Progressive Pennsylvania; a record of the remarkable industrial development of the Keystone state, with some account of its early and its later transportation systems, its early settlers, and its prominent men . idences thatthey and their fathers have remembered the days of the meantime, if there are political or other wrongsto be righted in Pennsylvania and they are permitted tocontinue—if our laws for the regulation of the liquortraffic and the sweatshops and the employment of childrenin factories and in and about coal mines are not mademore stringent and more restrictive than they ar
Progressive Pennsylvania; a record of the remarkable industrial development of the Keystone state, with some account of its early and its later transportation systems, its early settlers, and its prominent men . idences thatthey and their fathers have remembered the days of the meantime, if there are political or other wrongsto be righted in Pennsylvania and they are permitted tocontinue—if our laws for the regulation of the liquortraffic and the sweatshops and the employment of childrenin factories and in and about coal mines are not mademore stringent and more restrictive than they are—thefault will lie with those who, whatever their boasting,still lack the true civic pride that maketh a great peopleand, next to righteousness, exalteth a nation. In the following chapters an attempt will be made toshow that Pennsylvania is entitled to greater honor thanshe has yet received from her own citizens, and in thefacts that we shall present particular attention will bepaid to Western Pennsylvania, whose history has hereto-fore been greatly neglected, especially its industrial his-tory. First, however, the leading facts which relate tothe early settlement of the province will be THE FOUNDING OF PENNSYLVANIA. 11 CHAPTER II. THE FOUNDING OF PENNSYLVANIA. The charter of the province of Pennsylvania wasgranted to William Penn in March, 1681, in considerationof a debt of £16,000 due by the king, Charles the Second,to his father at the time of the latters death in 1670. SirWilliam Penn, the father, had been an admiral of distinc-tion in the British navy and was a warm personal friendof the king. The son, therefore, in reality paid nothing forhis province except the payments he made to the Indians. When Penn received his charter from Charles the Sec-ond, and in October of the following year sailed up theDelaware in the good ship Welcome, he was not the firstperson to attempt the establishment of a colony of Euro-peans within the limits of the present Common
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