The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-02-09

which said that Sumas was prospe'-
GUS and gave indications OF bright
future but failed to mention our
oninion of what the liquor trafflc Is
doing to the towns reputation.
rather think the News editor thought
the selection of those few sentences
from our editorial would make us ang
but II didn't. That class OF readers
who read News editorials would not
have understood the balance OF Our
remarks.
Don't think, Mr.. News, that I expec
the liquor traffic to destroy your
town. | will be frank enough to say
that in my opinion sumas Will be
,ivelier and financially more pros
perous during 1911 than ever before
her history.
Why?
Becuase you are licensing saloons
and all other crime goes with saloons.
Because you are practically the
only town in a great territory that
does do that.
BECAUSE the element rha. insists or
being where saloons Axe will flock to
Sumas Your town will be lively" -liv-
lier than ours. 1t will have an attrac.
ton for the morally careless.
I remember when Iowa first became
n prohibition state. Many of the cities
made strenuous objections. Sioux
City, especially protested and persist
ed in violating the law for sclGe time.
It grew and thrivcd too. meanwhile.
but if began 20 get Il name was drir
ing decent people away-that was
keeping decent people from locating
there. So. as business prcpC sition
the town decided that the law must
be obeyed. The saloonmen. gamblers,
and fallen women moved across the
river into Nebraska where the town
of Covington was started Perhaps 70
have heard OF Covin:;t,p. It grew in
wickedness until the governor OF
Nebraska ordered it ,leal,e up. Then
when it could no longer be used AS
a gate to hell, the owners of the
townsite found their property was of
no value. Even though the saloons
were closed, the gamblers in Jail and
the fast women driven from out its
boundary, the very name of Covins-
ton spelled wickedness, and people
would not live there and would not
own property there. Finally the OWL
ers of the land got the name changed
and then, after long years property
again began to have value. But,
during the old days Covington was
prosperous. Land values were away
up in the skies. Rentals were enough
to build building in one year. 1t
was lively place. Yet that was not
the sort of prosperity that l would
wish for Sumas. 1t is not the sort of
prosperity that l believe you. your
selves want. 1t is, l am afraid. the
sort that will come most easily unde,'
present circumstances.
and little child shall lead them"
Just now Bellingham is following in
The footsteps of Lynden, and the path
is straight and narrow, though it
leads to cleanliness and prosperity,
Bellingham can do better than fol
low Should she take by path
where near beers" and blind pigs
are tolerated, she will find 1t leads in
directly back down hill to where she
came from.
J Most every man thinks he is pretty
good himself and wonders where his
neghbor gets SO many bad habits.
The Bellingham Herald says that
= the egg production of Whatcom count
Is not sufficient to supply Bellingham
which remark will cause many to
suspicion that the Herald hasn't been
: keeping a very close tab on "Biddy"
While Bellingham has been encour-
aging new steamship lines to Ana
cortes and LaConner, and neglecting
: the Nooksack river: and promoting
y interurbans to Burlington and forget
ting county lines, Everett and Seat
tie have worked mp fairly good egg
market in WhatcOm county. 1t is
. more than quite probable that Bell
ingham is fed entirely on Whatcom
county eggs, but the eggs have first
= made a trip to Seattle.
| But there, | am out of humor this
morning. So long as we sell our eggs,
we don't care whether they go in
the Bellingham or the Seattle basket.
, Bellingham is beginning to wake IN
! to the need of interurban lines to the
county towns, and If she will do as
q well as she did for Stone & Webster
the lines will be built. We still hope
, to see Bellingham take an interes.
in having the Nooksack river dredg.
, ed for steamboat service In GERMANY
. the governerment is putting steamers
on some of its rivers, that will draw
6 not to exceed six inches OF water
q and yet will haul hundreds of tons
On the Mississippi and Missouri riv-
f ers are many river steamers that will
+ handle a hundred tons or more and
draw less than two feet of water.
! But" said a Bellingham man 10
me, last fall, "the No0ksack is a
very swift stream"
Swift nothing. Not between Lyn-
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