Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-09-19

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now has 10 legal or equitable clam
10 thc-c lands and can receive none
"i them IS an act OF grace on the
/ part Of the Government. We there
/ tolc demand that tie Government
>hH!l itatiia" cOn-tol Il all these
granted lands except such e., Lave
h''m sold t" bon. iilc purchasers,
al III such cases the purchaser
title should hc confirmed. Those
PORTIONS Of tie grant within the
llniits of tie withdrawal on the
man line from Waliula to kalama
on the Columbia river via Portland
and on the Cascade branch from the
naln line III Eastern v a>!in"ton t.
'tr Terminus on IA. et Sound, and
al. al lands within TIE sY-c.iled
lieu limits along SAID hes should he
Internationally restored to the pub
lie domain, the company having new
CT constructed any of these portions
If It's chartered hines. Tie utlc Of
settlers .! bona file purchasers with
III >ucn ilnI,o should be confirmed
and me company compelled to ac-
count tn the Government for the
proceeds of such sales. All other
pats of the company's enormous
giant should be restored to the con-
troll Of the Government to be opened
to settlement under existing laws of
the United States and the proceeds
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believe the control of large areas Of
lands by individuals or corporations
is wrong in principle and prejudicial
and dangerous to the pubic welfare.
We denounce, as fraught with
peril to Our rights and liberties, the
hieh-handed attempts of the North
EN- Pacific Railroad Company to
control the legislation and politics
OF this Territory. That we denounce
the attempt of the n. =. H. Il. Co.
to receive from the President the ac-
ceptance Of the Puyal!up coal road
as part of the Cascade branch;
said road having been built many
years ago simply as local road,
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withdrawn for the main line OF said
company without any pretence OF in
timatlOn that it was, or was IL tended
to be, any part of said branch line.
We characterize such attempt as an
act of bad faith and fraud on the
part OF said company, made for the
purpose of securing by stealth, and
without consideration, public lands
worth many times the cost of the
whole of the proposed branch line
We are in favor of the immediate
repeal Of the gross earnings tax law,
enacted at the last session of the
Territorial Legislature. We favor
cIua! taxation with all other proper
ty, of the legal and equitable inter
est OF railroad corporations in land
owned by them or their assigns. and
that We favor the enactment of the
necessary legislation either by Con-
Sress or the Territorial Legislature.
We favor the enactment by Con-
gress and the Territorial Legislature
Of laws regulating frei.hts and fares
upon railroads, SO as to prevent ex-
tortionate charges and unjust dis
elimination.
That through the neglect and
want of efficiency in the admnistra-
ton of the government, hordes of
Chinese laborers are still pouring
into our midst to compete with and
degrade honest and free labor, and
we charge the Republican party
with bad faith in the enforcement of
the Chinese restriction act.
That we in favor of such change
in existing laws as will fully protect
the lives, rights and property of
miners.
We favor the enactment of laws
imposing severe fines and penalties
upon any railroad company or its
agents that shall give, or offer to
give, directly or indirectly, any
passes, tickets or other transporta-
tons to any member of the Legis-
lature or any officer thereof, or to
any delegate to any political con-
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That we condemn the course of
the Northern Pacific Railroad in the
departure from the policy of charg-
ing equal freight rates TO the enter
ior and terminal points of their road
as an unjnstiiiable violation of sacred
promises made; that the compelling
of intermountian shippers to pay a
freight charge upon their shipments
of merchandise from the East equal
to the amount charged to the Pacific
terminal and back to their respective
points, over hundreds OF miles is
ar imposition that should not be
borne by the producers and consum
ers along the line without seeking
every possible means of redress,
ami that until this great wrong is
riGhted and assured beyond a posi-
bility of repetition, the whole PEG.
pie of Washington Territory should
regard with jealous suspicion all I'M
bounded promises of this company,
and unite in demanding equal and
exact justice in all matters pertain
ing to freight charges.
As q matter of right we ask for
the speedy admission of Washing
ion Territory, with the name of
Washington" as one of the sover.
eign States of the Federal Union,
and We favor the incorporation of
North Idaho within The limits of the
future State.
That we ale in favor of so amend
ing tho law as to relieve women from
compulsory jury duty in this Terri
tory, and with this amendment we
heartily endorse the present laws ex-
tending the right Of suffrage to wo-
men, and declare that the elective
franchise should not be denied to
any citizen on account o. sex
We are in favor of liberal appro-