The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-18

tofore is fast disappearing and both
cities will soon be working in har-
mony," said prominent Republican
of the City of Destiny. 'The rank and
file of Tacoma hold no illwill towards
Seattle. They realize that all of our
commercial interests are along the
same line. Any thing that benefits
the one or the other is of general good
to the entire community. There must
be chief distributing points in the
commercial world, these points have
grown until they have outstripped all
the surrounding towns for miles,-loOk
at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St.
Paul, Denver, Salt Lake and San Fran
cisco. The country towns round these
great business centefs are dependent
of all kinds There has grown up a
close friendship between them and the
smaller towns look to the larger for
advice as does younger brother to
his senior. This state of affairs will
surely come here, geographical cOndi-
tions have divided the state into two
distinct parts-East and West of the
mountains. Our products and climates
are widely different. They East of the
mountains are in an inland empire tC
themselves and West of the mountains
is a great inland sea with countless
harbors able to accommodate the en-,
tire commerce of the Pacific Coast fol
million years to come, and Puget
Sound is destined to be the great dis
tributing point to the Orient. Why
then should we not join interest and
work together and build up the Sound
Cities and compete with Portland and
San Francisco for the Oriental trade.
A few ambitious politicians are keep
ing the two cities apart and doing all
in their power to array the one against
the other. 1t does not require but a
simple problem in addition to prove
that with Pierce and King Counties
united in a State Convention or in the
State Legislature that they can con-
troll absolutely the distribution of all
State and Federal offices.
The business mems excursions from
Seattle, Tacoma and Everett are bear
ing fruit, the business men are getting
more closely associated. A friendship
is springing up between them, the
smaller towns feel that the larger are
interested in them and glad to see
their prosperity when you go to
"a convention you will find the great
West and the Southwest Except such
as is Immediately tributary to Port
wishes of Tacoma and Seattle. Let US
encourage this. Let Seattle have the
next Senator and in turn let Seattle
elect a senator from Tacoma next
time, and in this way hand in hand
go to victory politically and as re-
suit to great commercial development
We must remember that water is a
great highway free to all and that re
quires no repair. The Columbia River
cannot be changed and Is per cent. of
the wheat raised east of the mountains
naturally goes to Portland, all the
towns of Southern Washington are
closely associated in every way with
Portland, and their interests will ever
be in that direction, and we Sound
people must expect that portion of the
state to be more interested and friend
ly to Portland than any portion of this
state. 1t is safe to say not whole
drummer in that section or attempting
to get that districts trade.
If Oregon has a seaport it is Port
land and Oregon senators are bound
to work for her interests. So are Cal
ifornia senators going to work for
Frisco. Any senator elected from the
Columbia River Basin will be friendly
to his immediate section and anything
that benefits the Columbia River
builds up Portland to the injury of
Seattle. We must encourage the build
ing of railroads to Puget Sound. We
want every transcontinental line that
we can get We want to be the dis
tributing point to all the country west
of hn lot of oil hot
sections products to the Orient.
Let us build up the Sound-Portland
gold discoveries of 1S49 gave the lat
ter a great advantage, but nature is
against the place, and already oul
naval station at Bremerton is recog
nized as superior to Mare Island. The
Columbia river bar is a menace tC
navigation, and you may dredge and
dredge, but it's like sticking a lead
pencil in glass of water, when you
remove the pencil the hole fills up
so it will be with the drifting quick
sands of the Columbia. Let the Sound
country get together-bury sectional
prejudices work to a common end
eliminate politicians who are schem
ing only for their own gain or politica
preferment; get men of brains, meT
who are interested in the welfare Of
the Sound and the building up of e