The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-24
AsoUr HOP GLOWING.
PuYALLur. May 10. Is

PUXALLuP, May 10. 1894
To TIE Epiros: Tho PuyaIlup Hop
Company raised . crop ef hops Oh 10
acres during the season OF 1898 that sold
for $4,000 lacking some 40 odd dollars.
This whole crop was sold 10 English
consumsfs Of hops. and returns for the
same were received In eoid-ths .hated
British gold" OF this $4,000 only about
81. 500 was sent out Of the country-enough
to Calcutta for the cloth to bale, some to
South Amsrica for the quassia and some
to England for the soda to make the soap
for the emulsion with which to kill the
vermin. The remainder OF this sum
oil accrued to rssidents Of the United
States. and nearly all Of the state Of WASH
ington. Considerable more than half OF
this Was paid out to laborers in small sums
and went immediately into general circu.
lation among the merchants. hotslkespers,
transportation companies, butchers, ETC.,
and others in this state.
This company dos not claim to DO phil.
anthropic in its motives, being s'souIsss
corporation" but IL can truthfuily be said
that its operations are certainly beneficial
to the state at large. II instead Of one or
two such corporations there were Q dozen
producing crops that would bring in
dozen 80, 900 each year from . foreign
land, We would all DO better Of and all
have more money to spend, and there
would be more money in the country to
stay with US permanently.
II 10 seldom have taken notice Of cd
verse criticism or ssurrilous attacka A
case INST at hand may we'll call for break
ing tNsxule. not for defense, but because
thsre IL sreal necessity that there should
be healthy public opinion on the subject.
A man or . newspaper that takes occasion
to try to cause trouble between EMPLOYERS
and employees, or tries to ferment discon.
tent among the employees 10 an enemy of
that class to b shunned.
An ohscure paper recently published,
and other papers have copied, the state
ment that tho Puyallup Hop Company
tMseksrsl xas oppressing the poor man.
paying but IS cents day, In time checks
st that, and that ~ the profits Of the COM
pany had been large tho company was In
ficting . wrong upon laborsrs. The sr-
ticls VAS doubtless inspired by envy or
malice and thoughtisssiy republished, but
the effect Is much the same a. ii hones,iv
published. The facts are, the company
has paid and 10 paying 81 and $i25 . day
on their farms, instead Of IS cents, and is
paying its time checks in cash, and not
store pay. and 30 far all are paid up to
May 1. But enough OF this.
Ask any person Of thrss-scors years II
he does not remember the old timed hard
times OF 1887 $50. aye. until is4S l we'll
remember these genuine Democratic free
trade hard tinss. I well remember that
my father ,rksd IN . mill at Iudiapapo-
lis for three years, eighteen hours . day.
for 70 cents, and boarded himself Gro
ceriss were higher then than nov; cotton
goods we're faii three times the price A
nov.
The children did not wear shoes thos>
days-couldn't AFFORD ie Many men also
went barefoot. are. even 20 church that
way Uncle John tells Of giris going to
church and carrying their shoes in their
hands TO save them" until near the
''house," and than stop aud pat them on
tor appearance sake" Well those vsrs
''hard sirnes." but people didn't sramp or
beg then. bat worked, slept and sss we'll
and we're cheerful
In these times Of unrest - Il not best
that NC shonld pour oil upon the troubled
waters instead Of fomentins disconsentf
Caa any nam defend his action 10 The con.
sraryF The facia In this case we're mir
stated; even IL they had been true IL vers
better 10 know all the conditions. At least
before trying 90 make trouble between h
borsEs and empioyera
ihs iaes - these srsmping, begging.
non-indnstr1Al armies" are the direct -.
ssts % sais dsFnaxogic spsschmakinx sst
Franang. followed ev ni-advised aad III.
arpss~0 genaiHs sympathy for the uafor-
tanase F4<u drawn INTO this yarfsx NJ
tdascsss and iawlsssrsss. SUFFERING ,h.r.