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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1889)
2W WEST SHORE. PUIUtHCO tVCRV ATUDAV. L SAMUEL, Pub., 171-3-8 8econd St., PORTLAND, OR. I ltrtd I Ik Hn.1 Ofin (a Portland, Ortum.fw (rowmiMiwi (rou tkt mailt at rood cibj raOt. UMCRIPTION MTItrlctlr In Advano. Ou Yr, .... I4.W I Thrta Monlht, III Month,, .... i.i) I linglt topin, Si 15 .10 IVCoploi will Is BO com b Mnl to tubKribtrt txyond Hit terra pal for. Puget sound will make that region at some future day the scene of the greatest iron manufacturing industry in the world, but this must be a long, slow and steady growth as population and commerce on the Pacific coast increase. Iron manufacturers who have looked into this subject all agree on this point, and several extensive iron industries have been in contemplation for some time. It seems now that the first actual step, with the exception of the works at Irondale, will be taken in Seattle, where parties from Youngstown, Ohio, and Pittsburg, Penn., have combined with local capitalists and have organized a company to put in a rolling mill plant at an expense of $100,000. Th Wiit Shori offer tht Beit Medium (or Advertis er of any publication on the Pacific Coait. IVlTUKU, OmUiiN, hATl'KDAY, No V KM II It H 111, 1K.SII. 11 Ot'1,1) men devote an much zeal to the promo WJ tion of good rilizenKhip as to following the lieck and call of secret societies, the world would be the better for it. If all men would recognize their duty to their country and to Immunity as being paramount to the blind nerving of secret orders whose urHxteii and method can not stand tho light of pub lic scrutiny . there would lie fewer act of violence to record ami the Hociul fabric would be closer knit in bond of Iiiiiiihi) brotherhood. The most useless citi en am frequently the most active "lodge men." Public and private affairs may I out of joint, tho eace and proserity of the state may lie in danger, but these awaken in them no solicitude in comparison with the welfare of some secret committee, something that a few precious coiiimit are privy to, or some lodge or order whose purM' may be inimical to the welfare of the state. Organizations where fellow craftsmen associate for their own good are commend able when not in the hands of demagogues, mt those " fraternal " societies and semi-political organizations, oath Unid and exacting allegiance stiH rior to that of the state and intlicting (malties greater than those of the state, an- prejudicial to the U-A intercuts of soeictv. Morgan's death, or supcd death, certainly did much to H-n the eyes of good citizens Uith u jthi,, ail( without the order that was credited with hi violent taking off, and mi doubt had a iimnl salutary effect in reforming some .f the iil. au (,f ttin t tirder on the sub ject of the sanctity of it arrets being siierior to that of human life; and I'ronin's fate, aN.ut which there is iu qumlion whatever, has owimiI the eye of the pie to new dangers threatening the foundations of ,mr national life. ImULtcdly the aviation together of iro, ore, coal, tinier and limestone in unbounded quantili. on Kdison seems to lie firmly impressed with the dead ly power of electricity. lie not only testified in iU fa vor, in opposition to experts who held the contrary view, liefore the committee that investigated the ques tion of electric executions, but he now Bays that plac ing electric light wires underground will not reduce the danger they constantly threaten, as their deadly charge may stray upon innocent wires and surprise people generally. Electricity is a fiery, untamed stoed that has not yet found a perfect master. A terrible Bnow storm in New Mexico, trains block aded for days and many people, cattle, horses and sheep frozen to death, is news that causes every man living west of the Rocky mountains, and especially those west of the Sierras and Cascades, to rejoice that his lines have been cast in more pleasant places, and that the mild breath of the Pacific gives him a climate that even so southern a latitude as New Mexico can never hope to possess. President Harrison has been credited with consid erable astute political jugglery, but the way he jug gled with his signature on the Dakota proclamations was simply silly. He mixed those two states worse than Little Huttercup mixed the babies, and now there will never lie any way of making a list of states in the order of their admission that everyone will lie sat isfied in correct. Taetmia has incorporated the Russell Reduction and Smelting Co. with a capital stock of flO,tXH),0iO. This is junt a little the loudest sounding gun that has Joined in the northwest, and it is to lie hoped that it is not loaded with a blank cartridge. Ilfre come the " hyas tyees " of the W. C. T. U. charging each other with corrupt management and in stituting damage suit for libel, and doing other thing" w much like the men that it seems wicked any linger to refune them the right to vote.