The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-29
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MOVES THE NORTHWEST.

longs to Washington.
TO the Editor of the Globe.
. America, the land of the free and The
home of the brave. Americans, The
leaders of civilization and the exen-
pIars of freedom American-among the
mobiles of Gods creatures-leader and tu-
tor to all mankind. Even as / write,
very Your;g America cries out most lus-
THY for freedom and proper nourish-
ment! Feed him today, and tomorrow
he feeds the nations of the EARTH TO
be an American is to broad minded and
Just. The American who shouts loudly
down of the flag of freedom, In what
ever land 1t floats, or he who would re-
strict its benign influence to the origi-
nal land OF the free, can hardly be con-
sisten and fail to love his own country
and love 1t as a, whole-its every nook
and corner, including the rival town or
state, and ready to fight for the right
or MS neighbor town as well as for his
ownI
Are we good Americans when we fail
to recognize some rival section of our
country ana cry It and its people dowrs7
What fairer land hath God given F1is
creatures than this-these United States
OF ours? Are we not une-united and in
separabie? Let the answer come from
those who last attempted a Separatl oni
1heif mistake has been forgiven ana
forgot. Amen! But how many traitors
nave we among US who would pull down
the flag of neighbor and hide 1t from
the world? Is not the world big and
wide enough for all? Shall we aclSnoWl-
edge a weakness by ignoring a rival
section, Or in decrying its advantages
Is 1T not part and parcel of our common
country? The Atlantic coast knows IIt
tie OF municipal rivalry, and as CONNER
eial activity and municipal growth In
crease and expand toward that bourne
whltner Horace Greeley directed the en-
ergetlc young men of the country SO
VIII Chicago and St Louis forget thar
quarrels, and st. Paul and her nearby
TAn lis 6lrl
loving embrace and soon forget where
the dividing line once stood-a menace to
good fellowship and bar to healthy
But it is of a fatrer and further land
sing-ats present shut out Of common
recognition by its sister states and blood
relations.
When the world was young, then New
Englands was good stamping ground for
all the rest of creation, and then came
e time when conditions became con-
In TINE the Mississippi valley became
the far West and the border land OF
civilization. In those days It was the
Northwest but relentless Americans ana
recruits from other and welcome shores
found conditions becoming again crowd
ed-or, at least, opportunities less eltie-
ing and relHunerattve, and the further
exodus toward the West continued
The Northwest became the Middle
West, and the Star of Empire still
Journeyed toward the setting sun. and
Horace Greeleys prophecy-for in his
advice came the prophecy-Dakota re-
placed her herds of buffalo with herds of
lowing kline, Montana dug wealth from
the bowels Of Mother Earth, and Idaho
found precious metals too and slASan
and cattle enriched their. keepers among
The rugged mountain receSses
California and Oregon have long been
cialniing the attention OF the States
as Paeihc coast territory, but Washing
tefl-hTst in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts OF our countryinea. :"
was last. but not least, to knock at the
door of Uncle Sam for recognition 40
the cap sheaf of the tier of Pacific coast
states. And she. is there to stay, in the
common paTfance of the street.
| ask the papers of this Middle West
wherefore the persistence with which
they refer to the Mississippi valley as
The Northwest. They make no an
sWer, and have none! I again ask them
thus ignore large and prominent part
of our common country and they repiy.
that is a boom countryr'
Boom country" quoth Wherefore?
is It's growth not remarkable and is 1t
not a fact-the truth?''
YES. replied a prominent newspaper
man of the old Northwest, but the truth
about your new Northwest is boom
stuffrp
What a potent truth he uttered he
probably. knew not, In his misinterpreta-
ton OF the word boom. He spake bet
There is no boom In Washington state.
nor has there been for many years. The
bounteous and never-failing crops have
settled the rapacious mortgages In the
farmers favor; irrigation makes the
heretofore barren soil blossom like the
Garden of Eden; the giant woods bui,d
homes where the Middle West has run
Short In supply: the waters of Puget
sound give the king Of food fish to a hun
cry word: her mines give copper, silver.
iron and gold; her squable climate gives
health and immunity from most Ills
which flesh is heir to. Although a moist
climate, people afflicted with asthma ca
tarrih or rheumatism are much benefited:
pulmonary troubles are infrequent, chill
drens diseases are at the minimum and
cholera infantum Is almost unknown in
Western Washington.
1t IS the easiest state In the Union To
live in-wtth little or no snow or ice to
COMBAT, and yet as far nort5-as Maine
NO Violent storms were ever known. and
even good smart thunder storm is so
much a stranger that animals are sorely
frightened at the first sound of the rolf
ing thunder. Billiards and cyclones are
unknewn-save through newspaper ac-
counts from the Middle West Csrons
never fail; wheat yields always the best
in Eastern Washington, where the rain
fall averages twenty to forty inches an
nually. In the Yakima valley. where IT.
rigation Is king, the rainfall Is very
slight, the finest fruit, melons and
grapes alfalfa and other grasses YIELD
ing several crops annually. and the gov
eminent operations in the Phiiipples
China and Alaska making the best possI-.
Bile markets.
Western Washlnetnn needs mn irrdga-