Iditarod pioneer., 1915-04-24
HOW SEATTLE RECEIVED IT
Seattle Post -Intelligencer, Nov. 6

Seattle Post st-lntelhgencer, Nov. b)
 To the many disappointed citizens who are today given to wailing and the gnashing of teeth under the erroneous belief that the state of Washington in going dry will sim ultaneously be headed for the demnltion bow VOWS the Post -intelligencer has this to say:
 Cheer up. Such dire forebodings will not prove well founded nor will present fears be realized.
 At best, a different verdict at the polls would have meant only 8 postponement For the movement which this year enlists Washington, Oregon and Colorado soon will enlist the country as a whole. States not yet ripe for it are rapidly or slowly getting ripe. Even the casual observer of the trend of thought must see that it is q nationwide movement.
 Washington could with wisdom have waited yet while and continued its a. herence to local optlcn and home rule.
 But it is all over, and there is no profit in speculating upon what should have been or might have been done The thing dreaded as tending seriously to affect ma terial conditions has now actually hap pened and IS beyond recall. Washington soon will become q dry state and k des- tined to remain a dry state. That it will have the company of all the states ill the Onion in a few short years Is as sure as anything of the future can be foreetold.
 While the stringent law does not even aim to prohibit drinking but strangely pro-
 cs easy means of obtaining liquor from the outside, 1t does contemrIate the abso- lute suppression of the saloon. By the peoples verdict the days of that institution are definitely and finally numbered. l. will 70 net to return. All this involves a rad ical economic readlustmcnt. There Is naught to do but meet the situation cheeriully and make the necessary readlustment in a Dusl nesSl!ke Way.
 Apart from the ethical phase of the sub ject, since Washington is to put the liquor question out of Its commercial life, it is peculiarly fortunate that Oregon also took .he step at this time This means that business must be done on the North Pacific coast in a ''dry' belt, whether the people ike it CT not, and it also means that the business will oe done regardless If this new complication. Oregon's vote should serve to lay the fears of those who saw nothing but calamity in prohibition. From the standpoint of business advantages Port lend and Seattle will remain in the same relative competitive position as they dd before the recent election. If there i> any business advantage in it to others it un .JubtcJly lies with San Francisco.
 But the business interests that are in clined to see clouds of gloom through the approval of the prohibition law should re member that the vote of the people has net deprived Seattle of its great natural and acquired assets upon which the prosperity of the city and of the state have been builded It will not deprive Us of the tim Ger on the hills, the fish in the sea, the coal in the mines, the commerce of the seas, OUT advantageous position as distributing center as a railroad center and as ship ping center, and other great assets which we possess And they should also remem- Der that the vote of the people on the pro hibiti0n measure has not in any way dented our great asset of hand painted climate. There is one thought for the inconsolable and that is that the Seattle man who does not like the new Washington legislation will have long way to go to get away from it, unless he consents to invite new citizenship by removal to British Columbia district which may not be found particularly at 1 tr&ctive in a business way i'll war times.
 In all events it will be well for the de pressed to cheer up and look the situation fairly in the face counting the assets as well as the liabilities.