Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-08
Washington s taudaro
OiNVVI,. WASH.
fEInAi NEtlM. IlNf (. 1921.
Lot Us Not Be Deceived

Let Us Not Be Deceived.
Enough delegates should attend the
Taxpayers N;stc CONVENTION NJ \ All
INA. t. Ivll the m,c;.n. down f" the
legitimate objects fDr which it Is
called l. j, HOW surm>ch by some
Tat Lci@h Freeman, who called il for
the =! in>t..4l.., subsequently changed
it T. IT, 39,h. j. MT sincere in his Oh
Joct-. and designs # possible, to make
it a si!e-show - the Populi-t,' state
convention, which meets in the same
place the succeeding day This I'M
lression may arise from the fact that
Freeman is an ardent partisan OF that
stripe, and il may have no real
groundwork, hut 1t hchOCves both the
old parties who have elected delegates
TO see that the attendance is large
enough to keep the movement from
being side-tracked lv -uch influences.
u
m Ak to grind, regarcing construction
"f the capitol. This impression doubt
duced resolutions at II public meeting
IN Skagit county d"prccating work
on THAT building at the present time,
as q burden on the taxpayers. In
those resolutions he ignorantly or will
fully misrepresented the facts so as to
make an issue on that subject. He
claimed that the cost OF construction
would be tax upon the people, al
though the law itself is a complete re-
iutation Of that fallacy. 1t plainly
states that the cost of that building
shall be paid out of the Estate Capitol
Building Fund.-" and that No appro-
priation shall be made from any fund
except the fund derived from the sale
OF lands granted for the erection OF
public buildings at the State capital"
The land grant is a gift from the Cen
eral Government, not costing the peo-
pie one cent, and the warrants drawn
upon that fund, principal and interest,
must be paid out of it and no other
fund. II may be urged that such a
fund does not exist, but we have the
best OF authority for stating that dis
posal OF warrants at par, has already
been guaranteed, and there will be no
delay in the work from that cause.
The construction of the capitol will
bring from the East 81 100000. that is
now lying idle in Wall street and add
it to the circulating medium of the
State.
These facts, stated to a convention
OF impartial, disinterested citizens,
will at once show the groundles. ma
ture OF such a scheme and betray the
selfish objects of few designing men
to subvert a popular movement into
an engine for promoting private gain.
If this is the primary, or one of the
objects of the self-constituted sponsor
OF the Taxpayers' movement, enough
fair-minded delegates should be pres.
ent to see that the matter is properly
presented to the convention and I'M
derstood by its members. Then it
should be shown that every portion Of
the State is receiving benefit from the
public treasury for the support OF in
stitutions that have already been paid
Tor by the people-the Insane Asy.
lums. east and west. the Penitentiary,
the School for Defective Youth. the
Reformatory School and the Agricult-
ural College, without protest from the
taxpayers-while the most needed
structure of al J., which will not cost
the people cent, is by the hocus pocus
maneuvers Of factional partisans and
selfish spectators, dragged into the
contest az distributing element, in
the hope that it may be the means OF
throwing dust into the eyes of honest
men and induce them 10 vote against
their own interests.
Forewarned is forearmed, and the
taxpayers interests are too important
for them to be made the football for
professional mountebanks, who live
and thrive by creating dissension and
strife.