The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-01-19


read their literature one would thihk
that the most important thing ABOUT
the Puget Sound country was the TACT
that Seattle. or Tacoma, or Belllng-
nam or Everett. had condescended 10
locate there You may get for free
distribution wagon loads OF reading
matter about Seattle Tor any OF these
other cities) but you might search
until YOU were blind and find hard-
w a word about the Nooksack, me
Skacit or the Puyallup valleys, and
vet without these valleys there would
Mt be more than one city, ana that
would be no larger than the small
est of those named. You Will ilnd
hardly a word about the great coal
deposits vet undeveloped There will
be descriptions of the big Seattle and
Tacoma mills, but nothing OF the 1T
tle mills ~ of which are within rad
JUS of eight miles of Lynden, ana
which are scattered all over the Scum
country in like proportion.
You will find page after page de-
voted to the Oriental shipping But,
that shipping doesn't now, and Will
not for years, employ 1000 men on
Puget Sound. True there is an M
mense amount of capital invested, but
it doesn't feed the mouths that the
Nooksack Valley dairymen feed.
There will be pages and pages abon
the wonderful water power. IL IS all
true Engineer Fuller, of Tacoma, told
me once that he could count up 1,25o,
900 horsepower going to waste Just IN
the mountains he had been over. But,
there will be no use for all Of mat
horsepower until we have a much
larger population, and that population
must be scattered over the whole
Sound country Seattle and these othe
towns are large enough. They should
devote their energies now TO Decom-
ing prosperous. To become prosperous
they must develop the surrounding
country. If they will devote their hd-
>ertising and energy to building up
these dairy and gardening valleys, 20
developing the mines, to putting or
chards on our hill lands and to boost
ing the small communities, they can
1uit their worrying about population.
AS we grow the cities are bound 20
grow. Until we do grow the cities can
not become much greater.
There is a difference between re-
lgion and christianity. Christianity al
ways teaches love. Religion some
times teaches hate.
Smiling comes cheaper than stom-
ach cures.
The American says Livesey, Van
Zandt and Brown met political death
as a result of "Heralditis." ! had NJ
ways suspected that was the Ameri-
cans reason for fighting them, Nv
hardly expected it to acknowledge ~
Personally we have never fought
man simply because he liked some
other paper better than ours-but if
we did, we wouldn't admit it.
Since writing comment on the
governors letter about the Radley
charges of graft on the Bellingham
armory, have read Captain Radley's
letter in reply to the governor, and,
[ want to applaud him want 20 10
more-I want an encore.
| want to tell you readers that
think the people of this county should
take hand in that armory scrap
We country people are sore enough
about the armory anyway. We doat
think the county had any right 20
tax us to buy site for it. But, ct
ting that go for the present, it is our
money, also, that is building the arm
DRY. IT, as Capt Radley says we are
not getting what we are paying ior
We ought to join him in protesting,
Governor Hay, armory commission or
anybody else to the contrary notwth-
landing. Personally I'd like to see tn
grange appoint committee TO wait
upon Capt. Radley, and to investigate
the matter with him. will gladly
publish the findings OF such COM
mittee, so that the whole county will
know them.
| notice that Senator Nelson has in
PRODUCED bill in the U. S. Senate
authorizing the leasing of Alaska
coal lands at from cents to 81 Der
acre and providing for asroyalty Of
cents a ton on all coal mined
That's better than giving the coal
out right to the Observation-Disclosures
ger bunch even though it is not all
we might ask. Apparently Golfers
fight on Ballinger was not an entire
failure even if the Seattle man lid
come out whittier than snow