, 1873-11-27

rapacious claim jumper and mercenAry
carret>bagger has fall~n by the we'll
sped bullet. dangled at tbs end ola
sppe. or left with dead-h.ad pass on a
tnce rail, with a full suit of tar and
feathers furnished at the public eS-
8 ense, for nc greater offences against
community and, personal rights than
these men have constantly practiced
under the over-awing. influence of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
whose interests and character they have
sacrificed and betrayed whenever oppor-
tunity ofereI, to their own and the in.
terest of ,Le gang of censpirators they
represent.
Through the controlling power Of the
Land Ring in the Board of Directors,
Sprague was retained as the General
Manager of the Pacific Division of the
Road. That management is toe famil-
lar to the people of tits section to re-
quire comment. Deeming himself vice
roy of the railroad monarchy to which
tile people of this country owed ancon-
ditionai allegiance, and whose authority
no cne would dare to question, he
assumed the airs of sultan, respected
neither public nor private rights, held
himself amenable to no personal en-
gagements. and regarded the money of
tie innocent stockholders and bond
holders of the Railroad as simply the
means of speculation to enhance the
valus of the property Of the Land Ring,
like the cotton Generals in the army,
who used the Government funds to buy
cotton en- private account. The miseras
bic failures to build up towns at out>
of-the-way and unsuitable places, at
the expense of the Railroad for the ex-
elusive benefit Of the Land Ring, as
illustrated by Kalama and Tacoma, are
examples of that management. In all
these transactions Smith has been the
grand vizier through whom alone the
presence could be reached or any favors
obtained, and he was permitted to levy
and collect all the contributions he could
make oot of all who held any busil ess
relations with the Northern Pacific
Railroad through Gen. Sprague.
Sprague affects decency, style and So
cial position. Smith does the rough
lying, clustering and blackguald work
of the concern. Yet the two are insep-
erably united in oil their acts, designs
and purposes in their relations to the
Railroad. Smith mendacity and braz.
en- impudenco is as much aconcomita 1T
of the system by which they operate as
Sprague's mock dignity and pretensions
to responsibility. The acts of each are
virtually, to all inttnts and purposes,
the acts OF both, and are so taken and
understood by the public. As politi-
clans who affect decent social standing
employ shoulder hit.ers 20 o7erawe and
repeaters to defeat respectable voters, so
does General Sprsgue and those he rep
resents employ the basest tools to car
ry out their dishonorable devices and
repress public investigation. To this
end he and his associates employ vile
Bohemian. so utterly irresponsible and
respect can hold controversy with or
call to account. to defame and vilify ev-
cry man who deems it q public duty to
expose and criticise their nefarious acts.
And it is with special reference to this
phase of their conduct that we have felt
called upon to speak of the personal
characters of the real anc only response
BILE authors of the vile personal FLANDERS
which have from time to time appeared
in the Kalama Beacon. t5f7as
Some of our readers will recollect the
gross and ibelous assault upon the
private character of Capt. Phelps. of
the U. S. S. Saranac, for stating facts in
regard to the harbor of Tacoma, the
swi..dling town site of the Land Ring
which were known to every intelligent
to the projectors Of the town
and to the Directors of the Northern
Pacific Railroad. Thomas II. Garfield. |
President of the Lake Superior and Pu-
get Sound Land Company, in 1869 was
as the General Agent of the
Railroad Company to explore the har-
bors around Puget Sound, and was ac-
companied in such exploration by Sam
uel Wilkeson, the Secretary of the Com
pany and Historian of the Exp,dition.
In his private report to the Directors,
which was never given to the Public,
Mr.. Garfield says of Commencement
Bay: ~: -'-{'AZN ~ s-1i asia
"The soundings given by Vancouver
in the chart Of the o.. S. Exploring Ex-
petition, Io' L, ana tnOSe lnu1cateu on
the morezrecent charts of thelU S.
Coast Survey, show that from the edge
of the mud flats the water deepens rap
idly, till in the center of the bay the
reach the great depth aof one
fathoms. The only anchorage
is close in shore. and that shore in a
heavy norther sweeping up Admiralty
Inlet, is lee shore, exposed the whole
from WILDLY Island, nearly
ifty miles. Commencement Bay can
not be termed good hnrbor. Were its
as convenient as those of
Quarter Master harbor, or if that harbor
could be made available by an approach
from the main land, there would be
much to commend it to yeur considers
ton. But notwithstanding all that can
be said in favor of this place for a ter
minus. the great depth of water render
ing anchorage inconvenient and almost
will preclude, it being con-
sidered as desirable site, when others
and far better harbors may be found.
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