Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-28
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what il lacks in honesty. IL keeps Up a
sort of general average between pueril-
ity and viciousness. Having no hxed
zrinciplss, unable OF unwilling 70 dis
criminste between right and wrong, be
tween sophistry and sound argument
tbsss trsehfnas sptrGIss 81 the body pol
tito bore their way into it, intestinss
with irritating if not fatal results.
On Friday evening one Of these AMI
naIculse-a local oriero5s-lectured the
people Of Seattle upon their duties TO
the Northern Pacific in the regulation
styIe prescribed for sach dirty work By
the "bosses." After reeiting the veil
known fact that this city. IN common
with all others in the United states, Is
suffering from the effects Of an exten-
sive I'm lncial depression and that the
people OF Seattle have bad ths temefliy
70 advocate a policy With respect to
public lands inimical 10 the pecuniary
interests of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company, the Herald thos ad-
drssses its intelligent readers: When
We compare the hustle of business IN
this city a year ago With her present
atapuaut condition, We must arrive AZ
the conclusion that II ia the rssah Of
eause.'' This ID wisdom boiled dosn.
Without this information the HeTa'ds
readers might have gone on biindly
thinking that hard times are the result
Of an egsct. After this lucid eKplana-
ton We are prepared for the statement
that follows, to Wit money u very
scarce and times hard " because the
railroad company have frightened the
screws a. the fight against their inter
est progressed nos voluntarily perhaps,
bat through inability 10 comply with
our demands" Here again IL profundi-
~, lucdity and what not. The railroad
company has frightened the screws.
What screwsl What has that company
ever done for this city What busi-
ness has it given as that has been with
drawn But We are told that these
screvs" have not been frightened vol
unfairly, but from inability to do any
thing else. II 80. what has Seattle had
to do with it
Again We are told that the Northern
Pacific az a company 10 unable to do
what its Board of Directors would do II
a5le." Here il more light and, strange
to say, a grain Of truth. Neither the
Northern Pacific as a company" nor
It's Directors are able to longer delnde
Congress or the people of this Territory
into accepting promise for performance.
They are unable 10 make broken pledges
serve in place of honest deeds. They
are unable to use the people of this
Territory to paw their chestnuts out Of
the fire. And the sooner that company
and all the little moths that futter
round its locomotive headlights find
this out the better for them. Further
on We are gravely told that " We are not
powerful enough TO fight large corpora
tons" This would be insulting were IL
not inane. II IL not Seattle alone which
Is -" fighting" corporations. Nor is this
city opposed to any legitimate claim.
interest, or act Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company. In common with
all other honest and independent com
munities, the people of this city are OPP
posed TO injustice aud abominate fraud.
We have united with and added our in-
fuence TO q demand which rises from
every portion Of this great Republic,
that land grant railroad corporations
shall be bound by Law az are individual
citizens; that they shall surrender TO
the Government that portion of the
public domain 10 which they have
neither legal nor equitable right
that they shall be servants Of
the power that created them
that they shall bear equally with other
persons the burdens of government
that, in short, they shall follow the
golden rule. This and this only IL the
fight that Seattle makes. II il q fight
as old as Rovernment-certain as old
ss the birth of the first corporation
created in this country. 1t will 90 on
until either the people are crushed be
meath the wheels of huge plntocratie
iuReeraant. or corporate monopoly is
dethroned and subjuRated
OF the result there can be 10 donbt.
The people of this whole country are
aroused 10 knowledge Of the charac-
ter Of the struggle. They know il will
be fierce, bitter and prolonged. This
monster of corporate extortion and rob
berry Ia hydra headed. II is hard TO
kill. But so surely as the sun shines,
30 surely will the lands Of the people
not yet within the grasp of corporate
and alien greed. revert TO the ownership
and control of the General Govern
ment, He ia blind who cannot perceive
In the discomfort and unrest every.
where prevailing. evidences Of revolu-
ton against the fraud, usurpations and
corruption which have, in the manage.
ment OF the great railroad corporations,
especially the land grant corporate ons,
established in these United States an
dmpe,iam IN inps'io, hostile 60 public
liberty and menacing TO governmental
stability. IL is better for all that the
change come peacefully.
We advise the Herald and all others
Of It's class TO stop lecturing free aud
Intelligent citizens upon their duties to
railroad company. There is limit
20 all things. The people of Seattle,
who 10 sheer self protection have beer
compelled to contribute OF their pri.
vate means a Subsidy Of $780, Zoo. to aid
afriendly corporation TO bsild rail
road 30 that the resources OF thi.
county shall not be diverted from their
legitimate and natural outlet. are not in
the humor to be told that a subsidy OF
public lands to a rival and hostile cor.