CHAPTER XXVIII.

—What they cost the gangs.—What they control.—A servile and pur-
chased press.—Advice to settlers.—What a ‘territorial pioneer”
says.—What the people say.—‘‘AwaKE! ARISE! OR BE FOREVER
FALLEN !

si Me. S.., agent of the N. P. Railroad company [masonic], visited
several towns hereabouts [in Washington Territory] and finally left for
the East. Immediately upon his departure it was noticed that nearly all
the purchasable papers in this section became strenuous supporters of the
[masonic] company, and were vociferously opposed to forfeiture of its
unearned land grant.”

‘“*When Mr. S.. returned, he wrote some letters for the press, from
one of these the following extract is taken. It refers to the Cascade
Branch of the N. P. Railroad in Washington Territory.”

‘The cost of the branch will be about $7,000,000, of which the great
tunnel will consume about $2,000,000. The company expect to obtain
the money for construction by the issue of bonds at the rate of $25,000 a
nile. It is thought there will be a margin between the actual cost of con-
struction and the proceeds of the sale of the bonds nearly sufficient to
build the tunnel.”

‘The length of this branch is 245 miles, Its construction, including
two miles of tunnel, will cost $7,000,000. The land grant ‘in aid’ of its
building is forty square miles, or 25,600 acres for every lineal mile of
road, that is to say for building this branch the company will claim title
to 6,272,000 acres of public land,” [and own the railroad besides.] ‘This
land lies in alternate sections, with those reserved by the Government.
Not an acre of public land within the limits of the railroad grant can be
purchased of Government at less than $2.50 per acre. The large area of
coal lands lying therein is obtainable from Government only by paying
$20 per acre. At Government price ($2.50 per acre) the value of the land
grant to the railroad for this branch aggregates $15,680,000, considerably
more than double the [liberal, not counting inside stealing} estimated cost
of the whole line, tunnel and all. In this we have not included the largely
increased value of lands containing coal and iron, thousands of acres of
which are included in the grant. Nor has the real value of the land been
given. On the west side of the mountains the average value of the land
grant is not less than $10 peracre. The average value along the whole line
of road, at a low estimate, is not less than $5 per acre, or a valuation of
$31,360,000, nearly four and one-half times the cost of its construction.” Upou
what grounds is this enormous surrender of public property demanded ?

Upon what reasoning can it be justified ? Why should [masonie rings]
(502)

hey are worked.
servile and pur-
torial pioneer”
OR BE FOREVER

masonic], visited
d finally left for
.d that nearly all
supporters of the
. forfeiture of its

r the press, from
3 to the Cascade

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expect to obtain
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actual cost of con-
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ant ‘in aid’ of its
very lineal mile of
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the Government.
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The large area of
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ng] estimated cost
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of the land been
value of the land
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or a valuation of
nstruction.” Upon
perty demanded !
1d [masonic rings)

ADVICE TO SETTLERS. 503

be thus exceptionally favored ? Why should public property be used to
build railroads for PRIVATE OWNERSHIP ? Why, in addition to presenting
a complete railroad to a [masonic] corporation should it be given a subsidy
quadruple its value? Have [linked masons] any greater claims upon the
public than other men? Are they entitled to more consideration than
other citizens ? [Outsiders cannot get any such concessions.] Is not this
[gang] entitled to less? Has it not forfeited its right to its claim by long
continued and exasperating delays? For more than twenty years it has
played fast and loose with the Government. It was conceived in [mystic]
fraud, The original owners of its franchise never contributed a dollar
to building its road. The common stock of the company to-day repre-
sents not a dollar contributed to its construction. It is purely water.
Every mile of the road has been constructed with borrowed money [on the
grant from the Government]. The President of the company says that
the Cascade branch will be built by the same means. It ought not to be
very difficult to raise $25,000 per mile on a land grant worth at Govern-
ment prices more than twice that sum. Anunencumbered company could
raise double the amount.”

x ¥
*

‘The propositien to confirm to the Northern Pacific a land grant for-
feited July 4, 1877, is identical with making a new grant. It is in conflict
with law and justice. Itis opposed to the declarations of the republican
[and democratic| parties in National conventions, [For a blind, as they
are both controlled by the secret brethren]. It is an outrageous attempt
to pervert a gift which, when made, was [supposed to be] for the public
good, into an engine of oppression and injury of indefinite duration. It
is an assault upon the landed heritage of the people of the United States,
unwarranted and indefensible. It is an outrage against which the people,
not alone of Washington Territory, but of the whole nation indignantly
protest,” [but they protested in vain, as the gang was, and is, in power. |

