The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-07-16

sible homes, and settle down to the
patient, hard task of making homes,
hewing them out of the forests, aud
digging them up from the ground.
they would be about the most needed
and the divinest work TO which our
people could give themselves And
why do they not go about it Because
they cannot make living They think
they would stsrve before any thing
could be got to live on. Cannot make
. living starve on soil so rich that
its forests overtop all the forests of
America, and its underground rivals
that IF the very tropics.
! came home here deeply impressed
with the vastness of the waste country
we have, with q sense of room, room
not only for few thousand people, but
room for hundreds of thousands of
population. l do not forget that
am speaking in city. for am saying
that the city ought to bear when urge
that our Territory and nsighboring State
need home-makers, men that 60 out not
to spread themselves over 640 acres and
really subdue none Of it, not men that
hack and scar and nothing more, but
men who have learned how the PILGRIMS
began 250 years ago on the Atlantic
side OF the continent, men who settle
down 10 make conquests of the forests
and valleys, and make homes for them
selves and a home for . mighty civil
ization that 10 to dwell on these shores,
and ride these waters.
2 l am talking about farming and
yet am speaking in city. And this l
say to the city: that cities do not make
a country. Exactly the reverse is the
fact: the country must make the cities,
and this is the second thing impressed
upon NE by contrast of roomy territory
compared with cultured towns. Towns
and cities do not exist of themselves
They produce nothing. They only
handle and work over what is supplied
from elsewhere. A city without pro-
ducing rural support is 10 more posi-
BILE than the crazy boys idea OF lifting
himself over tho fence by his boot
straps. Hence to have city we must
have farms first. We want farmers
more than railroads. A railroad is of
no advantage except it connect US with
producing districts. may pause here
to say q word IN behalf of our railroad
enterprise. The existence of this place
is dependent upon such connection as
this road would supply. | can only
say a word and that word is that Seattle
had better than not give three-fourths
OF what it is worth and put its railroad
over the mountains, the remaining one
fourth would be worth more the day
the last rail is laid than the four fourths
are now. Never in ell the settlement
of this wide Union has there been an
opportunity like the one which waits
just now at the doors Of Seattle. 1t is
an opportunity such as does not offer
itself once in . century.
This railroad Is home illustration
of thoughts l am asserting. 1t would
connect our city with large producing
sections, and these sections would give
us something to handle and manufac-
ture. and thus build .ere tremendous
mart of trade and commerce.
Portland will always be growing
city, as long as the granaries and dai.
ries of the Willamette Valley empty
themselves into her store houses. A
man who thinks, needs only to walk
along the streets in Portland to be as
sured that her great valley i. better
titled than heretofore
Let Us suppose case. l will fur
nish the fact. and you may draw the
Inference. In certain town | saw at
least twenty men doing nothing.
Their money was all in logs and they
were eating up and many of them
drin king and smoking up the money
which they were to get out of the logs.
And bear in mind that fir logs are not
at present very rich in gold and that
sheritfs and lawyers will not get quite
the lions share of what there is. Now
what would you infer if those men
should oil go out and each 60 to work
for himself and make a home in the
country. Suppose they had gone out
five or ten years ago and kept pegeing
away little by little, doing it we'll as
they went. not eager to get rich, but
determined that the rich soil should
yield them living while they made
homes; what is the reasonable inference.
They would have begun in cabins and
shanties and injured privations and
worked hard. but already there would
begin to be prosperous, thrifty. money!
making neighborhood. neig hborhood
of homes. They began in poverty to
make homes and end with homes pro.
ducing wealth. And instead of hotels
boarding single men on credit, stores
might be furnishing supplies for whole
families For vice there would be vir :
tue, for poverty. plenty; for wild land
cultivated farms. for carcasses of men
drifting up and down the tides of IDLE
indulgence, living men anchored to
happy homes; and for struggling,
cramped, moneyless little centers up
and down like river freshets, there
would be growing towns backed by q
growing country round about. This is
practical political economy and good
gospel too
Three things are necessary to
the successful farmer:
LIST, He must be able bodied.
2d, He must have a certain genius
and skill in the management and labor
required on farm.
sd. He must have a practical knowl.
edge Of the business.
But consider that most men are Able.
bodied. sufficiently so to do farm work.
Many men would be in better health
on farm then where they are. The
lack is in disposition and not in health.
fulness. Most men can turn their hand
to farm work. If they try they can
adapt themselves TO all the MANAGE.