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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-05
THE MASSACHUSETTS ARGUMENT

Free trade organs and speakers are tire
less in their efforts to make a point against
the protective system by quoting census
returns on the retrogression or slow growth
of certain rural districts in Massachusetts,,
They insist that this negatives the claim
that protection and the growth of manu-
features improves the home market for ag-
ricultural products.
The population of Massachusetts in 1880
was 1888, 0S5. The figures for 1890 are re-
ported at 2. 19i,5S6 an increase of ALL sol,
or fraction over % per cent This for an
old-established, well-developed, thickly-
populated state, is very satisfactory. As
elsewhere throughout the country, the
cities and towns have outgrown the rural
districts, and in fact have drawn from
them considerable share of their popula-
ton.
AS has been pointed out in these col.
umns, the main reason for this excessive
growth OF cities and manufacturing GEN.
tiers. as compared with agricultural dis
tricts, is that agricultural machinery and
methods have been so greatly improved
that 1t takes fewer men to produce and a
greater number to distribute those prod
ucts than heretofore. But apart from that,
and more particularly applying to the hill
districts OF Massachusetts,, is the matter of
transportation. Owing to the limited area
OF those districts, and the comparative
sterility Of their soil, and to the conse-
quent small volume of their production.
and the ruggedness of their approac hes,
their condition has not invited their con-
nection with centers of business and popu.
lation by railroad.
As result the farm wagon has been
their only reliance for the transportation
OF their produce to market 1t requires no
argument to impress the fact-everybody
knows 1t without argument-that COM
pared with districts thus conditioned, and
only fifty miles from market, produce
raised along the line of a railroad could be
carried thousand miles TO the same mar
ket more cheaply and in better condition.
And as railroad extension and the opening
mp OF new and more fertile regions along
the lines of navigation has progressed
steadily the disadvantages of nearer but
less accessible and less fertile districts have
increased.
And under the benefcent workings of
the protective system Massachusetts has
gathered to her manufacturing centers the
adventurous young men of the rural dis
tricts, and together they have furnished a
growing and profitable market for the
farm products of vast areas which ten
years age were in the wilderness. To a
large extent the former tiilers of the hill
districts have pushed westward, where
they have found better and cheaper land
with better facilities for transportation.
but they have had TO rely upon the pro-
tectye system aud the growth of manufac.
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Harrison Not q Wine. Bibber.
Cleveland. O.. Special.

There has been some controversy among the
various temperance or aniza,ions over the cues
ton as to whether Preside Il Harrison was q
wine.bibber. Some Of the disputants have
stated that the quantity of wine consumed in
the White House was disgracefuL In order to
get at the true inwardness of the matter, Mrs,
Ellen J. Phinney. of this city, president OF the
Non-Partisan National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, recently addressed letter to
Mrs. Lydia II. Tilton, president of the District
Columbia branch of the union, asking her to
furnish the bottom facts Mrs. Tilton has re-
piled that "whie it is true that wine has been
furnished at state dinners by the present admin
is ration and by every other except during that of
Hayes, it is also true that very few official homes
during this administration furnished wine and
even when it is furnished, the example OF the
Harrisons, Wanamakers, Windows, Millers,
Proctors, Illusions, Hepburns Dorchesters, Fos-
tiers, Morgans and many others have q restrain.
ing influence. Scarcely any of the men selected
by President Harrison az his advisers ever take
wine. Blaine is now total sbstainer. Presi-
dent Harrison does not take wine at any OF the
receptions, and Mrs. Harrison never under any
circumstances anywhere takes wine. Never
since the days of Mrs. Hayes has so little wine
been taken at pubic on eial receptions in Wash
iDgt0n as during the present administration"
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WASHINGTON CROPS.

