The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-01-19

be glad to have them too. You Will
find NV wife is much better looking,
a little more pleasant and Whole lot
better business man than |, so il II
is printing or advertising you want
done see her. Honestly Id like 10 get
letters from all of you. I'd ike 10
know if YOU will continue being pa
tent with the paper until | come bac
I'd like to know if you want me 20
come back, or if you don't. 1t doesn't
cost any more to send letter TO 1T.
Townsend than it does to send it 20
the Tribune-it only takes little
more time Address me in care OF the
Northwestern Sanitarium
On yes, the day | was leaving lor
here a friend of mine told me, ne
heard | was going to sell out. II
any of YOU hear such report deny
it for me please. | may sell out, out
if | do it will be because | have to,
and if things go all right | won
have to. | believe they are going 20
go alright, don't you?
The Tribune had a letter this week
from a citizens committee of Tux
villa. Tukwila is a little suburban
town located nearer Seattle than Ia
coma on the interurban line that con-
meets those two cities. The town was
started seven or eight years ago.
well remember the advertisements of
The town site company which proclaim
ed that working people could buy Il
home there and pay for it easier
than they could pay rent in the 'lty.
The round trip fare to Seattle was
only Il cents or but . cents more thai
II would be if a person lived right III
the city Hundreds of clerks and small
business men went out there and To-
Gated.
Well. here last summer, without
any apparent reason the lnterurban
company suddenly raised the rate be-
tween Tukwila and Seattle to 40 cents
round trip. That wasn't the only town
thus affected. Another one was Edge
wood near Tacoma. In that case the
company, if | remember rightly, own
ed the land that was plated and
sold to Tacoma working people fol-
homes.
Anybody can see what this big in
crease in rates mean to those poor
people who bought their homes On
the monthly payment plan. Already
many of them have lost their homes.
More of them will lose them. They
can't live in them and pay 40 tents
railroad fare daily, and if they leave
them and pay rent in the cities they
can't make their payments on Chell
homes. The railway commission gave
decision that the new rate was 100
high. The company appealed to the
Thurston county court and it sustain
ed the railway commission. Thecom-
pany then appealed to the supreme
court and it has allowed the company
10 maintain the 40 cent rate until Tie
case is heard When will it be heard
With big corporation to make eX-
cuses for delay how long will it DE
before these home builders will nave
a hearing? VIII they all have lost
their homes first?
don't know that we of this part
of the state can do anything 20 neil
the people of the interurban towns
between Tacoma and Seattle, but Ihl'
we of Whatcom county can dove
can protect ourselves from getting i
the same plight and We ought to do /
When Stone e Webster got theil
franchises for the Seattle-Tacomf
line the people We're dead anxious iol
them to nave it, and gave them nj
most everything they wanted to gel
the. line built. Well, this year or soon
Stone & Webster expect to build some
lines in Whatcom County. One o
their officials told ME more chan IWt
years ago that within three years Ms
company would have a line from
Bellingham to Lynden. They may lo
apply for the franchise in their DIV,
name. But. whoever applies for ;
franchise, let us put enough iestric
lions in it that We can control iht
company enough to keep them IRON
robbing us blind. Here is something
that we should all be studying On
the sort of franchise such cOmpanie:
ought to have Then, when colnpan.
aDplies to our commissioners ant
town councils for franchise, We
should do a little lobbying, remem
bering that the commissioners ani
eouncilmen are our employees.
want to tell you that it is better
not to have an Interurban line thar
to be in its clutches, entirely. DO you
know if | had property at Tukwiia
, I've notion that | would be almost
/, an anarchist.
Pres Paulhamus, of the state sen
ate. said in his address of acceptance
I'VE should go along and conduct thu
business of the state exactly as If i
we're our own business" That sounds
good. and it would be good, if i
wasn't the rule for state legislator:
10 he men who are unable to make {;
success of any business except poll
tics. That Senator Paulhamus am
some of the Whatcom county leSis
latOrs are business successes is tht
; exception that proves that the oppo
site is the rule.
A business man in Seattle, TUESDAY
:, u,oaly auo told vtin that times ha(