, 1892-09-17
STATE POLITIAL POINTERS.

Let Seattle take the $4,000 900 worth OF
tide lands given her by the state and dig
the canal herself, instead of greedily de-
manding larger appropriations than she is
willing to accord to all the rest of the state
combined Spokane Review.
1t is no wonder the democrats resolved
in their state platform to remedy our pres
/ ent revenue law, when the expense of col
lecting delinquent taxes is considered.
! The present law is a howling robbery and
farce in many respects Washington In
dependent.
Seattle did not force the canal into poll
tics. Her enemies put her on the defen-
slve, and to save her, honor and those of
her friends she forced the "big ditch" for
| what there was in it. and won. The en-
dorsement by the convention does not in
| dlcate that the government will ever ap-
| prOpriate dollar towards its construction.
| We hardly think that it will ever again be
asked, because Seattle will assert her inde-
pendence and build it herself.-Ooulee
City News.
| The dragging of the canal into politics
has killed for years any chance of govern
ment aid to the enterprise. Every man of
ordinary sense in the state knows this if,
after several years, such aid could be Sc
cured, it would be other years before the
work would be seriously under way. Con-
gress would dole out money by dribbles
| CfSAy bWO years. anu Juhb Cdldl WOulQ QOb
be finished ten years from now. That
might suit few land spectators, but it
would not suit the people. They want the
canal now.-Seattle Telegraph.
The organ attempts to roast the Seattle
bosses for forcing a canal plank in the re-
publican platform, but it is painfully si-
lent about the Tacoma bosses who forced
an anti-canal plank in the democratic plat
form. The great and only Mast would call
tins a 90 of 10 do Ia
de-dum. The great mass of the people in
Western Washington believe that that the
canal has no place in politics, but the anti
canal plank of the democrats is meeting
with much more opposition than the canal
plank of the republicans, as it has its origin
III the selhshness of Tacoma bosses, who
are opposed to the plan because it might
benefit a rival city.-Skagit News.
When Seattle was an Indian hamlet, a
| frontier commercial nonentity, in 1858,
! General Mcclellan personally surveyed the
waterways between Lakes Washington and
Union and Salmon bay, and submitted
plans and estimates to the war department
recommending that congress be urged to
make these inland seas naval resort. To
/ begin with, then, it is manifest the ship
canal is no local job, and never was the in
vention Of political clique. Time and
again the government since has had sur
| veys Of these waterways. ~ Davenport
| Times.
Portland is anxious to retain her COM
mercial supremacy in the Northwest, and
views with fear the strides made by her
rivals, Seattle and Tacoma, in securing the
| trade of the interior of this state. At pres
ent she is engaged III an effort to play one
of these rivals against the other-all for the
| final aggrandisement of the fresh-Water-
! seaport-up-a-creek. She opposes the Lake
| Washington canal because she sees that its
completion will be a giant stride toward
emancipation from her policy OF repres-
sion of the inland empire.-U UniOn-J ournal,
Walla Walla.
| IL Seattle's old fossil millionaires want
that canal dug to add few more millions
/ toGhe capital stock, let them 20 in and dig
1t. If congress has any money to apprO-
| pirate for waterways, a hole can be found
at the Cascade locks to drop 1t into. Let
| cOngres complete the locks and let Seattle
dig her own bitches if she wants them
| Klickitat Leader.
John L. Wilson and W. H. Doolittle Will
make strong team in the house of con.
| gress. Mr.. Wilson s activity and faithful
ness have placed him in the first rank OF
useful members. He deserves a rousing
majority. Mr.. DOolittle resides west of the
Cascades and will be more a representa-.
| tive of westside interests. But he will be
Washington representative, neverthe.
! less. He has vim and ability, combined
with honest purpose. The republicans OF
! Whitman county ought to see to it that he
goes ahead of his ticket The interests OF
the whole state and nation are at stake
when congressman are voted upOn.-Pa-
louise Gazette.