The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-26
WHY LABORING MEN AND ME-
CHANICS SHOULD VOTE THE
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

SEATTLE, SepI H.
To THE EDITOR: Do laboring men wish to see
the Lake Washington canal built7 Ny answer
10 yea. And why shouldn't theyf By the en-
gineers' report to the secretary Of war upon the
Lake Washington canal they estimates the cost
at q, 10000.
Let rs look at the report and see who would
receive this amount OF money provided the i'm
provement 10 made. We find the engineers
have estimated for excavating via Shilshole bay
route $l,356.O0O, Smiths cove route, $l,7sa.0oO.
Doesn't this mean employment for large force
OF iaborers! There is surety that the common
iaoorer will be benefited by the employment OF
this labor
Let US see how about mechanics We find for
locks nearly $780, 600 of cut stone granite, which
means employment for the stonecutter The
mason Is not left out, for he has nearly SOIL 900
worth OF concrete to put in, to say nothing of
other masonry.
Then there 10 iron, steel, nails, spikes, ma
cninery, lumber, electric Light apparatus.
which means something for sawhillmen, foun-
drymen, hardware merchants. etc, which di-
rectly or indirectly represent employment for
labor by creating market for material, at the
same time developing our Quarries to furnish
stone, OF which there are unlimited quantities
az good a. 10 found in any state in the Union.
What ouE state wants il the development Of her
resources. Here il an opportunity. Will the
state OF Washington 60 against itself? Our con-
gressional delegation from the state of Wash
ington are benefactors to their constituency
when they increasingly advocate the building
by the government of such improvements.
Are laboring men mechanics and business
men of this state going to te blinded to their
own welfare In the coming election?
The welfare OF the laborer or mechanic OF
Seattle concerns the laborer or mechanic Of
Spokane. Tacoma, Walla Walla, Whatcom or
any other city or township Of the state. We
know no county lines in one another's welfare.
Ask the stone cutter or labofer or stone mason
OF Tacoma or any other city of the state or
nation for that matter, IL the building of the
Lake Warrington canal will be any detriment
him. He will tell you no; 1t will be . benefit to
him. The construction will afford employment
to his fellow workmen and the commercial bene-
fits will be no equal facilities afforded to shipping
by any harbor ON the globe, which fact will be an
everlasting benefit to the whole state.
Where does the opposition to this I'm
provement come from? Whom does 1t come
from? Do the laboring men of Spokane, Taco
ma, or any other city, oppose it? No
Why should they? We will suppose that
the Republican or Democratic state convention
had been chiefly composed of laboring men
have no hesitancy in saying that the indorse-
ment OF . canal plank would have been unan-
imous. Instead the opposition comes from q
few sors-headed, disgruntied politicians. coupled
with Jealous rivalry Of Tacoma
Isay let the sore heads kicks and 70 down in
fgnominOus defeat, and / call upon every labor
ing man to seriously mediate the admonition
this may afford him, whether he will be for
himself and fellow craftsman or against by fix
Ing his on election day opposite candidateS
names who are pledged to do all in their power
to start this great improvement by the national
government FRED J. WARk