Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-10-14
Judge McFadden's Remarks.

At 2 o'clock on Saturday, the Farmers
Club met in Columbia Fire Company's
Hall, with Gov. Salomon in the chair
The room was densely filled, large pro.
portion Of the audience being ladies'
Judge McFadden. the speaker of the oc.
! casion, delivered practical aud interest.
ing discourse occupying about one hours
time, and was followed by Mcssrs. Win.
Gard, Moore and others, in brief and ap.
propriate remarks. The Judge spoke ex-
temporaneously, consequently we are una
| BILE to present more than meagre synop-
sis of his remarks. 1t is q matter of much
regret that the address cannot be present.
cd in the exact language Of the eloquent
speaker.
The judge first congratulated the COM
mittee upon the success Of their enterprise
in the main departments of the exhi
bition, the success was most astonishing,
this being the first effort. and under ad.
verse circumstances, to get up a Fair at
Olympia. He alluded to the valuable aid
given BY the ladies', and asserted that the
public was greatly indebted to them for
the life and spirit which they infused into
the enterprise.
He then urged the necessity Of such
| organizations; their Importance as an in.
centive to industry and enterprise in the
older States, aud the far greater necessity
here, in sparsely populated Territory such
as ours, with our people isolated by the Pc
| culiar location of our farming lands. While
we have, west Of the Cascade Range Of
mountains, an extent of arabic country
equal to the Willamette Valley, yet it is
not of the same compact character. The
settlement Of the country left our people in
or more isolated condition as communities
neighborhoods, and such occasions as the
present lead to comminsling Of feeling,
a better acquaintance Of our people with
each other, and serve to give better in.
formation as to the productive capacity of
the several localities. Our people, com.
ing here from all parts of the United
States, and many from abroad, need just
such stimulus as this occasion presents,
to iucite, cheer and encourage them in
their efforts for the development of the
resources Of the country. The speaker al
luded to the past history of the Territory,
the hardships endured by the carly set
tiers. the inroads of the Indian war, and
the tune when the beautiful town in which
his audience was now assembled was en-
vironed by barricades to repel the attacks
of the savage foe its disastrous influence
on our Territory, in repellins settlement !;
aud the discovery of gold east of the moun'
tains, which seduced many Of our best set.
tiers away. He spoke Of the difficulty
of emigrants getting into the country west
of the mountains, the actual cash expend-
iture being greater to bring them from the
point where they reached the upper Colum-
bia, than was required to be disbursed on the
entire trip from Missouri or Iowa. lie al,
luded to the present inducements to people
who were willing to work to come here aud
make homes for themselves; complimented
the recent emigrations aud hoped that they
might infuse new energy into our people.
and stimulate the whole Territory to still
greater effort for the development of its 70.
sources, and hoped the comminsling OF
the new and the old would have about the
same effect as the introduction OF GER
tain uameless cutaueous disease in dis
trict school would have--to set them
scratching. He depicted the chatacter OF
Immigration REQUIRED; mGn, with their