The Little Lady of Lagunitas
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Richard Henry Savage >> The Little Lady of Lagunitas
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A land of wild adventure, of unrighted wrongs. A land of sad
histories, of many shattered hopes. Fierce waves of adventurers
swept away the simple early folk. Lawless license, flaunting vice,
and social disorganization made its early life as a State, one mad
chaos.
The Indians have perished, rudely despoiled. The old Dons have
faded into the gray mists of a dead past. The early Argonauts have
lived out the fierce fever of their wild lives. To the old individual
freebooters, a new order of great corporate monopolies and gigantic
rough-hewn millionaires succeeds. There is always some hand on the
people's throat in California. Yet the star of hope glitters.
Slowly, through all the foamy restless waves of transient adventurers
the work of the homebuilders is showing the dry land decked with
the olive branches of peace.
The native sons and daughters of the Golden West, bright, strong,
self-reliant and full of promise, are the glittering-eyed young
guardians of the Golden Gate. Born of the soil, with life's battle
to fight on their native hills, may they build around the slopes
of the Pacific, a State great in its hearths and homes. The future
shines out. The gloomy past recedes. The sunlight of freedom
sparkles on the dreamy lake of Lagunitas!
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