Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-09-08
FROM MOSCOW.
Moscow Sept. Sd 1881.


EDITOR TELLER.-I see by your
advertisement in the paper that the
TELLER is to be enlarged. I am glad
to note this intended improvement for
many reasons. lst., it is evidence of
your prosperity, which some have been
so foolish as to assert, was on the wane.
I'd, there was evidently a demand for
more room in the paper for reading
matter to meet the wants of your nu-
nlerous subscribers in this section, and
3rd, it will permit you to give US CORES.
pondents a little more space TO vent
our views upon public and local mat
ters. The TELLER is always vel
come visitor to the families in this
neishborhood, for several reasons, they
seem to place reliance upon It's state
ment Of facts ard opinions, more than
upon those of any other journal taken
hero. 1t does not embelish its edito
rails with so much highfulutin Ian.
guage as some journals do. What it
has to say upon any measure is said in
straight forward and unmistakable
manner, and without spleen or spite.
1t deals with its opponents in a courts
Gus manner, and generally makes them
appear very diminutive in mental
strength and acumen. 1t rebukes the
selfish designs of such as seek to rob
the people of their rights. Such
paper can never fail to satisfy an hon
est ycomanry. 1t is what the people
Of North Idoho have enjoyed long
enough to have faith that a similar
course will be pursued in the future,
and its tendency is to elevate the
masses, rather than to subserve the
selfish ends of corporations, and that
portion of rich men who seek their
gains by rendering others poor. L
shall look for your enlarged number
with much interest. We have all sorts
Of rumOrs here about the movements
of the railroad companies. One day
we are to have road here at Moscow
this Fall, and the next that it vii be
delayed couple of years, and perhaps
the third day we are to have no road
at all. This state Of uncertainty is
very perplexing to some of our people.
Bat see no way to avoid this uncer-
tainty till the managers of these roads
are ready to make public their inten-
tons. We are pleased to note the pro-
eramme Of the Idaho, Clearwater and
Monta, company, articu!arly THAT
pant Of it which contemp'ates a road
north from Lewiston to the Northern
Pao itic. For the good of the people
Of this whole northern country, it il
the best marked out plan that has
been made public, and l believe it
would pay the best of any road of the
same length through the country.
There is one thing we all notice as re-
markablc. Both the Northern Pacific
people and those of the o. r. L. N.
company manifest great deal of SEN
sitiveness about the plans of the Id no
company. Why it is so we cannot
understand, unless they foresec that
with a road through, via. Clearwater,
the Idaho company would have big
advantage overaoh of them. in point
Of distance and character of country,
and we all know that the country
north from Lewiston to Spokane near
the Idaho line possesses greater agri-
cultural advantages than any other of
its area, provided it had a railroad
built through it in a nortkcrly direc-
ton. We here are in the dark about
the backing which the Idaho company
may have, hut we are sure they have
the brains to mark out a system of
roads that discounts all others in pros.
pect, and we hope success will attend
them. CASUAL.