Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-08
Abusing Their Own Country.
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1t Is entirely too common on iu-
get Sound for the people to abuse
their own country. This is not done
by temporary sojourners alone, but
by old resident, and by farmers as
we'll as by townspeople. A stranger
perhaps finds fault with the climate.
He may not have been among us
eight hours, but on the strength
of what he has heard and someth ing
he may have seen, he assures us that
our climate is disagreeable, un-
healthy and generally bad. Instead
of letting him growl it out by him.
self, or Instead of correcting the
error into which he has fallen, our
people too often side with him, and
denounce the country and climate
more bitterly than he. Again, men
come here looking for farms. They
ask for the location of vacant aSri-
cultural lands, and more than half
tisattime are told there are none.
I What little good land is in the coun-
try, according to these people, was
taken up long ago, and nothing is
left the farm hunter Of 1850 but to
60 East of the mountains. lie isn't
told of the wonderful production
per ac,c of hops, grain, potatoes
and other stuff, nor of the Dlgh
prices realized here for poultry, but
ter, ham and bacon, fruit and a
score of other articles, which can be
produced here to the utmost adyan-
tase, but which are largely imported
from Oregon, California and the
Mississippi Valley. Neither is any
thing said to him of the ease and
economy with which farm produce
is marketed. While none of these
things are told him, he is told and
rctold that this is not an agricul-
tural country, that it never has pro-
duced enough for home consump-
ton and never will, and that our
climate is unreliable if not actually
execrable. Oar people sometimes
find fault with people elsewhere for
undertaking and belttling us, when
the truth is s'they are themselves more
generally guilty of perpetrating this
wrong.
SlGNs AND PoErENTs.- 1t has al
ready been shown to the supersti-
tious that the initials of w. $. Han
cock stand fol Will Succeed
Hayes" Now an Ohio correspon-
dent of the New York .Su, shows
that:
In Taking all the letters in the
hNanc Of Winfield Scott Hancock,
and giving TO each letter the NUM-
Der of its position i'll the alphnbct,
the numbers sum up 2l5, which re-
presents the electoral votes claimed
for Hancock, to wit: those of Ala
baiaa, Arkansas, California, ConEec-
ticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana,
kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, Missouri. Nevada, New
Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, Nirginia-23 States, in all
casting 2l5 electoral votes.
=. Taking III the Same way the
letters embraced III the name of
James Abraham Garfield, they repre-
sent l54 which makes up the cleo
toral college, the total being 369.
;. There is in this fact IL singu-
lar coincidence with the late Prcsi-
dental election, wherein Samuel j.
Ii'''"n in the same way represented
@O:, electoral votes, which he actu-
ally received, Though he was robbed
OF nineteen), and Rutherford B.
Hayes lGG, which he received and
was entitled to.
MANiHasrEn. England, has .fo und
that the draining anl PAWN, of
twanty >,tres ats diminished her NOR
taMy more than one sixth.
/. Tie city of New York's consu mp
tlOn OF postage stamps amounts to