Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-09-13
The MAIN OBJECTION ANSWERED.

iP mnnlnl'Nc" cl ne N'ftHpiH
J.. .. : '.r..i C,ur1rv. ihc X dan
n, opposes the Olympia hranca
railroad, aad shows sill clearer the
meanness and INSCRIPTIONS grabbing
rropensitics of tina; company. Not
content with having humbu%ged the peo-
pic of OLYMPIA with their " Christmas
gift." and having kept tlou>auds Of
acres Of valuable land an hundreds Of
eligible lots tied up for years, they are
absolutely bent upon rulnin;; onr town.
Now n, the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company have declared that t!cy ell
tircly rcpudiatc the promises made to
our citizens, tina. they diSavow the an
tbority given to their agents to ncgoti-
alto with the people of Olympia for
building branch road to Budds Inlet,
it is hut natural that our citizens should
try other means to obtain railroad con-
nection. The agents of the Olympia
Railway and Mining Company, told us
several weeks ago, that they had assur-
ances from Messrs. Ainsworth, Rice
and SpraSue, that the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company would not in the
least oppose their enterprise, but would
aid in every possible way, and that
Gen. Sprasue had expressed his graft
tication that Olympia would have rail
road connection after all. We informed
Gov. Solomon and Col. Bee that we
had no faith in the promises OF these
men. The article in Mondays Beacon
proves that We were correct. 1t labors
hard to show that the people of Olym-
pia will wrong themselves by extending
aid to the Olympia Railway and Mining
Company, and it attempts to show
that the company cannot succeed. The
arguments advanced are so full of soph-
istry that it is not necessary to reply to
them. Our people understand this bus
mess quite as we'll as the mouthpiece
of the Northern Pacific Land Ring
does, and are satisfied to let the Olym-
pia Railway and Mining Company at
tend to its own finances.
But what is the obiectof this attempt
Of the land ring to prevent Olympia
from obtaining railroad communica-
ton? We answer, they clearly see that
Tacoma is a failure. They anticipated
that people from all parts of the Sound
would flock to "the terminus" but to
their dismay they find that instead of
building up the wildcat town of the
Northern Pacific Credit Moblier, they
prefer to put their shoulders to the
wheel and help their own towns. The
Ring begins to realize that with a rail-
road to Olympia and one from Walla
Walla to Seattle, and q limo of steam
ers between Olympia and San Fran
cisco, Tacoma's chances for becoming
the metropolis of the Sound are rather
slim.
The editor of the Beacon cannot hide
the cloven-foot when he advises the
people of Olympia to repudiate this en-
terprise. The feeling the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company entertains to-
wards us has been too plainly manifest
ed for it to have any other effect than
to stimulate our people to renewed en-
ergy and zeal in advancing any reason
able project for relief. They for once
have overshot the mark, and instead of
injuring our railroad project they have
silenced the strongest objection raised
against it that it is the Northern Pa
citic Railroad in another shape. This
charge is clearly disposed of by the ar
ticle in the Beacon, and we can after all
but thank the editor of that paper for
having exposed the animus of the COM
pany for whose benefit his paper is pub
lished.
DEArH.-Harry H. Sinclair, printer
formerly employed on the Portland
Herald, and few months ago on the
Transcript, of this place, died in Port