The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-07-29

TO Cno value OF SZU,UUU Wnlcn Cne company Will have
to send out of the state in order to find market Ii
those hides were tanned and manufactured into har-
in Seattle the market price of those hides would
be increased from 900 to not less $50 900 for the
manufactured goods, and at the same time hundreds
and perhaps thousands of men, women and children
would find steady and lucrative employment in the fac
tory, the most of whom would buy and improve nice
homes in the CITY, 1t is safe to say that it would not
require very much money to put plant in oper-
alton that would accomplish this than it does to elect
United States senator from Seattle that the Queen
City may have representative in Congress, and the
harvast from the factory woud-be ten thousand fold
the greater. 1t must have cost Seattle something
like $100 900 to elect Samuel H. Piles to the United
States senate in order keep her sister city Tacoma
from returning Addison G. Foster, and yet will any
one have the erontery to say Senator Piles has done
the city of Seattle hundreth part as much good by be-
ing the great tannery and harness factory
in Seattle in which that amount of money and energy
had been expended, would have done? Nothing is
intended in drawing this comparison to throw cold
water on Seattle's effort getting United States
senator to succeed Senator Piles but the contrast is
drawn to show how we strain at a gnat and swal-
low camel.
Factories are a thousand times more essential for
the building up of great city than sky scrapers Last
week in these columns told of the cost of the
Henry, the White and the Cobb buildings on the old
university grounds, which was seventeen hundred
thousand dollars, almost two million in round numbers
and they are magnificent blocks and lend greatly to
the beauty and grandloquence of Seattle, but just
think Of the pay roll that that amount of money invest
ed in factories and manufactures would given to
Seattle Let the good work of building sky scrapers go
bravey on but in doing do not completely overlook
those things that will keep those who occupy Offices in
those buildings moving on and on.
The harness plant that Mr. Way has the foundation
laid for is doing we'll under the circumstances as
could be expscted and has something like forty per-
sons regularly employed, but the concern is completely
swamped with orders and its only hope Of filling
the orders that it has and flowing in daily Is to order
from Portland, Oregon or some other outside city;
and Portland being the nearer it is perfectly natural
that she get the trade The business men of Seattle
should look after infant industries like this and help
them get on their feet and unless they do they like
hundredsof similar Institutions that have been started
in the city, will go to the wall. 1t was the Seattle
Spirit that rose in all it's glory and raised $780, 600 that
the Moran Brothers ship yard might be enabled to
successfully bid for the building great government
man-of-war and every dollar spent in doing so was
like bread cast upon the waters, for ten dollars or
more for every dollar that was paid out brought
to Seattle thereby. The would be true of help
ing infant industries of all kinds and Ben Butler the
old warrior said, the way to resume is to resume
The Stadium at Tacoma is still taking in the money.
Who is Who in America is no longer problem for
the sage of Sycamore is 1t.
who Are white People," is headline why white
people of course.
Tacomu seems to be 1T of the Northwest this sea-
son all right.
Chester Thorne may be full and overdowng WITH
"Y'n Like Tacoma - but the Fawcett flower must be
stamped out.
The Sphinx of Sagmore has divulged nothing as
yet on the Ohio platform.
Seattle in the neer future will contain of
$50 square miles is prediction of R. H. Thomson
Has she not got that now?