The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-11-01

congress III tnlS state.
to the owners and a contributary fac
tor in the upbuilding of the town
Nestled in such spot, with the hum
OF industries echOing from the hill
sides, Oroville will be city the pride
of its people and the envy of less for
tunately situated communities. With
such a backing why should strangers
be given an erroneous impression OF
the town?
AS to the people who are now here,
the pioneers in town building, we
can speak of them only in terms OF
kindness and commendation In no
town, large or small, are all the people
perfect, or are they all just what they
should be, but we are here to say that
few towns this size in the west can
boast of better class of citizens TAX
en- as whole. The younger people,
and those are the ones who are expect
ed to perform the greater part in es-
tablishing the social standing of a
community, and upon whom devolves
the upbuilding of the town in large
measure, are exceptionally bright,
clever intelligent, clean and upright.
They would be credit to any town in
the entire country. The business men
are wide awake, accommodating,
square in their dealings, and have
faith in the town. We have found the
people kind, considerate, charitable,
law abiding and genial in their social
and business relations. They have
their differences as all communities
have, but so far as the people general
ly are concerned they compare very
favorably with those in any of the
smaller towns of the state. They are
hospitable, liberal. generous, and
pleasant to meet in their homes or in
public gatherings. Why should they
be held up to ignominy?
So far as the peace and order OF Oro-
VILE is concerned one would have to
travel far to find more quiet place,
and especially is this remarkable con-
sidering the conditions. At point on
the railroad where travellers remain
over a night, visited daily by strangers
travelling up and down the valley, the
rendezvous of railroad workers pass
TO and fro, order is maintained, bois-
terousness is of rare occurrence. The
man who visits Oroville, remains a
few days and goes out and declares 1t
to be a lawless place lies in his throat.
There was time during the construc-
ton of the railroad, when the town
was wide open, law was disregarded
and tumult ragged almost daily. Then
Oroville was tough. 1t is the curse OF
that brief period that hangs over the
town at the present day. People IA
miliar with the conditions at that time
cannot understand that great change
for the better has taken place. Go
over the police records and those who
are so free to deride their home Will
discover that cases of offense are few
and far between. There is no dispo-
sition to hold up Oroville as an i'm
maculately model town. Its inhabi-
tants are made up of all manner and
conditions of people, but we insist that
the place is no worse than other towns
of like SIZE similarly situated, indeed
far better. and that in no respect does
if approach the dark picture as paint
ed bv some of the speakers Monday
night. who, it is charitable to believe,
we're carried away by their zeal and at
heart do not believe the half they said,
or realize how their utterances would
sound to strangers.