The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-04
ASKS WEST TO
CAST SHACKLES
AND CLAIM SHARE OF INFLUENCE
Governor johnson of Minnesota Tells
People In Seattle of the Power of
Their States.

time that the west threw off the
shackles of the east. I would preach
no sectional division or sectional
strife, but Minnesota and Washington
and those states between them and
those to the south should arise in
their might and claim for them
selves that fair share of influence in
the halls of congress and in the ad-
ministration of national affairs to
which they are entitled by every law
of common sense and of political
economy.
Views of Governor johnson.
This was the declaration of Cover
at the Minnesota day celebration at
the exposition today.
1--WE, as an integral part of the
American people, should cast our in
huence and our votes not only to adj
vance the material interest of our
particular section, but we should be
| broad and big enough to labor for
the common good of all the COM
munity," declared Johnson.
Power West of mississippi
| 1--WE have in the states west of the
river the undoubted balance of power
no matter under what name the ma
tional administration at Washington
exists. In the years that have
passed our population and our mate
rial wealth have not enjoyed that
representation to which they are en-
titled, and furthermore our leaders
have been content to follow in no
small measure the leadership of men
who represent relatively small con-
stituencies and smaller common
wealths.'
The governor then made the re-
marks quoted in the beginning, and
continued:
Northwest Must Come to Its Own.
1T is time indeed that the great
northwest should come into it's own
and by the force of it's energy, the
ability of its sons and the co-opera
ton of it's various constituent parts
exert an influence for good. Not only
as to its own particular prosperity
but to that of the country at large, to
which every element invites it."
The speaker declared that the west,
among other things, is the call for
patriotism and progress, for enamel
)a.:on from every form of old world
and new world caste and privilege,
rom the tyranny of wealth and
birth, and alike from the dominion of
the trust and political machine.
West Is Prime Factor.
Governor Johnson gave an inter-
esting account of the growth and de-
velopment of the west, it's industries
and resources.
"Not only in foreign commerce but
| in, ha If oh N nj q
is the west a prime factor in national
development" said he in continuing.
Fifty years of national folly IN the
enactment Of navigation laws and
high protective tariffs have crippled
American shipping until over 80 per
cent of our Atlantic commerce is
| carried in foreign bottoms. Notwith-
standing thi; half century of maritime
shame the United States tlae, floats
today over American merchant ma
inc of about four million registered
steam tonnage, which carries to the
markets of the world nearly 100000
600 tons of American products
Where the Pacific Figures.
| But on what waters float the colors
of these merchant marine and what
freight do these American ~ fps
carry? One-half of this vessel tom
mage is on the Great Lakes; while the
Pacific ocean, the Great Lakes and
the Mississippi combined boast near
| ly 70 per cent of the total. And the
! freight carried consists of the great
staple products of the west on their
way to eastern and foreign markets.
| the products of that great army of
western yeomen who demand no fos-
tering hand of the government and
ask only for that justice and freedom
to which they are entitled by natural
| right under the guarantee of our con-
stitution and our flag"