‘But if it be wrong to confirm to the N. P. lands along the line of its
completed road, not built within the time specified in its charter fand an
excension of time on top of that], what shall besaid of the proposition, now
made by its avreuts and lobbyists [brethren] to allow it to go on, and by
building more miles of road, obtain a large additional area of the public
land, the best, the mest valuable in the Territory ? What shall be said of
a claim to earn public lands, worth not less on an average than $125,000
per mile, by building railroads in Washington Territory in 1884, 1885, 1886
1nd 1887? Thisis the claim of the N. P. Co. for building the Cascade
branch, which its officers and organs do not hesitate to say will be imme-
diately remunerative.”

‘**Ts it not monstrous? Is it not insulting to ask the people to justify
or advocu'e such an outrageous demand?” [By voting for the brethren
in the gang for office ?]

‘*Commissioner Sparks says, ‘the XN. P. road had not attempted to be

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504 RAILROAD GRANTS, ETC.

Ce eT Series —

definitely located [West of the Missouri river], until after the date by
Jaw, July 4th, 1877, for its completion,’ and that there is no provision of
law by which rights to the land can be acquired after the expiration of
that time.”

* *

‘*In Mexico, a few years ago, a valuable land grant was given to the
Mexican National Railroad Company, on condition [like «v roads] that
the line be completed within a certain time. The time expired a few
weeks ago, the line was not built, and, without any ceremony whatever,
the land grant was declared forfeited. That was all there was abont it.
So with the Mexican Central Railroad. Before this line was built the
Government granted it certain privileges on condition that it would. make
no discrimination between shippers or between towns, and that its freight
tariffs should not be changed without the Government being notifi«) in
advance. The company having violated both of these concitie:, “he
authorities are coming down upon it with a determination and vijorwi
amazes the stockholders, who are accustomed to the American | Masonic]
way of doing things; letting [Masonic gangs] do as they please with the

people’s property.”
* *
*

“Tt 1s not true that these lands have been opened for settle-
ment by the [Masonic] N. P. R. Co. It is not even true that lands equal
to those in its grant have been so opened. On the contrary, from the in-
ception of its work it has followed settlement. It is even now claiming the

right to locate lands in Washington Territory in lien of lands within the
limits of its grant in Minnesota and Dakota, because before its road was
built there were not left enough unsettled lands to satisfy its claims.
Does this indicate pioneering ? It is a fact, that ahead of its railroad con-
struction, away ahead, marched the pioneer settler; that from the time its
granting act was passed, 20 miles outside the limits of its grant lave been
withdrawn from sale by the Government, to recompense it for those lands
Within said limits, occupied by settlers [even before the location of the
railroad.] Its great difficulty to-day in this territory is to find enough
land unoceupied to cover its huge claim. Of the nearly 45,000,000 aries
of public land in this territory this [Masonic gang] lays claim to more than
one-third, What has it opened to settlement by construction of its railroad
here, which have in any measure compensated for the surrender of so
great a proportion of our landed area? We allege that it has prevented the
construction of other railroads [and the opening to free navigation of thie
Columbia river, of far greater importance than ail the railroads in the terii-
tory.| That but for the enormous ad-untage [corrupily] given it by this
land grant, other roads would ere this have been traversing this territor
in several directions; that but for this land grant a railroad would lou,
ago have been built from Puget Sound across the Cascade mountains;
[two are now building without any Government aid.] That but for the
land grant a railroad would be at once built from Puget Sound to the

er the date by
no provision of
e expiration of

ws given to the
mv roads] that
expired a few
mony whatever,
> was abont it.
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ore its road was
isfy its claims.
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p location of the
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ADVICE TO SETTLERS. 505

navigable waters of the upper Columbia; that but for this grant coal
mines and iron mines would be now opened and in successful production;
that a large area of valuable agricultural land would be immediately oc-
cupied, that, in shori, the territory would grow rapidly in population and
wealth.”

* * *

‘* Advice to Settlers.—We mean settlers on the iieu lands. They must
combine together and refuse to abandon the lands they have settled upon,
if the [Masonic] company aims to eject them because of not paying six
prices for said lands. Don’t pay such high prices for, but hold on to your
lands, by force, if necessary; and if Congress is not a den of thieves, relief
will come.”

