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OF Washington, In the way OF hign
freight rates, outrageous wharf
charges and increased taxation be-
cause of the loss of rental OF the
harbor strips.
What can be done? This: The
people of the east can express their
angry protest, as the Farmers Al
lance of Walla Walla has already
done, and can encourage a dormant
and overawed public sentiment mt
Seattle and other Puget sound cities
to arise In revolt. Seattle can not
afford to surrender her magnihceht
harbor to the railroads, and pass to
them the perpetual power 70 drive
back opposition. Better still, the
legislature can be made to feel the
public pulse and aroused to Its duty
The farmers, .he people rather,
should send strong lobby to
Olympia to watch the game OF the
grabbers and to oppose their selfish
efforts. Very likely an attempt VIII
be made to supplant the present
honorable commissioners with sub
servient tools of the corporations,
who will do the bidding of their
masters, and render nugatory the
provisions Of the constitution.
Let us look well to the future be-
fore 1t Is ever,astingly too late. once
the steal IL consuinmated no power
on earth can undo the evil-noth-
ing short of anarchy could then re-
store the peoples rich heritage, Let
every intelligent farmer or business
man who reads this article begin II
crusade of education among his
neighbors, and VIC can save our har-
bors to the future commerce of the
people, and build a structure that
will rebound to the benefit and
glory of innumerable generations
yet unborn. Here is the most mo-
mentous question that may ever
come before the people of this gener-
alton. VIII they meet 1t ~ intelli-
gent citizens, or lapse into the
apathy that marks the unconscious
Slave?
, 1890-12-04
THE REMEDIES.

In another column a wheat.
grower states the grievance of the
Eastern Washington farmer with
reason and clearness. The prevail.
ing discomfort will not be assuaged
until the contention therein set
forth is recognized and conceded,
namely, "a stable market for agri.
cultural products, which will rise
and fall with the worlds great
markets.
The farmers have not had that
this season. When wheat was ris-
ing with rapid bounds In Chicago
and Liverpool it declined in East
err Washington, and when prices
declined In the worlds markets they
likewise tumbled in this state.
1t Is folly to attempt to argue
against the injustice and danger Of
those conditions. They must be
altered. The prosperity Of the peo-
pie is interviewer with that of the
agriculturist, and when the latter
suffers all other legitimate Interests
suffer In quick sympathy.
In this connection 10 Is well to
the disadvantages that
always attend a reliance upon for
eign markets. The con ditionsa against
which the farmers now complain
, 1890-12-04
THE RAILROAD JONAH

In the slang parlance Of the day,
the Seattle chamber Of commerce
appears to have "taken n tumble to
itself" The fact begins to dawn
upon the intelligence of its members
that the harbor line commissioners
and the public of Eastern Washing
ion arc true friends of the city, and
In endeavoring to preserve the water
front of the state are doing more for
the future commerce and prosperity
of Seattle than they have been doing
themselves.
The compromlse suggested by the
chamber of commerce Mt its meeting
Monday night, of n 600-foot strip To-
Gated further from shore than that
proposed by the commission, while
presenting fewer objcctiona bic fea-
lures Is probably u selfish attempt
to place the strip where 1t will not
interfere with the greedy aspirations
of wharf owners who have squatted
upon the states tide lands, and who
are now endcavoring to wrest their
holdings from the people.
This proposed compromise would
relinquish Railroad avenue to the re-
quirements of commerce, and mp.
pears to be concession by which
railroads are to he sacri iiiced to tho
demands ofpubllc sentiment in order
that an angry public may not inter
!ere with the plans Of individual
grabbers. The harbor line commits
sion has made such gallant stand,
the people are becoming aroused,
and the case brought before the
courts is so weak and absurd, that
the grabbers evidently came to the
conclusion that unless the transpor.
tation companies were thrown over
board the hopes of the entire Gu
Doodle would go by the board.
1t is yet too early to pass judg-
ment upon the proposed compro-
mise so far as 1t affects the railroads.
1t is possible the proposition may be
a cunning scheme by which only q
nominal sacrifice would be made
and the transportation companies
still retain their grasp upon the COM
merce of the city. It Is probable
though that the individual grabbers
nave thrown overheard the railroad
Jonah In order to save themselves.
The honorable, fearless and
spirited action of the harbor line
commission is a guaran tee that their
decision regarding this proposed
compromise will be sufficient pro-
lection of the rights of the state and
the requirements of commerce. 1t
Is more than probable, however,
that they will adhere TO their
original decision, made after
months of study and investigation,
and carrying with it the complete
protection of the peoples rights and
interests under the constitution.
, 1890-12-04
A RECkLE E.SS PROPOSITIONS.

