FRONTIERSPIECE 



westward. China is the great trade emporium of the 

 future. 



It is not the California-Japanese question, Lower 

 California, or even Yap as such, which raises the 

 threatening cloud on the western horizon of the Land 

 of the Rising Sun, but the control of trade in the Gold- 

 en Land of the Black Dragon. The movement of 

 Western civilization has met a counter-current of the 

 East, eddying about that pin point in the Pacific — Yap. 

 Hence we must not underestimate the importance of 

 the development of the West as a basis of those new 

 world influences, and we must be alive to the signifi- 

 cance of the Pacific. 



From Cape Cod to Cape Flattery the country with 

 each shift of the frontier became Americanized, and 

 each shift produced its type. Each type whether he 

 be Easterner, Middle State, Southern or Western, pos- 

 sess those salient characteristics which stamp him with 

 the unmistakable hall mark — American. 



The great emigration but placed these pioneers on 

 the threshold of that era which makes for the winning 

 and building of the West; and it is to our forefather 

 pioneers of this era that we owe the results of their 

 elemental life in conquering the desert plains, trackless 

 forests and great rivers of the vast American waste 

 they sternly invaded. The freedom of that elemental 

 life, the daily association with its poetry and charm as 

 well as its dangers, has developed a virile American 

 type. It is a debt of loyalty and understanding that is 

 imposed on us of this generation to pay tribute to these 

 scouts of a dawning civilization and to preserve the 

 heritage which these intrepid layers of the foundations 

 of the great West have bequeathed. 



The stranger in the West is particularly impressed 



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