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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.