The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-10-18
BOOMING THE BouNDLEss WEST.

SEATTLE, WASH, Oct. II, 1900. A
recent months visit to the Middle
West from the Ear West has
brought new thoughts and renewed
views Of life to the visitor, and the re-
turn to Puget Shores maketh the heart
glad, for one feels that all other climes
are a delusion and snare. A Puget
Sounder is no salamander, and the heat
of August, followed by frosts in Sep
TENDER, make one of a milder climate
long for normal conditions, free from
both extremes of heat and cold AS
one who talks puget Sound" eats it,
sleeps it, dreams 1.-THE eastern trip
was a pleasure and revelation in many
ways. The Mississippi valley once
the Far West-now appears like the
New England of the eos and '7O's.
There are the same crowded and rest
less conditions men discomfort
ed and looking for more promising
location.s No wonder SO many deluded
ones flocked to homeland struggled
home again!
The desire to become affluent and the
lessening opportunities make young
manhood restless, and the indomitable
energy of the American youth needs
vent. East of the Mississippi, and to
some extent to the Westward, the con-
test for and pursuit of happiness and
wealth grows more unequal, with the
growth and expansion of great corpora
lions or trusts-with millionaires multi
plying at the expense of the less fortu-
nate, and restless humanity fighting,
struggling, suffering for existence.
Why should it not become popular
for the affluent of the East to acknowl-
edge these conditions and seek honestly
for their amelioration. The overcrowd-
ed conditions of the extreme East can
be changed, and all to the profit of the
common country The West is large
and wide Its cities are growing and
full of promise. Young men have new
er and better opportunities. Men of
means have quick action for ready cap
ital. Capital and labor there should 60
hand in hand and make countless mil
lions know that life is worth living.
The boundless West has room for
millions, of this or other lands; compe-
tition is less persistent; capital has
larger scope, and capital needs skilled
hands for development. In a new
country like Puget Sound of Washing
ton, the opportunities are practically
inexhaustible The Oriental traffic
and Alaskan development open up
| monied schemes of various and vast
proportions, and all these lead down
| through all the diversified means OF
gaining a livelihood-from the skilled
operator to the man with the hoe, pick
and shovel.
| Surely no other land in the United
| States offers so many inducements fol
migration for all classes of people
save the very poor-as does the State
of Washington, where the climate is
most kind and nature never violent
To view the promising land is to love
it; to know it's resources and equable
climate is to learn the best there is fol
mans comfort and welfare. You have
but to choose your location, whichever
seems best to you-for the diversity is
great, and the door is open wide. II
opens inward-our people seldom care
to return to less kindly chimes.
There is always more or less inquiry
from the East as to the probabilities OF
a "real estate BOOM in the Farther
West. Spectators have heretofore had
their innings and made and lost fortunes
| in such booms, and the State of Wash
ington has been, in times past, a pro
life field for such experiences. Happy
the day for all concerned when Blooms
are relegated to past experiences, lost
arts, and days never to return. Seattle
has had numerous booms, but none
since 80 and 81. Several years of de
preston followed, only to be lost in the
permanency and stability of conditions
following and subsequent to the dis.
covery of gold in Alaska
o. NJ. MOORE.
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