The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-06-30
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"JUST AROUND THE CORNER,

| One of our democratic exchanges in
IT'S vituperative attacks upon the re-
publican administration is constantly
harping upon the promised better
times being Just around the corner. !"
This is very happy conception, used
IN sarcastic vein, and the user is so
tickled over its invention that he
wears it ragged. 1t is altogether prob
able that in the town where this demo-
cratic paper is published, as we are
willing to admit that it is in our own
town, the evidence of prosperity may
be stifl lingering around the corner,
| but in the greater part of the country,
and especially in this state, better
times has negotiated the corners,
which would be plain to the eyes of
the democratic editor to whom we re-
fer If he would get out of his narrow
surroundings and familiarize himself
with conditions as they exist in the
larger cities and most of the smaller
| towns
During the late democratic admin
istration, when there was very little
evidence of good times outside Of the
war babies of which the democratic
party was faithful parent, building
was at standstill and no one was
prospecting outside of those who fat
tened on government contracts or
were profiteering at the expense of
the public. Even with the better times
| Just around the corner" as this par
| tisan scribe insists there has never
been such building boom on the
coast as is in progress at the present
time, and the same feverish riot OF
building is being experienced all over
the land People do not invest in build
ing when times are hard and pros
perity insists upon stalling at the cor
ner.
If the democratic editors whose OBJ.
| servations are confined to the narrow
| compass of their immediate surround
ings doubt this statement let them 60
! out over the state and give their eyes
| chance to register knowledge. The
march of improvements for 1922 is
| not confined to any one particular To-
| cality. Take the larger cities of Port
| land, and Seattle and Spokane and the
| artisan who wants to work is not
| idling his time away. Buildings of ev-
| cry description are in all stages of
| completion, and range from the mod
| est homeland hundreds of homes are
under way, indicative of money ameng
| small investOrs-to mammoth piles of
stone, brick and steel representing the
expenditure of millions of dollars
| The larger cities have no monopoly
upon this rush of building. Go to We
natchee or Yakima and one will see
prosperity with g big p, II the ring of
hammer and trOwel are any indication
of prosperity. Rarely will one pass
through even the smaller towns with
out seeing evidences Of substantial
growth No doubt in some localities
where climatic conditions have cur
tailed crops and worked a serious
hardship upon the people better times
may still be in ambush Just around
the corner" but the responsibility of
this condition can be laid to the door
of providence and cannot be charged
up against the republican administra-
ton. although the democratic dema-
gogue does not hesitate to attribute
all climatic and physical phenomenon
that may work to the disadvantage of
the human family to the party in
power