Mr.. Stevens says that the wheat yield of the
Big Bend country will be very large, and will
average thirty-6ye bush. Is to the acre. Around
Waterville is very rich country, and there are
several fields Mr.. Stevens said, which have pro-
dnced ninety-six bushels of oats to the acre.
The Big Bend country, according to careful es-
Inmates. contains thirty-eight townships of
good, rich land. that will produce wonderful
crops, without irrigation, and that not more
than one-twcnteth of this is broken. general
altitude of this vast wheat country. tributary to
Spokane, is about $500 feet above sea level
Spokane Falls Revie,c.
We rode out from Watervi.le through immense
rolling fields Of chubby wheat and well-filled
tasselheaded oats. Taxing conservative view
Of II, believe better grain fields cannot be
found. have seen vast amount OF wheat
growing, but never before such as is growing
here. / noticed that the grass is wet in the
evening and early morning. From a scientific
standpoint heavy dew is productive of more
vegetation than the same amount OF rain
Eltensburg Register.
The oat crop Of Skagit county is ready for
harvest. The estimate is put at an average of
100 bushels to the acre on the up-river lands,
and from 125 to $50 bushels an acre on the fats
HqQiltO0 Herald
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TWILIGHT THOUGHTS.
Indianapolis News.

Indianapolis News.
The day with its sandals dipped in dew
Has passed thro' the evenings goi en- gates,
And single star in the cloudless bue
For the rising moon in silence waits;
While the wind that signs to the languishing
hours
lullaby breathes DER the folded flowers
The lilies nod to the song of the stream
That winds s1ong with q musical flow,
Ann either awake or half in q dream,
pass thorough the realms of the long ago;
While faces so happy, with many a smile,
Come from the Magic Bowers Of Memory's
Isle.
There are joys and sunshine. sorrows and tears
To checker the path of life's April hours,
longing wish for the coming years
Hope ever wreathes with the fairest flowers;
And friendships guileless, and love as bright
AS shine in the stars in the halls OF night
And thus as the glow ofthe daylig bit dies,
Aud the nights first 10 X to the earth Is cast
gaze meath the beautiful star gemmed skies
On the pictures that hang on the walls of the
past,
And upward through riffs in the blue-bending
dome
To the spires and the battlements of our final
home
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SEATTLE. FRIDAY. sEPTEMBER s
WORSE THAN FIsTICUFFs.

Much ado has been made over an un-
fortunate episode that occurred in the
lower house of Congress the other day.
Neither the parties to that episode nor
their friends have denied that it was
reprehensible. But 1t was in fit of hot
blood to which most men are liable at one
time or another in their lives, and with the
cooling of the blood came mutual explana-
tions and apologies. and 1t is but fair to
profitable restraint in the future to all
concerned.
But about the same time another episode
occurred in the same assemblage for which
the excuse of hot blood cannot be offered.
1t was in connection with the so-called
Lard BILL" This is one of the measures
demanded by the farmers of the whole
country. It's object is to compel the
manufacturers of compound lard to sell 1t
as such. and to prohibit its sale as pure
leaf lard.
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, who had this
bill in charge. was deeply anxious to have
it passed. It happens that the spurious
lard is composed in part Of cotton seed oil.
and the chief profit of its manufacture and
sale accrues to the cotton planters of the
South. Therefore the Southern Democrats
are solidly arrayed against it. So that
when Mr.. Cannon called the bill up they
resorted to filibustering for its defeat.
Twice in one day he demanded a call OF
the house. and twice in one day, as soon as
quorum was obtained and further pro-
ceedings under the call suspended, they
absented themselves before their names
could be reached in the cali of the roll on
the passage of the bill.
These being the admitted facts, Mr..
Cannon introduced a resolution which
simply recited the facts, that they might
go before the country to inform the people
where the responsibility rested for the non-
passage of the bill. Against this resolution
the recreant members protested. and in
the course of the debate were forced to adj
init the facts, and that they had violated
the rules which they were sworn to OBJ
serve. but insisted that their obligation to
their constituents was paramount to all
other considerations.
This is carrying to ridiculous extreme
the old Southern doctrine that ones first
and highest duty is to his state, and on
this puerile plea they INSTRUCTED legsla.
ton, fsgrantly violated rules that they had
helped to make and had agreed to be bound
by, and all to protect their constituents in
the continued preparation of a palpable
swindle. This cold-blooded defiance of
duty. decency and justice was infinitely
worse than would have been one or dozen
knock-downs under gross provocation and
In the heat of the moment.
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lures for the principal and their bes.

