, 1889-08-08

v1dualS the American citizens were
never to be compelled to
GIVE UP ANYTHING.
that was not absolutely necessary for
the common defense and welfare. He
thought Sturdeyant's picture of the
| troubles in Wclla Walla was over
drawn. He had recently passed through
that city and saw nothing to indicate
special distress, but rather the contrary.
III 100 out of 1900 wanted this subsidy.
why not lot them pay their proportion of
| the needed tax and that proportion
which failed to come from the 100 would
probably not exceed the cost of an cleo
| ton on the subject. At any rate, the
majority had no right to oppresss, or rob
the minority. He might be willing to
trust the people, but not the railroad
boomer, with his subsidized newspapers
and other methods or working up such
J public sentiment, that q man would
be absolutely driven out of the COM
munity who dared to refuse to join in
with the public clamor. This principle
was all wrong, he declared, and he
would not favor it even if nineteen
twentieths of the electors were to endorse
| it.
Mr.. Moore could not support the mo.
ton either. He was fully persuaded
that this principle, here sought to be en-
grafted ON this constitution, was vici-
| GUS anu IL llus DlOuBhV
ruin and disaster in Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri, Wis, onsin and other states, and
would, he believed, do the same here.
He eloquently presented his view of the
case for trihe over half an hour.
Mr.. Power offered an amendment to
section Z, providing that any railroad so
subsidized shall never consolidate or
line. He favored the majority report
with this amendment, believing that a
two-thirds vote and 4 per cent restric-
ton were safeguards enough.
On this amendment the vote was inn
mediately taken, and it failed by ayes
16 noes not counted
Mr.. Stiles said it seemed from Moore's
argument to be merely question of how
the subsidy was made up, whether by
collection or by tax, whether by collect
ing the subsidy from business men and
making it up by taxing the widow and
fatherless with high rents and high prices
afterward, or by "a fair and equitable tax
on the whole county in the first place.
10 him 1t was not question of Walla
Walla county or any other county, but
question of whether any portion of the
people should have power to use their
means for the general good in any pub
lie way or be absolutely prohibited from
doing so. If this method of subsidy be
robbery. as repeatedly termed by gem
tulS dlStuSSlOI, IItH WnN,
when this use of public money has been
so almost universal for five years, have
not the courts found itsout? Why have
the courts universally held all
THESE CONTRACTS TO BE VALID,
and even gone so far as to imprison
judges and public officers who neglected
or refused to execute the mandates of
the United States courts for the collec-
tion of taxes for the payment of these
very contractsP Are widows and orphans
whose property is on the outskirts of
cities relieved from their share of taxes
for sewers, water or gas, when no one of
them reaches their residence or does
them O penny's worth of direct good
The general good requires these things,
and If city elects to build them all tax
payers have to contribute. So in coun-
ties people have the same right to protect
their property and their interests in some
way. Even the United States government
after many subsidies to railroads and
canals does now every day tax every
man in this convention by its protective
tariff, for the benefit of the manufacture
ers of the country, because that is be-
lieved TO be for the general good of all.
Mr.. Dunbar replied TO the implication
of Griftiitts yesterday in the matter of a
newspaper article read by him. There
was no secret about that railroad matter,
Cliltc IL was u IldIltT Ol
newspaper notoriety. The citizens of
that locality had made an organization
and secured the right of way and depot
grounds; that is all they can do, for
there are no capitalists there, and gladly
would every stockholder in that organ
ization make over his stock to capitalists
who would put this enterprise through
for the
BENEFITS OF THE PEOPLE.
He was sorry that the gentleman (Grif
ftts) should impugn his motives or the
motives of the people of Klickitat
county. He had no doubt tnat the gem
tleman had come across that newspaper
slip by accident and used it here, not in
the least in the interests of any railroad
company and certainly not from any
suggestion of theirs, but from his great
sympathy with the sutierings of the
people of Klickitat county. He pre-
fcrred TO entertain no doubt whatever of
that fact, and so he should not impugn
he had always supposed himself patri-
otic citizen, yet he is charged by the
gentleman from Spokane (Moore) with
introducing wicked and pernicious doc
trines. These very doctrines are incor-
porated in the constitutions or laws of
twenty-five states of this Union and are
prohibited only in thirteen states.
UEt was ledTly HOoH WIleH ne llIllSleu
but there were still one or two who de-
sired to say word before the conven-
ton went out for luncheon. In spite of
the torrents of eloquence flowing all
through the mornings session, the
newspapers were not to be overcome A
count about IL 80 o'clock showed forty
one delegates, both clerks, pages, mes
senger, sergeant and all but
three of the reporters busily engaged
reading
Following Dunbar's earnest and elo.
quent speech, Moore said Dunbar had
spoken of being approached by gentle
man whose pockets were plethoric with
D. II. & n. stock and he thought it due
reference was intended to include any
member of the convention.
Mr. Dunbar said most assuredly not;
that he did not recall having said he was
approached in any way by members of
the convention. He certainly had not
been, except in most friendly way in
conversation.
Mr. Buchanan said that the citation of
the states which allow subsidies was in
correct, but he had no statistics at hand
to enable him to go into details of con-
tradiction.
Mr. Grittitts read u decision of Justice
Miller of the United States supreme
court, in the case of the Loan Associa-
tion VS.. the City of Topeka in which it
was held that railways, ETC., were in
measure g.
PUBLIC WORKS,
but that there was no doubt of the dis
astrous nature of attempts to subsidize
them by such votes, which the opinion
characterized as robbery under form of
taxation. Proceeding, Gritfitts claimed