A quarter of a million dollars is
great deal of money for the state Of
Washington to donate for the worlds
fair at Chicago; but that Is what the
next legislature will be asked to ap-
propriate.
1t is too much. The state can not
afford such reckless extravaganza.
The REVIEW can readily compre-
hend the proposition that fine dis
play ut the worlds fair would help
the state, but the assistance would
not be worth II princely sum like
that. After this money had been
paid out wha. would the state re-
ceive? Not II thing upon which
dollar could he borrowed. The
money would be gone, the show
would be over, and probably we
should add few hundred to our
population.
We believe the benefits to be
derived from the worlds fair are
greatly exaggerated. Washington
Is already we'll advertised, and the
tIut pio'Sh' hNi
before the world in the past are the
methods to pursue in the future,
because they have borne excellent
results. IL is better to reach the
people in their homes, when they
are at work, and when their minds
are not confused by all the turmoil
and confusion attendant upon n
worlds fair. Nine-tenths of the
people who attend the exposition
will do so for amusement, and not
one in thousand will be influenced
by the varied displays.
Appropriate $250,000 and what
will be the reault? Older and
wealthier states, with five, ten or
twenty times our population, will
probably spend more and throw us
in the shade, we shall occupy lit
tie nook in the stupendous affair,
perhaps one-fourth of those who at
tend may give our exhibit passing
glance, and the crowds attention
will be caught by some amusing
novelty.
Better results can be obtained by
taking one-tenth of that sum and
advertising extensively in four or
five of the Chicago papers while the
fair is in progress. Every body
would thus hear about Washington,
and if the advertisements were we'll
written would remember what they
read.
The state can not afford to
squander a quarter of million dol
lars for little vain display. That
would take, on an average, 81 out OF
the pocket of every head ofa family.
What do the taxpayers think of it?
, 1890-12-04
STANLEY AND EMIN.

In his Eastern lectures Stanley
expresses himself with great bitter
ness against Emin Pasha, whose
vacillating ways were exceedingly
annoying to the bold and self-reliant
explorer. Although Emin had
startled the world with dramatic
exaggerations of his peril and ap-
peals for help, Stanley no sooner
hove In sight with his little army,
organized for the sole purpose Of af-
fording relief, and piloted into the
heart of Africa with terrible priva-
tions and loss, than the fears Of
Emin took wings, and he concluded
that it would be better for him to
remain with his people, where he
was king, as II pleased his vanity to
express 1t. This rolled tho temper
of Stanley, and he has never for
given the vacillating pasha.
Emin's refusal to bulge until
Stanley should bring up his rear
guard sent the explorer on the long
and dreary back track, only TO learn
that Barttclot had been shot, that
the rear column had been swept by
disease, and that after weeks of ef-
fort it had penetrated only a few
miles from Yambuya, where Stan
ley first left 1t, covering ground at
the rate of mile and u half n day.
Here indeed was dilemma, but
deeper troubles were yet to come.
Word came that EmIu was In the
hands of rebels, and needed immedi-
ate succor. Undaunted by this COM
bination of adverse circumstances
Stanley set about preparing to march
to his relief when Emin and his
followers came struggling in and
thus solved the difficulty.
Stanley deals with the pasha
with fine scorn, and holds him up to
pitiless ridicule, showing how he
vainly declared himself king and
, 1890-12-04
THE ALLIANCE AND THE
TIDE LANDS.

