Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-10-09

#au1auEeEs t1ok1 ol4 urcn t1e gateway
q the Mafs1wogt NEona ny wsndoW -
tie ho4nl lnck aaeos ne ntining wAt1r
ID Ne STRAITS q Raca and beheld ne
0igmpian moon1ain Ea1Re. IL Hazhinz.
tun I9rritery, With ahsiE neids e aeeu-
TuFnina % lha ea9laEn hoEz0ns ] Eaxe
uron tks ro1nded uams of MeuAt bskeFs
hfttng tsself, uhila and pnra. Ao00 fest
aoove rs feg1l q Ne "a, vita - iolty
lins 81 ne Ca1aads range q wo1ntains
eating the horixan. ! behold 3 stately
ship. with iss gbila sails sprsad % TIE
favoEinR nEss1s, sailing IN fEum tAe RI
aiac. ioaded with tea erosn IN IS green
aalds o. japan. 4 steam suk. vita
wreath q black snake curing up from
iis funnel. gees 0ut % meet Der. taking
hef IL tew np through the Strata b.
swsan Fanc1uver Isiand and SAn Juan,
ehenes thro1gh Tie arphipelaee q 49,
ands e Port Moody, ne pgesant terml-
nos of ths C4nadian Pacific Railroad
Looking s0nkhsass, see other ships
coming down Admiralty Inlet ste rlnR
wsss throagh the straits Of kuca. laden
with iambeF, % make voyage % Faipa-
raiso, 4eiboarne. SnanRhais % 81 nad
Cape Horn for London- Ihs COM
merou of the NORTH Pacifn. like younG
dose. p iusi beginning % npEsad iis
VITA TIE map Of The world spread ont
bsfoEe "a, let rs taks lsok into the
future Of eommeEee. fer ue are % toe
eve Of great ehanae--a chanRe Of viial
interest 20 the psople Of Nsu EnRiAno.
IheEs are two tFanso0ntinen1al rail-
roads rsaoAing from the Atlantic 70 ms
Paoiic, having their western termlnl
on this magnificent waterway = tne
Northern and Canadian Factne- Int
distances fgom Boston. via Ch1oaao. -.
Paul and Northern Paoifes over 10
Cascade branch, vii be $50 milea. ~
the Canadian Paei1e the distance !.
azl4 miies-ll5 miles less than VIA the
Northern. In a letter written feS
weeks since / made mention o. 9 rais-
road under construction from Mime
apolis eastward, 10 be completed % the
Soo.S as everybody calls the oatles OF
Lake Superior, next year, there 30 con
nasi wits the Grand Trunk 4 Canadian
Paeihc. When fhis road is oompieteo
thsro viii Be q swing Of lbs msles N
distance between Minneapolis and Dos
Ton over the present route via Chicago.
The saving 10 distance between BOaton
and ahe Northern Paniio, via Dniutn,
viii Be n0s far from $50 miles. redae-
ing the transoonfinental distance 70
1893. making it almost even with the
Canadian Pacific. From Boston she
route Will be
oyKH THE BOSTON AND LOWELL
Through New Hampshire and Vermont
The Northern and canadian both have
low elevations thronga the Rocky Noun
-.
the great water eeuFsea OF the continent
Open your map and see how tne %
Iawronca, with its chain Of inland seas
reaches bali var across the continent
Lake SaperioF Is only 600 feet above thl
ocean. Notice hos she great plateau d
| ihe head waters Of the Mississippi liei
lost west of SupeEioE-hoW the missouri
and the Yellowstone lie 10 the same LAT
itade; hov the Columbia. the only Rreai
river entering the Pacific, has its rise OF
The same parallel. " The great highway
Of nations will lie along the great Vatei
couFses,7 wrote Humboldt 9 hslt csn
tnry ago. Turning now TO the Cams
dian, We SEE IL following up the vallel
Of the Saskatchewan 20 tne mountains
cunning through Viking Horn pass y
the northern fork Of the Oolumbia
and thence down the Fraser 70 PuRe
sound.
In the outIook for the eommerOia
future, enc can sas that tha Canadian
Pacific is TO be q mighty factor. II
understand what that road IL, what !
vas designed TO be, what power ie behin'
Il, We need to 90 back little in time
In 1858 there was notable discussion II
Parliament on the integrity Of the Brit
iBh empire. The surveys for railroad
acFsss our own o0uatry, made dufinI
the administration sf President Pierce
had Just been Published and attracted
Abe attention Of English statesmen Il
the future Of Canada. And the proisc
vas brought forward for railroad fTou
Halifax 70 the Pacific, rs q politica
measure, to bind the Provinces 10 III
Drown. Il Was seen that, unless some
thing we're dine 20 connect Winnipel
and British Columbia with the eastern
Provinces, they would be likely 20 be
come AmeTicanixad. Il vas II this dis
eussi0n that Lord BrouRham enunciatei
the far reaching policy Of EnRland-th
policy Of the past. tue present and th
future Of the realm, stFennously adhere'
10, whether tue Premier be Liberal o
Tory. Said Bfoueham: Il is the polio,
Of Zealand 20 preserve the connection o
she different oOmponent parts Of q grsa
and scattered empire and connect tn
whole mesa"
The smperors Of old Rome oonsoli
dated the empire and made ID the might,
military power that il was by making Al
roads lead 10 Rome, constructing tn
Appisn and Flaminian ways. Tin
statesmen Of England have made th
Ocsan the great highway Of the Britisl
empire, and have made that little bit o
land, not larger IL area than q county Il
Dakota, the miehtiest commercial powe
Of all time. They have established
regular mail service to every country Of
the globe.
WHAT A MAaHrSIcEEF SYSTEM
| Il isl Look al that Peninsular 4 ORR
entail line Of steamers, running down h
Gibraltar. through the Mediterranean
Suez, the Red Sea, 70 Bombay, 20 POtn
de Gale IN Ceylon, up 70 Madras AMI
Calcutta; onward from Ceylln ~ Pc
nana and Singapore, HongkonQ, ShanR
hal, Yokohama, q branch from OeyloI
10 Melbourne. Look At she West lndii
lines. running over from 81. Thomas anG
Jamaiea 10 the Isthmus Of Panama
Il AAAAAAlL
can coast, iouohing az al ports; from
Panama 20 Melbourne and all Austria
liam ports. Thea there IL the line 4
Brazil and all ports on the Atlantic; thl
line down tha west coast Of Africa q
the Care ef Good HDpe; tbs line from
Alden down the east coast 70 Zanzibar
Madagascar, Mauritiua aud 20 GoOS
HOPS; ell the lines 10 the United States
70 Qaehee and hontreAl-ali oaFFyin,
the royal mail, that commerce may nav
regular and certain communication with
England. making England the Workshop
and London she banking house Of III
world. Inis policy has mada EnglanC
the worlds carrier, and 20 q great extern
the worlds manufacsarar-oer certainly III
worlds shipbnildeK, since the Alabami
swept the AmerieAn hAQ from the aea
EuRland's statesmen Il all psFties hsvl
fOsiered it - q national policy. Lori
Bro1ahAm vas . Liberal; Mr. Roebnck
10 am not mistaken, was not; YET, ia
speech in Pariiamsnl made august 30
1858. be said. IN regard 70 The politica
sisnideance Of 3 railroad from the At
lAntio 10 the Pacido in British AmsRioa
"a II somaahing is net done By Enalang
a. q eoanterpoise 20 the United states
1 thay would eoon oweRshadow not onl,
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