The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-13
THE STATE PRESS.

In urging Spokane Falls a. proper place for
says: 1.-THE most successful and popular schools
in the world are located in or near large cities.
$50 school located in city draws many
pupas from it, immediate neighborhooi. and
attracts to its lecture platforms and its labora-
tories men OF the rarest attachments and ma
sional reputation who coald never be persuaded
to bury themselves in q country town. Educat-
ed men don't like to live forty mi es from bath
tubs. theaters and lemons Urban life has
charms that must not be left out of considers
ton in this matter. To know weIl q modern
city Is in itself liberal education. Spokane IL
pretty nice little city already. 1t IL going to
be great CRY, q clean city, a healthful city. .
rich city. devoted to the arts, to the sciences
and to literature. Where in Washington is there
. better site for . great university?"
Ellensburgh Capital: "The people Of wash
ington should begin TO realize the importance of
display at the Worlds fair at Chicago in 1898
that win do her credit California commenced
work two months ago, and by her enterprise has
attracted the attention of the entire country to
her wonderful resources. Washington can and
should do the same. No state has such varied
resources as ours. but the collecting and arrang-
ing Of them Is q task which requires time and
care. We want splendid representation there
or we want none, and the rk. to be thor
oushly done. should be commenced now"
Spokane Falls Recfew: THE idea of gold leav-
ing the United States 10 absurd on its face. Gold
doesn't drain out OF country whose bonds are
above par and whose promise is worth as much
Is gold coin. Nor Is gold likely to how from .
f1,fb sr,i xz haiti
the wond of the world. At Buenos Ayres gold
IL at premium of 200 per cent. That is not sur
prising, because the financial credit of the coun-
try is poor. So long as the United states has
$loo, 900 in her treasury there win be no dan
ger OF all the gold rolling out OF the county,
not the least"
Port Townsend Leader: There is growing
feeling among those prominently connected
with the different government departments that
a new cabinet depar ment is even now a neces-
sity. 1t 10 iully realized that certain important
classes of government works are suffering be-
cause assigned TO departments that have no
practical Jurisdiction over them"
Spokane Falls Reuiew: sMsjor Powell ought
to be compelle !. by way of penance, TO stand
out in some OF the drsnching rains that are fall
ing every day in his arid belt. He ought to be
compel ed 10 live in house with . leaky roof,
somewhtf in the Palouse or the Big Bend.
Then his1deas about arid lands would undergo
sharp change"
Kelso Courier: "Now comes the pretty girl, in
comfortable summer cos ume, under the white
lace sunshsde. Whatever may happen later,
the young man who is permitted to sit on the
ienc. and see her pass by isn't likely the mo-
ment to regard life as an al solute failure"
The Kalama Bulletin proposes to organize .
company to exp ore the country surrounding
the headwaters of the Kalams river. The ex.
pediuon viii start from Kalama about Au-
gust 1st."
The Yakima Re pabIsc believes sthat . very
great majority of the people is of opinion that
the capital should ultimately aud finally be
placed in or near the ceuter of the tate"