 Although (or perhaps because) it was an older state than its less populated neighbor to the north, Washington, Oregon never generated as large or influential a political organization as was the Socialist Party of Washington.Nor did Oregon generate any publications with a national readership, as was the case with the Seattle "Socialist", the Industrial Workers of the World weekly "The Industrial Worker", published in Spokane, or even the weekly papers of two of the utopian socialist colonies established in Western Washington just prior to the turn of the 20th century.Portland, the largest urban center in Oregon, was a far more orderly town than was Seattle, the rowdy upstart to the north.