The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14
VINSTON'S ROAD.
|. Il Will Relieve the Big
Wheat Blockade.
|osy THE COLONEL HIMSELF.
..a.er Jenkins Says Enuuerators
- wait for Their Pay--The
p.ssing Throng--Personai.

uted IN the railroad problem winch
~ lsinr widely discussed in this state,
~ strongly advocated the building
- railroad. Last evening Posi-
S.mxxcER reporter showed him at his
- 4 the Albion an editorial in the Spo-
Sw;,r of December IL, declaring 1.-THE
- eommon sense of the people has al
Ss<vlectcd his proposition of state
- itom the grain lands of Eastern
x;,sfop 10 the shores of Puget sound"
- Winston commented in his
~ rigorous style on this editorial, say
4. s1he proposition is a simple one. 1t
- charter shall be detained for a
- rom Puget sound across the state
4. IDAHO line; that the state shall SUBJ
- q the stock of the road in precisely
r.ae way an individual does. A bill
.s1risiug q subscription would provide
- sppointment of proxy to vote the
A. aock at the stockholders meetings.
aockholders would elect board of
~, and they in turn would elect the
=, Of the road.
mere IS nothing novel about this busi-
~ Cities, counties and states have
md again and from time immemor-
1abscribed to the stock of such works
fnlcrnal Improvement. England owns
knsior;ty of the stock of the Suez canal.
4 owns the Cincinnati Southern rail-
New York owns the Erie canal. and
"a Carolina owns the Atlantic railway.
e auly question of financial ability.
rs read some of the newspapers you
f1A suppose this was kind of semi
EHdcal, semi-communistic scheme; that
koGccrs Of the road, from president to
kkemen. are to be elected by popular
g. the people to ride free and the
uduce to be transported for nothing.
"A have said, the only difficulty in
hvsy Is the one of financial ability. If
slsfe should subscribe Sc, 600. 900 to this
laprise the stock would have to be paid
y 81 sale OF state bonds running twenty
III These bonds would sell for par. 1t
: sot too much to say that a debt of
sgQ,0O would not be burdensome to
|rssie twenty years from today. Just
MI What our population and taxable
1aIth will then bel"
i rply to the question whether or not
DniIroad commission would relieve the
Idaation and answer all practical pur-
~, Colonel Winston answered: ''Cah
railway commission furnish cars and
Hing stock? Can railway commission
pnpel the roads to furnish freight cars if
y roads hav'nt got them to furnish?
nee is another question which would
|hto ask some of the newspaper gentle
"a Who are discussing this railway COM
Iesion proposition, and that is, Can q
Iilvay commission even regulate freight
ID passenger charges under our constitu-
b.! The constitution expressly says
ut fares and freight rates shall be fixed
i the Legislature. Now, in the face of
ut provision, is it certain that right can
} delegated by the legislature to a COM
lissi0nf do not believe it can"
The objection was then mentioned that
b Gould or some other corporation would
pon gobble up the railroad. For this Col
ael Winston's answer was: ''0f course,
nm the day when Esau sold his birth
kht for a mess of pottage until now the
ccursed thirst for gold has caused men
betray not only themselves but their
aloFs. Suppose, however, the act au-
lDrixing the subscription should contain
provision that the road should never be
n or leased SO long as it paid running
penses.' ] take it that Mr.. Gould or Mr..
hybody else would hesitate a little while
nj the title before 'gobbling it up as you
Ie9est."
However continued Colonel Winston,
his is no hobby of mine. | am not q
AN sho rides q hobby. With millions of
ollars' worth of produce awaiting trans
,rtation, with the entire years labor Of
any Of my fellow citizens threatened
lih destruction for the want Of market,
In common with others, was called on TO
ggest remedy for this unhappy condi-
% of affairs. About that time I read in
9 papers that the farmers of the Palouse
nntry were talking about building rail-
I'd to Puget sound. l knew it was
gantic undertaking for individual effort,
d knowing also that the thing had been
Ten and successfully done elsewhere, |
ggested that the state ought to aid such
enterprise by taking stock in it.
NOW it will take time. What is it that
mt take time? Having made the sug-
stton ana having received very many
couraging comments in letters and in
e press from all sections of the state |
not the man to abandon the idea at the
st nre. stand ready to advocate this
oposition before the people whenever a
sponsible company shall secure a
arter. Ii one dozen men can name in
ing, Pierce, Walla Walla. Whitman and
'okane counties will take hold of the
after the state will subscribe the stock,
q IN three years We will have railroad
sec1ing Washington owned entirely by
u own people, think sooner or later
9 people will discover that the way to
we railroad is 10 build and own it in
ssa OF trying to manage and run some
ny else's road"
NO PAY FOR ENUMERATORS.
p census Bureau Proposes to Take
ste Own Time Stat.