Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-09-27

Pretty Well stated.
The Olympia transcript says:

alton, out of paying their just proportion
of taxes. There is no justice in taxing the
laboring classes and not taxing corpora
tons. Advocates of the railroad beg that
taxes be not collected and subsidies not
taken away, because the company is not
able to finish its roads aud carry on its
business without such support If 1t has
to grind the means to carry on its business
from the people of the country, it had bet
ter 60 to the wall. A corporation that was
granted one ofthe greatest subsidies known
in the world, and through mismanagement
and unfair dealing has lost its opportuu-
ties so that it can not keep its head above
water without taking subsistence from the
people, II is not fit to have an existence.
The ". p. Times, the N. p. r. r.
organ, or claiming to be such, is the
only newspaper on the Sound, that we
have seen, which assails the new Com
stitution, and its chief opposition is on
account of its providing for taxing cor
porate property the same as any other
property. It wants a Constitution that
will exempt corporate property of rail
roads, especially that Of the Northern
Pacific, from taxation for series of
years, and one that will compel the
farmers, mechanics, merchants and all
others save railroad owners and church
estates, to pay all the taxes necessary to
support the government and protect that
very property that is making stockh hold
ers in railroads and private church or
CARNATIONS rich. Here lies the seed of
the whole opposition to the present Cou-
stitution now before the people. Their
plea that its provisions will burthen the
people with increased taxation is all
subterfuge aud bosh. Adopt the Con-
stitution, gain admission as State, car
~ out the provisions of that Constitu-
ton by taxing alike all the property
within the limits of the State, whether
owned by corporations or churches, all
save that which is owned by the public,
and the percentage OF taxation necessary
for State government will not be as large
rs it is now to maintain the Territory.
Under present laws Congress furnishes
only about $4,000 per annum for
the government Of Washington Terri
tory, and gives the people no choice in
their rulers, nor does it give them any
voice in either branch Of Congress. 1t
leaves them but pitiful heggars 1900
miles distant from the National Capital
and subject to the caprice and within
and selfish interests Of Senators and
Representatives from Oregon and Cali,
fornia, which during the last ten years
have in marked degree manifested
their tendencies to manipulate the rights
Of the people of Washington to the aa
vantage of those States. Under State
government the increased property val
uation of the present Territorial limit
including the counties Of Idaho nortl
; Of forty-6ve, by reason of a proper as
sessment Of property now exempt, vii
more than pay by present rates of taxa
ton oil that Congress annually doles GU
TO support the Territorial government
and the people then can have their ga,
~ to the men who shall govern them
They can then be heard in their own be
half in both Houses of Congress with a
much force and effect as can Oregon
They can then manage and control thei
school lands, and place them in pos
ton to be Of use in educating the chill
dren Of the State. They can then max
selection Of other grants of land to b
made by Congress to the State bofor
the best lands are all absorbed by sci
tiers and national grants to private col
porations, and converted into unlimite
Indian reservations, where the red ma
can live in idleness in Winter sapporte
by the government, aud from which h
can sally forth as soon as the grass
green in the Spring to commit murds
and rapine upon defenseless settler
Tho Times on the Sound and I'll
Statesman east of the mountains are I'll
only two papers that oppose the Const
tuition directly, both of which are cou
pletely hide bosnd by corporations,
j. fully evident by the course each pa
sues when any aggressive act Of the
corporations is complained of by Il
people. The Statesman always did. u
der present management, serve the
large mouopolies for pelf, 1t has |