From q communication appearing
In another department of this paper
1t Is seen that the Farmers Alliance
has become aroused to the overshad.
owing Importance and true signifi-
cance of the selfish fight now being
waged upon the harbor line com.
mission.
Iti Is well. If the commerce of
Washington is to be- kept unfettered
and out OF the grasp of two or three
powerful corporations, the farmers
must arouse themselves and fight
for their rights.
Day after day, and week after
week, the REVIEW has been pre-
scnting this III after to the people.
At the risk of being charged with
endless iteration IL has repeatedly
gone over the same ground, but in
different ways. The case will justi-
fy another statement.
The tide lands are the property
OF the state, as much so as the school
lands. The original colonies re.
served their ownership when they
came into the Union, and the su-
preme court of the United States de-
clared that new shore line states
must be admitted on equal terms
with the original states, and there.
fore owned all the tide lands within
their borders. The state constitu-
tion asserted this ownership, and
declared that harbor strip must be
located in front Of each incorporated
city, and forever reserved from sale.
This strip Is to be located by a har-
bor line commission, and may vary
in width from fifty to 600 feet, ac-
cording to the Judgment of the
commission, and Is b be leased to
private and corporate control for
periods not exceeding thirty years.
The commission has gone about
its duty and has determined that
the great and growing commerce of
Seattle requires q 6O0-foot strip.
This decision is dlspleasing to the
railroads, who recognize therein a
perpetual safeguard against their
ellOTtS " COIlTOl luc No'ci iioht anu
to drive out all competition, and
they have gone before the courts
and obtained an interfering order
which stops the commission from
the further performance Of its duties
under the consultation. Not con-
tent with the audacious grab which
gave them all the tide lands of the
state other than this little strip re-
served by the constitution, these
greedy erabbors arc conspiring to
render nugatory the highest law of
the state. They demand that the
commission shall make travesty Of
its duties and locate u hfty-foot strip
out In deep water, where nobody
desires n wharf, and leave to them
the monopolistic and perpetual con-
troll of the real water front.
Blind indeed must be the man
who can not detect the danger of
this audacious demand for the dis
graceful surrender of the commerce
of the state to the control of power
full corporations. The success of
this attempt means additional bur-
dens for every producer in the state
, 1890-12-04

bcgged aud pleaded with MS
lIeutenants when lie wanted any
thing at their hands. Very likeiy
we soon shall hear from Emin In
answer to these stinging taunts.
But Stanley will prove too much
for him, Just as he has disposed OF
Jameson. .Barttelots brother and
other small fry who weresufiicient'y
presumptuous as to measure iances
with him. As q matter OF fact ne
has emerged from this bitter, lam
entable controversy with lying
colors. He has proved his aiiega-
tlons, and has shown that of oil the
throng of lattcr-day African eN-
plorers he alone can face death ana
peril with II steadlness of nerve ana
a firmness of purpose seido'h
eoualed and never surpassed.
He started out to relieve Emih
Pasha, and no did 1t III spite OF the
vacillation of the latter; he marched
through the heart of the jungle, ana
controlled his savage followers with
a mastery hand, even when death
came hourly to terrorize and dis
hearten the little army; behind MN
he left rear guard under Bartellot,
which demanded help instead oil
giving 1t. He discovered the
mythical Mountains of the Moon
and Lake Albert Edward Nyanza'
and all this In the face of the oppo-
sition of Emin Bey and the utter
and lamentable failure of his rear
guard. Small wonder that he
speaks sharply and bitterly OF his
traducers.
Stanlcy's fame can not be dimmed
by these onslaughts of his envlous
iinitators. He has barred the dark
continent to the gaze of civilization
has opened the Congo to commerce,
and has never failed in n single
undertaking. If these accomplish
ments do not constitute great eN-
plorer and II hero then are those
terms nothing more than empty
sound and habble.
, 1890-12-04
sPOkASE FALLs. Noy !. 1870
THE MADMAN PARNELL.

