The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-10

country and appreciating it--and no one
can comprehend it without seeing it-6nds
source OF national pride in seeing this
new empire, and cannot help but regret that
unwise national rule in 1S4S- $3.50 that
allowed England to take away from that
republic breadth of nearly six degrees Of
latitude OF land which belonged to us. The
good old American cry of 1913, Fifty
Four Forty or Fight" ought to have won
either before or after fight with England.
Then British Columbia would have been in
the United States and we would have con-
trolled entirely the straits OF Juan de Fuca.
Lewis Cass, James Buchanan and William
Allen, then leading their party. surrendered
these rights and allowed England to fix the
boundaries on the 10th degree and left Eng
land half in control of the straits
of San Juan de Fuca- Indeed they
made such cowardly surrender
that in the dispute settled twenty years or
more ago, with William of Germany "a
arbitrator, we were given back the island
OF San Juan, q foreign king showing a
higher regard for what was due the United
States by our natural rights than our timid
leaders had dared to maintain. Any
American visiting this country now cannot
but regret that all that splendid country
belonging to US was not retained when we
had it.
II was farmer for ten years and know
something of the productive power of soil
have never seen anything to equal the
productive capacity of the soil of Washing.
ton. The great natural fores Is, made up
of trees two and three hundred feet high,
standing closely together. some of them
running over l50 feet to the first limb, show
thax ~~exk
it is well-known fact in natural history
that vegetation draws as much substance
from the air as from the soil; but that 10
one of the glories of the Sound country,
and is as good for all plant life as for trees.
A man will not need large farm to
make himself comfortable or rich
in this country. A farm of
twenty or forty acres here
is equal to enc of so or 160 acres in the
Middle or Western states. Your fruit is
simply wonderful, both in Quantity of yield
and quality, and 1t exceeds anything
have ever seen. The same may be said OF
other products / have seen. Therefore,
speaking of the chances of newcomers,
say there is every chance open to the far.
mer, fruit-grower or gardener. East of the
mountains, it is everywhere understood,
you have the best wheatlands in the world,
both in productiveness and for the quality
of the product.
Your climate, never hot and never cold,
will in itself draw mary people. The
month have spent here was as delightful
as the month of May in the Eastern states.
There is enough sunshine during the dav
to give life to crops; but in the shade it is
always pleasant and the nights are always
cool. While sitting here, with pleasant
breeze tanning my cheek, reading
of 103 degrees in New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Chicago and other
cities of the Eastern and Middle states,
your climate shines resplendent by con-
trast. When the virtues of your climate
become generally known you will have
many thousands of visitors, who will come
here as to a summer resort. Indeed, your
climate is going to help make your land
populous. Different from any other por-
tion of the country. you not only have q
fine climate, but rich soil as well. giving
a chance for everyone to.make living.
II have also been pleased to see that
every person finds occupation here. Ev-
cry one has chance to come and labor.
gets high wages, making prosperous COM
munity. It is always mistake to suppose
that an American community can prosper
on cheap labor. for there can never be in
this country of America an element
known as the peasantry or in the cities
a starved, idle, poorly-paid class
of labor. This country is so. con-
stituted that the laborer is the
unit of national welfare; when he is pros
porous, it is prosperous; when he
is ill-conditioned there can be no
prosperity. Washington pays its Ia
borers well and is prosperous. This will
draw to you many thousands of young
laboring men who will in time become
prosperous citizens and men of capital.
An enterpristng laboring man who has
risen by his own exertions makes the best
citizen. This high price for labor will keep
up for years, for you have hardly yet be-
gun to manufacture.
I'm every town and city / have visited in
Washington have seen iron pipes and all
sorts of farm implements and everything
used in town and country, unloaded from
cars and boats. None are manufactured in
your own state. You have the raw material
to make all OF them, and of course you will
soon found manufactures in every
city. You have iron, clay and
limestone to make everything, indeed I
think the best chances in Washington lie
in the open field of opportunity to start
factories of all kinds. This opportunity
will not long lie untaken. When Eastern
capital learns of these chances it will rush
in and supply you with all of these pro-
ducts. Indeed, think one of the happiest
things in the outlook of the state
is that you will be able
to reach that happy condition when you
will be O great manufacturing state, en-
ploying hundreds Of thousands of oper-
ators. shipping the productions of your
factories to the lands west of the Pacific,
while supplying from your own soil all ths
necessities OF your people. Thus by the
state consuming its own agricultural pro-
ducts, your farmers will have the best of
all markets at home, insuring the best
prices.
"You have not only this great field of
chance for manufactures, but you have in
your numerous streams OF rapid descent
and in your sleeping coal mines, power to
turn a million wheels at moderate cost.
Therefore, in the future Washington is
going to be state with large city popula-
ton. You are going to manufacture very
largely; you are going to build up an i'm
mense commerce with China, Japan and
Australia; therefore, you will establish
great seaport cities. The supremacy of the
city of commercial prominence has not yet
been determined on the Western coast
San Francisco is not sure of its iaurels;
that honor still lies open to competition,
and Seattle. or some other ambitious town
or city on the Coast or Sound has
q fair chance in the race. l see
nothing to hinder Seattle from achieving
q very great future. 1t has splendid
natural location a fine harboY ready Of