Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-08-06
THE CONDON GLOBE.
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The ltnch desired State Portage
Iailxay ncvis,d q stunning blew
nn the solar rlcxns last Friday ut
a conferences held in the office of
Che president Of the o. r & y, Co.
between the state oiliciaIS who
coup pse the.. portage roa | camnis.
Sion and theo'h ,ials oflhe 0 Il. &
n. Presilaat Mailer Il d the knock
olt act by clever swing which
landed furry on the States wind
nnd te Temporarily, ifnot fnally. put
thu portage oat Of business. =
Tao afS.t5ars was h,ll for tn
parpAse Of araagiAg with the rail,
rml compsny foe right of way for
th4 State project but when Mr.,
Mohler, with bland smile, re-
markell thatshis company had no
lrnd tospare. along tlie.CJlumhia,
IN the vicinity OF C4lila +appIs,i it
gave the governor and his party a
feeling which asas so:newhat.a&ia
t0thsL which, canlexto the ayerags
landsman when, for the first time,
he crosses the Columbia river bar
They felt sick, but it is probable
they win have plenty oftime toget
Strengthened up again before being
called upon to commence the actu-
al work of. bailding the portage
road.
This situation was to be expect
ell. The0. R. & n. Co. has never
Been reckoned as a particularly
warm friend Of the portage road
for the reason that the object of the
portage is supposed to be the regu
lation Of freight rates. The o. R.
& n. Co. has had considerable ex-
perience in the freight rate busi
ness and therefore, no doubt feels
perfectly competent to continue to
fix the price which the people Of
Oregon must pay for transporta-
ton.
] Governor Chamberlain has an
. nounced that the State will at once
commence proceedings to tocondemn
the right of way bat it is altogeth-
er probable that when this is ac-
cotnplished the amount of damage
awarded the railroad company will
be high enough to eat up most of
the appropriation and leave moth
ing with which to build aud equip
the portage road.
! The situation is not encouraging
to the people Of the Inland Empire
but. to quote from the words of the
! late lamented Jay Gould, ''the.
] people be DID, The wheat
growers. and other producers. felt
quite jubilant over the prospects of
cheaper freight rates but their in
terests are as nothing when weigh
ed in the balances against the
wishes of the greatest and most
powerful corporation in the state.
President Mohler and the other
railroad people, are not to be blam-..
ed, either. They are simply look
ing after their own interests as the
farmers and all other classes Of
people are supposed to be doing.
The only trouble is that in Oregon,
as in all other states, the railroad
companies, and other big concerns,
are bigger than the State and the
people who compose the State and
a peculiar feature of the whole
matter is that the people who
do the kicking about the railroads
doing as they please with their
own property, charging what they
please for hauling passengers and
freight and successfully opposing
any project which is calculated to
interfere with their business or
curtail their profits are the same
people who have permitted, and are
still permitting, such condition Of
affairs to exist.
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