* *

‘*The [masonic] company had better stop altogether the sale of lands
to which it has not, and cannot obtain, title, and so save itself and innocent
purchasers from a vast deal of future trouble. [When outsiders do this
they are called felons and ‘made example of’ by making them deliver all
their property to the court gang and sending them to State’s prison, where
the blackleg-flunkey-of-the-railroad-gang-Governor tells them that ‘crime
should be made hideous,’ and ‘that we have a good judiciary,’ because it
stands in with the gang. ]

*

‘*[Masonic] railroads must have many extensions of time in which to
comply with the law, in order to get land for nothing. Who ever heard
of a settler, a homesteader, or pre-emptor being given an extension of time
when he had failed to comply with the law? Although he could give a
much better excuse than railroads ever offer. Sickness or death in a
settler’s family or losses by fire or flood are no excuse for an individual
foutsider], but [masonic] corporations | with their special privileges] must
have the land whether they comply with the law or not. Robbery is too
mild a term,”

* *
*

‘In reply to [blackleg] editors of papers owned by the [masonic] N.
P. &. R., who never tire of claiming that if any portion of the land grant
was forfeited that the road would be so crippled that it could not be com-
pleted. We refer to the following paragraph from a pamphlet published
by the [masonic] company :”

“The N, P. grant is twenty times as large as the Illinois Central’s
[which pays to the State a part of its income while the N. P. doesn’t even
pay its taxes], and on the question of the comparative intrinsic worth of
two grants, we give the opinion of John Wilson, who organized the land
department of the Illinois Central road, and was for many years its honored
commissioner. He says, ‘I consider the grant to the Northern Pacific
worth from fifty to one hundred per cent. per acre more than the Central's.
It is a small estimate to say that if this grant is properly managed, it will
build the entire road, connecting with the present terminus of the grand

506 RAILROAD GRANTS, ETC.

trunk, through to Puget Sound, and head of navigation on the Columbia
—fit out an entire fleet of sailing vessels and steamers for the China, East
India, and coasting trade, and leave a surplus that will roll wp lo miilions.”

‘Their greed is so great that not only do they claim land where they
have but the shadow of a title, but they claim land along the branch
from Portland to Tacoma, even when the joint resolution of 1869, au-
thorizing the building of that branch expressly stated that it should claim no
lund from the United States by reason of the building of that road,”

* *
*

A “ Territorial Pioneer” writes.—‘‘I wish to ask whose land this is
that [masonic] officials gave away, and where they got the right to give the
»oople’s land away to a thieving, boxed-up ]masonic] monopoly, rob-
boa ‘rican citizens of their rights, and driving old settlers off their
lanu the poor horses m1 vie clam beach, the tax-payers fum-
ishing public land to give away to [masonic] railroad thieves to sell
back again to the people at $10 per acre, so the [linked brethren]
thieves can buy up a rotten Congress and to put up [masonic] railroad
jobs? What is the good of the railroad? They charge so much you
can never ride on one. They charge a man ten cents a mile. The
[masons] have given [to their brethren] about all the country. There
is no other to give except Alaska, and they will give that away next
spring as soon as it thaws out.” [And you will vote for the secret
brethren for office, will you ?] -

*

‘*The Northern Pacific holds [fraudulently] 2,680,000 acres of land in
Washington Territory as a gift for building a road from Calama to Ta-
coma alone, enough to build the road three times over, yet the rates of
transportation between these two places is about all the produce is worth
and just as high as they can be without interdicting trade altogether,”
[in plain violation of law, but they do it with impunity because their
brethren are in office and they own the courts.

*

*
*

‘*Tt seems to think it makes no difference whether it completes the
road in the time stipulated in the charter, or ten or fifteen years thereafter.

Tt goes into our legislature and so warps a bill on taxation of railroad
lands that the company is forever free from taxes on them. On taxation
of the railroad proper under the ‘gross earnings law,’ all its [stolen]
millions of dollars worth of timber, coal, iron mines, shops, bridges,
stations, road bed, rolling stock, and lands in a belt 80 miles wide, are ex-
empt.”

‘Tt has come into this valley after it had been settled twenty years, de-
stroyed the legal and commercial capital of the settlers, in order to build
upon its ruins another town, the profits from which speculation goes
into the pockets, not of the stockholders, but a syndicate [of masons]
constituting a wheel within the system of that great clock, whose hands

the Columbia
e China, East
‘0 millions.”

