The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-28
administrations:

1898 ....... ...S $50
1894 ....... ....... 200
1898 ........ .... $40
1896 (last year of Democracy 27O
1897 .... ...... 1885
1898 ... ....... $3.50
1899 ...... 1880
1900 ...... ...... 1850
The Seattle Bee, heretofore owned
and operated exclusively by D. w.
Griffin, and which has been such an
uncertain political quantity, is now
a full-fedged Democratic paper. In
its last issue the name of G. S. Bailey
appeared as business manager, but
Mr.. Griffin still retains the control
ing interest in the paper. Since
the Bee has been in existence
it has been for and against
every prominent Republican in
the county, and it has drunk
freely at the wells Of the two leading
political parties of this county. Two
years ago Mr.. Griffin called his paper
the Western Sun, and then it was a
fusion organ. He, however, before
the campaign was over, made a deal
with Van De Vanter, Wooding and
DR.. Smith to deliver the Franklin
vote, which got him considerably
muddled up in the fusion ranks.
Soon he switched to the Republicans
and since that time he has swung
from first one faction of the party to
the other. His present partner, G..
5. Bailey, is well known in this COM
munity, and great many Of the
prominent Republicans with whom
he has previously done political work
suspect the cause of his great change
of heart on this occasion.
The treasury bureau of statistics
furnishes some facts about the coal
exports Of the United States which
are of peculiar interest at the present
time. The exports last year reached
value Of $1O,O0O,OOO; this year
they are likely to reach a value of
$20,G0O,000. The exports for last
July were so per cent. in excess of
those for the same month in 1899.
In the seven months ending with
July, 1898, the exports Of coal from
the United States were2 1916, 451
tons; the same months of 1899 they
were 3,006,082 tons, and in the cor
responding months of 1900 the ex-
portation Of coal from the United
States has quadrupled, but the prin-
cipal growth has been in the years
1898, 1899 and 1900.
Countries on the American CONT
nent are our best customers, so far.
To British North America the ex-
ports in the seven months of 1898
were 1,708,39S tons, and in the
seven months Of 1900 3,253,8O3
tons. To Mexico the exports in the
seven months of 1898 were 243.939
tons, and in the corresponding
months of 1900 415,S34 tons. To
Cuba the exports have more than
doubled, being in the seven months
of 1898 1865 tons, and in the
seven months Of 1900 241,712 tons.
while to Porto Rico Tie exports in
creased from 1861 tons in the seven
months Of 1898 10 15,313 tons in the
seven months Of 1900. To the Ha-
waiian islands the exports of the
seven months Of 1899 were 1O,381
tons, and in the corresponding
months of 1900 21,001 tons thus
more than doubling in single year
TO the Philippine islands the ex-
ports | nthe seven months of 1898
were 1910 tons, and in the seven
months of 1900 HOGS tons, or eight
times as much in 1900 as in 1898.
The exports Of coal to Europe.
which in the seven months of 1898
amounted to only 1910 tons, were
in the corresponding months of 1900
278,572 tons. Of this 1877 tons went
to the United Kingdom, 1923 tons
to Germany, 77,401 tons to France
and l96,95O tons to other European
countries. Unless all signs fail, the
exports to Europe this year will ex-
coed the most sanguine expectations
OF American operators.
So tremendous has been the
growth of our export coal trade of
late that the subject is now attract
ing the attention not only of statis- |
but of the business interests
of the country. 1t is because Of the
enormous gains made that leading /
citizens are doing their utmost at
present to arbitrate between the op-
orators and the miners. The danger
II an interruption in the traffic due
o great strike is too imminent and /
90 great to be overlooked. It would
mean the Encouragement Of an in
Iustry which within a short time
must inevitably open up thousands
# square miles of coal lands
throughout the West that are now
wing idle and add immensely to the
Tage-paying and wage-earning ca