Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-06-01

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The most influential and able pauer.
OF tnis Territory have copied and com
mented upon an article Published In the
Wdteh'saH two weeks ago. in which at
tention was called 70 the futility Of the
pqoiic declarations of representatives
OF the political parties that have asseTa.
oied In the Pacifi, Northwest this year
and 70 the necessity of popular resist
ance u corporate aggression. The times
are now ripe for ind@pendent action
among the people. who are not ia the
tsmper to be pleased With general dee
Iarations In favor Of honest and econ
omlcal government of a s4lutary ad-
lustment OF the rights Of labor and c4p-
itaI of Chinese exclusion Of tie free
school system OF the improvement Of
the Columbia, and OF manv other things
upon which there i. perfect unanimuy
OF sentiment. There are questions press
ing for solution by their ballots OF vital
Importance to them.
Only last week, Mr.. Mcknight. attor-
ney for the Northern Pacific, had him
self interviewed at Seattle, and, among
other things, relating to the discrimin-
alton and other policies Of transconti-
mental roads, he deplored the fact that
she people had generally arrayed them
selves 10 hostility to the Northern Pa
cine. he says: when the company
needed all the strength il ceald get, TO
enable 1t to negotiate bonds for con-
struction purposes, ii encountered an
assault from the people against the very
security II offered Capitalists" This
statement contains an admission Of
the power OF the people to help them
selves against corporation rapacity. The
organizations in Whitman, Garfield and
Columbia counties, the popular uprising
IN King county. and the general express
slons OF discontent throughout the en-
tire Territory. over the outrageous rates
OF freight established, have had a very
salutary effect in bringing this arrogant
monopoly To an approach TO reasonable
ness in its demands. Without such
means. land claimed by the railroad
would never have been offered to actual
settlers for $3.50 per acre, and the peo-
pie of Seattle would never have had the
most positive assurances that il was not
the corporate design TO annihilate the
wealth and business of that city. The
people are in position nov To feel their
power, aud in frame of mind to exert
IL for their own protection.
for delegate who has the odor of oorpo-
ration favor about his garments can get
tithe of the popular vote 10 King,
Whitman or any Of the counties of the
Territory south Of Snake river. Ii is
safe to say that no candidate for the
Legislature who is not in favor of the
immediate repeal Of tho iniquitous rail
road tax law and enactment of lav to
prevent Determinations has a ghost of
show of election in the region of
country named. No county official,
from the highest to the lowest, who
gibbers nonsense about the duty Of the
people to make the best terms possible
with corporations, and who blatters
about communism when there Ia any
reference to popular rights, can reach
the dignity OF public servant. Faults
in the life breed error in the brain.
The man who wears a corporation col
lar cannot serve the people well in any
station. The people can have no di-
vided allegiance and, as these are the
paramount considerations they are am
pls for successful party to stand upon.