lures for the principal and their best
market.
1t is thus that Massachusetts,. thanks to
the increase of her manufactures under the
benign effects OF protection, has contributed
enormously TO the peopling and enrich
ment of the great west. 1t is thus that
broader possibilities for the former resi-
dents of the nearer but more rugged and
inaccessible Massachusetts, hill districts.
There is reason to believe that it would be
no detriment. but positive benefit to the
whole country if the increase in Massachu-
sets for the next should equal that of the
last decade. and confined exclusively to
the manufacturing districts.
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THE STATE PRESS.

The Sidney Broadar thus beautifully straddles
the fence: THE Democrats have q splendid OPP
portunity. The corruption and corruptionists
OF the Republican party afford splendid target
for campaign orators If one of these cannot
hit the mark every time he could not hit the
side of a barn with club. All that remains for
the Democracy to do to ensure success is to
choose clean men, and presto, change, the thing
IS done This is applicable TO the other party
when in power. Sweep them both out and let
the people speak"
Spokane Review: ".All this talk about the dig
nifty of congress- and the propriety of John l.
wilson swallowing the vile epithet that Beck
with applied to him is nonsense said Mr.. Paul
Strobach, ST., an ardent Turner man. IF were
In church, in the presence of the president,
anywhere, should resent an insult like that
Oh, that viii not ipjure Wilson's chances. II
he had swallowed the epith 4 it would be time
to talk about the affair costing him support at
home.'"
Pomeroy East Wdshinetonian: "Those papers
who have been booming Turner with the hopes
OF defeating John L. Wilson will get badly left
Representative Wilson has worked too faithfully
for the interests of his state to receive the APP
proval Of his opponents, but he has sub
sfantial following with a great majority OF our
best and most influential citizens-suficientt to
distance Turner on the first heat"
Speaking OF the "Pinkertons" the Davenport
Times says: "The existence OF this body is with
out excuse, and should be suppressed The
constitution of this state provides against the
importation of this class OF armed bodies
There Is no use for them in any state. When
police authority is unable to cope with riot,
the governor has the power to employ the
militia
Port Angeles Tribune: 1T Is the universal
Judgment of the county that there is no use for
Pinkerton men, as police officers, to enforce the
law"
Port Angeles Tribune: The organization of
he Republican forces OF this country cannot
commence too Soon"
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In Town. and Hamlet.

The seeds OF intermittent and bilious remit
tent fever terminate and bear evil fruit No
community has altogether escaped 1t. In popu-
lous wards Of large cities bad sewage causes 1t.
and in their suburbs stagnsnt pools in sunken
lots breed it There is at once remedy and a
means of prevention Its name Is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters which 10 without peradven-
ture the most potent sntidote in existence to
the malarial virus Fortified with this incom-
parable, saving specific. missmatic influences
may be encountered with absolute impunity.
Disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, be-
gotten by miasma-tsinted water. or any other
cause, saccnmb to the benefcent corrective
named, and rheumatic, kidney and bladder
troubles are surely removable by its use when It
is given q persistent trial.
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The Wellington Coliiery Fire.

