| Show WEST THE EAST P the fact that great statesmen often blun blunder cier degreg bously lo io national policy because of a provincialism which comes comeal from their limited acquaintance with all parts of the country whose leet inies they shape ebare in a great de degree gree has bas another illustration lo in the action or the mutated U states flab bob commission be dust 8 9 anon as compared with wilb the molicy of iii jaulus halt half a cenary canary ago at etaf time a proposition wati waa batore the 1110 united states stales son iden ate looking to too tho establishment t f a mail r uto ute from ludepen douce mu to lo the mouth ot of ibe Colu columbis mois river it wap wa denounced or oo the floor of the senate by mr webster who said eald I 1 what do we want with this vast worthless area this region of savages and wild beasts of deserts ot of shifting sands and whirlwind whirl wind winda a 3 of dust of cactus and prairie dogs to what use nae could we ever hope to put these great deserts or those endless mountain ranges ranes impenetrable and bovere covered to their very base with eternal snow what can we ever hope to do with the western coast a coast of over miles roch bound cheerless uninviting and not a harbor on it mr president I 1 will never vote one cent from the public treasury to I 1 place to pacific coast one inch nearer to boston than it is sometimes in their flights of oratory and Inte intensity nelty of feeling a prophetic inspiration res 8 upon great political leaders lea dere but it was not so with webster providence was kinder to the republic than mr webster would pave nave been for the great west went was thrown into the hands of the united states an invincible defense against any opposing nation on an this continent if it had bad been nothing more but its hills and anu vales have gibau to the worlds treasury hundreds of millions af f dollars in the me precious redone metals and other products and have afforded afford eu ou homes and prosperity to tens louis of of people bud aud only the beginning where is here li has boo been strown icat thijs vast worthless area to Is nut not only of inestimable value to the re be public but that its financial worth far beyond its uninviting shore line referring to the fish commis slows operations bradstreets recites wat one of the features of the work of we the corn mission oa for the season his hia bee a the stocking of some of the riven along alon the atlantic coast with the fry of PA cigic coast salmon ealmon with the view of developing the salmon ind industry entry on the former coast that paper goes on to say that the commission to is going this year to send a vessel which has been working among the soul baal rookeries rook eries to investigate the condition of the salmon in southeastern alaska from which pounds of salmon were taken last year and it adds that shag the statement has been made that the me proceeds from the alaskan salmon catoni alone aggregate io value every three years the amount paid for the territory are still a good many people in the fast bast who think of the west a wild and worthless section comparatively at but if they will give their ine telli genoe a chance oti anoe trev cannot bf long in learning that the west is domut a rood good work in supplying the bw bite wito ducts of its ita steeds needs for prosperity |
