Year: 1874

China and India, had finds il principal


market for lis prs6ucts in America. Tho


latter has its raw material at its door,


and a&present home smarkets for all it


can produce. Intelligently directed cap


ital will ere long discover and utilize


thess advantages.


r PARTY JoURNA1s.-The Olympia Cour-
ter. the -prefessed- organ Of the party


Republicans of this Territory, and the


Tacoma Tribune. the subsidized organ


of the Land Ring, unite in classifying


the DISPATCH as Democratic party
paper, though they. both know better.
For nearly four years past the editor of


this paper has taken no part in any


political party caucus, convention. aor


primary meeting, solicited or received


any favor on party grounds. or support


ed any candidate for Office because he


was party nominee, or Disseminated


in any degree between public men on


account of tleir party affiliations. At


the last general election in this Territo-


nv. the Courier was owned and controll-


ed by the Republican party candidate


for Delegate to Congress, "hd OF course


was bound to support him; the Tribune,


a professed Republicanpaper, supported


his opponent for money consideration,


in hand paid; the Dispatch gave an ar
dent and indepent support to the oppo-
sition candidate, and at the same time
to the leading portion Of the Republican
ticket in this county, free from any Pc
cuniary or personal considerations, ex>
pressed, implied, or ever received; and
we may add, that the editor of this paper
was never subsidized to the support OF
any party, person, cause or measures, and
is now entirely free from any political
party obligations or affiliations. feeling
no responsibilities in the discharge of
the duties of his vocation but to the
public, for whose interests he proposes
to labor uninfuenced by any mere sell
fish considerations and unawed by any
hostile combinations, whether political or
financial, or the two combined, as they
generally are at the present time.


In dissolving our connection with
party politics we surrendered no right
as a citizen. ro political principle we
had ever held, nor sought to avoid any
Of our obligations to the Government
under the cowardly evasion of neutrall-
ty. position in popular government as
to popular rights in times
of peace as in time of war. The journal
bound to support its party, right or
wrong, has no claim to public conf
dence, because it is q suborned witness
in all cases affecting the public veal.
The neutral journal is only an object OF
contempt to all sensible people, like the
neuter gender in the human family;
while the paper which holds itself open
to subsidy from any parry, individual or
cause, should only be regarded a COM
mon prostitute. We have endeavored,
and shall continue to endeavor, to avoid
the category of either,by maintaining the
position of the most able and int1uen-
tial journals Of the country, from whom
all measures of reformzuow derive their
most effective support. We will support
every measure of the Administration to
reform public abuses or promote the
public veal, and oppose with all our
vigor this system that prevails in boah
political parties, of making fidelity to par
ty the sole test Of merit and claim to pub
lie trust, and subordinates the public IN
terests to party neeessity;a system which
has'been nurtured and maintained by the
arbitrary rule of King Caucus. gf 4