The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-24

.aAns no effort 20 secure -, s.st, -
you hear sensible rr@~rhzrs -
asAs been competitors ssrnm ~ 49,.
e. aafsef capital and Others greater s.
49,, stA Gown IN chair ard ssv.W II.
L. sot 70 come 20 ne anvhou
seattle now has the Aizsks t-,S. II
.as sSe secured - BY coune.ssse,, "a -
sae nsost vigorous and strenuous 49,.
80 80 rfaneisco, Portland and ygcfa-ss 49,.
FAC control ~ this business re-. L.,s :.
.1t teat cure they would retain II 49, -
,,nsy sat down and iet IL slide awav ~ 80
a1se tesy thought Z had 10 eo,oa, -
saa Francisco. Portland ann ys~-
.sa.s - awake today. Do you suppose
.ney are sitting down saving shs, 80
trace has got 70 come 70 them or ia, 49,.
vii Rave more than tney can so7
~ you want state nsnss conar-aso-v -,
,8e activity u other cities you can resssli,,
get them. ! think W. al kno- -. -
coma is doing. She has a cr,rnrsfssas. :.
iesaing business men. with annie r-sa--
VINO are covering the Fass With eard.
a1-aps. Newspaper articles and savs~rssa.
ioieers, circulars and other means
OF advertising. some OF then T -,ev -,
miidly. not altogether truthful ~ s~es,v..S
Sah franciscO has the machinery ~ -
soaihsrn Pacific and her Chamber ~ Cor
mere. portland is a. work scsfyslv vvati.
a. the noFin we have the gigantic lnfo-
ence q the Canadian government. sna a..
slspsiG!ary agencies, ell ar wort, r. ss,-o-
0, Victoria and Vancouver. Tax. ,o- - :
stance. the articles recently appearing n
AsI per Weekly. Do you imagine fhew
VIII make people come 20 Seattle IA 60.
Tor the Yukon,
Il understand that zome pAople say -h..
seattle need do nothing to keeo the Alaska
uaae, which IL threatened BY the inAu-
ehcss / have mentioned because Seatsla
has ofen advertised enough already Has
II Let us see. The facts are ina, CO.,
eral hundred thousand words abou, the
hiondlke gold were sent cut under a sat
tie oate line b. the press agencies and cor
respondents during the rush. and that
many thousands OF words have been sent
since. MS may be true but the rarsons
who rest on This a. advertising saul
as an Quitting point and center % Alas
Ran trade cannot be aware that even
fort Townsend has had the same kind Of
advertising Did any one see any argu-
HeHIs III favor OF Seattle as an outatt.ug
point In that flood Of words? / did not.
vi course l am aware Of and do not
underestimate the influence OF our local
newspapers. but ia numbers alone they
40 not equal those OF Victoria Vaueou-
YER Tacoma, Portland and San Francis
co combined, all of which are actively
engaged In booming their towns as out
fitting points.
To the man who says this trade must
come here my answer would be that he is
oFerconhdent. He Is depending on what
he himself knows TO be the facfs-that
Seattle Is the best point 10 outfit in and
start from IN going 70 the gold fields. He
oyeriooks altogether the most essential
fact that the man In Maine and the man
In Texas who intend going to the gold
fields In the spring, do not know that Sc
attic II the best Quitting point. and
meantime the man H. Maine and the man
In Texas are receiving maps and letters
and newspapers. which tell him that
some other place Is the place, and Seattle
II not mentioned.
rs II likely that. when men are being
bombarded with advertising matter urg-
Ing them 20 so 10 other places 20 outfit.
when every plausible, alluring or false
argument possible IL used they will not
go to other places IL they do not hear
from Seattle and do not even know that
Seattle can outfit? received on
Tuesday last from, the general
American life insurance companies In
one Of the largest states a letter stating
that he was az the head OF party OF
fifty who had organized and intend 10 so
north next spring. that they had intend
ed to outfit IN Canada, because Ameri-
cans could not compete. and asking II Il
were true that Seattle could OUTFIT such a
party: and there are others.
II do not believe that Seattle will sit
down idly and sec this trade 20 away"