The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-06

lie AGRICULTURAL department ~ fishes
sesrefalsy prepared estimate 81 the sisn-
Ter in the Pacific Northwest. I: appears
by this that there ara y 80 90 acres OF
timber lands. averaging $4,000 tee, board
measure 10 the acre: making an allowance
OF " per cent. for bad Land. il shows an
available aggregate o. 4Osa GO on os
feet- The sfCmpage Is worth nog from
IS cents TO $50 q thousand. while the
freight from Puget sound 10 Sew York or
Liverpool IS from $40 10 So thousand.
Shorten the voyage ns sail aroand The
Horn of 80 DAYS 20 fifty dAys through the
canal. the freight from $i2 to 81 or by
steamer through the straits of Magellan
from Fifty days 20 twenty, and the fresg ht
from 81 10 $40; give one-half Of the saving
20 the standing timber. ant the value
added to II woaid be Sssso 90 ossl-six times
as much as the entire COS; Of the canal
In lsai the Pacific coast shipped 10
Elrope and the Atlantic ports l. Sso 600
tons Of wheat and -four. This canal would
allow reduction IN freight charges OF 81
ton. saving TO the wheat growers or ship
rers s. COO 600 on the crop Of the wear.
Not, perhaps. TO the same extent. bur
largely, the same would he true as 10 ali
the other products of the country, while
ali Of the imports from the Atlantic ports
would bear Ike reductions OF fresghts
Think of IL momentr'
Congress has also had placed before IL
the testimony OF the president of the
Chamber of Commerce Of San Francisco.
that the failure to have such competition
with the tran.eontinental lines OF railway
as would be furnished by the Nicaragua
canal is fairly estimated to cost the Pacific
coast far up i'll the tens Of millions Of dol
lars annually.
No poG-Iy-rHE-MsSeER POLICY.
The gentlemen comprising the commit
tee on interstate and foreign commerce
are: Georgs d. Wise of Virginia. Andrew
Price of Louisiana, George II. Brickner
of Wisconsin. Thomas ] Geary Of Cali
fornia. George ". Houk Of Ohio, stephen
r. Mallory of Florida. Josiah Patterson of
Tennessee. Asher g. Caruth of Kentucky,
Allan C. Durberow. jr., OF Illinois. VIII
liam III. Brawley OF South Carolina.
Franklin Bartlett of New York, Charles
ONeiil of Pennsylvania. Charles 5. Ram
dali OF Massachusetts. BeIiamy Slower of
Ohio. James j. Belden of New York, VIII
liam +. Hepburn OF Iowa, and Loren
Fletcher OF Minnesota. 1t is significant
that these men. representing nearly every
section of the United States. should unite.
not only in making favorable report. but
In setting forth Herewith in the strongest
possible language an earnest admonition
TO congress to no longer delay in taking
action upon a matter of so great import
ance to the nation. 1t is believed that in
this tie Democratic majority Of the COM
mittee have the sanction of the president
himself, and that, as the reciprocity
scheme of Mr.. Blaine was relied on to
benefit manufacturers and consumers
alike, so the present administration hopes
to realize from the construction of the
Nicaragua canal new markets for goods of
American manufacture which will provide
new impetus and give employment to
every factory hand and laborer. This
kind of talk, found in the report, sounds
as if it had good backing:
Certainly when such benefits as are
derivable from the Nicaragua canal are
In sight il should not take long for an
American congress TO determine either
that the canal, by wise and benefcent gov
ernmental aid within the limits of our
constitutional powers and treaty rights.
shall be built. or that the United States.
ceasing to now blow hot and then blow
cold. shall get out of the way OF the con-
struction of the canal by private enter
prise that will build it, if it have only a
fair field and none of that interference
which smacks too much of the dog-in-the-
manger policy, which is un-American in
every element and form of it.
at is true that, buit by private enter
prise alone, il will inevitably cost so much
more than it would under government
auspices that q portion of its benefits to Us
and to all mankind would be denied TO as
and to them. But the remainder of those
benefits would be enormous and inappre-
ciable.p
THE COST OF THE CANAL.
In conclusion the report says:
at is true that the difficulties In the
way of its construction in either form are
great and involve the expenditure of a
large sum, reaching 1890 900 under the
condition of governmental supervision
and governmental Endorsement of bonds
and, certainly. 500 0o0,0 600 ii built by pri-