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great Northwest. I met him soon afterwards and he asked me 

 what I thought of his speech. I told him it was a good speech from 

 an Oregon standpoint, but it demonstrated that he was a much smaller 

 man than I thought he was. Of course, I said this in a very good- 

 natured manner, and he said to me, "How is that, Mr. Filcher?" I 

 said, "In all your references you said 'the Northwest' and 'the great 

 Northwest.' I should think, as Governor of an exposition State, that 

 you would be broad enough, on an occasion of this kind, to say 'the 

 great West.' California is in this area, and yet by inference we were 

 never referred to. ' ' He tapped me on the shoulder and said, ' ' I stand 

 corrected," and promised never to say it again, and I don't think he ever 

 did. At a function soon after that it was my fortune to have a chance 

 to talk to some of the Oregonians and I referred to this undercurrent of 

 jealousy or suspicion, and I told them that for a while I didn't know 

 the cause of it until finally an old gentleman came to us one day and 

 said, "Here, my friend, are you from California?" I said, "Yes, sir." 

 "Well," he said, "I want to ask you a question. Is it a fact that you 

 Californians are going to take Portland back with you when you go 

 and attach it to Golden Gate Park as a rose garden ? " I said, ' ' Why, 

 my dear sir, no. We are going to help Portland expand and plant a 

 few more roses." "Is that really so?" "Why, of course it is. We 

 don 't need Portland ; we have got roses enough of our own. ' ' He said, 

 "You are not going to take Mount Hood with you?" "Of course not. 

 We have got Mount Whitney and Mount Shasta, and we don't need it. 

 Instead of taking it we are going to help you roll a few stones upon it 

 and make it grander and higher and more attractive than it is now." 

 "Well," he says, "by jolly! that is the way to talk." 



But to come to the point. We did work, and we found generous 

 cooperation, to try and infuse a more friendly feeling and to expand 

 the idea and cement the thought that we are part of a great common- 

 wealth, the great important factor 1 of the trans-Rocky Mountain 

 country, the country on the continent and in the world that offers more 

 for exploitation to-day than any other place on the globe, and we can be 

 one people for one purpose, and we think we had a good deal to do in 

 establishing that idea and confirming it, for following that exposition 

 there was a better feeling engendered. The Oregonians and the Wash- 

 ingtonians began to come here in greater numbers than ever before, to 

 spend their winters, and Californians have gone into the Oregon moun- 

 tains and rivers to spend their summers. Our trade has increased one 

 hundred per cent, as shown by figures and statistics. We are going 

 right after you in the effort to duplicate this work and to increase it at 

 Seattle in 1909, and when we come we want you to help us with the 

 best products you have got. 



