The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-06-23
GRUMBLERS.

IA iieM M-ce-rle who seem to have more time
to think about and cominent upon matters
of which they have no conti>l than their
own actions have been frequently mutterin:, :,
about the manner in which the Oregon
Pacific railroad was managing the progress
Of their enterprise, and sometimes these
people 60 so far as to say ''the railroad COM
rany have sold out, that ''they have quit
work." that ''the road is not going to be
built, and all such nonsensical expressions.
Such remarks, however, are frequently
started floating around by parties who wish
such remarks were true, and by others who
have nothing else to do but belong to that
class of grumblers who can never see that
anything that other people are doing IS done
or managed we'll, and generally by persons,
who never did much for themselves but
belong to that class of people who go to
make up the great horde of constitutional
growlers. Such persons grumble and growl
and ask and wonder why the managers of
great enterprise like the one under question
do not manage their affairs so as to do this
way VI tudt way VI StbliiO OVHSl hSAohSi
of which would be dictated by reasonable
judgement or common sense in the manage
ment of such affairs, when in fact the par
ties who freely and voluntarily furnish the
growing without money and without price
could not manage and probably never have
managed the running of wheel barrow
with any degree of success, much less the
construction of and running of great
railroad enterprise. On the contrary the
thorough business men of the country whose
life has been spent on the road to success in
whatever calling they have been placed have
learned by experience that it requires study,
forethought and a thorough understanding
of any undertaking to manage it and make
it success; hence we find that Such ex-
perienced and painstaking men do not
grumble, but concede to railroad managers
and men of other pursuits the credit of be-
ing able to manage their own business bet
ter and in more economical manner than
lot of people who never saw half dozen
tell the essential differences between the
moving qualities Of railroad train and an
old-fashioned pack train.
The tunnels of the company are being
pushed forward with forces of hands work
ing night and day in order to effect an early
completion. The largest portion of and in
fact nearly if not quite all of the com pany's
material and supplies used in constructing
the road will have to be brought in off the
ocean at the other end of the road and con-
veyed from there into the interior. Without
the tunnels being completed how in the
name of common sense can the company
with any pretense of economy or justice to
itself convey the vast amount of material
that they will need for construction pur-
poses without first having the tunnels COM
pleted so that they can commence at the west
end of the road, and by completing con-
tinuous line of track so as to admit of their
construction trains passing along the line as
rapidly as the road advances. This they
cannot do with the tunnels unfinished
There may be other reasons for the COM
pany managing their affairs as they do,
but certainly the one above suggested far
outweighs any reasons for growing.