Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-08-02
ANGULAR DISCRIMINATION

Oregonian that the Northern Pacific
managers gave notice to the Oregon and
Washington Pioneer Associate IN that a
reduction Of rates would be made to
them over their read as far rs
St. Paul from Portland They would
carry = member to St. Paul and back on
the opening Of their road for SIS and
would carry their wives or other female
friends for 500 each, and that the men,
ben did not accept their terms, and as
reason claimed that they were not as lib
eral Is the Central and Union Pacific
offered to the Pioneers of California on
the opening of their roads, who, as we
have been informed, made the terms be-
tween San Francisco aud Omaha and re-
turn, at $40 each. As yet We have seen
no notice that the Northern Pacific have
offered any lower terms to the Oregon
and Washington Pioneers. But we find
that invited guests in large numbers from
San Francisco, Portland and many other
places on this coast as well as in the Fast
are offered free pass both ways over the
road for an excursion on the occasion of
the completion Of the road;and as Mr.
Willard says in his card, at is the desire
Of the company that its guests should be
1t no personal expense during the entire
trip and after the ceremonies connected
with the formal opening of the road,
members Of the party from the Pacific
side may, if they desire, visit the Eastern
termini Of the road via Minneapolis" and
again. thine for rest and sight seeing
will be allowed at number of the most
interesting points on the route"
1t is maxim that men have the right
70 do with their own what they please
II it does not interfere with the rights
Of others, that men have the right to
choose their associates. Hence, perhaps,
no man has the right to complain of the
discrimination made by the Northern
Pacific Company in offering to the old
pioseers Of Oregon and Washington terms
such Is they deemed more illibcral than
those given to their brother pioneer Of
California by the other transcontinental
roads. But certainly there was fitness
in the pioneers Of Oregon and Washing
ton who had braved the hardships of
crossing the continent, through hostile
Indians over trackless deserts and through
tEackless forests and reached this country.
Subdued the hostile tribes, lived on the
most abstemious diet for years, built them
selves homes, reared families under the
greatest Of privations and hardships, form
ed communities and developed great and
rich country and made it attractive long
before the Northern Pacific even set
peg towards the building Of road, TO
drain its products, and after the road was
projected, seventeen or eighteen years
ago, have studiously continued their Ia
bors in preparing the country to receive
The road and give to it support, without
whose energies and those of their CO
laborers who followed soon after, the
country would have remained a wilder
ncS to this day. We say there
was = fitness in these men being
highly favored by the managers Of the
Ncrthern Pacific in extending to them
he largest liberality in rates Of passage
over their line when completed. Many
4 them to-day are old and feeble, yet
vhsse spirit would be cheered to pass
pveT the road and zee the results Of their
'arly pushing into the far west. But
'uch seems not to be the policy Of the
Willard management. That management
must give free passes, and banquets and
lsep, class Of invited guests from those
rho have, perhaps, never suffered in per-
on any privation, or expended one dollar
owards bringing about the, development
t the resources Of the Northwest, from
shich this great road expects to derive
b support and profit. The large portion
{ these guests, and, perhaps, all Of them
ave ample means to pass over the road
> often as they please and not feel the
Expense of passage and fare, while many
T the old pioneers would find it burden
. pay even half fare. To our mind the
'hols thing smaks Of the dog policy and
abobbery, which seem anti American,
ID well calculated to foster the European
istinction Of classes, based upon property
nd spucious nobility, rather than service,
'telligence and worth. Since writing
le above we rec in the Oregonian Of ;
ae 9th ult. that the secretary Of the ,
'ioneers has secured rates At $40 per
cad TO St. Paul and back and S74 per
cad to Lake Superior and back, provided
.at 200 Persons take the trip and they !
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