Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-03

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times We timber pays for the clearing.
siost OF fhe accessible Government land
" taken. and the railway land il not in
tue market owing TO the forfeiture bill
nov before Congress and hign price
ioe tFaftic of the n. p. K. - not vba;
vas Anticipated, stopping a. il does
arooDd at Portland, 3O0 miles out of
the way. when road is run throagh
the cascade range, she Sou0d country
will hum
IA to town property, both Seattle and
Tacoma twin towns ana rivals, are Wild
as ssanpeded cattle. Tasy have each
plotted oai lots for million people.
ihe big operators viii control the mar
Aet through their coastaotiy active
agents. aud the sinai investors will be
ieft. Still here Is healthy groxsh-
oniy msn will lose their heads. Fo.-
tunes have been made here, are now be
iuR made. aud will continue to be made
on oity property. The titses, vil! s1r-
yive. But any other business l. nsor-
safe. think, considering the res0uscss
| apparent here, the interested parties
have been very careful aaa eonserva.
tive IN their Inducements held eut to
the world. The bitter rivalry, amount.
ing to envy and jealousy, between Sc
attic and Tacoma is funny. There il
no necessity for 1t. Tacoma has secured
the terminus OF the Northern Pacific
hallway, with its patronage, subsidies.
and the personal interests in its real
estate Of half of the stockholders ef
the company; but Seattle has individual
character and enterprise, and has bet
ter country tributary 10 1t, embracing a
hundred miles radius east, north aud
west, about q hundred villages, with
minse, forests and fisheries. Twenty
So1nd steamboats, lie up here Sundays;
over a hundred sets Of encyclopedias
have been sold in four years, and l75
TO people north of this city. Here
is every taste and refinement Of Eastern
towns, electric lights, fashionable appa-
rel. the general use of the telephone,
tl49 machines being 10 use) and fancy
architecture.
Settlement all along the Souad runs
sack thirty years. People from the
most refined circles OF the East are
hers perfectly content. Tue cid sat
tiers here. who are called "We=tsrn-
ers," are somewhat uncouth but relia-
bic aud harmless. The later comers
are gushjngly hospitabie. Caste has
not set in yet. Newcomers are well
coined, petted and advised. Young men
Of the East, from soft homes, have
plamped right down here without
friend, and have become business and
social snccess in year. None of them
desire to return East. This Sound and
these lakes are mountain gulches and
chasms, and are practically unfathoin-
able. Tnis makes poor anchorage
for Tacoma. Seattle has q bay and
fares better with anchorage bottom.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany and the Land Company, a private
corporation within the Railroad Con- |
pany, sre lavishing money upon Taco |
ma, which will drive that town forward
and not serve to strengthen its individ- |
ual energies. But both cities have a great
future and are totally independent: of |
each other.
This letter has been interrupted by a |
visit To Republican ward primary |
where womea voted. In sentence the |
sceae appeared to me like the reaIlza- |
tion of y political Utopia, the full fruit |
ton of social progress. All WAS quiet |
as church sociabie. he most dIgni. |
fed matrons of the town we're present, |
and peddling tickets, too. There stood |
in line Chief Justice Greene. with his
wife, and many other leading citizens, |
each With his better half. On the last !
municipal election gentiews wsmen drove |
arouad in their carriages for voters, and |
in the two larger of the three wards not |
An arrest was made. Politics have thus |
been quieted here, ~ matter of course; |
No rough. coming to deposit his vote, |
would think Of acting rudely in ths |
presence of these women at the polls oe |
primaries more than he would at the |
.ak.
rights are respected, as a matter of |
course. like business rights. Thus this |
far of corner of our Territory Is politi- |
cslly a quarter of csntnry ahead of |
the best developed East. At the prima
ry, last evening, an ex- United States |
Judge was inspector and a prominent |
banker was poll clerk. Recently jury |
consisting of SIX women and six men |
found difficulty IN agreeing, and they |
walked together TO a restaurant for |
supper. Here, in glance of a few |
minutes, was revealed to my astonished |
gaze the practical and lovely working |
of what our advanced thinkers ia the /
East have long dreamed of as away in |
the millennium; and to the beholder it |
serves To dispel that sentimental en-
thraiinent TO the old home feeling aud |
retinementso OF the East. This Territory |
swarms WITH politicians and Office wait /
ers. But the people are shrewd; boiling, /
scratching and independent clubs are |
rife. The peopie are more fit for the |
responsibilities of Statehood than those |
Of any nsw existing State in our Union. |
They are patriotic an1 public-spirited. |
Generals, oolonels aud majors are thick |
here. and, in fine, abundant good mate |
rial for all the Governors. Senatlr |
Cougeessmen and State officers aeeded. |
Bot the politician ef these parts has |
some chiyslry and patriotism. and 10
without the cold shark teeth of the |
Eastern politicians, and without their
audacity aud eunniHg. Every lawyer
has constitution for the nsv State in
his desk.
Chief Justice Greene Ia the man for
this gestasive epoch of the coming
State. Administering the law. his light
is also from Divine truth, and every
battle in morals finds IN him learning
as judge,
Wheat and corn are poor all through
the couRty, but oats, potatoes an all
roots are produced ia excess. THIS
country will always be self-supporting
and have its minerals, timber, cattle
aud fish TO spare. The climate is equa-
ters not severe. There is no skating
known. Living is easy; there is no
phantom of failure or futare poverty
before the eyes Of tosiing men and vo-
men, and there is 20 hard task master
Yachting Is common. There Is lawyer
to every thirty voters. and not yet snffi.
cient farmers. All trades find employ
ment. Passing across the street yonder
Is weather-b beaten msn. with sun
burned straw has, wheeling a baby car
riage and accompanied by 4 plainly
dressed woman, looking like a mechanic
and wife. lie Is son of Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher and captain Of steam |
boat nov at she dock. On a corner in !
the center Of the city, between the finest |
usv buildings, is the one-story frame |
cottage of Mr.. Yesler, the daddy of
the town. and one OF It's richest men. !
He has not changed his abode through
all his financial rise.
AZ the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation exercises, this Sunday afternoon.
80 iadies and gentlemen we're present. |
A Chinsman before me, with Qnsne. |
sandals and the usual garb, tnrned over !
his hymn book leaves iuteIligenliy for |
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