Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-09-03
DO FAIRS HELP US?

Inc Herald mas refused to publish
free advertising for the Spokane In
ter-State Fair Every week the man
agement of that institution sends out
columns of advertising matter to the
press of the northwest and large
| per cent of ii is used. Lazy editors
regard it as easy copy" and give it
space in their papers to the exclusion
of more interesting local news. 1t is
amazing how much free advertising
is being given in the northwest this
year. Every week the Herald re-
ceives enough so-ealled news, every
item of which is boost" for some
money getting institution, to fill its
entire pages. Portland and Seattle
each has a news bureau" which
sends out weekly letters to the press
of the northwest. These letters are
pure advertising matter, thinly di-
guised as news" and is always a
boost for some public or private en-
terprise which will benefit the city
from which it is sent The exposi-
ton at Seattle, the Rose Carnival at
Portland, and kindred semi-public
matters which do not benefit this
country, are being doomed in these
| letters.
The Spokane Interstate Fair may
be a great institution and no doubt
| 1t is a great thing for Spokane. 1t
offers entertainment to the people of
the surrounding country who are in
duced to go to Spokane and spend
their money. Ordinarily the people
of this section are merely "Palous-
ers' to the people of Spokane and
the word is usually spoken with de-
rision. But when the fair is on the
Great Palouse' country is fiattered
and its people are praised and they
are invited to go to Spokane and
spend their money. Every well-post-
| ed person knows that prices for all
staple commodities are higher in Spo-
kane than in the Palouse country
towns, yet nearly every man, woman
and child, especially the women. who
go to Spokane, spend much money
there, buying goods that could be
! bought for less at home.
The Herald will not use it's col
umns to boost" the Spokane fair,
believing that it is injurious to Pull
man and the towns of the Palouse
country. Spokane real estate sharks
try hard to prevent homeseekers
from coming to the Palouse country.
This is a serious charge but it can
and has been substantiated. Home
seekers are taken out on to the gray
ell flats surrounding Spokane and told
that this is the Palouse country"
and efforts are made to sell them
land at from $3.50 to $500 per acre
and upwards, and many return to
the east Disguised who might have
become valued citizens of the Pa
louise country had the Spokane real
estate men not lied. The Herald does
not refuse to boost the Spokane fair
in spirit of revenge for the acts of
the Spokane real estate sharks, but
because 1t believes that every dol
lar taken from here and spent in
Spokane is a direct loss to Pullman
business men and Pullman citizens.
The Herald draws it's support from
Pullman and the surrounding coun-
try, and not from Spokane 1t owes
its allegiance to Pullman and Whit
man county and will do all in its
power to boost the interests of
these.
More than $4,000 was spent this
summer by Pullman people in going
to the exposition at Seattle and in
going to register for the land draw
ings. That much money was taken
out of circulation and Pullman mer-
chants lost much of it, for it would
otherwise have been spent here, with
them. The Herald will not assist
any foreign enterprise to take money
which rig tfuuy belongs to Pullman
and Whitman COUNTY