The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-16

ing the Republicans that the outlook for
Republican SUCCESS was good throughout
the country. He feels confident OF being
reelected in November.
sQUIRE's SPOKANE SPEECH.
Addrsss Made ON Seattle Day at the In
dustriAl Expedition.
spokane Falls Beview.
President Clark then introduced Senator
Watson G. Squire. who said:
~. Pyesidens and Lddiss ana Gentlemen.
This exposition Is great object lesson.
ering together the products Of our ereat
state and presenting them in this splendid
manner to the public are worthy of the
highest commendati0n. Those who have
perfected and carried out the plans. and
those who have borne the burdens and
m N 20 les the courage and devoted their
and for the artistical display of all these
evidences Of our material resources, are
worthy OF our highest praise. Those coun-
tries on the north, on the west and on the
south, and our neighboring state of
Idaho on the east, which have
S feIas tSs, the products Of their
and their forests. have manifested gener.
Gus liberality which merits our admiration.
Especially would commend the noble and
cordial spirit in which you receive these
DELEGATIONS from visiting cities. Day before
yesterday you welcomed those enterprising
men who came from the beautiful and pros.
porous City of Destiny, Tacoma TODAY YOU
welcome throng of visitors from that
thriving citv, Seattle, which has beer
styled the Queen City of the Sound" It is
not for me to draw inyidious comparisons
between the merits of these cities. / would
say to you that they both illustrate in their
! cOmlnO hero tho fooliy x6ox L..
Tor you BY all the people residing on Puget
sound and in Western Washington.
Fellow Citizens: We are living in the
midst OF mighty and rapid changes in our
beloved state. decade ago who could
have predicted the immense and wonder
Iul results which have been effected? And
what prophet of today can horoscope the
glorious future OF the coming decade? In
1880 the population of our state was about
ao,0OO. now, by the census returns which
have been recently rendered to me from
the bureau in Washington, our population
amounts to $4,000, an increase of 363.2S
per cent. throughout our state. At the
same ratio OF increase during the next de-
cade We shall have population of !, 264 600.
his increase is shown to be more rapid
than that of the decade between 1870 and
1880. because the increase during that per-
iod was only 2l3.57 per cent, therefore. in
view OF our recent arrival at the condi-
ton of statehood, and in view of the
multiplying OF lines of railway trans
p0rtation and cheaper facilities for
traffic. we may expect q still larger
ratio OF increase of population during
the next ten years than we have had dur
ing the last ten years; SO that il is not inn
probable that in 1900 our state will show 4
population of 100000 Of inhapitants.
Truly, we have noble heritage. BY pa
thence, by industry and by enterprise such
as you have shown here today, we shall
prove ourselves worthy OF our grand in.
nerltance. still remember first passing
through Spokane Falls. in September. 1888.
immediately after the completion OF the
Northern Pacific railway to its connection
with the Pacific coast: remember visiting
you again in 1884. and in 1885 had the
honor to participate in the public anniver-
sary exercises Of Spokane Falls college.
comparatively small town. On the occa-
sion OF one of my visits / met some OF
your sturdy pioneers, such as Mr.. al. M.
Cannon, Mr.. J. N. Glover and Mr.. ]. ].
Browne, and learned of your prospects es-
pecially as connected with the de-
water power, which / believed and
believe now must necessarily make you
one OF the mightiest cities Of our state.
Your resources are unequaled by the re-
sources OF any inland town within nv
knowledge. You have the mighty granar-
les OF the Palouse country on the south,
and OF the Big Bend country on the
west, and the great silver mines of Cmur
d'Alene on the east, and the mighty re-
sources of the still undeveloped Coiyille
and Okanogan mining country on the
north. What have you accomplished in
this brief time? You have established here
city OF 5000 inhabitants, having an as
great railways leading to your doors, max
ing you great railway center and place
OF extensive commercial exchanges. You
have established four lines of first-class
street cars. comprising about twenty-three
miles OF track; you have factories employ
operations since the first day of January
amount to $13,000,C00; the buildings you
have erected since the first day OF January.
1880. have cost $1,000. COO, and you have
erected many more since the great FIRE
OF August, 1885, you have Touring mills
y. wn n are snlpplng their Hour to Liverpool.
TO China and Japan; You have iron works,
lumber mills, silver sm1lter, factories of
sash, doors and blinds broom factories. soau
works, pQtteryworks and various other kinds
OF industries; you have eight public schools,
four colleges and seminaries. four daily
newspapers, ten banking institutions, and
a water power that Is estimated 70 be equal
to 10000 horse power; you have superb
business structures. a magnificent opera
house and palatial residences. Surely with
such development it is easy and natural
to predict that you will have population
OF 100000 within ten years-yes, posi-.
bly, within five years of this Day While
ali the Puget sound country aud West.
ern Washington, in fact the people
OF the whole state of Washington admire
and stand In amazement at all this
there Is one thing, one of your charac.
terlstics that we admire more than your
material prosperity; it is your stanch. en-.
terprising courage and grit. When your
city was burned you sprang with alacriry
TO its rebuilding, and sit rose like an ex.
halation." We sympathize with you, be-
cause we also had to suffer similar sacri.
fee, but though individuals lost, it is be-
y0nd doubt that each of our burned
cities gained materially by its great fire.
1t is the genius of our country that though
individuals may perish and private for.
tunes may vanish, yet our institutions will
i've and flourish. You have our sym.
pathies, and in you We take genuine
pride. 1t seems to me that we are init.
political sense of our mutual relation tc
our common statehood, and not only BY
those bands OF steel over which treads the
mighty locomotive bearing your commerce
to the sea and ours to the interior, but
that there is a connection more delicate
subtle and powerful in our sympathies
and our affections toward each other. MOI
only have We this iron pathway, but there
has been woven back and forth between
the hearts OF our people these fine fila,
ments Of truth and confidence, those invis.
ible gossamer threads of gold that form
perpetual though unseen highway over
which our admiration, our sympathies
our interests and our pride concernina
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