MANHOOD AND STATEHOOD 



ADDRESS AT THE QUARTER-CENTENNIAL CELEBRA 

 TION OF STATEHOOD IN COLORADO, AT 

 COLORADO SPRINGS, AUGUST 2, 1901 



THIS anniversary, which marks the completion by 

 Colorado of her first quarter-century of State 

 hood, is of interest not only to her sisters, the States 

 of the Rocky Mountain region, but to our whole 

 country. With the exception of the admission to 

 Statehood of California, no other event emphasized 

 in such dramatic fashion the full meaning of the 

 growth of our country as did the incoming of Colo 

 rado. 



It is a law of our intellectual development that the 

 greatest and most important truths, when once we 

 have become thoroughly familiar with them, often 

 because of that very familiarity grow dim in our 

 minds. The westward spread of our people across 

 this continent has been so rapid, and so great has 

 been their success in taming the rugged wilderness, 

 turning the gray desert into green fertility, and fill 

 ing the waste and lonely places with the eager, 

 thronging, crowded life of our industrial civiliza 

 tion, that we have begun to accept it all as part of 



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