Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-01
Washinaton taudara
OIANPIa. t>II.
lElEii ntNING. MARCH /. 1872.
Tacoma Squares Herself

Tacoma Squares Herself.
oar people were cou>.irTAt.y sal
pri>td u :,w days AGO - /, a. HAT IT,"
Board 60; Tr.,t,,, o. the Tacoma
thatntcr 81 Colnmerc" had taken
upon themselves thu -pon>itIhtv &
passing resolution .nndcmning fur
Their work on Tia. STAT. capitol. Tie.
injustice al such proceeding, not l.
say anything aboIt the unItat';ul
spirit manifested hy Representatives
Oh u community which ha- received
nothing but kindness and CU-opera.
hon from our people. aroused very
naturally spirit OF resentment, and
it vas not long in finding manifesto
ton III disturbance OF the amicab,c
and profitable business relations with
our sister city. This served 10 arouse
the thinking people Of 4! coma and
paved the way Tor au ,.prc-eion OF
the true sentiment al IT,. people re-
garding this important RI.
special meeting ot the Board ol
Commerce was held in Tacoma, yes
terdav, at which resolution was
adopted requesting the Board OF
Trustees To withdraw the resolution
passed Feb. 10Th, in regard to discon-
tinuance OF work on the State capitol.
The resolution was submitted by L. h.
Wallace, ESD, aud after its adoption
the Chamber Immediately adjourned,
notwithstanding Ezra Mecker OF
Puyallup, was present with q resolu-
ton deprecating any further approp-
riations for the building.
The opponents of the capital are
obliged to pursue Machivelian policy
to possess any standing at all for con-
sideration. Were the proposition re-
duced simply to its true intent and
scope it would be simply to place the
capitol on wheels and haul it to the
hop-yards which surround the Mecker
mansion. Instead of acknowledging
this, the few obstructionists allege
that the present is an unfayorable
time for erecting State building, des-
pite the facts that at no time has
labor been more in need of wages, nor
when the money expended would
bring larger and better returns; and
the cramped accommodation afforded
by the present building, which scarce
ly equal those of village school
house, is a complete refutal OF the as
sertion that no present need is felt for
q State building for the Legislature
to say nothing of affording ample
Offices for the various departments oil
the State service. They plead pow
erty of the people when Eastern
capital stands ready to supply the
funds upon the security offered, the
land grant, which the Supreme Court,
has declared is all the basis the
law affords.
The silly affirmation that the State
would be under a moral obligation
should the land grant prove made
quate, is only worthy of the source
which has advanced the other ground.
less pretexts upon which to base a
hopeless undertaking. Capitalists
very seldom consider moral obliga-
tions. Capital is selfish, and depends
upon the conditions nominated in
the bond" 1t is we'll known that the
appraisement of the lands for the
capitol grant has been made upon a
minimum valuation, with all the condi-
tions of a financial relapse in view
and when the bedrock of depression
had been reached. Still these hop
field town-lot schemers try to make
legislators believe that it is Inadequate
for the purpose designed by the gen.
eral government to present the people
State capitol without cost.
There is very little wonder that /.
community of progressive people lik,
our neighbors of Tacoma. refuse to b.
misrepresented by such designing
schemers. and that they place them
selves in line with the business mer
of Seattle, who have, by resolution
petitioned for an early completion o
the States most important building.
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A RELIGIOUS RIoT.-Ex-Priest Stat
terry and his wife, described as an ex
nun, were mobbed at Savannah, Ga
Wednesday, while attempting to de
liver a lecture on Catholicism, il
Masonic Temple. 1t had been evi
dent for several days that gray
trouble was eminent, and an effor
was made to have the authorities in
terfere and forbid the lecture. Tn
Mayor, who is . Hebrew, said
can't stop this man from lecturinl
but / can prevent disorder, and vii
do so. If the police are not sufficient
l will appeal to the military. Rio
will not be tolerated" The entir
police force was not su fiicient to kee
the mob from breaking the window
of the temple, and when they al
tempted to force an entrance ten in
fantry companies and the Georgi
Hussars were summoned, and wit
this force Slattery and his wife wer
escorted to their hotel. Prominen
Catholics and the priests are usin
every endeavor to quell the riotou
spirit. Several policemen and militia
men were injured by the flying rock
Slattery's manager was knocked sense
less with a sandbag.
ANOTHER B0YCoTT.-It seems tha
American dried apples is not the onl
article that has lately been subject I
exclusion by our neighbors across tn
sea. France has placed an embarg
on American cattle. 1t applies
healthy as well as diseased stock, an
only healthy cattle shipped befor