The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-30
WOULD CONTROL TOBACCO.
WHY CTHA. PoRT0 RICO AND PHIL
TPPINE< sHoILD HI. RETAINED.
sam Hill Talks ON Great Possibilities
Of Oriental Trade-u nited states
Naturally Trthutars-Cartfaf Is
Vow Coming To the Northwest.


ard president of the Sea lie Gas CoEsstaA ~.
reached ts.s cssy yesterday sros TIE At
lant5c cuzSt E4@ viii ~ here few days GU
business connected With Fae company an
viii ther leave for Minneapolis speaking
Of general con2ltsegS n the tsass ans more
particularly as 20 the sentiment IL faScT OF
expansion and the prospects ~ ihe NORTH
west IN connection with traeataA ifa0e.
AR. HI. sata yesterday.
Tire war Aar had the effect of turning
afsSrs2ias 70 the Pacific G9asS and especial
X u the Northwest Al the railroad e9szl-
pantes yuun - 20 Puget soEg1d low report
Il n.srxna! stage O. business The invest
gneEEs az the people ~ gs1a securities o.
these companies are paying sure though
small returns. ard capital 4 seeking oSAer
the die capital with seek investment IN The
Northwest. which. Of course. Washington
wznt=
q gr.a, deal depends an the result Of
yoar ele1tloa aave been asked many
times aaether Or not the state of Wash
Ingson VII come back into the Republican
cotana- ! believe ii 6 the best investment
that 19e se0pl. of Washington can make
"a indorse re Republican administration
and AXE THAR s;aa3 with u.
Country Favorx Expansion.
Il am thoroughly satisfied iaat outside
q small EEsgGe OF people n the E2sl the
Cuha the Philippines ard Porto Rico. \
fsct n0s - nexalIy krowa Is tnai with these
islands aided To the tobace0-p producing fsor-
tons ~ our own country tie United states
will have a practical monopoly 81 ali the
good tobacco districts OF tie world, and II
you viii take the trouble 20 figure II out
you Will fra that tax gan be levied %
tobacco, without materially increasing the
price % tae consumer. sufficient TO pay the
war debt The idea of imperialism as ap-
piled 70 The United States = essentially 4
Western idea. II means expansion, growth,
development
I'VE are in a position where we cannot
stand still. We are nearer 10 the oriental
trade than any OF the other civilized ma
tons 4 frst-class line OF ships run
ming from Puget sound 10 The ports or ia
pan and China Will bring that trade nearer
70 New York In point Of time, than 10 ST
Petersburg after the completion or the
transs!berian railroad. Take down your
geography. stick a pin i,l Greenwich Ton
aossl, another In New York city. one IN Sc
attic and oLe in Yokohama You VIII ind
the distance from London TO Yokohama via
Seattle IS almost exactly - degrees Of a
great circle. That leaves lao degrees OF the
same circle. and you can go the - de
gEees N twenty-ona days, while at the
present time the Journey the other way.
through the SUex canal, VIII SaHe You for-
ty-eae days
4 Go not look upon Russia AZ other than
a friend Of the United States. Sac has al
ways shown herself such This u the only
nat.oa in 'he word 70 Mhtch Russia ever
now comes from what vas once Russian
America. We have never been threatened
by any foreign power fL-4t RUSSIA Vas
not willing 10 aid Is against,
Il have recently been reading on the
subject OF Siberia, and am delighted 10
find mat great portion OF that country.
especially along the banks o. the AMOR
river, Goes>noI differ materially from cOun-
try trayersed by portions II the Great
Northern road. The country around Lake
Eatkal = A-so q rlcG country. aad the lake
Itself. although called the Lake OF Death.
IS LARGE body II water allied WITH trout.
and as Ear as / know IS the only body OF
fresh water in the werld n which seals
are found