Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-09-27

teeth over q showing 10 the same BODY
Iof citizens Of . most unreliable .eond
ton Of thsis aAaies. WHISTLER Ness Il
q cat in the meal bag, colored gentle.
man in the wood pile or not II conun.
drum We are not prepared to answer
and, practically, it may not concern rs
but We think it does.
This northwest country produces a
great deal, Of which Mexico b already .
large purchaser and consumer. II is
bat short time since a correspondent
of this journal called the attention Of
our readers to tbs aatsansnt a Mr..
Farmer, Of the Pose L0Al6w mill tat
the now railroad era in Mexico Was Gre
sting large and constantly increasing
market for our lumbeS. This Wns god
news, and taking one thing with an.
other, Mr.. Biaelow's article in Harper
is calculated to call the correctness of
Mr.. Farmers yisvs into question.
Bot pat upon bis pssimistic views of
the situation comes the following tele-
Graphic announcemsnt, under date Of
the 18th inst; the Telegram in question
says: "Ths Mexican Government has
ordered the sstabiiahmsnt Of perma-
mont exposition Of Mexican products in
Berlin Similar expeditions viii be es-
tablishsd In other European cities and
in the United States.
Nov, all this means business. The
insiRnidcant minority Of accomplished
msn-and no men in The world - msss
highly accomplished than the thorongh-
bred Mexican eentlemen-ths insignih-
can't minority of accomplished mon, We
say, who have inauguratsd the nsw era
in Mexican affairs, and Who have e.
sumed and will keep the control 81 A.
fairs, intend 70 take no steps backward.
Mexico is land Of fabulons wealth in
minerals, in precious stones. in rare or
nsmsntai marbles and perphyry, in
tropical fruits, in woods needed in the
arts and for household furniture, in the
products even Of the tsmperste zone.
Between this wonderful land and out
I lying nations II soon 10 spring up q
commerce, which will astonish and On
rich the civilized world. Washington
Territory win be largely the beneficiary
Of this new condition Of aaaiB. Her
condition then, and the outlook "a re-
CARDS her future, are, therefore, matters,
II not Of solioitude, at least Of grave in
tsrest to our people. lar -.
We refer them to Mr.. Bigelow's arti-
Gle for much curious instruction a. to
what her past has been; but by no
means advise them 10 accept his con-
illusions as IN intelliRent prediction Of
her future. There are better things in
store for tho land Of tho Montezumas
than b suggests, or even dreams of.
Twenty years hence hin article will
DO rated at it's true worth, which will be
simply the value it may have a. sum-
mary of what Was, while isolation and
priestoraft we're the dominant factors of
the hour. ~
Just as We had finished writing the
foregoing the New York Railroad Gazette
of September 9Th came 70 hand. with an
official statement Of the number Of rail-
roads finished and under construction,
a. published BY La Naeiono', Of the City
Of Mexico. They number q, with an
aggregate length Of 1896 kilometers,
equal to 1852 English miles. Comment.
ing upon this statement, smother Mexi-
can journal, III Correo de Las Doce, after
reviewing the work Of the lines most &C
lively engaged in the work of oonstruc-
ton. Gays: sre 2I2 = !
The other lines are pushing their work
actively. and it is with no little pride
that ono states that, Of the q lines of
railroad mentioned in the foregoing
statement, u are being built by Next
can capital, furnished By Aexioan COM
panies organised IN the City Of Mexico.
While ready to confess that this spirit
OF enterprise, this desire to invest our
AAsssssc ookAstAS ~ kouWoyASe ID tu0 result
OF seeing American enterpeise and CAP
itxl coming into our Eopublic, we claim
1t IN notable sign Of Msxico's pro-
eress, An unequivocal proof Of tho STA
btttty Of our governmmk and fast
that marks an era in our history. And
while We look back upon our past. as
showing the ordeal through which Mex
100 has bad to pm TO roQonsgato herself
from the many evils bequeathed TO ne
by the old colonial regime, We cannot
refrain from here paying our tribute Of
Arofleude % 0enoral Hr0Iio Oisx. r.
ene President Who Rass Nd nv life g
TIE !ep1olle, md 20 0eosiAl Gonzales
- tho President who has 90 ABLY con-
einuod The nob1e Work b1Run by his pre-
oeoeosor and oumrAdo. Mexico il bound
70 have railroads, and railroads that
Will pay the shareholders handsome re-
turns, II properly managed in the opera.
We an inclined 70 MI ~ - will
not have TO wait twenty yean 70 learn
how utterly valuslsss Nr. Bigslow's n
psr In Hes9er's L. ~ 50
r. -. = - = 81
TuE NEW oCClD9NrAL.