, 1885-12-31

provision above quoted arc 4 per
petuation Of the dominion Of congress
over us. In seeking admission to the
union, we expect TO be placed upon
an equal footing with the older states
and within the appropriate sphere of
state legislation, to be forever ex
empted from interference by con-
gress. II we cannot be admitted as
an equal and with full power to do
all that other states may do. then we
may as well stay out of the union.
II, however, congress IS to dictate
what our constitution shall contain
and what it shall omit, a good deal Of
trouble would be avoided / fit would
prepare, under the direction of our
cheeky delegate, form OF constitu-
ton to be adopted by the people of
our territory"
Columbia Chronicle: It is "a no
ticeable fact that those Voorhees, Or
gans throughout the Territory, which
have been so diligently herating the
\. p. r. r, company and clamorous
for forfeiture Of its grant along the
Cascade branch, because it had failed
to complete that portion OF the road
within the time stipulated by con-
tract, are now, since the contract has
been let fer the big tunnel and orders
have been given to build the uncom-
pleted portion OF the road at once,
just as diligently engaged in accus-
ing the company of insincerity in let
ting its contracts, for the purpose OF
warding of adverse legislation.
These would-be emancipators of the
dear people are not unlike the tabled
dog who lay in the manger, and,
while he could rot eat hay himself,
refused TO let the horses. They want
Congress to declare the land grant
forfeited because the road IS not
built, and, as they think, there is no
hope of its being built, but as soon
as there is some ray Of hope let
into the eastern part Of the territory
denoting that the poor farmer shall,
ere long, be free from the tyranny of
the only road that can take grain to
tide water, these selfish parasites of
an edetistical unscrupulous delegate
vino was elevated to his present posi-
ton upon an issue falsely presented,
begin to show their fangs and snarl
at the heels OF their benefactoFs. The
people of Eastern Washington want
the Cascade road completed SO that
they can send their grain, vegeta-
bles and stock to those counties on
Puget Sound, whore it is raised in
small quantities only. The people of
Western Washington want the Cas-
cade branch built, So that they can
ship their magnificent fir timber to
the prairie counties Of the east; that
they may send to us their fish, fresh
from the briny deep without shipping g
it a hundred miles cut Of the way and
through the State Of Oregon. The
whole people want the Cascade
branch built, that both Eastern and
| Western Washington may be freed
from the tyrannical chains of the
seaport Oh the creek, Portland. 1t is
an undisputed fact that the road can
not be built across the almost impaa-
sable mountains, without the aid OF
the land grant. If the n p. does
not build the road, no other company
can do so without assistance, and
should the grant be forfeited, the
middle aged man OF today will be il
his grave when rail communication
between Eastern aud Western Wash
ington is had without paying tribute
to Portland. The only solution OF
the railroad problem more particular,
ly relating to excessive tariff, is com
peting lines. Without competing
lines we must continue to pay the
S1.10 per hundred pounds additional
y. X. q n. freight rate upon all goods
from the East, avon AJaaTIsrll tn at 1rcac
carries it but go miles. Without com.
peting lines, the large scope of coun-
try known as the Kittitas and Yaki-
ma valleys must remain unimprovad
and unsettled, and without compe--
ting lines the entire interior must
submit to the dictation of Portland's
capitalists, and stand up to the rack
like heroes until they are robbed of
every drop OF their life's blood that
can be taken without causing abso
lutte business dealh. When rail.
road or other corporation endeavors
to lnjure the country in which we
live we feel like opposing them with
all our might but there are cases
when we fight fire with fire and be-
lieving IN the homeopathic principle
of Similia simjHbW8 curdntttr we pre-
scribe competing line to tide water
as the only means Of curing the ills
under which our people are now suf-
fering. This cannot be done if the
grant is taken away. and with that
belief, We pronounce the Voorhees,
organs above referred to, as enemies
of their country,