Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-03

ca0O or the west III Mlunedpolio NANJ
have been very recently opened. For
10. these many years none inner nave
been visible to the naked eye OF the
pilgrim from what the World eVi-
IDENTIFY regards as the "wild ana
woody West.u New York has no
convention hall approaching in magnl-
tude. elegance or acoustic properties
the great Auditorium theatre, and on
the score of "convenience" the great
Knickerbocker city is mot IN lt' IN
comparison with Chicago, or even with
Minneapolis. There are more miles OF
street railway in operation in ST. Paul
and Minneapolis than there are on the
whole of Manhattan island, and there
is more real enterprise, liberality and
public spirit to the square inch IN those
cities than there is in New York to the
square mile. The medicine may be
bitter to take but the millions who
dwell beneath the sway of Tammany
should endeavor to swallow it without
ludicrous manifestations of nausea.
The World also says:
'When the West is spoken of it means
the geographical area between the Allie
ghanies and the Rocky mountains. rms
area conta ms the preponderance of pop
ulation and OF political power. 1t con
trolls the actions Of congress as well as OF
national committees. May it not de-
termine also the decisions OF national
conventions? No one can reach an in
telligent understanding of the national
political situation who does not under
stand the political sentiment OF the
Vest
Now that is all well enough on gen
eral principles and is in the main cor
rect. But if the World man vii
= glance at the office map of the United
: States he will note that there is a very
considerable area west of the Rocky
mountains which he seems to have
overlooked. 1t includes harbors com
: pared with which that of New YORK l
4 a duck pond. 1t includes rivers whicl
are great highways of commerce
J
than the entire Empire state am
If whose scenic attractions rival those
~ the Hudson for beauty and far excel
10 for grandeur. 1t includes great va
10 leys as fertile as was ever the valley
A. the Nile i'm the time of Rameses
IN Pharaoh or Alexander; vast plains
70 productive as the plains of Mesop'
,u tamia when mighty Babylon was u
Nv "glory of kingdoms and the beauty
I'd the Chaldees' excellency"; mines
an gold and silver of greater extent tina
as King Solomon's mines of Ophiri 10
he ests of wonderful value, and lead al
| coal and iron and lime sufficient
he supplv the world for centurie
IL 1t has scores of lakes which are su
he passed for beauty no where IN u
GU land; lofty mountains, covered WI
for the SHOWS Of centuries, compared WI
nd which the highest peaks of the Adiro
on dacks are but mole hills; orchards al
Mt, meadows unequalled for beauty al
eat productiveness anywhere else on t
on American continent; climatic advai
hi ages excelled in no country in t
1n- world, and last, but not least class
asst people who would scorn to fight TO
to patriots bones and then beg elsewh'
ich for means with which to honor
ent place of their interment.
res This region, of such vast extent a
the varied riches and so fair to look up'
yer, is not between the Alleghanies
ave the Rocky Mountains" but it is nc
5 to the less very important part of vt
arsl West" for whose political power
r, 5 chief organ of the most corrupt elem
as in American politics seems to entert
lere such wholesome dread.