Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-11-12
THE GOOD OF ALL.
a Is What We Must Work For If
1--WE Ever Expect to Prosper
Not For One or Two.

|pIToR HERALD: According to some
rt-sighted person who wrote the brief
one-sided editorial in the last Bull
b, it is pretended that because the
b. Railroad company will not reduce
tariff on eastern shipments OF lumber
\ city does not want railroad on the
th side Of the Harbor, because it will
benefit the mill owners, or to that
let. Does it necessarily follow that
tariff on lumber shipped east will
Ter be reduced? When it is reduced,
b it not be good plan to have rail-
ID already built in order to at once
ke advantage Of the eastern market?
there not other industries in your
DIST, possibly inveigled here under the
bmise Of railroad at no distant day,
BIT want to ship their wares east? Are not
Ine of them already thinking Of leaving
III city in order to locate on railroad,
ID will not others follow, if no road is
Tilt into the city? Will any other in
Sstries come without railroad is built?
te there not merchants and others in
bur midst who want their wares and
jods shipped and delivered at as little
kpense as possible?
For about two years this city has had
be OF the most fourishing and prosper
is Of the great trans-continental rail-
lads at its very threshold, seeking ad-
|itance to and through the city in order
lat it might build into the northwest,
Fobably to the Straits Of Fuca, and, by
} doing, make this city railroad center.
! is just such false, foolish and per-
cious policy as that advanced by the
nlletin editorial that has been blight
! this community for months, and kept
from taking it's place as nucleus for
be Of the future great commercial CEN
RS Of the Pacific coast; and when | say
lis community. mean the whole Sec
bn Of country embraced from Cosmopo-
3 to Hoquiam. If the towns embraced
this territory unite and do the proper
ling towards the railroad company now
your doors, their future thrift and
osperity will be established. In union
ere is strength, and with determined
Id united effort on the part Of all at the
bad Of the Harbor to help and not dis
Surage the railroads when they want to
lss through certain territory for the
,utual benefit OF all concerned, we can
bid city worthy the name, and it will
bt go wholly to the other end of the
(arbor, or elsewhere. With the policy
eretofore pursued, this community will
tcupy the same position to Ocosta, rela-
Hely, that Leavenworth, Kansas, does
Kansas City, Mo-, and old Albu-
herque does to new Albuquerque, N. M,
3 well as many other places l might
(ention, which adopted the same policy
bwards railroad companies that this
Immunity has for the past few months
bwards the great railroad company now
|aiting at the very threshold of your
|ty to come into and through it. 1t re-
kains for the people of this section, and
specially Aberdeen, which is the natural
enter, to say which position they will
Ike: that of deserted, musty and tum-
led down old Leavenworth, or that Of
hriviDg, booming and prosperous Kan
rs City, made SO because Of its railroad
enters, and because it's wide-awake peo-
(e seized its opportunity and encouraged
nd fostered the first railroad that came
its doors after the same had been
burned and driven away from the very
bors Of it's rival city - Leavenworth.
" twenty-six years OF experience as an
Hcer Of cavalry since the war, in help
lg to some extent protect with cavalry
be construction parties of the different
fanscontinental railroads Of this country
(om hostile Indians, enables me to speak
hderstandingly on this subject, and my
Hvice is this: Foster and encourage the
pad now with you, for by doing so you
bill not only establish your railroad CEN
pr, or it's nucleus, but with it an unpie-
Pdented growth and a thrift and pros
erity undreamt Of. This, in time, will
ring you, as much as anything else,