Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-11-17

Of hopefulness and daring born OF the
knowledge Of what has been done and
Whist there remains TO do A western town
FIVE wears from It's first survey, less than
that from the clearing OF the primeval
fOIesi. has now the psecoeity OF the nodersl
chlld-no more old-fAshioaei Backward
ness The little cis.. though l-eoYlesi
largely by new England people and the
children OF Mex Englanders who have
made halt Of generation in Michigan,
Ohio and Illinois, is both willing and able
to teach its Eastern grandmother how to
light streets, run csble-cars, put in water
plants and construct systems for sanitary
drainage With them there is no old gas
plant or horse-car line TO be be displaced
ard new system recommends itself not
from which eloquent advertisements may
be deiuced- Coy capital is wooed by
leaflets representing the growing charms
Of the budding metropolis. The new
place accepts with eagerness every ad-
vance in the science Of practical city
building. and before it reaches a popula-
ton of four thousand people has con-
| yeniences unknown in places ten times
that size in the East. We like 10 think
OF Eastern money, brains and energv
working thus under new and especially
favorable conditions in Yankee enterprise,
but, in reality, the credit should go
farther back 1t is the Anglo-Saxon
spirit OF conquest, a spirit which expands
as soon as it is freed from the time-worn
grooves of an ancient order All that it
requires is transplantins, for it has made
quite as shrewd Yankee of the Austral-
ian as Of the 'sDowD-Easter." In the
West if Is finding once more room for
boundless expansion, stimulated by a
new environment and released from the
fast crystalizing forms OF convention
Tire East stands much in the relation to
the West that the Mother Country once
stood to the East, and we see the same
vatism in the old riducled and envied by
the clustering energy OF the new An
example of the superior business vigor OF
the West is shown in the treatment Of
the recent hop pes. in this country.
New Yord state has been raising hops on
large scale for the last forty years. The
industry is less than seven years old in
the new state of Washington; and yet
when the hop louise made its rayages last
year in the two sections, New York at
tackled the pest with hand squirt loaded
with decoction of quassia root, while
Washington, invented, patented and is
now manufacturing wholesale an especial
spraying apparatus which can spray an
acre with the deadly quassia water while
the New York farmer is getting the wind
out Of his hand squirt. The Western
manufacturer has now offered to insure
the New York crop at so much per acre,
insuring himself against loss by sending
East patented sprayer- Parallel with
this are the great steam sewers, threshers
and binders none invented east of
Illinois.
With all these advances the workman
OF yesterday has become the capitalist Of
today, and the workman Of today looks
with exulting eyes toward tomorrow's
sunrise. Another effect of the rapidly
shifting conditions is that in new town.
as in the Eternal City, there are no
social distinctions Close and attentive
study reveals but two lines drawn through
the social body; the Chinaman falls be-
low the first parallel and the railroad
magnate scars above the second; all
other men, whether lawyers, preachers or
fish mongers, stand together upon an
equal footing. A few months ago Henry
| Willard, OF railroad fame, made an unex-
pected visit to one OF the new Washing
ton "cities." The citizens of the place
were suddenly startled by the simulta-
neous shrieks Of ting boat, steamer and
mill whistles, to which was instantly
joined the claInor OF church bells and fire
alarms; the roar grew and multiplied,
every instrument OF torture in the town
adding its voice TO the wild charivari.
The whole population turned out in hot
haste, and led by the mayor, with corps
of aldermen, they poured down 10 the
boat landing; after them came the
women and children, distanced but hope
full Willard left his boat in the hubbub,
for the hand that pressed the steam
whistle was never lifted, and walked up
the main street Of the city, while at his
heels streamed the crowd Children
rushed on ahead in the center of the
street, tripping over the barking ours, to
catch glimpse Of the man who was king
real estate men painted beside the quiet
inscrutable holder OF the threads OF
destiny talk was rendered impossible by
the continued tumult OF the artillery OF
Joy. In FIVE minutes Willard was back
in his boat, his reception was impromptu
but he could not have felt it cold. The
realization is complete of what the rail-
road has done, and this, joined to a
''lively sense of favors to come" at once
lifts the railroad magnate into an unique
position, so that today and in the very
stronghold of Democracy, as in the dark
ages, unto power is homage. So through
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