The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-09
Press Opinions


, sons why San Francisco should be
preferred to New Orleans as the
proper place to celebrate the opening
of the Panama Canal in 1918 are
given by Ebert Hubbard era Fiber.
tus) in the Denver Post of Sept 24th.
Among the points made by Mr. Hub
bard are the following:
'The year 1915 is the centennial
of the downfall of Napoleon bona
parte. Napoleon was a dictator
beneficent tyrant. And, by the way,
all tyrants ever regarded themselves
as beneficent.
The year 1915 is to mark the rule
of the people.
cit is to commemorate the COM
pletion of the greatest eneineerine
feat ever attempted-a work of the
people, by the people for the people
"The building of the Chinese Wall
is the only engineering feat in his
tory that actually rivals it. The
French are supposed to lead the
world as civil engineers. They made
their plans for Panama Canal;
they spent untold treasures and
twenty years of time and abandoned
the attempt as impossible.
1.-THE Panama Canal will be the ac-
tual realization of the short passage
to India, sought by sailors and navi-
gators for centuries.
"To commemorate this mighty
achievement is worthy of our high
est, nobest and most dignifed eff
forts.
mo Mardi Gras Carnival, with its
dancing CLOVIS, prancing nynpis ana
showers of confetti viii suffice.
"Archimedes, who invented ana
holds a patent on the lever, said:
/ GIVE me a place upon which to stand
and I'll move the world
San Francisco has 4 lever and
she has a place upon when II stand.
She has moved the world to admira-
tier for her recovery t1pn cala,r ty,
and she VIII now. with the help OF
tie world, give the world the great
est object lesson in science, econom-
les, art and industrial Deterrent that
it has ever seen.
"She has money the location, the
climate, the water the sunshine, the
men and women-the willing brain
and the strong and he'p"l1 hands.
san Francisco now asks congress
for off cial permission 10 invite the
W rlG to come to her House Party
in 1915.
san Francisco does rot ask Uncle
sam for either an appropriation or
a loan.
"All she asks for is his smile and
nod of recognition.
San Francisco has now pledged
, ION dollars to finance the Panama
Worlds Exposition.
This is a larger sum than any
| Worlds Fair has ever mad, and the
Centennial Exposition had only about
one-fourth as much.
I'm mineral wealth Louisiana has
nothing. Her one and only great
engineering feat is sewer above
grade. In live stock-horses, cattle,
sheep and swine-Louisiana has moth
| ing to offer. People coming from
Europe and South America, with an
idea of emigration here, would go to
| New Orleans and depart with a very
! shadowy impression of what the
United States has to offer. People
who do not know Colorado do not
know America.
81 want the east to be siphoned
| through Denver as matter of edu-
cation.
New Orleans has her shipping
trade. her wholesale interests and
farm products, but beyond these in
! dustries there is little to interest the
economist, and even those are as
nothing compared to people who
know New York, Chicago or Boston
"1he has fruits and bowers, but
not in such quantities nor variety as
| California has.
| "Of mineral wealth New Orleans
| knows nothing, while San Francisco
is the financial metropolis for the
biggest mining and mineral interests
IN the world. Gold, silver, copper,
lead and the semipre ,ious stones are
on every hand, and their actual pro-
duction is an object lesson which
! once seen is never forgotten
'Traveless in summer 40 north
not south And all agree that the
| Fair must be in the summer, not the
winter. Americans take their vaca-
tons N June, July, August and Sep
! tcmber. We have to accept this fact
! simply because we can change i.
MANY people do not realize that
/ there are now ten -splendid!v equip
/ ped transcontinental railroad lines.
| All of these lines now make Il
through rate of $93 to eXcurstonists
to Californ a. If San Francisco gets
the Fair, as she surely VIII it can
be safely counted on that we will
/ have rate hetter than one cent a
mile.
san Francisco-19s5.