t these qualities man is nothing. At the same time tolerance and
liberality should also prevail. One thing more is equally important.
Happiness, wealth, and the glory of a state spring from the family, and
it should be our aim and a high ambition to preserve the family pure in
all its relations, and to labor with the best efforts life and strength
can give to make the home comfortable, to beautify and to adorn it, and
to supply it with whatever will make it attractive and loved."

He added: "I make the point that two important objects will be gained
by such a colony. First, schools, refined society, and all the
advantages of life in an old country; while, on the contrary, where
settlements are made by the old method, people are obliged to wait
twenty, forty, or more years. Second, with free homesteads as a basis,
with the sale of reserved lots for the general good, the greatly
increased value of real estate will be for the benefit of all the
people, and not for schemers and speculators. In the success of this
colony a model will be presented for settling the remainder of the vast
territory of our country."

Every deed granted forbade the sale of intoxicating liquors. The town
was founded in the purest moral ideals of education, culture, faith, and
prayer, and Greeley is everywhere pointed out to the tourist in Colorado
as one of the most interesting features of the Centennial state.

Of the town Mr. Meeker himself said in one of his letters to the
"Tribune": "Individuals may rise or fall, may live or die; property may
be lost or gained; but the colony as a whole will prosper, and the spot
on which we labor so long as the world stands will be a centre of
intelligence and activity."

In 1876 Mr. Meeker was appointed commissioner from Colorado to the
Centennial Exposition. He was strongly talked of for Congress, but his
destiny led elsewhere.

Early in the seventies he founded "The Greeley Tribune," which he edited
with conspicuous ability, making it the leading country paper of that
part of the state.

The Indian troubles became a prominent problem of the government in the
decade of the seventies, and this question deeply engaged Mr. Meeker's
attention. He had his own theories regarding their treatment--ideas much
in advance of his time, and which in some respects have been adopted in
the best Indian legislation in Washington within the past two years. One
point in Mr. Meeker's policy was that "work should go hand i