The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-07-10
THE RAILROAD OLIaARcHY.

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went 10 xeu Yeek sn insszaslfa. 20 co1ssf
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rsrs1rs. and ss<zbsy The 5slnf iesse. whfs
issss sss ss..zssss< = e $3.50 ss1 iss,rss
nE7er - . skfpg4sg e<nt<rs q ecnpareS
nj, Tsewfna. ~ reason Of TIE excessive
sx,s4 AZ exfs1nx sz5ie< - the sscna- ex the
Columbia sssey. VERSUS Pugxx sunni AZ
fhsf fisne fte extra cost 81 tosngs on nvss
e-rsf uof - than from hfs<en hundress 70
three theu<sad dsIisn Gin propssttsn 20
the ezxe5 for xrxxT ship ioa<se1 In tire Col
um1zfe river. o~es What the same CLAWS Of
sisft woss5d essss 10 the ocean ffom TzsofsA-
The statement wss revelation 70 fress-
fest that be ii sace yroratsad the ssH
sszouid be cnrreefcd. and thai rates By the
uay 81 the Columbia river ~ the sen
sba&id be made equally cheap vita these
from Tacoma This .prunatss Of frcsid~nt
Adams vax felezyxpsled back and trumpet
ID with great -eesxr" rs the dawn Of bet
Ter day or oar commercial prospects,
a few days sxo. after great uph<Ayai Of
the esementx- the railroad mountain ixbore1
aud gave fessh the tsria. 10 kong anfiet-
pxfsd. bat instead 81 being whst President
Adams promised. IL IL . rate fhaf sfsii leaves
s cAsrre Of from four 10 seven hundred
dollars per ship higher by way Of the
co5nIasfa rfser than Puget kog1d.
In the councils that pfcceded the Pro
mnixasson Of ffe rate. there was not found
one man 20 insist on the fulhilsnenr of the
pfofaise given, but ths Shipper were told
aH this rate did not sui; them, the railroad
Managers wogsd be compelled 10 enter into
NEGOTIATIONS 4, carry the wheat from Port
Land by the Northern Pacific 10 Tacoma fof
ecenn shipments This stupid threat
hasiax been actually made py Mansxef
HsieOfnb. one Individual rushed hyssefie-
ally into prinfin the 0gsgerias who showed
mp the matter in lie true light. bat his COM
uiuaicafiou Wa siprred and It's columns
refused for n sut~egueut spsssle. Thus We
sre bow q great city can be crushed ana
TOWE4 \ =
ration 80 that It's papers, its board of trade.
it, merchants become the trHeulenf meni-
ais who accept the yoke AS II born To gives.
without . murmur. This stupid ac9uies-
essence on the part Of the city II fraugbf
with consequences that fixes seal on the
secondary status Portland will now bear to
all IT'S former Tributary country tn Eastern
Oregon and Washington Territory where II
4 ppssiblc 10 meet the rsa1 lines OF the
SyFthern Pacific
Portland has given meek acquicsccnce
10 the dictum Of the railroad company,
that freight occauwnrd shall 90 cheaper by
way Of Tacoma. and 70 stands the city Of
fsn4Iefon IN hand to meet the literal
proposal Of Mr.. Hunt to connect itself with
the car OF progress - yHiia Waila, Eureka
Flat and cenfersflic have done. and put
itself EN- rapport with the new order Of
things In the existing state Of Affairs,
wheat will be worth considerably more At
Tacoma than Portland. and ~ surely -
water runs down hill, wheat viii gravffase
to the highest market. IL IL incredible
that great rafirsad corporation should
seensingiy go ecoIiy 10 work TO commit sui
eide. but that IL what the action of the
Union Pacific portends.
II can be abandantly demonstrated that
the cost OF towsge aud iighterage 10 Asiosis
viii cost the Union Pacific less money than
the excess OF cost the Northern Pacific
will be 10. 10 get an equal snouai Of grain
across the hrasy grade OF the Cascade
mountains 10 Tacoma; over and above the
cost BY the .. Il. 4 y. lines 10 Portland.
80 even from financial view, for Prssi.
nei,.. Adams 70 fuihii his promise woaid
not give any aisahsage 70 the Northern
Pacific Is 10 cost OF carriage from the in
terror 10 the sea With prices adjusted
evenly by both routes IL would b. found
this season that the Northern Pacific rail-
road will carry half the wheat " Oregon
and Washington, east OF the Cascades. Ia
Tacoma. but sith this subsisting iarlE. that
road VIII dump al least three four;hs of
the wheat crop into the lap of the city of
Destiny. and Portland will, for the first
time in its history. know what IL Is to take
q back seat aud suck It's thumb Ia indoient
case while it, rival IL pulling the fat chest
nuts cut Of the fire.
city whose people have no more en-
ergy than has been displayed Ia this mat
Ter Is deserving of no better fate
TrBE HANKS.