The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-16

tors Of the safe had personal reasons.
aoaasssss, for 80 x%asously urging H. I
tnink / kaow wha. Inducements were
gwen and Promised 10 same 81 the more
pfom.neut advocates. ] think I know.
toe, Shas certain large promises we're rot
IL . led. and some Of the disastrous re-
SUITS ihai are traeeah.e - their noa-Fal-
h4lsasni- But the mal1rity OF those who
voted ior issuing bonus 70 purchase this
plant undoubtedly thought that the eity
would be benefited by il, though perhaps
~tta many the wish MAS father 30 the
thought. They were mate 10 believe thar
u TIE city voted 10 pay Mr. Wright 81. Tsa,-
90 Tor tie e4eckrlc light and water plant
ne would Use the money in hailaing z
raiiFoad 10 ihe Nesqaally eoa. mines some
niiy miles distant, and extend Tie road 10
connect VITA his WAiia Waita railroad,
anu 80 on hast, giving us another trans
continental line. NJ Wright ard ais
agents did not artuailv promise
this. bat men came back from the Office of
DIS agent confident that IL would be done
Ahefs we're intsmatsons 10 that effect in
abundance and reasons suggested why
ar. Wright could net enter into an open
ara ioEDsi agreement which were more
eneetive than an explicit pledge. The de-
iusIqn spread unta tae city was generally
affected. everyone that doubted was
damned, aud those who openly protested
were charged with disloyalfy To Tacoma
A great many who voted 10 purchase the
plant did not appear 10 care whether IL
las worth the price or not, and would
have voted as they did If they had known
that not even a heavy dew had ever fallen
on the site of the alleged Thomas aud Pat
terson springs. Some Of them were timid
about inquiEing into the value or calling
Tor a schedule, as the ereduious devotee of
spiratualism are about looking into the
CABINET OF the performer. They were
given over TO a strong disposition TO be-
heye what Mr.. Wright and his agents
wanted them to believe. The performance
ended with the publication of dispatch
from philadelphia signed by C. Is. Wright
and i. w. Anderson that engineers would
begin at once to locate the proposed rail-
road, and inrmating that coal experts
were on their way out here to report uron
opening the mines. Then Mr.. Wright tell
down on his promises aud some men in
this city have fallen by the wayside. The
money that was TO he disbursed here has
not come; no new railroad is in sight, and
now IL seems that the city has not got
even water supply. as Judge Stallcup
shows.
'Snch is the great municipal farce that
has been enacted here. The credit of the
city has been strained TO its legal limit on
credulous notion that C. B. Wright
would help Tacoma by extending its rail-
road connections. as he had more explic-
lily promised 10 help certain individuals
along with enterprises they were laboring
heavily TO carry, and the individuals have
fallen with their burden and the city is IN
debt with distributing plant and no
water to distribute. With this brief and
unimpassioned statementiof the case the
intelligent reader can decide whether
those who opposed the deal we're friends
or enemies of Tacoma The officers of
the city have at this late day published
schedule of the property obtained with
their estimate of its value. liz is possible
that Mr.. Wright may yet redeem his
promises to individuals aud implied en-
gagements TO the city. But while waiting
on hopes deferred the people can see in the
statement of the board of public works
how large a bonus the city gave Mr..
Wright. He will see that they can see it.
The illusion is broken. The people can
now balance accounts with Mr.. Wright,
hgure out how much he owes the city in
aSsual dollars. provided he will stand for
an exact amount in satisfying his
implied obligation TO send the money
back here for new railroad construc-
ton or other public improvement.
His agreements to individuals who helped
him through with the sale, whether kept
or broken, may for the present be left
where they now stand, in the foruaa con-
scienfx of the parties concerned. For the
good of the city there should be an imme-
diate settlement of the controversy with
Mr.. Wright, but ii should be a just settle
ment. The credit of the city will suffer il
difficult and complicated. If MIR. Wright
and his representatives here wish 20 help
Tacoma they should begin at once to do
So for, as President Cleveland said in
urging the repeal of the silver purchase
law, he gives twice who gives quickly"