higher distinction than mere success in economic competition. America is now awarding laurels to the men who sacrifice their triumphs in the rivalry of business in order to give their service to the cause of a liberty-loving nation, their wealth and their genius to the success of her ideals. That craving for distinction which once drew men to pile up wealth and exhibit power over the industrial processes of the nation, is now finding a new outlet in the craving for distinction that comes from service to the Union, in satisfaction in the use of great talent for the good of the republic. And all over the nation, in voluntary organizations for aid to the government, is being shown the pioneer principle of association that was expressed in the "house raising." It is shown in the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the councils and boards of science, commerce, labor. agriculture; and in all the countless other types, from the association of women in their kitchen who carry out the recommendations of the Food Director and revive the plain living of the pioneer, to the Boy Scouts who are laying the foundations for a self-disciplined and virile generation worthy to follow the trail of the backwoodsmen. It is an inspiring prophecy of the revival of the old pioneer conception of the obligations and opportunities of neighborliness, broadening to a national and even to an international scope. The promise of what that wise and lamented philosopher, Josiah Royce called, "the beloved community." In the spirit of the pioneer's "house raising" lies the salvation of the Republic. This then is the heritage of pioneer experience, a passion--ate belief that a democracy was possible which should leave the individual a part to play in free society and not make him a cog in a machine operated from above; which trusted in the common man, in his tolerance, his ability to adjust differences with good humor, and to work out an American type from the contributions of all nations—a type for which he would fight against those who challenged it in arms, and for which in time of war he would make sacrifices, even the temporary sacrifice of individual freedom and his life, lest that freedom be lost forever. Agriculture, Department of, 320 Albany, 43, 52 Albany congress of 1754, 15 Allen, W. V., 220 American people, 339 American spirit, 306, 336, 337 Arid lands, 9, 147, 219, 239, 245, Aristocracy, 250, 254, 257, 275 Army posts, frontier, 16; proto- Association, voluntary, 343, 344, Astor's American Fur Co., 6, 143 Northern, History, 295 Atlantic frontier, composition, 12 Augusta, Ga., 98 Autocracy, 344 Back country, 68, 70; democracy Bacon, Francis, 286 Bacon's Rebellion, 84, 247, 251, 301 Benton, T. H., 26, 35, 192, 325, 328 Beverley, Robert, 85, 91; manor, 92 "Birch seal," 78 Boone, Daniel, 18, 105, 124, 165, Boston, trade, 108 Boutmy, E. G., 211 Braddock, Edward, 181, 324 Brattle, Thomas, 56 British and Middle West, 350 Brown, B. Gratz, 355 Bryan, W. J., 204, 236, 237, 246, 281, 327, 329 Bryce, James, 165, 206, 211, 284 Buffer state, 131, 134 Burke, Edmund, 33; on the Ger- Byrd, Col. William, 84, 87, 98 Calhoun, J. C., 2, 105, 141, 174, Canadians, 227 Canals, deep water, 150 Capital, 276, 305, 325; concentra- tion and combinations, 245, 261, 'Capitalistic classes," 285 Capitalists, 20; “expectant," 343 Captains of industry, 258, 259, 260 Cattle raising in Virginia, 88, 89, 92 Census of 1890, extinction of fron- tier, 1, 9, 38, 39, 297 Center of nation, 222 Charleston, S. C., 88, 108, 196 Chicago, 137, 150, 151, 180, 350; Chillicothe, 133, 223 Cincinnati, 133, 151, 162, 223, 231, Cincinnati and Charleston R. R., Cities, 297, 316–317; northeastern, Civil War, 356; Middle West and, Clark, G. R., 131, 167, 186 Class distinctions, 280, 285 Cleaveland, Gen. Moses, 133, 222, Cleveland, 133, 150, 223, 231, 232 |