1d where they
g the branch
of 1869, au-
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yet the rates of

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speculation goes
hte [of masons|

k, whose hands

ADVICE TO SETTLERS. 507

indicate on the dial plate the wreck of private fortune and the blast-
ing of the hopes of frontier settlers,” [and so they are a secret ring
within our Government, making of it a machine of oppression against
the full fledged citizen, and a shield for their own crimes. |

‘‘Tt controls the timber trade, the elevator business, the grain trade,
beef trade, and nearly every avenue of business is made to pay homage
and revenue to it, and any man who does not favor and crook the hinges
of his knee in craven obedience is ostracised by this powerful tyrant.

‘‘The whole country is terrorized by the multiplicity of evils contin-
ually sprung by this hydra-headed |masomec] monster.”

‘‘The people bear the burdens of taxation [and of plunder] and the
great [‘charitable order’| receives the profits of the people’s labor, and
proves by its acts that it has not for us the sympathy that formally ex-
isted between master and slave, but that it is continually whispering to
itself, ‘the people be d d!’”

“Its rates of freight are so high that farmers, miners, and stock
growers find it profitable to freight by w.zon 150 miles alongside of the
[masonic] railroad.”

“It enters conventions, dictates platforms and candidates, and
{secretly] conducts campaigns; it bribes newspapers; it employs [ma-
sonic] orators to address the intelligent, and thugs to crack the party
whip over the heads of the ignorant; it continually strives not only to
make its own property very valuable but to make that of its neighbors
worthless ; [owning the courts] 1t is a continual litigant; it heeds not the
rights of others and legalizes injustice by controlling judges and juries,”
[yet people vote for their secret sworn brethren for office. |

“Tt is a swindler ; it sells lands which do not belong to it, evades the
payment of taxes, and obtains money under false pretenses.”

‘‘The matter has got down to this: Shall the people do the legislat-
ing, or shall the [linked masonic] railroads doit? Shall the people rule
or shall the [linked masonic] railroads rule them? We are bound hand
aud foot in the [linked masonic] railroad chains. We should struggleand
fight till they are brokca.” .

* *
*

..“ Conventions have been packed [by the gang], meetings have
been broken up or controlled, legislatures have been captured. While
this has been going on, the vast majority of the journals of the Territory—
many of them corrupt, others blind—have not only failed to raise their
voices in behalf of popular rights, but have given themselves over body
and soul to a soulless master; have failed to keep faith with the people,
but have been ever ready and willing to aid in any measure to strengthen
the hold which the [linked masonic gang] has already secured in the
politics of the Territory. Asa rule, the press has sacrificed the interests of
the people for paltry bribes, or because of the insolent threats of a domineer-
ing [linked masonic gang] and its strikers.”

508 RAILROAD GRANTS, ETC.

‘*Every trick of the corrupt politician, every device for blinding the
people, has teen made use of by the hirelings of this [mystic] gang. Not
only have newspapers been bribed and bullied, but voters have been pur-
chased and intimidated. A determined effort has been made to contro]
Washington while it is yet a Territory, to bind it hand and foot, so that
upon its admission to the Union it would be a mere pocket burrow [ani
so it is] of which the offices would be doled out as rewards to those who
by their unscrupulousness or their activity in the cause of their master
had won the approbation of the [masonic] land thieves and railroad
kings.” [Even their most abject flunkeys, the ex-blackleg Governors, are
being puffed up by masonic blackleg editors for United States Senators
of Washington State. ]

‘*That one may smile, and smile and be a villain.”
** Would’st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”

* *
*

(During the building of the N. P. road, the masonic officials and their
friends had a picnic over the same, and their secret ring brethren and
flunkeys of the press urged the people to receive and cheer them as the
more degraded Russian subject does their Czar.] ‘The great moving
menagerie contains 336 persons, the estimated expense of whom, during
the trip, will be half a million dollars, or a little over $1,488 each. The
supply of wines and liquors costing $23,000. The odd sections of the
people’s land built this road, and we may expect that the proceeds of the
even sections in the hands of the settlers will pay this half million of ex-
peu.es of this great menagerie, and the American people are expected to
do homage to the programme, Whata country! What a people!

