John B. Horner

“ Since the beginning of the territorial days, there has been no effort in Oregon for the success of any movement marked by more indomitable persistency than that which finally resulted in conferring on women the right to vote at all elections. Though at all times loyally assisted by many men and women, the credit for this triumph is universally given to Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, who, in 1871, began the publication of the New Northwest, a weekly journal devoted to the dissemination of trenchant arguments supporting the justice of the demands for equal suffrage. ”

“ The Oregon Coast Range Ablaze. Before white men lived at Coos Bay a great fire swept along the Coast Range, leaving black stumps and trunks of trees along the hills and mountains that had been templed with beautiful groves for ages. ”

“ PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON
the Northwest Coast eastward by the overland route; to hasten the settlement of the Mississippi Valley by American pioneers and thus forestall the intrigues of the English and the French; to balk the advance of the Northwest Company in the region of the Upper Missouri and Columbia Rivers; to establish intimate commercial relations between the East and the developing West; and last, but by no means least, among the motives which actuated Jefferson, to satisfy his keen scientific curiosity and promote the science of geography." (Story of Oregon.) ”

“ It makes my heart sick when I remember all die good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talk by white men who had no right to talk.
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indians, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give all the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have the same rights. If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect him to grow fat. ”

“ The fewest number of men are pre-eminently successful in more than a single ensemble of conditions. Any radical change is likely first to disconcert and ultimately destroy adjustments of individual power to working situations. The qualities which match one condition are not always or often adjustable in relation to others, it was an especial merit of Mr. Scott's genius that it fitted alike into the old Oregon of small things and into the new Oregon of large things. ”

“ Out of Chautauqua Reading Circles in Oregon grew wider circles. Women, thirsting for knowledge, read and discussed Ruskin. Tennyson, Shakespeare; and out of this practice grew the Woman's Club of today with its thousands of members. At first the Woman's club began purely as a study club, but out of the transient glimpses of masters of literature grew the idea of civic organization, until the original woman's club developed into a civic club devoted to local improvement, and later with its resultant benefits creating a world of uplifting influences to state and national betterment. ”

“ Then the people became frightened and repented of their wrong-doing and besought the Great Spirit to send them fire. He heard their cry and bade the old woman give them fire, promising as a reward any favor she might desire. Being a woman, she asked for youth and beauty, which were granted upon the condition that she would keep a fire forever burning upon the bridge which the Great Spirit had built across the river that flowed etween the two tribes. The people were so happy over the return of fire and warmth that they made all manner of promises to live better. ”

“ At the beginning of the Provisional Government the northern boundary of Oregon was so seriously in doubt that it became a very delicate question requiring negotiations that covered a number of years. Neither Spain nor Russia at this time made claim to any part of the Oregon Country, but Great Britain and the United States did. The British wanted all they could get, and strange to say the Americans disputed among themselves as to what should be demanded as the boundary line. Some claimed the parallel of 54° 40′ as the north boundary, while others were content with the 49th parallel north. ”

“ Good words do not last long until they amount to something. Words do not pay for dead people. They do not pay for my country now overrun by white men. They do not protect my father's grave. They do not pay for my horses and cattle. ”

“ Scott and of the more thoughtful among his contemporaries. If we regard this primitive country vrith attention only to the numbers of its people, it appears a small and even an insignificant outpost of the world; but if, with a truer sense of values, we study it under its necessities for social and political organization, there opens to the mind's eye a field vast, practically, as the scheme of civilization itself. Thus even in the old Oregon of small things, the man who sat at the fountain of community intelligence lived and worked for larger purposes and under high aspirations. ”

“ It is, therefore, but fair to the author to concede that if true greatness is measured by one's ability to stamp his impress upon humanity, Edwin Markham would be counted great if he had done no more than to cause mankind to pause long enough to consider the oppressed laborer who had never been taught to think. ”

“ Want of space prevents a recital of the many instances which history unfolds. While this commentary in no wise justifies many equally savage attacks and robberies on the part of the Indians, it yet sheds a truthful light on the reasons for much of the Indians' deadly hostility to the white race. Had the whites treated the Indians with decent regard for the principles of humane and reasonable conduct, aboriginal sovereignty of the territory would have been peacefully relinquished, and some of our most desolating wars and terrible massacres avoided. ”

“ Let me be a free man—free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself—and i will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. ”

“ Significance of Marshall's Gold Discovery The significance of the Gold Discovery in California by James W. Marshall, is described by Gaston as "one of the greatest industrial events of the world." In his history of Oregon, he adds,—"A careful survey of the whole field of enterprise, the commerce of the world, and the standard of living in the United States, will show that the discovery of gold wrought a greater change throughout the United States and the financial relations of this country to other nations than any other fact subsequent to the independence of the United States. ”

