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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1891)
WEST SHORE. 81 anthracite ledge, when the company will begin placing it on the market. By next fall the output will be 1,000 tone per day, when shipment to Ban Francisco and other outside market will begin. While anthracite coal hu been discovered in several placet, in none other has the vein been to near the railroad aa to admit of ita being worked in the immediate future. The importance of the development of this find can hardly be estimated on the material advancement and prosperity of Washington. Testa of the coal have been made by parties competent to judge, and it has been pronounced of first class quality. Analysis shows it to contain about eighty-five per cent, of carbon, which is fully twice as much as the best bituminous coal yet found. This much desired article has been reported aa having been found so many times in this section, only to prove untrue upon investigation, that it is with gennine gratification the above discovery is chronicled. At a meeting of the city council of Astoria last week, a committee ap pointed to examine into the water question reported in favor of the city own ing and operating the works necessary to famish that very necessary article, and presented a resolution that had been adopted to the effect that the leg islature now in session be asked to authorite the formation of a commission similar to the body managing the Portland water system, and that it be authorized to issue bonds of the city to the amount of $300,000 for the pur pose of buying and repairing the present plant of the Columbia Water Co., and for securing another source of supply and constructing an entirely new system of works. The city will make explorations to ascertain the best eatirce of supply and make estimates of cost, etc., which is to be repaid by the commission after sale of the bonds. The Belt Line Improvement Company, a corporation composed of Seat tle capitalists and John D. Rockefeller and Gen. Russel A. Alger, of Michi gan, has purchased 1,200 acres of land on the eastern shore of Lake Wash ington, near Seattle, for which $2,000,000 were paid, which is the largest single real estate transaction ever recorded in King county. The company proposes to begin the improvements to benade on this tract by erecting a mammoth steel plant. At another place a large establishment for the man ufacture of car wheels and axles will be erected. Oilier important im provements are to follow In a short time. Four enterprising individuals living at Helena, Montana, have been ex tensively engaged in the milk business without having the necessary dairy outfit usually required for conducting such an enterprise legitimately. The police authorities succeeded in entrapping them last week and found the stuff they sold was made of a mixture of saltpetre, burned sugar, chalk, water, and some red-colored stun, the name of which thsy did not know. The expense of making fifty-six gallons of " milk " according to their formu la is only $1.25, so the business was proving very remunerative. Four separate movements are on toot for the division of Linn county into as many different counties, with fair prospects of none of them being successful. Difference of opinion as to county road improvements and bridge building it the cause of most of the dissatisfaction, and the aspira tions of one or two places to become county seats is also made a prominent feature. The Airli, Toledo A Nashville Railroad Co. hu been incorporated with a capital stock of $150,000, for the purpose of building and operating a line of railroad from Airlie, in Folk county, to some point of Rock creek in Ben ton county, Oregon. A vein of eannel coal wu discovered near the town of Muckllteo, in Snohomish county, Washington, last week, which it the first of that variety found in the state. Articles incorporating the Oregon Logging A Lumbering Co., of Inde pendence, Oregon, have been filed with the secretary of state. The capital stock It $40,000. Portland and Fairhaven parties have organized the Fairbaven lot A Cold Storage Company, of Fairhaven, Washington, with a capital stock of $25,000. A new church to cost between $2,000 and $3,000 is to be erected at Med ical Lake, Washington, by the Methodist denomination. The Multnomah Stave A Barrel Company, of Portland hat been Incor porated with a capital stock of $15,000. ATTITUDE OF RUSSU TOWARDS HER JEWISH SUBJECTS. ADDBK8S DKLTVERBD BEFORE Till REFORM LIAdl'l, PORTLAND, OREGON, BY D. BO LIB COHEN. If I were not addressing an audience of the character here assembled, I should hesitate long before presenting what I desire to say as I propose to express it. I feel that I am speaking to those who, after years of mature consideration of the problems of existence, and personal experience of the doubts which precede conviction, are above and beyond the superficialities and prejudices which, unfortunately, control to large a portion of our com mon humanity. I see before