Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-02


nesota and the inbabitant of India; they o
must meet together in the markets OF the ,
world and contend with each other, and
their products are sold at whatever pr ce
the demand from the people OF the worlu {
will Offer and no more. want 10 I
tell YOU that this enormous new force that {
is leveling the world and bringing IL TO
rether is one that must be handled WIN (
Judgment. The result of the past hve
wears. when closely examined, VIII not
fail to show the thoughtful inquirer
that the strong are growing stronger and
the weak are growing weaker, and that
the ultimate market, the ultimate destin-
alton is the controlling point You turn
ish from our state and the country sur
rounding these cities, furnishes little OF
what constitutes the worlds wealth, be-
vond your agriculture. To enable the
farmer to successfully cultivate the field
he must be able to lay that wheat or the
-four down in the ultimate market at
price that will compete with any other
source from which the market may be
snnnlied any other source in the world;
and remember that his force Is not con-
fined to this country nor is 1t confined 10
the land. but to land and sea all over the
world. You want and get barrel OF
hour carried from Minneapolis to New
York for 40 or 50 cents. How much does
IL cost to haul barrel of -four from the
station where it is delivered In New YORK.
: Philadelphia or Boston, to the bakery
shop where it is baked. About what II
costs to take it from here TO New YORK
You want to be whirled through the air
: at the rate OF forty or fifty miles an hour'
! you want all the appliances and devices
:, that the ingenuity of man can devise 10
Z protect your safety, and you want all that
y for about 40 per cent. less than one-hali'
q of whatever 1t is furnished for anywhere
else in the world. Now, you can get IT,
and it can be furnished, and 1t Is DeihR
furnished; transportation is being Iurh-
ished in America, transportation by lanu
mr. at about 40 per cent Of the prices prevail
D; ing in Europe. But, on the other hand
there is nothing-labor sup9rvision-
q nothing that enters into the cost OF Iurh
.shing this transportation but what J
he paid for at higher price
az America than it is in any other part 0
ed the world. and in that and In handlln
that comes the point that makes and uh
IN makes cities. Anything that woulu ue
~ strov the harbor Of a city would De
matter of the greatest public conceri
led ANYTHING that would take off or add
iS' the depth of the water in the channel OF
IAN naviaable river would be a matter OF u
pravest concern to all the people on
,,e banks. Your great hGrboT, your hdTOo
that are great bCyo1Id measure are Vo'
UT terminals, and the cities that hdDe amp
terDqt ais loiu retain their business on
J. The cities that haze not lUill fail to retd
at their business. There is not large cl
ne I'm America today that is not suherli
ata- from that one source more than us peol
-, know. After the war Baltimore hao II
- its valuable Southern trade; II hao lac.
per ties; the Southewas willing to trace WI
rop- Baltimore, but they had nothing TO trao
his Baltimore had room and could furnish
ON and she could furnish ocean faciiltles
ago. less than any of the other cities on
tiles Atlantic, and establish charge OF TN
the cents a hundred as against New foi
,,rn. today that dlfferential is almost enou
a.. To defeat New York Baltimore, II
vi" were not for New York's f1anc
= vi strength. would take the export OF gr
Iress from New York 1t costs sl2 car
your terminal charges alone, and arbitrary
are the city of New York; that one item d
rmi- more to prevent the growth of the
Fair than anything else, and it VIII, un
a the checked, not only prevent its growth
same absolutely destroy her commercial
,toro premacy as an exporting city
- Depend upon it that the growth 9
city depends upon the country that
hens ports it,: nothing else on the face OF
rlght earth will build up an American
,oun- You may have center Of learning;
that have one near Boston, an admirable pi
nee but IL is not one that any or many OF
that neople this side Of 40 or so years OF
u;no- wonld move to. II you are to hay
oo.oe, proud. confident, onward moving
80 depend upon it that you must look c
: a. fully to what is going to build you
u .no You must make it your business
'l1hlh that you have your harbor on lano Q
4 sails free to the full extent that 1t may
ners." enable you to maintain your position
e cold Hon. Albert Shelter, of st. Pau
e tim speech at the same banquet, gu
r acre, Mr.. Hill as telling him personally
than he sis reaching out for fokah
ere for with splendid line of steam
avs to Think of the immense property
here is ests of the Great Northern and
u can president here; of its valuable tern
ty but facilities; of it's miles of water
hat he of the fact that the originator
builder of this great system of
! on the portation regards Bellingham b
e heard H. 6,aot barhor ON the Pacific