Parnelrs retention of the leader
ship of the nationalist party could
only wreck the home rule cause and
help him in no respect. His sun OF
usefulness has dropped beneath the
horizon.
If Parnell were n patriot he could
see this, and he would not now be
driving knife into the heart of his
party. But he is IA moral scrub, and
moral obliquity has brought u loss
of political sagacity. His heart Is
full of bitterness, He Is blinded
by passion, and he hates his erst-
while colleagues with an intensity
that falls little short of madness.
His mind Is now in that dangerous
mood that begets traitors to a cause.
He must rule or ruin, and in his
desperation he ranks as deadly foes
all who dare to dispute his sway.
When one considers the terrible
sacrifices that Parnelps retention in
power would entail, the wonder is
that the party should hesitate for
minute. His triumph would be
followed by an attempt to discipline
the party and to read out and doom
to future defeat at the polls every
Irish member who has taken a
stand against him. Years would be
consumed in desperate effort to
regain lost prestige. This would
necessarily lead to bitter and long
standing feud In the nationalist
ranks. On the one hand would be
Parnell and his followers; on the
other his opposers and the whole
weight Of the Roman Catholic
church, which can never condone
his immoral acts, and whose sup
port has always lacked that COR
diallty that would have character
lied it had he not been Protestant.
Again, the support of Gladstone
and the liberal party would be hope
lessly alienated. After ParnelPs
shameful betrayal of the confidence
of Gladstone and Morley, which is
not his first act of political treachery
toward English allies, no English
statesman or politician Of note or in
huence would join fortunes with
him. What could he hope to ac-
complish, with the liberal party
against him, the tories weakening
the cause by conceding halfway
measures, the Catholic church up in
arms, and all the while a bitter feud
raging in his own party?
fThnaA nx,tlo nj t,rpl,lar, ,att taal
they are inevitable If Parnell is re-
tanned as leader. Can he see it?
Probably not. His actions, his In
temperate language, his sneering al
lusions to Gladstone, indicate that
he is suffering from severe attack
of overweening self-esteem. But
the party ought to see 1t, and 1t
ought to act promptly and vigor-
ously. This dilly-dallying out of
sympathy for an old time leader
who first went morally and Is now
mentally mad, Is boys play. If
Parnell will not retire under the
circumstances he ought to be kicked
out. Things have come TO "A strange
pass If the mighty cause of home
rule Is dependent upon the leader
ship of u single man.
A new leader can be found, who
can command the respect and conf
dence of Gladstone and Morley, the
support of the Catholic church and
the enthusiastic adhesion of the
solid nationalist party. Why play
with fire? Why jeopardize the
fruits of victory when they are so
near at hand, and after a struggle
that has been waged for centuries?
, 1890-12-04
MANAGER MELLEN'S PLEA.

General Manager Mcllen mistakes
the demands OF the wheat-growcrs.
They are not asking the railroads to
move the wheat crop In month,
nor yet in three months, but they
do maintain that the congestion
ought to be relieved four months af-
ter the beginning of harvest. That
Is not an unreasonable expectation.
The lst of December Is at hand.
Farmers have been delivering grain
for months, and the railroads have
shown an incapacity to carry away
the surplus in time to present clear
field when the next harvest rolls
around.
Out OF all the discussion and in
quiry into the origin and responsible
lity for the existing blockade two or
three lncts have been developed.
One of these is that the Transports
tion companies can not handle the
traffic OF this new country, because
of shortage of rolling stock, and
another is the fact that those sec
tions having but single railway
have suffered the full brunt of the
shortage, the companies concentrat-
Ing their rolling stock into the conf
petlve districts.
Mr.. Mellen's plea that the North
ern Pacific railroad has done u
great deal for Washington is a
weak answer to the present COM
plants. or what does 1t avail the
wheat-grower If the advent of rail
roads leaves him In the tantalizinp
predicament of growing wheat at
cost? The REVIEW calls attention
to the fact that the farmers out In
the Big Bend country, forty or
fifty miles from a railroad, are get
ting a better price for their prod.
ucts than are the farmers along the
line of the Spokane & Palouse.
However, II is not necessary to
argue the case with the railroad off,
cials, who know very we'll that
somebody has blundered. Jay
Gould declares that the Union Pa
ciiic was outrageouslv mismanaged.
and he ought to know. The indica-
tions are that we shall soon be riyen
relief, because these very officials
who have been vehemently declar-
Ing that nothing could be done nre
, 1890-12-04

at last showing a disposition to d
someth Ing, and thereby admit tina
In tho past they have neglected tn.
interest of their patrons.
OF course this difficulty must b
solved. Public policy and sens
Of Justice forbid that with excellen
foreign markets the Washington
wheat-grower shall go on CROWN,
wheat and selling 1t at cost, because
forsooth, tho railroads must tax.
their leisure to move the crop ant
charge their own price for doing 1t
and in order to maintain n monopoly
in the business of grain buying.
, 1890-12-04

