Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-11-18
join The OPTIMISTS
NO ROOM IN Northwest FOR
CALAMITY HOWLERS.
Agricultural, Commercial and Indus.
trial Conditions In Washington
Are the Sure PanaCea for a Panic.
Present FURRY is But Temper
ary inconvenience.

Some people are natural-born pes
simists. They view with alarm every
development that varies from the or
binary trend of commercial affairs
and are ready to assert that the
country and the world is bordering
on the verge of the demnition bow.
vows. If times are prosperous, it is
simply an artificial condition that is
the prelude to a sudden and awful
slump. If there is a temporary de-
preston they are there with the
ready II told you So" and are most
happy in malodorous prognostica-
tions Of forthcoming evil.
A community made up of such
croakers would undoubtedly meet
every condition depicted by them for
one of the underlying conditions OF
prosperity and progress is confidence,
not only in mankind in general, but
particularly in the section in which
the individual resides. Fortunately
the Pacific Northwest is made up
largely of optimists, and it might be
benefited materially by the migration
of the sprinkling of the other class
that has become misplaced here. This
is not an atmosphere suited to pes
smism, nor is this time when the
calamity bowler can find legitimate
excuse for citizenship.
The ordinary avenues of traffic
have reached hating point, in con-
sequence of developments which are
neither local in their cause, nor can
they be lasting in their effects. The
stOppage in movement of farm prod
ucts finds the agricultural districts
of the state with bursting graneries,
and the consuming markets of Eu-
rope clamOring for supplies of bread
stuffs at the highest level of prices
existing in years. The wheat crop
of the Inland Empire alone is suffi-
cient to bring into this section $685.
100000 of foreign gold, and it fol-
lows a series of years in which the
farmers have been building up a sur
plus in the banks that distinguish
them as the most fOrehanded class of
agriculturalists in the world. Wash
ingtOn forestry is turning out prod
ucts to the value of 500, 100000 an
nually, and no matter what the tenn
porary Interruptions may be, SO
long as the state possesses this en-
dowment of timber it is destined to
find market at constantly enhanc-
ing values. The orchard areas of
Washington have produced a crop
that is valued at SIS, 1000, 900.
There are other cereals that wheat,
forage products, dairy and livestock
output that will net an aggregate
total of $100,000,000 for the farm
ers of Washington. Aside from our
own vast mineral resources, the gold
en- stream which pOurS out of Alaska
is a direct factor in the foundation
work of our prosperity and the de-
velopment of our commerce.
Within the next two years the
railway systems centering in the
Northwest will have disbursed $780,
100000 or more in new construction
work and terminals within the state
of Washington, imparting an added
stimulus to foreign trade operations,
which will ultimately make Puget
Sound second among the great en-
trepOts of the United States, while in
dustrial operations are expanding
everywhere upon the sound basis of
providing for requirements as they
develop, rather than anticipating the
future.
While unusual conditions exist in
the financial world at the present
time, there is no legitimate reason
why they should prove of more than
passing effect in the business of the
country, and certainly none why the
Northwest should be affected, beyond
the Temporary inconvenience at pres
ent experienced, but the restoration
of normal conditions will be fastened
UNNECESSARILY by mutual confidence
and cooperation, and it is the prov
ince of merchants to stimulate this
feeling wherever possible.-West
Coast Trade.