Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-08
ALL IN OUR FAVOR.
COMPARISON OF NEW ENG
LAND AND NORTHWEST.

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terry Instead of Plymouth Rock New Eng
land Is Rich From Force Of Circumstance
Rather Than Natural Resources - The Best
New England Product Has Been Men ane
women-A Suggestive Contrast.
Cor. of the philistine.
If the Pilgrims had landed on the
northwest coast OF what is now the
United States, l doubt very much if We
would to-day use New England fOi
even a goat pasture. Prof. Shaler in 9
recent lecture said: "The natural
economic resources of the western
coast OF the United States as compared
with the eastern coast are about three
to one"
At first thought, this seems like an
exaggerated statement, but conserva'
tive estimates by conservative men
endorse the assertion and regard il
safely inside OF truth.
The States of Washington and Ore
gon are larger than all of New Eng.
land when you have added to their
square miles the area of New York
and Pennsylvania. The New Eng.
land States are rich and always will be
rich, but their wealth has come from
their manufactures, and the capital
to run the manufactures first come
from commerce with foreign countries
New England could never have
grown rich from wealth produced
within her borders.
The world has paid tribute to the
cunning of the Yankee brain, and
therein lies the secret OF her wealth.
America surely has produced the
mer and women. The Yankee genius
for trade was we'll illustrated at the
Pan.American Exposition, where a
concessionaire from Connecticut carved
wonderful wooden nutmegs and sold
them for watch charms and bangles.
His trade increased until the demand
exceeded the supply, and straightway
this son of . Puritan hied him to a
wholesale grocery and bought half
bushel of genuine nutmegs which he
sold to the curious as the bona fide
wooden article.
And everybody was happy.
New England's best product has
been her men and women.
Her wealth is an importation, draw n
into her domain through the shrewd.
nees of her citizens. Yet let the fact
remain. she has produced some great
men. But let the further fact be
stated: the great men of New England
purchased immunity from grinding
toll, like Emerson, who was "the cul-
minated flower of five generations of
New England clergymen." 1t took
hundreds of years to produce them,
they bloomed for an hour, like the
century plant, and now they are gone'
and gone forever.
When Boston sends out missionar-
les, the hold of the ship that carries
them is ballasted with boose. and the
esorant maxim OF her merchant ma.
rine is that the saloon follows the flag.
Boston is the clearing. .honse Of In-
dustry. Her poets are dead, her phil
osophers but memories, and the decen-
dants of her thinkers and doers live
their lives on copyrights which have
now expired, explaining to the non.
cogitabund how this great essay or that
sublime poem was written on yOnder
table with this nibbed pen.
New England has thousands upon
thousands Of pestiferous creatures who
own little c. B. & Q. preferred, left
them by . saving ancestor, who do
nothing and are nothing but walking
negations. Their days are given over
to sharp.nose hunting after other peo.
ple's faults, and carrying tidbits ol
scandal to their ilk, possibly now and
then making little pretences at litera-
ture TO keep alive the tradition. Vir'
tue to them lies in abstaining from
every human attribute, and in doing
no useful thing.
Man can be trans planted, but no,
very far north or south. All of the
great men that this earth has pro.
duced have come from a little strip
across the north temperate zone. &c
too far north and mankind is stunted
dwarfed. Theirs is q fight for exist
ence, and among them there is no evo-
luton. Go south to . point where
men need no bedclothes but the clouds
and where, by lying under q banans
I tree, food will fall within reach, ad
vancement ceases because there is nc
struggle-no exercise. Slavery car
flourish only south OF the track of the
glacier, because there. forever, is the
inclination to get some one else to dc
the work.
In a climate where the winters are
cold and the summers pleasant, mer
will work, and through this work they
grow strong in body and in resource
But in New England, nature slightly
overdid it. The winters are very cold
the thermometers may drop forty
below zero-sll live stock must bt
housed-deep SHOWS may come, sc
houses and barns usually Join. Fue
must be gathered and stored, and foot