“ The atmosphere of the Coast Climate is heavily charged with vapor much of which is lost in rainfall before it is carried over the Coast Range. After crossing the Coast Range a vast number of straggling clouds float over the valleys and frequently are resolved into fog. Others expend their substance in dew, rain and snow until they become light enough to sweep over the greater heights of the Cascade Mountains to water the region farther east. Because this region is the upland section of Oregon, we may speak of its climate as the Highland Climate. ”

“ Death-ridden darkness, in shapes that affright,
⁠Black with the curses that blacken our race!
⁠And the mist, like the ghost,
⁠Of a hope that is lost,
⁠Strangely will hover o'er fields that are bare;
And the seas, at whose heart the old sorrow is throbbing
Restless and hopeless, eternally sobbing—
⁠Madly will kneel in a tempest of prayer.
When the stars gather in armor, to-night.
⁠Planet of wailing, thy fate shall be read!
Steal like a nun under scourge from their sight,
⁠Gather thy sorrows, like robes, to thy head! ”

“ The instinct for making States, an instinct that so strongly characterizes that portion of the human race that has created the United States of America, never had clearer manifestation or more vigorous assertion. On the spot where this work was done we dedicate this monument this day. May every inhabitant of the Oregon Country, through all ages, take pride in this spot, and an interest in preservation of this monument, as a memento of what was done here! ”

“ OREGON LITERATURE
All literature writes the character of the wise man.—Emerson.
The lamp of literature was a long time coming from Egypt to Oregon. Ages ago wise men passed the lamp from Egypt to Phoenicia, thence to Athens, thence to Rome, thence to London, thence to Boston; and before the close of the last century the Oregon Pilgrims brought it with them to the new land which the occupied and planted. Hence the rays from the Egyptian lamp of letters came to be traced in the literature of Phoenicia, of Greece, of Rome, of England, of New England and of Western America. ”

“ It is noteworthy that the "Columbia" was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe; that she was the first ship of our nation to carry our flag around the earth; and that the flag which she carried
[6] CAPTAIN GRAY'S FLAG was the original American flag adopted in 1777. Hence the original flag of our nation was the first American flag to circumnavigate the earth; and it is a curious fact that the ship which bore this flag was yet to add to her fame by entering the waters of the Oregon on a mission of discovery two years later and by giving her fair name to that majestic river. ”

“ Busied with new combinations in European affairs, the great leader of France offered to sell the whole of Louisiana to the United States, hoping thus to upbuild a formidable military and commercial rival to England, his implacable foe. Jefferson leaped at the amazing opportunity, and with one stroke of his pen made America an imperial nation, and insured to democratic institutions the scepter of the world."— (The Story of Oregon.) ”

“ Dye is a busy gleaner, quick to perceive golden grains in the great outlying fields of fact and fiction; and her work proves that if ever a history of the world could be correctly written, much of it would be the story of what noble women have accomplished. ”

“ Gold begot confidence a nothing else ever had before, and people more freely deposited their savings in banks, while the banks were enabled to extend accommodations to manufacturers and producers of wealth. And railroads that had been for twenty years creeping out slowly from the Atlantic seaports to the Allegheny Mountains found sale for their securities, pushed on over the mountains into the great Mississippi Valley, and on across the continent reaching Portland, Oregon, a quarter of a century before they were expected to reach Chicago under die old paper money system. ”

“ DR. JOHN McLOUGHLIN Doctor McLoughlin Sent to Oregon. "In 1824 the new organization, called the Hudson's Bay Company, sent out Dr. John McLoughlin to take charge of its business in the Columbia region. This remarkable man had a genius for organization and command. He was of a resolute character with great kindliness of disposition. He never tolerated the slightest disobedience in his wide domain and yet his subordinates seem to have mingled genuine affection with unbounded respect for him. In dealing with the Indians he first of all convinced them of his power to enforce his will. ”

“ So important was the Mississippi river to the farmers along its banks that there arose a fear that the river would eventually be used by subjects of Spain only, and many American settlers threatened to sever their allegiance to their country. This feeling of insecurity among the Americans along the Mississippi River was intensified in 1600 when Napoleon, by a secret treaty, obtained Louisiana from Spain. The treaty was so very secret that Americans were naturally alarmed lest Napoleon's plan of a world empire might include the Mississippi Valley and thereby prove a menace to the United States. ”

“ We are a city set on a hill. Our light cannot be hid. As for me, I dare not, I will not be false to freedom! Where in youth my feet were planted, there my manhood and my age shall march. I will walk beneath her banner. ”

“ At this time forest fires, which had been frequent in Oregon since the earliest Indian traditions began to attract attention. It was affirmed that four times as much timber had been burned in Oregon as had been manufactured, which is very significant when we consider that two-fifths of the state is covered with forests, and that next to land, timber is Oregon's greatest asset. The forests also invite railroads, furnish employment to an army of laborers, lessen taxes, tend to preserve the equal flow of streams thereby rendering them valuable for electric development and irrigation ”