NhnalmO free freSs.
1t is now stated that the fire which started in
the "gob" at the No. 8 pit, Wellington collieries,
has made serious Roadway during the past few
days, and is now among the pillars and the tim
bers. A gang Of men are kept working at it
day and night but all local efforts to extinguish
thave been relinquished. The MANAGEMENT of
the mine has now decided, so it Ia stated, that
all the avenues to the seat OF the fire shall be
closed up. and an effort made to smoshef the
flames. The No. 8 pit is one of the earliest pits
in South yelling on and the workings extend
over very large area This mine is practically
worked out, only the pillars remaining. 1t is
connected with the No. pit, but works with q
separate and distinct air shaft As these work
ings are old and contain large quantity of the
refuse of the mine. 1t is feared tn at the FIRE will
assume alarming proportions. The breaking
down OF the ventia:ing fan is very unfortunate.
as 1t hampers operations. 1t is to be hoped that
the efforts made to smother the fire may prove
quickly effective.
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It is recommended that the Republican
County Central committees call primaries lot
election of delegates 10 the several county con.
ventions on Tuesday, September 10, 1890, ana
that Republican County Convent ms De neio
ON Saturday. September 20, for election oil dele
gates hereby apportioned. Pursuant TO the
action Of the last state convention, each county
convention is requested to elect alternafes as
well as delegates so that their representation In
the state convention shall be by uiy elected
delegates or their alternstes only. In case q
delegate and his altern ate are both ABSENT the
delegation be authorized to cast the vote.
1t is recommended that Republican County
Central committees hold Their primaries for
election of delegates to county conventions
under the provisions of the act OF the legisla-
ture approved March q, 1890. and that at the
primaries each pers IN offering to vo te shall II
challenged subscribe an oath that he is quail
fed elector of the precinct in which he offered
to vote and memb, of the Republican party.
By order OF the Republican State Central
Committee.
JOHN F. CONVEY, Chairman.
II. W. FAIRwEATHER, Vice-Chairman.
JNo. D. GEoGHEGAN, Secretary.
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Governor Hill and the Pinkertors.

Governor Hill should be taken sharply to &C.
count for permitting the Pinkerton Hessisns to
ASSUME military powers in Albany. This il q
matter with which state executive is entirely
competent TO deal No private citizen or corpor-
alton has right to bring into a state an armed
body of men and set them mp as preservers of
the peace. These mercenaries are responsible
to nobody, as has been shown on q dozen occas-
ions. Instead OF preserving the peace. the effect
of their presence is usually to precipitate vio-
lence. Their employment in military capac-
ity should be prohibited everywhere, and most
OF all in the great Democratic empire state of
the East, whose chief executive knows the uiffer.
ence between a government by the people and q
government by the money lords.
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The Engineers Hair Remedy.
)M 1T May CONCERy.

TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
IN > 10 certify that have seen and know
the eff, cts of the Engineers Ii ir Remedy"
as a genuine hair ressorer, up0n no less than
fourt Ell different per Gus VINO have us, said
RENE for DEVELOPMENT, growth and sire 18TH
ton tnat the ''KDglh, ers Hair Remedy" de-
velos.s har quickly. evenly AMI naturally. l
have taken the sworn stateue Is OF n , less
tha1 10 irteen peisons IN M Official Capac e.
as notary public 10. the STATE OF Washin ton
al No LIS Pacific avenue, in the eli # a.
coma. al seSera OF above instances the
growing HAIR is no less tt an two inch 6 in
length at this time. he affi.dav ts refer 10
were taken by me during the months OF Nav
ana June, 1890 In each instance the afiallts
testh d to the beneficial effe It's If the rem. dv
the rapidity with when the hair is glowing
and the sirens tn and thickness of toe crop Of
hair. For the entire Information see the Aft.
cavlts IN the circular ubishe }. And each
am mt farther stated that the use aud applica-
tion OF the remedy was erfect.y harm es but
ouly good results foi owed. In mum rous in
stances wherever the persoas using tho
remedy had been absolut ly ali in places and
where the atlantis were under the impression
that tie r iots OF tn hair were either dead or
destrt yed and were despairing OF ever again
Iearanc. aud grew nicely end permanently
From tn evidences res nted to me- can
recommend the "Engneer's Hal medy'' as
per &c ly harness aud most inyalu abe lair
res orer. Persons Cesirous of correspond nv
with me can reach me by Litter at the above
number or visit IN person. Respe ully,-
Tacoma. WASH, Sept. 1890. ''
sold by all drugg sts. Once on Front Street.
between Madison md Marion, No. 9l2 M. IL
MckENEY mi j. 81. TOMLIN sole agents for
Seattle and vicinity.
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Whales in the Gulf of Georgia.
Victoria Cnlouist

