Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-08-24
THE PORTLAND FAIR THE TAXCOMMISSI0N
Washington ADMIRED, CHEHALIS
COUNTY UNREPRESENTED.
Lewis and Clark Exposition as Seen
by Herald Nan. y Splendid Fair,
in Which the State Makes Elegant
Showing, but ChehaIiS County is
ShamefuIiy Absent.

SudIuSIuuY ADSSuI.
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead.
who never TO himself hath said, ''Tis my own,
my native land"
This quotation may not apply as to
the population of Chehalis county,
Washington, the comparative youth of
which precludes the idea of nativity OF
its %, 900 prosperous inhabitants, yet the
sentiment expressed finds no more re-
sponsive soil in the world than right
here. The people of Chehalis county
are, in great majority, not only loyal to
the land of their adoption, but alive to
the opportunities presented by its mani
fold resources.
Several thousand of our people have
already visited the exposition at Port
land, all of whom have been thrilled
with pride at the magnificent showings
made by the twenty out of the thirty.six
counties which comprise the grand state
Of Washington, and impressed with the
imperial Possibilities contained within it's
borders, in the way OF a munificencc OF
almost every resource known to bounti-
full nature. The pride is amply justified.
The state. without opposition, voted
funds with which to erect and maintain
building that is source Of qualification
to every Washlngtonian visiting the ex-
position.
But, oh! the shame of it! Chehalis
county. the eleventh county in the state
in point Of population. and one Of the
very first in point Of natural advantages
and commercial facts and possibilities, is
permitted to remain without representa-
ton, except by wide spruce plank from
Cosmopolis and freak table from Ho.
quiam. OF all who have visited the fair
from this county, none but have come
away ashamed of the penny.wise policy
Of our county authorities, which permit.
ted this splendid opportunity to place
the county in the regalia her rank de.
serves, in this great exposition. where
the world attends, and judges each local..
ty by what it has in eight.
State Statistician Geo. NJ. Allen has
recently compiled tables OF the popula.
ton Of the state of Washington, accord.
ing to which Chehalis county is credited
with 1912. With this statement in
view, it will be an object lesson on enter
prise to note the exhibits maintained by
some of the smaller counties-the larger
ones all being represented by elegant
and expensive displays.
For examples we have handsome ex-
hibits from: Columbia county with Mr..
Burns, ex. mayor of Hoquiam, in chargeN,
population. 1884; Chelan county, with
1888; Klickatat county, 1921; Pacific
county, our next door neighbor, with but
S,0S1, while our little neighbor on the
north, Mason county. with but 4,333
people, is there with a splendid exhibit
excellently maintained, and 80 on to our
Chehalis county shame.
That the blame for this condition OF
affairs does not denote lack Of enter.
prise on the part of the people of the
county, is being pretty we'll disseminated
at the fair. and is we'll known here. 1t
is too we'll known that the commercial
organizations of the county united in a
petition to the county commissioners,
asking the appropriation allowed to be
made by act OF the last legislature, and it
is equally we'll known that the suggestion
was turned down with scant courtesy.
But for the fact that we are opposed to
inhuman and unusal punishments, we
might be tempted to suggest that the
three commissioners be sentenced to
stand at the main entrance to the Wash
ington building until the close Of the
exposition, with placards upon them
bearing the inscription, "Chehalis Coun-
ty is all right, she would have been here
in the procession but for u.s.
The editor Of the HERALD, during the
week he was there, distributed several
hundred copies Of the booklet, "Facts
and Figures about Chehalis county,"
and before leaving left 900 copies wit h
John BIaauw, the popular editor OF the
Tacoma Tiende. who is in charge of the
Tacoma Boosters at the exposition and
who agreed cheerfully to distribute them.
stipulating only that he be permitted te
stamp them with the Boosters motto
"Watch Tacoma Grow"
However the lack of county exhibit
may cause US to fee !, no person with the
leisure and means should fail to attend,
If but for day or two, this exposition
the results of which are sure to prove an
important epoch in the story of the
m aking OF the Pacific Northwest
Take the Best The 6emi.IYe- .
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