Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-10
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5eFefal prominent EiSplDllctH Ec1u-
ers addressed their fellow citizens at
Frankland's Hall. Lake Union, lsst
night. The meeting was organized by
the election Of Mr. Franklsnd as chair
man.
JUDGE JACOBS,
Candidate for the Legislative Coancil,
was the FIRST speaker. The Judge said
that life vas q series of compromises ;
that legislation consisted Of com
promise Of different elements. and that
churches and like organizations were
kept intact bv compromises. and could
not exist unless By some concessions OF
natures and opinions still no man Is
expected 70 COMPROMISE on any q1es-
ton where right and wrong are con-
eeFned. There csaid be no such thing
As party organization If every individ-
ual insisted on his peculiar ideas being
demanded to appear IN the party plat
fern.
Yoa all know me you have heard
me speak, and know how | stand on
the forfeiture question. was IN favor
of forfeiture while IN Congress, and
through my efforts while there an i'm
mense tract of land held by the North
cru Pacific Railroad Company for
their imaginary line through the
Natchess pass was restored 10 the public
domain. That company did not like
me much for that, aud have not formed
much love for me since. If had heed
ed It's behe SITS, doubtiess | could have
remained in Congress to this day.
crowd of Us went up TO Newcastle
the other day, and someone there stated
that | was not forfeiture man. | felt
like going home to have my wife ex-
anime me and see if 1 was y. Jacobs
or not. We have dog up at our house,
and thought ! would let him smell of
me and see whether | WAS myself or
not. For May years | have spent much
time and labor III trying TO make this
railroad company treat the people
fairly. Seine one has defined tbs devil
as a mighty, intellectual spirit, without
moral sensibilities, and do not know
of a better definition for a souiless cor
poration like the one we are graphing
with. The reason that lawyers like TO
be attorneys for thsse corp IRA tons Is
because there Is money in II for them,
and fine clothes for themselves and fine
dresses for thelr wives and children. A
certain we'll known man has; SAID there
are only two ways to get along with a
monopoly-0ne Is TO buy 1t, and the
other is to fight it. Well, my fellow
citizens, we are not able to buy the
Northern Pacific, but we are able to
fight 1t and try to make 1t act and deal
fairly with the people. We have been
lighting 1t, and the physic has COM
menced TO work. We have, by our war
fare, made them change the abomina
bic contract for tue sale of
the land, which reserved every
thing except possession aud the right to
pay taxes To the company. Under the
old rule, if man bought 40 acres of
land from the company. and some time
thereafter they wanted it for TOWNSHIP
purposes, they could take it, and compel
the original purchaser 10 mainta N
fences on that land forever. Judge
Lewis, Dir. kinnear, myself ana others
showed up the iniquity of these con
tracts they were exacting from inaocent
purchasers of their lands, and the com-
pany, it is said, has caused some of the
most damnable features to be stricken
from those contracts. Some say. Why did
Il,
because they were in no position to
lock horns with monster corporation
like tnat, which, if they did make a
fuss, would give the screw of oppression
another turn. For these and MANY
more reasons | am forfeiture man
and running on sound forfeiture plat.
form.
The company is not acting in good
faith. Ill tell you my idea of what
they are endeavoring to do. On this
side Of the Cascade mountains there il
a magnificent belt of mineral and tim
Der land, rich in coal, gypsum and iron,
every acre of which, according to the
railroad company's own figures, is worth
and can be sold for from eight to nine
dollars per acre. On the other side
from Ainsworth to the foothills of the
Cascade, Is rolling prairies, capable OF
producing large crops of grain, so that
for every mile of road the company
builds on either side of the mountains
under their rulings they expect to gel
S2OO,OOO worth of land. My idea il
they will hnild on either side of the
mountains and endeayor to have the
lands confirmed TO them AS they 90, ans
when they come to the mountains where
It would cost vast sum of money tC
build the road, thev will stop and coolly
tell Congress TO go ahead and forfeit the
lands on that portion of the uucom.
| pleted road If IL wants to, after their
feeders on both sides are completed
and all the valuable lands gnbbied nc
by the railroad company.
when | am dead want IL engraved
on my tombstone that during my life
protested against q corporation com.
uniting an outrage of this kind. The
time IN which this Northern Pacific
Railroad Company could possibly carr
an acre of laad west of the Missouri
river expired seven years ago, and they
have no right to the lands iu question
either in law or equity. The public
lands are Gods heritage to the people
to be given to pioneers who pust
into the frontier to build homes
and open up the country, anC
the granting OF it in large bodie,
10 railroad corporations was wrong In
principle and wrong in practice. You
| all know that myself and Others went
into the Republican Territorial Con
vention and attempted to have uncon
ditional forfeiture put in the platform
We failed Ia a measure, bat We got th,
next thing To it. To us that platform
is very salt and very heavy. In spite
of that platform am forfeiture man
and viii remain SO as long az live.
The Judge then made some illusions
to MIR. Armstrong, speaking very kindly
OF him, and his services in behalf of his
country during the late war, He drew
a word picture of the war and It's re-
suits, which was touching and beanti
full. The trouble with the Territorial
platform is that IL is illogical. Ii favor.
opening mp those lands for settlement
How are you going to open them up &c
settlement while the title Is in the Rail
road Company, unless n FIRST restore
them 20 the public domain, where they
belong. They can't be opened up without
an act OF Congress 10 that effect. This
railroad company has a power, and q
malignant influence. IL creeps int and
sometimes controls our conventions. II
worms Its way into our halls OF lecisla
ZION. Last fall IL erawled into our Isgeis
laiure, and succeeded in having an mi
quitous law passed, shielding its mil
lions OF dollars worth of property II
this Territory from taxation, anG
want you all TO understand
that Hon. John Collins, the maj
who Is today running against
me on tie legislative ticket voted 70,
that iniquitous Law while a member OF
the laouSelf Al the last saassiaf, 80 h.