Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-29
MORE Og THE TALK.

promised TO do 40 today:
JUIGE LEwis
Having been called for. said; nave
ne.er blamed the railroad Company Tor
the massage Of tuat Infamous law passed
o.. the last Legislature eLempun2 Ali
ti,..r lands and property from tfxati"h'
bat have laid tn. DlaLH9 on the HE 3Uef5
OF the Legislature xbo HsIs lot snroSd
.Daagu 70 withstand the olandI-U Uents
oil tae railroad attorneys and TIE iHH1
zee Of free pl4-ss over the roads. DIX.
SicSauQnt STATS that he ASSUMES IAe
fespnusI DlIIty OF that lag, winch l. VIZ
t. .iiy acknO EleGgIng tnat lie hDOdooeu
;Ie Legislature, and nos NJ COMES nste
with 4 telegram from New YORK - no1-
900 "a. II had sent tiIat dispatch IL
w1uid have cost abD1t three doll rs. olt
- tue President OF the Northern FrcInc
Iallrpad Company has pas over TIE
western tnlon lines, u dId not cJ.' q
cent. Nix. White showed you some oil
the lniaLlsies Of the deeds gwen by the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
bat lie Odd not point out them all. why,
III 80 deeds reserve the right to tae coIn-
panv to take even the wat. from the
l.sd they sell. aud the only thing that
s1rprises me Is that they do not reserve
to themselves the grass that grows on
the land.
Inc Judge then displayed govern
rnent map If the Territory WIZ the So
called railroad lands marke thereon.
showing that the railroad COMPANY
claimed nearly the whole OF the iahos
embraced within our oodh1aries. III
expiaIniug the matter he SAID lou
vii se thew have got about Ali, ana he
tpuugat struck ue that when our MS
representative IN Congress was suggest
Iu1 suitable names for the future com
Inonwealth. sueh A. Cascadia, Arcadls,
Iacornia, etc, he had better call 1t
Railroads." and be done with 1t and
as the Nor hern Pacific Railroad Com
panv are attempting to gobble up the
greater portion Of II, the future state
could ue aplly called, Northernla IA
cificia RailTodia." But seriously, the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
nav. no right To hold on t. the Hu-
earned land grant IN Washington Ter
ritnry. hey will be compelled - come
10 the Sound. az Waliuia Il not a very
thrifty terminus for trauscontinestil
railroad. and Psrtiand Is already In
league with the Union PAcitic, and pro
claiming that hereafter she IL Inaepcnd-
snt of the Northern Pacific. Talk
about railroads not being built without
land grants. Laok at the Oregon Rail
way IL Navigation Company and tie
Oregon Short Line, neither one of
which ever received from the govern
ment foot of land. SEQ what roads
they have built, and what strides they
have III sde without any grant. The Or
epon short Line and Oregon Railway Il
Navigation Company will control the
Portland trade. ~ together they are
| 800 miles shorter than the Northern
| Pacific but where are We going
| and what must We do for our own self
preservation! ! have no disposition To
| traduce Tacoma. Her prosperity will
not q tr act from That of Seattle. like
to see every town and hamlet on Puget
| Sound grow and prosper, for they All, to
| n greater or less extent, contribute to
| the business prosperity of Seattle. which
stands AS solid as the rock of ages, and
| from her nataral advantages of htrbor
| and location must continue To grow and
prosper. unless we lay down upon our
| bellies ana suck tally. and let oar ad-
vantages slip from IA like suoS before
| the san. But to return to the main
point. the land grant. This North-rn
| Pacific Railroad Company has made
| nearly half Il dozen locations through
the mountains, and claims grant on
| all of them. In 1873 this company filed
its plat of detiuite io1ailou through the
| Cowlitz Pass. and 4 recent decision If
| the Supreme Court has been made TIA I
when = railroad company has once
made definite location that location
cannot be changed. That IL, that the
grant does not follow any future loct-
ton. | was in Tacoms We terdty. A
citizen took me To one side aud advised
me To buy u town lot there, ~ some one
had Just received Il private letter from
&. \. Wr,gh'. | came to Seattle. and
instead of Il private letter from G.. r.
| Wright, 1t WAS = private telegram from
sJme one else We must not be ulisled
by these side issues. We are pushing
| forward measure Of right, based upon
principal, aud no side ISSUES should be
allowed 10 m,slead US. admire the
| pluck of Senator Slater, who. on receIv-
ing the resolutions of the Chamber
| of Commerce of Portland. telegraphed
that, ~ he believed that e forfeiture
of the land grant was calculated To pro.
iapkp tur oVSs iit'itStS vi pttGbl Atltl
tho Northwest. he should vut. tor for
fixture, notwithstanding thoss resolu
tons. Since that time have been able
to realize how Ia man can be a patriot. n
statesman and Democrat. On the
| other hand. a few months ago | h d
occasion To try lawsuit a arnst the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
and who do you suppose | met ~ op.
posing counsel? No less personaee
than duly elected and qualified mem.
Der of the Senate of the United States
OF America. o.. what u spectacle that
was A Senator of the United State.
acting AS the paid attorney for grea;
corporation like the Northern Pacific
Railroad. 1t Is safe to say that this
Senator will be ever found opposing the
forfeiture of the unearned land grant.
IL Democratic House of Representa-
tives PASS the forfeiture bill and the
Republican Senate refuse 10. what will
be the result. But there are no fears.
On the eve of great Presidential
election the Republican Senate is not
going tn make any bad break like that
Ii they see the people favor forfeiture
they will pass the bill. Why. this great
leach, or snail, just us you choose to
call 1t. the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, has no limit To its greed.
The, have attempted 10 steal the name
of our grand old mountain. and are try
inS 10 steal the name of our state: they
are trying 10 gubhl- up all our lant.s
without having earned Al acre, and |
would not he surprised To find them at
tempting To steal the air We breathe.
JUDGE suRkx
Said; | met well-known citizen Of
this Territory tod " who recently re-
turned from the East While in New
York he met Sidney Dillon. president of
the Union Pacific Railroad. IN ixo diff
ferent occasions. aud to hun Mr.. Dillon
spoke as follows:
I'VE have had an eye uu Puget Sound
for long time, and would now have
had our road we'll on toward those WA
tiers had II not been for the land gran,
held by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company. which IN kss an anequai fight
for u.s.
Let us semand of Congress the for
feitare of these une rnei lands, and We
will not only have one railroad termi
mating on the Sound. hut three or four
This very week a corporation has been
formed by citizens OF Washin ton Ter
ritory ~ huiid railroad across TIE.
mountains, from Seattle vi. the Suo,
quaimie Pass, aud every one Of Won W III
within the next ten A avs i.v.. n, anna