The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-03-26

am 'es of the benefit of spraying AMI
showed that it pays.
Joel Woods failed to respond to the
toast, How it feels to be touched;
and Other Incidents of the Trip" N. 3.
Atkinson showed the great advantages
| Of Southeastern Washington as the
Home of the Small Farmer" c. E.
iShaffer took the examples of the small
and large rancher in California to prove
! that the greater prosperity follows the
division of the country into sma'
ranches.
Garrecht Arouses Enthusiasm.
How to Improve Our Commercial
Relations, Waitsburg, Dayton and
Walla Walla," by Francis A. Garrecht,
was one of the best toasts of the even
ing. The potent means of building up
this better relation is transportation
and interurbans and electric lines
which will enable the citizens of one
town to get easily to the other-this
will be q great aid to this spirit II
ting money in sugar or rubber planta
tiOns in Mexico or South America. And
it was plain to see what those present
thought of investors who could not see
their way to help advance this best
country On earth. Applause and shouts
of approval were deafening. Continuing
the speaker showed the necessity of the
towns standing side by side, of getting
together and pulling together.
Impressions Of a Tenderfoot" by
Robert Brumblay, seemed to be that
his was a great country but that the
churches should be encouraged a great
deal more He spoke of the maenifi-
cence of the Walla Walla and Touchet
valleys and stated his confidence in
their future.
R. B. Miller. general freight agent
of the 0. r. & N. of Portland, made an
address, crisp and full of life. He
pointed out the need of the people
standing with the railroads. He dis
couraged summer fallow, whereby
| 2, 900, 900 acres of this land in this state
are idle every year. He advised Hood
River methods of advertising. Get the
name before the country. Electric lines,
! ne said, were an impossibility in the
now sparsely settled country. They
can only come with population, as
their chief support is from passenger
traffic. Population the country must
Ihave. At present one man in the coun-
try is support one in the city, when the
usual ratio is four in the country to
one in the city. And the cities are grow
ing faster than is the country. Popula-
ton must come, the country needs it,
demands it. for its future welfare.
This Country for Necessities.
THE Possibilities of the Touchet Val
ley as Compared With Southern Cali
fornia," was the toast responded to by
John Brining. First singing out every
man VINO had hit him. he went ruth
lessly through the list and got his re-
vengc, then settled down for the most
brilliant speech of the evening Cali
fornia he said, surpasses in the pro-
duction of luxuries, this country in the
production of necessities. 1t was there
fore more stable. The country here sur
passes all countries, however, in the
building of muscle, brain AMI nerve.
Witt. the conclusion of the last toast,
it was moved to give the Waitsburg
club vote of thanks, which was car
ried with a rousing AYE" further
love feast was then INDUCED in, the
delegations from the three towns cheer
ing each other and throwing boquets
in profusion. The meeting then ad-
iourned every man present voting it to
ne the best he had ever attended. The
train returning reached Walla Walla
at 2:05 a. m.
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