''The Oldest inhabitant," so often quoted. can
not remember a time when whales were more
plentiful in the gulft at present The steamer
Rainbow on Saturday sighted eight or ten, all
of them of good size, and the water appears to
be full of the marine monsters Capt. White
laws project for their capture appears justified
by the supply. but he cannot do anything to-
ward the Inauguration Of the whaling industry
until be learns from the department of marine,
to whom his application has been passed. the
customs having no longer any connection
with it.
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road, but for nearly the entire distance il
is skirted by succession of magnificent
waterways, broad. deep, navigable lakes,
unsurpassed either in beauty or in adapt
ability to use by anything on the globe.
And all along these, from end to end, the
earth fairly groans with matchless forests
of fir, spruce, cedar and other valuable
timbers, and the land is laden with excess
siye fairness OF luxuriant heritage, clovers
and richest grasses.
Here and there are q few tracts burthened
with crops of hops, of which twenty acres
will yield more profit than can be made
from the best quarter section of any other
country in wheat; here and there tract
of meadow which has yielded tons upon
tons of nutritious hay to the acre; here
and there q crop of garden stuffs that
would be no discredit to hot-bed; here
and there an orchard with limbs borne to
the ground with their wealth of luscious
fruit
But in this section, so boundlessly
favored in soil, elm ate. scenery, facilities
for transportation and q convenient mar
ket, where there are ten acres yielding as
above described there are thousands of
acres just as good, just as well located. and
in every way just as desirable that are
lying idle, knocking Gods bounty and cast
ing a reproach upon mans comprehension.
Much as has been accomplished in this
section; marvellous as have been the
achievements of our people, there are
within a radius of fifty miles around
Seattle the inviting, alluring possibilities of
accomplishing more by an hundred-fold.
Millions upon millions are annually going
to waste. 1t is about time that our people
were awaking to this fact and taking meas
ures to correct it.
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Hill Booms Always Fizzle.

Away up in the northwest corner OF the coun.
try, at Tacoma, Washington, there is a conven.
ton of Democratic clubs, and some imprudent
person is said to be trying to use the occasion
for launching a Pacific coast Hill boom"
They do not seem to have learned in that re-
mote quarter of the country the fate of such
efforts Hill "booms' have been touched off 80
many times and SO uniformly '.fzz ed OUT that
the diversion seems to have been given up east
OF the Rocky mountains We shall see how 1t
will 'go' on the other side.
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Democrats and the Press.
Foirhovan Herald

The Tacoma Ledger is to pass into the hands
of Democratic syndicate, of which Hon. Ly-
man Elmore of Seattle, and the Wallace BROTH
ers and Mayor Rice OF Tacoma, are leading
members. The consideration is said to be 49,
600. 1t is declared by the Democratic leaders
that this purchase only inaugurates an extern
sive organization throughout all Washington,
which they hope will result in carrying the
state. But they won't
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Yet the Man Was Safe.
Yonkers Gazette.

He'd stolen third, Jim Casey had,
He'd pared his hip extremely bad,
One eye had jiggled out OF place,
The Easements shoes had spiked his face,
And by bunk with shortstop Quinn
His abdomen had been stove in;
And yet, while sureeo bathed his head,
"The man is safe," the umpire said.
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Emperor William in Prussia.

FLENsBURs, Sept. 4.-Emperor William
arrived last night and met an enthusiastic
reception. Today he received large body
of troops. Many foreign princes and officers
were on the parade grounds to receive him.
The review was brilliant
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Call for Republican Convention

general convention of the Republican party
of Washington is hereby called to meet In the
city OF Tacoma, on Thursday, September %,
1890. at O'Clock p. m, for the purpose OF nomi-
mating candidate for me m Der OF congress, ap-
pointing q new state central committee aud for
the TRANSACTION OF such other business as may
be presented.
The basis of representation hereby called is as
follows:
One delegate-at-large for each county, one
delegate for each 100 votes and one delegate for
each fraction thereof in excess OF fifty votes
cast for Hon. John l. Wilson, Republican candi.