me those who not only imbibe thought but evole it. It is in the process of evolution that we pierce the clouds so often concealing the bright light of truth, which shines for all who open heart and eyes together. In that light we perceive the unity of mind and soul. We strip from humanity the meretricious differences of fortune, birth and station j differences of form, face and figure ; differences of national and religious training; and from the level of the soul aid and encourage one another in those aspirations which ws hope will eventually produce a nobler race, a better world, a purer system of life. To reform we must first unform, in opinion as in other things. If we can nullify wrong, right it everywhere ready to take Ita place. With us, distance should be of no consideration. A wrong to humanity in farthest Africa should be precisely the same as a wrong to humanity In our city, at our own doors. While in the latter case we might be permitted personal effort, we can in the former exert the power of spirit, of protest, of declaration; powers which have been the initiative of all reforms, the fulcrums upon which the levers which move the world have rested and always mutt rest. I speak to you at a Jew, tracing back my lineage to those Immortal minds which first pierced the density of matter that the light of the spirit might shine forth. But I speak to you also as a man, born by the tame will and power which hat created all mankind, with the tame rights in the world to which I have been sent, the same privileges, the tarns accounta bility to its natural laws. I have neither the desire nor the Intention to enlarge upon the history of my people. Interwoven as it is with the annalt of the world, it permeates every nerve and fibre of that world's being, and acting under a law superior to those of earthly conception or execution, it will continue an Important factor in the spiritual progress of ths world until the purposes of nature shall be accomplished. Into the mouth of his much maligned and misinterpreted Jewish character the master mind of the poetic world has put the assertion, " sufferance is the badge of all our tribe." So it hu been. In ages of force the weak must suffer; where brutal power prevails the powerless must succumb; where heartiest injustice rules the friendless can only weep. But we tee the dawn of a brighter age, when the ruling force shall be mind, the dominant power thai of Intellect, and the prevailing justice that which it meted out in the spirit of the great central light of the universe, which is justice. Sufferance should no longer be our badge, but manhood's rights, the gift of Goi himself. Jn this spirit I come before you today to place before you unhappy facts, and to uk of you, u brothers and listen in humanity, to uphold the claims and progress of our age. If the closing years of ths nineteenth century are to be marked by the unreasoning bigotry of what we have, in self adulation, termed the dark agea ; if the chance of birth is to be made a cause for oppression and de spair; If ths common right to live, breathe, hope and uplre Is to be denied to a proscribed race, let ns, at least, utter that protest which our claim to a common spiritual brotherhood demands. It my people were void of Intel lect, emotionless, with no aspirations but to live at does ths beast until nature claims its carcass; if we were, at tome see fit to paint ut, a people too sordid tor any thoughts save those of temporal gain ; if we loved money to much more than do those of other faiths around us; if we employed more questionable meant of obtaining It, or made a more niuriout use of it when obtained; if we, Indeed, felt ourselves to be the abandoned of God, vile in the put, selfish In ths present, and hopeless In the future, I should certainly not be here opening my heart before you. But it it unnecessary to inbuilt to Intelligent minds that such it not the case. Our hlitory it an open book to all who oare to read ita pages. It is the world's tragedy, not a Newgate calender. We ourselves know our people. We know they have all the failing! which are common to humanity, none peculiar to themtelvei, and we know they have their full there of the virtues which redeem man kind. Let me refer brleflr to one epoch in our history bearing somewhat on the subject matter to which I purpose calling your attention. Our coun try la now preparing to flttiogly commemorate the discovery of the Ameri can continent. On the third day of August, Ht)2, from the port of Palo, in Andalusia, under ths flag of Ferdinand and Isabella, of Arragon and Cu tile, Colnmbui, after years of trials snd disappointments, silled forth upon his eventful voysge. In this same year, U2, by these same monarchs, Ferdinand and Iubslla, an edict was issued banishing all Jewt from their united kingdoms called Spain. Four months' time wu given to the pro scribed people to embrace Christianity, or to leave the kingdom and all their possessions in it, or to tuffo death. Words tail hopelessly to describe (lie