home of Dr. John McLoughlin, .Oregon City.
in indrustries not then conceived of,
and that the smiling eddies of the.
dimpled Willamette with its miles
of shipping far above its outlet
flows by homes that in verdant lawn
and flowering terrace, in modern ele
gance and comfort, or in baronial
magnificence of structure, may well
challenge comparison with the no
blest examples of English or conti
nental suburban life. And then on
and on as the clear beautiful current
of the rippling McKenzie or the in-dian-named
Mohawk comes to view
in all the sweep of rich valleys or
rugged mountainsand the spreading
forests that are ever whispering
as if God was consenting to hear
that the ancient earth is indeed 'our
mother and that we have found her
again after being lost among houses,
customs, and restraints in other
lands that are now fuller of pomp
and emptier of prosperity whisper
ing the call, the awakening of an un
tamed wilderness with the necessity
of peril and calm acceptance of it.
If all this could have been told him
this man of tempestand sunshine
in the painting well might he have
bare plain pioneer graves fitting the
brevity of life, the littleness man,
Yea, the caprice of fleeting -existence
must needs thus bend to the immova
ble Omnipotence, which plants its
foot on all the centuries and has
neither change of purpose nor repose.
And yet these myriads of nameless
pioneer martyrs did not die in vain.
They were fortunate even in their
death, for an event so tragical calls
the world imperatively to a careful
study of their lives and characters and
posterity. Yea, in all that speaks of
thus anticipate the sure praise of
loyal devotion, heroic endeavor, and
valiant contest Oregon shines un
dimmed in the luster of her . untar
nished glory amid the galaxy of the
states, staunch and loyal.
And now the gray Sabbath day
unwarned by any sunset glow has
darkened into night while I have been
Unking fancy to fancy dreaming
dreams I never thought to dream be
fore about this strangely interesting
cross and pile of silken threads so
curiously interlaced to form the pat
tern of the man in the painting be
fore me. One by one these silken
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Colonel W. G. D. Mercer, Sergeant-at-arms State Senate.
Latest
Standing of
No. Standing
1 '. 102,945
2 1,014,285
3 246,175
5 680,800
7 279,215
8 800,055
9 170,20a
10 82,520
11 70,085
14 267,290
15 104,500
16 847,195
17 69,940
18, 734,225
19 ... 508,765
20 ' 152,975
21 639,995
22 223,365
23 625,640
25 '. 566,515
26 77,890
28 525,035
29 81,075
31 35,880
32 797,255
33 98,035
34 1,075,125
Contestants
No. Standing
35 27,500
36 : 439,660
37 ' .. .24,450
38 27,500
39 235,475
40 99,500
41 .-. ..... 57,500
42 .. .. 58,000
44 .- 67,000
45 224,475
47 .' 5,500
49 14,750
50 19,500
51 71,750
55 256,620
56 614,370
59 52,255
60 ' 51;000
65 J... 90,280
66 256,060
67 14,500
68 11,500
71 82,350
72 71,250
73 9,500
77 241,175
Three Special Prizes will be awarded February 15, 1913
See Wednesday's Enterprise
threads are blown toward me and are
spun by the wheel of my -fancy into
many-colored yarns and ;then - woven
into the farlc by the shuttle of my
pen : Into -the warp and woof of this
fabric I have" doubtless woven much
that even the most astute of my read
ers can not suspect, far less discern.
But I must not pause to analyze.' 1
can not stop to reason. I merely feel
feel that the looms of time are
never idle,, and the busy fingers of
the fates are ever weaving, as in a
beautiful tapestry, the many threads
and. colors that make up our several
lives, and when these are exposed to
the critics and to admirers there
shall be found none of brighter colors
or of nobler pattern than the life of
the Father of Oregon Aye, when
the nineteenth century shall assemble
its illustrious dead in their final Pan
theon there will be found within its
mystic walls Dr. John McLoughlin
one of the grand personalities in mod
ern history'. In saying this I am not
disposed to disparage the great men
of anyther land,, to ' despise ' the
home of any people" less favored ihan
we. Let the Itialian sing of his glori
ous skies and balmy air, the Englisn.
of his widespread domair,- the Ger
man of his Rhine with its vine-clad
banks, the Swiss of his mighty Alps
we rejoice in a land where there is
no petty kaiser, no grinding oppres
sion, no clamorous and wretched
retinue of Italian beggars or arrogant
and diseased aristocracy in a land
where every forest is a fairyland, ev
ery .field a picture, every landscape a
poem, and every flower a tender
thought in a land where:
"The Sky is as a temple's arch,
The blue and wavy air
Is glorous with the spirit-march"
Of messengers at prayer."
AJTe joy in a land where the . natural
scenery is sublimely beautiful where
grandeur meets with the awful,
where the weird mingles with the
wild, where the warlike monotone of
the cataract's thunderous fall is the
mighty symphony of great depths,
great heights, great reaches, where
the summits of rocky walls are kissed
by freighted clouds waiting at anchor
for the wind Then like great, ships
heaving anchor to a single command
they sail down off the heights and
the great forest becomes the center
of the most sublime scene where rude
hail in eddying, rattling tempest
forms. And as we walk the dim aisles
of the column-like trunks of the
stately Oregon fir and white pine we
will hear the tinkling footfalls of
swift messengers who will whisper
that unseen hands are about to draw
back the bolts from the gates of fu
turity. And while waiting half-expectant
we will have strangely
beautiful thoughts of far away lands
and vdreadful storms to which these
magnificent products will come as
proudly erect and grandly beautiful
they carry the sails of a commerce
the world wide over No wonder the
hearts thrills with reverential awe!
It is there amid such surroundings
we find religion harmony, law, va
riety, freedom; living, growing, ever
changing, through the season ages;
yielding to each season the things
that -Belong to that season; lying dor
mant sometimes, it may be, but al
ways there. There we find God.
And now as we of .tday tVtch in
its first .light the principles, of real
ized dreams, the gqlden ...domes of
high posibilities, the', purpling- hills
of great . delights, our hearts are
thrilled , and tendered: by the recol
lection that the priceless heritage of
good deeds is mighter for a nations
defense than vast armies and muni
tions of -war. . It builds empires and
conquers tle foes of freedom. God
bestows on -nations' no greater gift
than great ,and good men. And so,
you and L my gentle reader, proud of
yesterday, contented with today,
hopeful for tomorow with teprs
for the dead, with cheers for the liv
ing have paused for a brief time to
day for the purpose of weaving a
chffplet of fragrant flowers and
strewing thef beauties of nature about
the memory' of Dr. John McLoughlin.
If it is a blessing that any poor man
of Oregon, with " ordinary health in
his family, and the ordinary blessing
of Go'd upon his industry, may give
to son, without sending him away
from home, the best education the
country affords if there is any bless
ing in having a home at one of the
fountains of life for this vast confed
eracy of states then that best privi
lege may be traced to the influence
of Dr. John McLoughlin, to the pecu
liar character -which he, more than,
any other man, gave to to the common
wealth ol Oregon in its very beginning
Every one of us is daily enjoying the
effects of his widely known and wide
spread benefactions to perishing Emi
grants, of his wisdom, and of his pub
lic spirit. Thus he is today our bene--f
actor; and thus he is to be the bene
factor of our posetrity through ages
to come. Today a grateful people
look on this painting and love to
think that his dying gaze read a mys
tic meaning which only the rapt and
parting- soul may know we love to
believe that in tie silence of. the re
ceding world he heard the " great
waves breaking on a farther shore,
and felt already upon his venerate
brow the breath of the eternal morn
ing we love to believe' that--
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