Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-08
Timely Counsel.

Now that it may be accounted a
presumable fact that the capitol bonds
have been disposed OF by absolute sale
and, as logical sequence, that the
State capitol building will be erected
in due process OF time, it is to be hoped
that the property owners and business
men OF Olympia will not place too
much reliance upon this streak of
good luck for the continued prosperity
and ultimate development OF our city.
The presence of several hundred me-
chanics and laborers. with the clatter
and din Of their tools, will, of course,
have an enlivening effect upon bust
ness oi all kinds, bnt only a local ef-
feet, it should be remembered; and
once the stately ediiice is completed,
its presence alone is not going to
transform a modest city into a busy
and crowded metropolis.
Home enterprise and the unfolding
OF domestic resources must still con,
tinue ODE the bone and sinew OF our
prosperity. Nor will the legislative
sessions and visitors from abroad, of
themselves, build up city.
All these, are important factors,
just as the fine residences OF our State
officials will enhance the beauty and
interests of our already lovely city,
but away down below the subsoil,
there must be the bedrock stratum of
home enterprise and individual effort,
or Olympia will only be the nominal
capital Of the State and nothing more.
Her Board of Trade should be Just
as alert as ever in their efforts to ex-
tend the arteries of commerce and to
secure the cooperation of the great
I industries of the day and age in which
we live.
Additional harbor improvements
will do much towards fastening the
good time coming. Let home manu-.
features be fostered and encouraged
by home patronage. Let us all resolve
ourselves into "a committee OF the
whole" as political parlance has it,
and determine that from this time
forward we will be producers as we'll
as consumers.
A city full of consumers and no pro-
ducers is like house divided against
itself; it cannot stand. Under such
circumstances, mortgaged homes and
bankruptcy are the natural and newt
able results. The erection OF q mil.
lion dollar State house is great and
momentous undertaking, but stimuli
taneously with the clatter OF the stone
cutters chisel, should be heard the
| music of hammer and saw in other
parts OF the city. If the erection oil
the capitol edifice has no more than a
legitimate effect upon our city's pros
perity, to leave out OF the question
everything phenomenal. it will only
be matter of course that every build
ing in Olympia will be sought for
by paying tenants within a twelve
month, while additional residences
and business stands will have to be
erected to adequately meet the de-
mand that will ensue.
In view, then, of these things, we
say to all, be on the alert; 60 to work
do something; produce something.
If you have spare dollar, make it re-
produce itself.
1t is, indeed, a good thing for ones
own town to be the fair capital city oil
the State in which he lives. This ad.
vantage is justly measured by the de-
sire oil our rival sister towns to secure
the golden apple several years ago
Then let not the people of Olympia
underraie their good fortune in that
after two doggedly contested elections
the palm was by popular vote awarded
to this city and she was made the
queen regent OF our sovereign com.
monwealth.
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