The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-02
TO SEE THE NEW LINE,
Representative Of Scotch Inter
est in Great Northern.
PRAISES THE ROAD AND STATE.
Good Country to Emigrate to-why the
Crofters Are Leaving Home-The
Home Rule Fight.

"hhiau Jonu menZies. OF EQlnourgh,
Scotland. his two sons, DIR. James Menzies
and Frederick Menzies, and his daughter,
Miss Menzies. arrived in the city yester-
day in special Great Northern car and
remained here over night. Mr.. Menzes is
the representative of the Scotch stock
holders in the Great Northern railroad,
and. as he expressed it, came to see what
was being done with their money. The
party has come over the new line as far as
Spokane. and thence to this city over the
Northern Pacific. In an interview Mr..
Menzies said:
was perfectly amazed to see such a road built
IN SO short time. The whole road is ballasted
with gravel so that there will be no dust to an.
noy passengers, the grades are light 90 that
trains can run at high speed and the cuts are all
IN either rock or gravel. SO that there is little
DANGER OF slides blocking the track. Think the
treat Northern Is pursuing q liberal policy
bringing people out here and sending your
products to Eastern markets, for it will benefit
the country. while the Great Northern will also
derive benefit Besides the benefit to the Coast,
the road will open large country to settlement
which has not been settled on account OF the
distance from any railway.
Inc amount OF British capital coming to this
country continues TO grow, and there 10 great
olMcuity In finding investments in Great Brit
AIN. Our people have sent some money to
Australia but have not been entirely success
ful; but the United States, being twenty-eight
times the area of Great Britain, forms a field for
the prontabie employment OF capital which is
nKeiy to continue for acme time to come. AS
long as the United States allows British money
10 come here 1t will have free trade in capital,
put when you grow rich enough to supply all
the capital that is needed for yourselves your
government will cease to encourage it. Only
lew Americans are buying estates in England
anu scotland, because nothing gives a man i'm
portancs ike being q landed proprietor in a
fashionable locality.
This il my eighteenth visit to the United
states and my fourth to the Coast was veIy
much astonished at the progress of Seattle i
saw II year before 1t was burned and could not
nave believed impossible that so large and we IL
established city could have been built up
Since From what have seen of Washirg ton
now and on this visit, it is equal to any state
ana 10 good country for the Inhabitants of the
british Isles to emigrate to. The people are
neaitny and have good color, and the appear
ance OF prosperity about Washington aud the
towns we came through is remarkable. con-
sidering the short time since they were estab-
lished.
I think Mr. Gladstones government is not
likely to last year. He cannot frame q home
rule measure which will satisfy both his English
and Irish supporters: what satisfies the English
ana scotch will not be enough for the Irish, and
what satisfies the Irish will go too far to
the English and Scotch. The Radicals of En-
gland and Scotland will not agree to let home
rule block other measures. Nearly all the Irish
members are poor, and have depended on the
parliamentary fund, from which they have re-
ceIved salary of $500 year, but this means OF
support Is stopped, and DO not see how they
can stay at Westminster unless Gladstone and
his friends help them. Gladstone's majority is
only forty, and without the eighty Irish home
rulers he would be in a minority of forty. 1
think the English and Scotch radicals
will support the home rule measure to
the second reading, but will not allow
the whole time Of parliament to
De frittered away to overcome SUCH opposition
as they will meet and would rather give up
home rule altogether than see everything sacri-
feed to 1t. That would bring a crisis If it does
not come sooner, for Gladstone's supporters
may not all support the bill at the second read
ing. If he did not carry 1t he would appeal to
the country aud think it highly probable he
would be defeated. He owes his majority to
the counties changing to him. The ag.icul-
tural who were enfranchised in 1885 naturally
voted for him in that year, because they were
promised three acres and a COW and some of
them even came to the polls with a halter
to take away the COW. Being disappointed, they
voted the other way in 1856 and Gladstone was
turned out of Office. In 1892, not getting as
much as they expected from Lord Salisbury.
they voted against him, and now, If they do not
get what they expect from Gladstone, they will
vote against him. 1t is unfortunate that we
should be at the mercy of this class.
ain Unionist think 1t would be as great
q misfortune If Ireland were made a separate
kingdom as it would have been TO this country
if the South had succeeded in the rebellion and
become independent. Ireland win not be salts
fed with a separate parliament; nothing viii
satisfy her but to maintain q separate army.
harbor the ships Of the enemies of Great Brit
ain and become in time independent.
think it would be q great blessing to tho
croiters if they could all be brought to British
Columbia or Washington. visited some of
them III the Northwest territory a few years ago
aud found that they had built huts on the model
Of these they had left a. home, only instead of
building the walls OF stone they had built them
of sod from the prairie. The only thing that
told you they were not on the Long Island OF
tho Hebrides was the smokestacks stick
ing from the roofs. At homo they have
no chimney, the idea being TO
catch the SCOT inside the thatch, remove it
in the spriug and put 1t in the ground az ma
nure. Nothing is more remarkable than to see
men accustomed to pillow a few acres full OF
stones blowing 'orty-acre field in which not
stone can be seen. None of those visited ex-
pressed a desire to go back. but all thought it
would be great blessing II thu friends they left
at home could be induced to come out But the
love of Highlander for his home il
so great that he prefers to live there
and starve rather than be transferred to
gentler climate and more generous
soil The necessity arises from the fact
that the islands are overpopulated. In some OF
them the poor rates amount to al much as
shillings in the pound. while the school tax in
some cases amounts TO 2 and shilling in the
pound. All the children are now being taught
English and when another generation grows up
which can speak English. 1t is not likely that
they will remain and starve at home when they
can live comfortably elsewhere The High
landers make excellent settlers because they
have heen accustomed to live at homo on next
to nothing and they can contrive to got along
on less than will satisfy other people until they
see some return for their labor.
Mr.. Menzies and his family go to Port
land today and will go from there to San
Francisco. They will spend some time in
California before returning to Scotland.