Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-08
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OCCASION To- warn III" rrri,.'. 81 town
and country a-ain-t combining the
welfare "iour city >ul,ly To- the pre-
cncc Of a nillion-dollar STATE house.
1t urged the increased necessity Of
PERSONAL effort on the part oi every
property owner and business man in
order to maintain the balance OF
hcalthiul growth and prosperity.
If such advice was good then amid
th, WiIirl al expectancy. when We
could almost catch the dazzling sheen
81 the bow ii promise, it should be
d"nhly good now that the Elusive
ij"is .fatusS hl> ior a time been lost
t. view, and the the airy castles reared
10y hopeful ones are tumhling down
upon their heads
When the young larkS, in the fable
reported that they had heard the
farmer declare he would reap the
grain with his own hands, then the
wary mother bird thought il was high
time t" gather up her brood ana fly
t. a safer retreat.
Now ii any respondent ones should
imagine that the winter OF discomfort
has come, let them resolve themselves
into committee OF the whole and
take into their own hands the revival
OF business prosperity. There is no
better way than to look the situation
squarcly in the face with the full con-
viction that pluck is only the more
righteous synonym for luck after all.
With the harbor improvements
fairly under way and one of the best
water powers on earth to generate our
lightning and run our factories, there
is no sane reason why Olympia should
not preserve her ancient renown as
the most beautiful and prosperous city
of the northwest Pacific Coast.
While the shiftlcss farmer Is fold
ing his hands and waiting for some
thing to turn up, his thrifty ncighbor
turns up the soil and 10! like u cher
ishing mother the earth pOurs into
his lap the riches of her increase.
Personal determination combined with
vigorous effort will accomplish Won
ders; this is the sure road to success
and there is no other way known
among men.
When the little boy found twin
lambs in the snow-drifted barnyard,
one cold winter morning, and would
bring them into the house to be re-
suscitated before cracking fire,
"No," said his father, " let us first see
if they live" Now this is exactly the
position assumed for years by many
Olympians. Before doing anything
more than to exc out precarious ex-
istence, they have been lazily waiting
to see if the town was going to live.
When the Territory became a State,
they waited to see what would he the
outcome of the Capital election; then
they waited to see the capitol building
90 up; along the same line they
waited to hear the blast of the Union
Pacific locomotive; now they are
waiting for continued harbor improve
ments. If they persevere, one of these
days they will lie in waiting at the
undertakes to make room, it should
be hoped, for a more active class of
citizens.
Once more we say there is wisdom
in gracefully accepting the inevitable
as plain matter of course and let by
cones be bygones. Having done this,
let us assert the majesty of self-reli-
ance, and there will be hopeful flu
ture.