Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-02
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convention assembled declares AZ fol.
/ lows:
Inst We fully approve OF she princl-
| pies proclaimed by the National Demo-
cratic Convention aud heartily indorse
the nomination of Cleveland and Hen
orIcks for President and Vice Pre.i.
dent.
The public lands are tue heritage of
the people and should be held by the
government as a sacred trust, to be sold
aud disposed of to actual settlers in
small holdings. The government kav-
ing heretofore under Republican rule
made unzise and improvident grants of
large tracts OF public lands to corpora
tions Tor the purpose OF aiding ia the
construction OF important lines of rail-
ways; and said corporations having
10 many instances failed TO con.
struct said railways IN accord
anee With the generous conditions
OF said grants, the government sheuid
now avail itself of the breach of condi-
tios and resume control of the granted
lands, thereby closing for the future for
ever tue oT~n gateway through which
the system of landlorcism, now bearing
snoh sorrowfui and cslamitous fruit in
tns fairest portions Of Europe, is effect
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany having more than twenty wears
ago been granted lands, amounting TO
an empire IN extent to aid in the con-
struction of a railroad, from Lake Supe.
rior to Puget Sound upon tie most mn.
sihcent terms and conditions, which
terms and conditions IL has fiaprantIy
violated, II now mas no legal or equit-
able claim to these lands and can receive
none of them except as an act of grace
upon the part of the government. We
therefore demand shat the government
shall resume control of all the granted
lands except such an have been sold to
bona hde purchasers, aud in such cases
the purchasers title should be confirm
90. Those portions of ihe grant within
the limits of the withdrawal on the main
line from Wallula. 10 kalama ON the
Columbia river via Portland and on the
Cascade branch from main iiue in East.
ern Washington to the terminus ON Pu-
get Sound, and also all lands within the
so called lieu limits along said lines
should be unconditionally restored to
public domain, the company having new
or constructed any of these portions of
its chartered lines. Titles Of settlers and
of bona fide purchasers within such lim.
its should be- confirmed and the company
compelled to account to the Govern
ment for the proceeds of such sales. All
other parts OF the oompany's enormous
grants should be restored to the control
Of the Government to be opened to set
Element under existing laws of the Unit
cd States and the proceeds turned over
to the company. We believe the control
Of large areas of lands by individuals or
corporations is wrong Ia principle amt
preJudicial and dangerous TO the pnblic
welfare.
We denouncs, as fraught with peril to
our rights and liberties, the high handed
attempts Of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company to control the legislation
aud politics of this Territory. We
denounce the attempt of the n. +. X. X.
Go. to secure FROM the President the ac
ceptance Of the Payallup GOAL road as a
part of tue Cascade branch; said road
having been built many years ago sim-
ply as local road, wholly within tue
limits of the lands withdrawn for the
main line of said company without auy
preteuse or intimation that il was, OF
was intended to be, sny part Of said
branch line. We characterize such at
tempt as an act of bad faith aud 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 whoe
Of the proposed branch line.
We are in favor of the imme date re-
peal of the gross earnings tax law, enact
cd at the last sesslen of the Territorial
Legislature. We favor equal taxation
with all other property, of she legal and
equitable interest of railroad corpora
tlons in lands owned by them or
their assigns, aud we favor the enact
ment If the necessary legislation either
by Congress or the Territorial Legisla
ture.
We favor the enactment by Congress
and the Territorial Legislature of laws
regulating freiehts aud fares upon rail
roads, 81 as to prevent extortionate
charges and unjust discrimination.
That through the neglect aud want OF
efficiency in the administration of the
Government, hordes Of Chinese laborers
are still pouring inte our midst To coiu-
pete with aud degrade honest free labor.
and we charge ths Republican party
with bad faith in the enforcement Of the
Chinese restriction act.
We are in favor of such change IN
existing laws as will fully IrJtect the
lives, rights and property Of miners.
We favor the enactment of laws i'm
posing severe fines and penalties upon
any railroad company or its agents that
shall give, or offer to give, directly or in
directly, any passes, tickets or other
transportation TO any member Of the
Legislature or any officer thereof. or 10
any delegate TO any political convention.
That We condemn the course OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad IN the depar-
ture from the policy of charging equsi
freight rates TO the interior and terIni-
nal points of their road as an uniustih-
able violation of sacred promises made:
that the compelling of intermountain
shippers To pay freight charge upon
their shipments OF merchandise from
the East equal 10 the amount charged TO
tue Pacific terminal and back TO their
respective points, over hundreds OF
miles, is an imposition that should not
be borne by the producers and consum-
ers along the line without seeking
every possible means OF redress, and
that until this great wrong 10 right
of repetition, the whole people OF
Washinstou Territory should regard
with Jealous suspicion all unbonded
demanding equal and exact justice in all
matters pertaining 10 freiaht charges.
As a matter of right ws ash for the
speedy admission of Washington Ierri-
tory, with the name g Washington, AZ
ons OF the sovereign States Of the Fed
eral Union, and we favor the incorpora-
ton OF North Idaho within the limits OF
the future State.
We are In favor OF 30 amending the
laws as to relieve women from the
compulsory Jury duty in this Territory,
with this amendment we heartily en-
dorse the present laws extending the
right OF suffrage TO women, and declare
that the elective franchise should not De
denied 10 any citizen on account OF sex.
We are in favor of liberal apptopria-
tions for the improvement OF all the
uavigable rivers and waters OF this Ter
ritory. !.
We are opposed TO the selection OF
non residents 10 all the federal sifices
within the Territory.
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