Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-06-12
Assets and Liabilities.

ing in its revenue from the exports OF
Its products aud manufactures, and he
declared, furthermore, that its net in
come could be quadrupled within the
space OF year, if farmers, produce
dealers and business men would prop.
erlv bestir themselves each in his re-
spective calling. He attributed our
local business depression as much to
! the chronic inactivity Of the people as
to the so-called finan cial difficulties of
the country at large. Now we believe
little reflection will show that his
point was we'll taken. In the earlier
days, logging and numbering were
more the peoples industries than they
are now, for the reason that those
pursuits have come to be monopolized
by firms and mill corporations which
have unlimited means at their dis
posal. But there are plenty of indus
tries that cannot be so monopolized,
and these must remain the chief de-
pendence and mainstay of our people.
Fruit-raising, hay-production and
the dairy business are among those
industries. These pursuits have, in
all past time, been relegated to the
people OF the rural districts, and as
individual pursuits they will so re-
main. The larger fruits, as grown in
Thurston county, its hay and dairy
products, can never become drug on
the market. A gentleman Of large
experience as a dealer and shipper
when asked his opinion whether
prune culture could ever be over
done, as had been the case with hops,
answered, d" No sir, never" And then
he went on to show that there were
but few districts in the United States
where good article of prunes could
be successfully and profitably raised.
They constitute an article OF food of
universal consumption, and for every
pound produced there are thousands
of consumers in every large town and
city the world over. But with hops,
on the contrary, q good year would
suffice to fill the markets of this
country and Europe to overlooking.
What has been said of prunes, would
apply with equal force to the larger
fruits ss grown with such phenomenal
success in Thurston county.
Besides this, no country in the
world has better facilities for the
manufacture of butter and cheese
than the upper Sound districts. All
farmers may not be in position to
make good marketable cheese, in
large quantities. This is a business
perhaps better adapted to firms and
manufacturing plants, but with butter
the case is wholly different. Any
farmer with half a dozen COWS can
find lucrative employment in but
ter-making, and so long as he turns
out tirst-class article he can always
secure the highest market price in
cash for his golden product.
But this is prolific topic and we
must defer its full discussion to
another time. In the meanwhile, let
the producers of Thurston county re-
member that banks are not the only
institutions that have assets and
liabilities. The natural and acquired
resources of any country are its safest
assets, while the inactivity, waste and
extravaganza OF its people are its soul
destroying liabilities.
The Ore9onia,: is still driving peo-
pie out OF the Republican party" as
the Olympian would say. 1t makes
the following spicy allusion to Ellis,
who has managed to "pun through"
with fair majority of several hun
dreds, instead of barely g., that scored
by the Oregonian's gold-bug candidate,
Tongue:
CELLS also is elected. He passes as q
Republican, and the announcement Of
his election will do for consumption in
Republican circles in the Eastern States.
He is, in fact, nearer Populist than a
Republican, but he knows nothing, has
little force of character, and may fulfill
the promises Of his special friends by
changing his position to suit the St.
Louis platform. Mr.. Ellis is good
looking man, weighing 2l0 pounds. He
never has opened his lips to say anything
more profound than on an occasion when
apple dumpings were brought before
him, whereupon he reused himself to
remark: Them's the jockeys for my
money!"
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