Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
Talk up Your Town.

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soul, q" fit for tleason,' Or anything
else, however bad. 1t is just as
much the duty of every citizen to
stand up for his own town, through
good and evil report, as it is for a
big brother to stand up for the
family he represents. Ones own
town is verify his own home, and
self interest alone, though he were
never so oblivious TO the public good,
should prompt him to turn every
thing to its best account. To do
otherwise is to enact slow but sure
suicide. If home is the place, fins
of all, to practice the virtue of
charity, then is our point well taken
and no one shall Sainsay us. It is
the Unborn habit of some people to
be forever saying, go that l lived
in a town that was a town." etc.
Now the truth of the whole matter
ia, that such men OF women would
never be suited in any town, but
were they to roam the wide world
over, the self-samc. miserable COM
plant would he Il = con tant burden
of their cry.
The business man who ignores the
place in which his lot is cast, is
blind to his own best interests, and
sooner or later, disastrous failure
will ovcrtakc him and he will be
forced to seek some new place in
which to renew his ceascless growl-
ing. In commenting on this sub.
iect, Horace Greeley insisted that if
ones town had defects, it was best
to let the world be to the trouble of
discovering them as best it could.
If the town has any advantages, let
them be put forward so prominently
that he who runs may read. "
These were the sentiments of the
great Horace Greeley, and most noble
sentiments they are. We cannot all
be cosmopoltans; somebody must
stay at home, settle down and take
care of the old folks, and hence the
necessity and virtue of domestic
patriotism. After all, a man can be
truly cosmopolitan in principle and
yet extend all honor to the land that
bore him, or praise the city i'll which
fortune has placed him. We love
the text we are striving to elaborate
and shall never grow weary in i'm.
pressing its deep meaning upon our
readers.
The way to talk up our own town
is to advertise to the world all the
good things it possesses; tell to hest
tating business men and capitalists
the advantages it offers to them;
laud its moral and educational facili-
ties, its healthful location, and its
adaptability to commercial enter
prises. Patronize every good and
deserving home institution. En-
courage merchants to bring on large
and varied stocks of goods by ex-
tending to them home patronage.
Support your home newspapers and
you will thus aid in making known
abroad, in the most efficient manner
possible, the character of the town
in which you live. Reward home
energy and industry in whatever
good line it is found, but by every
means discountenance idleness and
push the croaker into the back
ground, where all such creatures
rightly belong. Thus we have
pointed out few of the many ways
in which every citizen can do much
towards the up-building of our town.
Let not the consideration of these
suggestions go by default.
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The cold atmospheric wave now
passing over this part of the Pacific
coast is said, by some eminent OBJ
servers, to proceed from the presence
of sun-spots, phenomenon which
periodically happens to our lumin-
AIRY. A British scientist goes so far
as to assert that, all other things be-
ing equal, the price of wheat, in
England, is regularly affected by the
observed spots upon the sun. These
spots are often visible to the naked
eye, and the area OF solar surface
thus covered by Opaque matter
would be much greater than the