The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-18
says. with a wisdom equally applicable

says, with a wisdom equally applicable
TO eastern conditions:
Margins to the producer and the car
rler are to be much closer than hereto
fore. The tendency is to reduce to the
lowest possible limit, and an easy route
for movement of the bulky products Of a
great region to the seaboard always as
serts and maintains its advantage over
difficult gradients. 1t IL not possible for
any system of railways over mountains
| to meet the Incompatible advantages Of
| fered by the water level of the Columbia
| river from the great interior country to
| the sea. In boom times, when corpora
| tions had vast sums of money to throw
away, these advantages we're not so APP
| parent. But that Is all past Prices are
close; money must be saved, not squan-
dered; profits can only be had by saw
| ing TO the utmost, and in such circun-
stances-now permanent-natural facili-
| ties are the factors that determine re-
suits.
Just now," adds the Oregonian,
interest is centered mainly in the
mines and trade Of the Klondike ter
ritory. But all know this is only an
| episode. 1t will not be a permanent
| interest. The future of the Pacific
coast lies i'm these states of varied and
inexhaustible production, where every
thing invites men to make homes and
| families to live. All that is necessary
| Is that the real attractions of these
Pacific states of ours shall be made
| widely known. Even in our own Eas-
| tern states there is O. remarkable
| dearth of accurate information about
them. The Northern gold excitement
will no doubt draw hither the attention
| of many who otherwise never would
| have known what these Northwest
| states are; and spread of this infor-
nation promises to be very useful"
| We confess II has been very useful
| to US, and we are sufficiently enthu-
| siastic over the wealth of the informa-
| tion contained in these monumental
newspaper issues to recommend that
all who can send for copies and study
them as object lessons in the magni-
| tude and the Incompatible resources
of this unequalled country of ours.
| -
| Congressman King, of Utah, who
went to cuba to see for himself, does
| not mince matters. This is his view
of the politics of the Cuban situation,
| siS nv SSSVN II III tilt NOuISC VI q
letter to the New York Journal: "If
a man fastens another in house and
fires it, we call him fiend, and it ex-
cites universal condemnation. Yet the
United States has calmly looked on
| while Spain has pinioned more than
half million of people, and then de-
| liberately sat down to witness their
| destruction. For months we have been
| silent observers of the merciess effects
OF SPANS policy of war--a war against
helpless mothers, defenceless children
aged and intirm of both sexes. Now
when Cuba is q charnel house, and the
horrors of the situation have some
what abated we become somewhat
concerned for the survivors" The re-
proach is entirely just.
| -
The people at large are just about as
| tired of the Martin regime as they are of
| any other boss ownership.-Lebanon Re-
| port.
If that is so. the people have the
| remedy in their own hands, and If
they deliberately let the so-called
bosses get the better of them by rea-
son of their individual apathy or in
difference, have they the moral right
to complain?