the prestige of his simple life OF un-
selfish devotion.
In all that wild, rude region there
10 not u home whose inmates do not
rise up and call him blessed. Never
came night too dark, nor storm too
wild, nor winters blast too cutting
to keep him from the home wher
misfortune, sickness or death had
left Its cruel impress. Funerals,
weddings and revlvals were con-
Quoted gratuitously; perhaps a we'll
to.do bridegroom might occasionally
hand the wandering preacher n
dollar bill---but that was all. And
after oil these years of the loftlest
self-sacrlfice, of the purest devotion
to the purest Christianity, the old
disciple OF Christ remains In beauti-
ful unconsciousness of having done
anything extraordinary, anything
that an ordinary preacher of the
gospel would not do To tho CORE.
spondent who rode into the wilder
ness to tell the World of his remark
able life of selfsacrifice, Rev. Wells
made the pathetic statement of his
boyhood: 81 didn't go no wha', N
| never seed nothin' O. nobody"
No tribute to this noblest Christian
Of them all would be complete with
out word In praise of his faithful
wife Betty, who can neither read
nor write, but who, as she herself
sweetly expressed 1t, could listen
while others read. While her hus-
band was away, ministering to the
sick and dying upon her fell all the
rude burdens of mountain home.
Many day she took her babies into
the field and hoed the corn for their
winters food. The old lady has
reared large family of modest, shy
and Ignorant mountaineers, q mum.
Der of whom have married and
settled around the old home, and
through 1t all has come with an
unimpaired constitution and robust
health; but her husband suffers
much from weak lungs and impaired
circulation.
The first person the correspondent
met when she came out to Big Stone
Gap was Senator Mills, himself n
minister, and man of wide influ-
ence.
Il consider Mr. Wells the greatest
natural orator in the state of Virginia,
he said. "His power over the class of
people among whom he works Is simply
marvellous. have seen whole congre-
cations weeping or shouting, plunged
in sorrow or carried out of themselves
by his eloquence. He can sway them
as he pleases. Within five minutes
after he begins his sermons he has his
congregation entirely under his control.
He numbers among his.friends some of
the finest men In the state. l have
known them to come miles to hear him,
and to be as much affected BY his words
us the simple mountaineers themselves.
i frankly confess that he can make me
cry whenever he chooses. and am not
sentimentally inclined. If he had been
an educated man there is nothing he
might not nave accomplished. AS it is
he has buried himself in the mountains
and toiled for no return.
"Of course the mountaineers idoize
him; no other man can ever hold his
place. HIS private character is abso-
lutely above reproach. There isn't
person in the world who can breathe q
word against him. He has simply
worked and sacrificed himself for others,
and, in worldly sense. he stands To-day
exactly where he stood when lie began.
He has his little home-nothing more"
, 1890-12-04
THE DIFFERENCE.

1t Is strange that anybody should
be unable to discover the apparent
difference between the sale of the
exposition to the city of Spokane
Falls and the donation by the state
of Washington of $3.50, 900 to the
worlds fair at Chicago. The two
propositions are radically dissimilar.
Between them lies all the difference
that Is found between the purchase
of a suit of clothes and voluntary
gift of the price thereof to II dealer
in clothing. A reader of the RE-
VIEW sends In the following, which
he evidently considers unanswer-
able:
SPoKAsE FAILS, Nov. 2s.
To THE EDIroR or THE REVIEW:
! see In your to.dny's paper that you
are opposed 10 the appropriation of
$3.50. 900 by the state legislature for the
Chicago exposition. and l, as tax
payer, fully agree with you, but how do
you reconcile 1t with your advocating
the outrageous purchase OF the Spokane
Fails exposition building at $40 900, and
com monwealth TO that amount, which
il certainly comparatively more than
$3.50, 900 TO be distributed among all the
citizens OF the state OF Washington
Will you please rise and eSplsin"
Yours respectfully, a TAXPAYER.
In buying the Exposition build
ing and its site the city Of Spokane
Is not losing n dollar. 1t merely
loans its credit, acquires a valuable
piece of property that will grow
more valuable with time and which
will earn the interest upon the obli-
CATION of the city, and maintains an
enterprise which 1t can not well af-
ford to lose. This purchase will not
cost the taxpayers n dollar in the
long run, but Will be an indirect
means of adding value to their prop
erly.
Upon the other hand, the state il
asked to give outright the princely
sum of quarter of million dol
lars, for which 1t receives in return
nothing tangible, nothing that
could he realized upon for q single
dollar. This proposition means II
direct levy upon the taxpayers In
order that the state may make n dis
play at the Worlds fair.
Between these propositions there
is wide difference that ought to be
apparent to any candid man,