Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-01-31
OLYMPIA RAILROAD UNION--ITS AID
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Olympia Tenino Railroad. Al can unite
their means for this Object. Stock is
issued for everything that is put in the
Union. or worket! out on the road, SO
that the men who furnish the means or
do the work. own tic road. and can di-
rect and control the movement to their
own best advantage. ltwell supported,
the Union will IN grading i'll
April; it will keep up the business and
courage of the community this Summer
and grade and tie the road by August.
Should Congress ~empowcrthe county to
issue bonds. it can Immediately com
rlete and equip q tirst-class road by n
moderate issue of county bonds. II
Congress fails to pass such III act, the
Union. owning IL, 900 acres of land and
a graded road-hed, with the cash that
could be raised in the county, will be
able to iron and run it without bonds.
Thus, it will be seen. that the Union
furnishes a broad, ample basis, upon
which all can unite.
1t is a home effort, TO- be made at
once, without waiting for or depending
upon the uncertain action of Congress
or other body, which may never act,
may not act satisfactorily, and will not
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event.
1t makes the people independent, by
uniting their strength, 50 that in any
event they can secure a road, and in
case of issuing county bonds will enable
them to avoid an excessive issue.
The gauge and character of the road
will be determined hereafter by the
Union, and will depend chiefly upon the
support it receives. The Union will do
the very best it can with the means it
receives; so the more literally it is sup
ported, the better road it will build.
There is scarcely a man in the county
who is not willing to do something to-
wards the Olympia-Tenino Railroad.
If each man would grade one hundred
feet feet of roadway, the whole would
be graded. With a graded road and
ten thousand acres Of land as security,
there would be no difficulty in raising
the means to iron and stock the road.
The Olympia Railroad Union affords
a rallying point upon which all can
unite. Let every man support this
movement in downright earnest. Let
us make COMMON cause, for all are in
terested alike and must stand or fall to-
gether. Subscribe your lands, your
means, your labor, your time, and make
it a success. Your efforts will benefit
the whole community, as we'll as your
self. There is no cause except religion
and patriotism, which is more entitled
to the sympathy of the public-spirited,
of the religious, of all those wishing to
benefit their kind, than this effort to ar
rest the sinking fortunes of a once -four
ishing community (May the saints de-
fend us from another scathing re-
buke"D and restore and build up their
former prosperity. Themanw who hangs
back now, who casts doubt upon the
only feasible project for railroad COM
munication, is doing the community and
himself an irreparable injury. +
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OLYMPIA DISTRICT ScHooL.-Mr. Kaye
publishes a card in the Courier in re-
spouse to the very Incorporate language
OF the Echo concerning the public school
under his charge. The rcbuke is mer-
tied, although we believe the Echo is
sincere in its expressed desire for i'm
provement. The teachers make the
best possible use of the facilities placed
at their command, and the rapid pro-
gress of the pupils attests the fidelity
of their labors. All that is needed is
more room and better accommodations,
to make the school equal to any in the
Territory.
LICKING The school children will
be pleased to learn, paradoxical as it
may seem, that a pedagogue has actu-
ally taken up the cudgel against whip
ping in the public schools. Human
ity' to the rescue in the last
Echo, and substituting his pen for a rod,
lashes most numerically the advocates
OF "corporeal punishment" 1t is