Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-12-20
Corporations as Benefactors.

new company; Isaac W. Anderson, o.
the same city, Secretary, and John F
Convey, of Olympia, Treasurer. 1t Is
currently reported that several change:
and Improvements will be made
among which is adoption OF standard
gauge, the contract having already
been let for additional ties; an extern
sion to the coal fields near Bucoda
and new schedule whereby the pas
senger service will be benefited. All
of this indicates disposition to deal
fairly by our people, who many years
ago made so many sacrifices and la
bored SO hard to obtain this connec
ton with the transcontinental road
and sold it for less than one-fourth its
value to men of practical railroad ex.
perience, for the express purpose Of
making it an effective means of devel
opment OF local trade.
1t is not surprising that, under these
circumstances, they watch any change
made with a lively interest. 1t is by
no means remarkable that they should
feel more than an ordinary concern
in any movement that may not bear
prominently upon its face the evi.
dence of good faith and fair dealing
and when movements are made which
abound in impenetrable secrecy, they
the more eagerly watch the straws
which indicate the direction of the
wind to foretell the approaching storm
or calm.
Our people are not endowed with
more than ordinary suspicion, nor are
they warped by unwarranted prejudice
against corporations. Their magnifi-
cent donation of many thousands OF
acres of land to the Northern Pacific
in 1871, as an accepted price for the
terminus, shows this. Their sale of
the road, built by so much jealous
labor and sacrifice of their hard earn
ings, to smaller corporation, at a
nominal price, indicates Enthusiastically
an unwavering faith in the rectitude
of human nature.
Congress, when importuned by the
people of Thurston county to confer
authority for placing their property
under bond, granted it with much re-
luctance, and. stipulated that certain
safeguards should be thrown around
the act, by which the people should
not be deprived of the benefits they
proposed to purchase at great cost.
One of the conditions was that the
county should hold mortgage on the
ROLLING stock, right of way and fran
chises of the company or corporation
that was to afford the contemplated
relief, by which it was to be enabled to
compel good faith on the part of any
persons or corporation who should
come in nossess;on If tho roas This
provision, and the proceedings under
Il afford another ;nst.rce of the ,are
confidence manifested by our people
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