The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-01-19
A PULL TOGETHER
STATES OF THE PACIFIC COAST
UNITE FOR PROGRESS.
Pacific States Alliance Will Combine
the Energies of Best Development
Workers In West,

1.-THE Empire that shifted from the
Mediterranean will, in the lifetime of
those now children, bid fair to shift
once more Westward to the Pacific. "
To assist the consummation of this
prophecy of President Roosevelt is the
object of the efforts that are now max
ing to form Pacific States Alliance
in which will be confined the energies
of the best development workers of
California, Oregon, Washington, Ida
no, Nevada, Utah and the territory of
Arizona. Rufus P. Jennings, the
active and tireless head of the Califor-
MIA Promotion Committee, the organ
ization which has unified California,
conceived the idea of doing for the
Pacific coast what the California
Promotion Committee has done for that
state. The 15O commercial organ
izations of California today are work
ing in unison through the central Or
ganization, and all the chickering's
and jealousies which formerly marked
promotion work are things of the past.
The idea of Zone for all, all for one"
has made California the best advertis-
ed state in the Union. 1t is the real
ization of this effective work that has
brought out the plan OF, forming an
alliance of all the states and terri
tories on the Pacific coast.
While formerly the counties of the
states of California, Oregon and Wash
ington were wasting their energies in
individual advertising they. are now
cemented together through central
organizations in each Of those states,
to the benefit of the counties them
selves and larger benefits of the states
as a whole. The advertisement and
development work of the Pacific states
is in the same condition as was that
of the counties mentioned, and as all
the interests of these states are ident-
ical it is believed that the work can
be given an impetus by an alliance
which will work wonders in the matter
of publicity and also Of internal i'm
provement.
1t is the object of Mr.. Jennings in
bringing this alliance into being to
form national power. The seven
states have twelve senators and six
teen representatives in congress.
Were these TWEEN ty-eight working
together for all the interests of the
Pacific coast they would be power
that would make itself felt in ma
tional affairs. This power working
in unison would mean international
improvement in all of the states inter
ested, which can be- obtained in no
other way. Under the alliance when
Washington, Oregon or any other
state concerned desired federal aid or
action, she would be backed by the
power of all the representatives of the
other states, and with these men work
ing together there is no measure they
could not pass the congress.
In the matter of publicity COM
bination under one central organiza-
tion would simplify the work and in
crease the power many fold. The
money now spent by the individual
states and their individual counties
would be utilized to the best advan-
tage for the whole section, because
what will build up part of the sec
tion will benefit the whole. With
such concentrations Of energy the re-
suits would be immediate and marked.
In addition to International i'm
provement and publicity it would be
possible under such an alliance to form
home markets for the products of the
Pacific states, aud thus obviate the
long hauls and far shipments which
now eat the profits of the producer of
the West. Each state could utilize
the products of the others aud with
the increased population there would
be demand for home supplies which
would make an enormous and most
profitable market for everything pro-
duced in any of the states interested.
Initial work looking to the forma-
tion of this alliance is now being done
by prominent promotion workers and
the plan is meeting with hearty CO.
operation and commendation wherever
it is broached.