60 Fellow-feeling as 



gone the recognition of the fact that at the out 

 break of the Civil War men could not cut loose from 

 the ingrained habits and traditions of generations, 

 and that the man from the North and the man from 

 the South each was loyal to his highest ideal of duty 

 when he drew sword or shouldered rifle to fight 

 to the death for what he believed to be right. 



Nor is it only the North and the South that have 

 struck hands. The East and the West are funda 

 mentally closer together than ever before. Using 

 the word "West" in the old sense, as meaning the 

 country west of the Alleghanies, it is of course per 

 fectly obvious that it is the West which will shape 

 the destinies of this nation. The great group of 

 wealthy and powerful States about the Upper Mis 

 sissippi, the Ohio, the Missouri, and their tributaries, 

 will have far more weight than any other section in 

 deciding the fate of the Republic in the centuries 

 that are opening. This is not in the least to be 

 regretted by the East, for the simple and excellent 

 reason that the interests of the West and the East 

 are one. The West will shape our destinies because 

 she will have more people and a greater territory, 

 and because the whole development of the Western 

 country is such as to make it peculiarly the exponent 

 of all that is most vigorously and characteristically 

 American in our national life. 



So it is with the Pacific Slope, and the giant young 