* *
*

“In the bituminous coal field the N. P. Co. ‘owns’ 480,000 acres,
valued at the low government price of $20 per acre would amount to
$9,600,000, not one-fourth their real value, for the coal. This belt of coal
land embraces the most heavily timbered region of like extent in the
world. Monster fir and cedar trees, many of them from six to nine feet
in diameter, and from 300 to 400 feet in height, cover the earth so thickly
that, standing in the midst, the range of vision is confined within a few
hundred feet on all sides, as by a dense wall of wood. This estimated at
60,000 feet to the acre, worth seventy-five cents per thousand, that is $45 per
acre, or $21,600,000; this added to the $9,600,000 and we have $31,200,000,
which is exclusive of the lignite belt.

This estimate is for a strip of twelve to fifteen miles in width, reaching
one hundred miles in length. It does not include their value for agricul-
tural purposes after the timber is removed, and while the coal is being
mined, nor as town sites for mining centres. It does not include the value
of other coal fields adjacent, nor iron mines contiguous, nor of the thous-
ands of acres of rich bottom lands along the streams, It is the estimated

blinding the
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ave been pur-
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1 foot, so that
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to those who
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; and railroad
Governors, are
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488 each. The
sections of the
proceeds of the
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are expected to
people !

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5 the estimated

ADVICE TO SETTLERS. 509

value of a strip of land, over two-fifths of which lies in this (King) county.
What is the value of its whole claim within King county alone ?”

[If honestly managed, at $20,000 per mile, ‘* $31,200,000” would build
over 1,500 miles of railroads for the county, and the people own the roads;
and so on all along the line. This would be some of the benefits of a Gov-
ernment (supreme over all the secret, alien ring governments within it) bv
the people for the people. Now it is by the secret rings for the secret
rings. By the masons for the masons. |

* *
*

‘Tf the land and property of the railroads in Dakota were taxed as
other property, the [masonic] company would pay about a million and a
half dollars into the treasury. As it is it pays $170,000—[sometimes].

At this time the company is in arrears $103,000. The Treasurer levied
upon eight locomotives to compel its payment, but [of course] the court
decided in favor of the [masons.” Who else will the courts protect against
paying taces ?) ; t

*

‘The Union Pacific was built and equipped by the peop!e of the
United States, for it is well known that the projectors paid in only about
one and a half million dollars towards its construction.”

* *
*

‘‘The original stockholders of the Northern Pacific never contributed
a dollar toward building that road. The only expenditures made by those
[masons] among whom the $100,000,000 in stock was divided, and to whom
it was practically delivered, were those for procuring [mysteriously] the
passage of the original charter and land grant act and subsequent amenda-
tory resolutions through Congress.” [Secret brethren in Congress can
secretly and safely trade with their brethren out of Congress in despoil-
ing the people’s wealth, because they are so strongly obligated and
sworn to ‘‘ever conceal and never reveal’? each others secrets,] and
some few thousand dollars advanced afterwards by Jay Cooke & Co. to
pay for preliminary examination of the route prior to the execution of the
contract made with that firm to sell bonds of the road for the purpose o!
its construction. In all, these expenditures did not exceed $150,000, in
fact, it was stipulated in a written contract that the shareholders in the
franchise should not be assessed to exceed the above sum in the aggregate.

At this date these contracts are interesting reading. Much has been
written about the hardships, struggles, losses, etc., of the original pro-
jectors of the Northern Pacific company. The facts are that only the un-
suspecting public, who bought shares at fictitious values of men whom
they cost nothing, have been victimized. Not a dollar received from
sales of stock in that company was invested in its construction. The
first 500 miles were constructed between 1873 and 1879 with the proceeds
of the sale of $30,000,000 bonds of the road, and its land grant. Up
to that time, since the road was chartered, six years had elapsed during

i ARRAS cS

510 RAILROAD GRANTS, ETC.

which the original stockholders had divided among themselves or as-
signed to Jay Cooke & Co, the whole capital stock of the company
and issued to parties to the contract a large portion of its paid up shares,
Here are a few details of one of the most bold-faced frauds and iniquitous
agreements on record. The franchise of the N. P. R. R. was in 1867 the
property of Smith and [other brethren]. The cost of lobbying [secret
intrigue] the act of 1864 through Congress, and incidental expenses up to
that date, amounted to $102,000, In January, 1867, a contract was made
whereby this property—the charter, etc.,—was divided into twelve shares
of $3,500 each. This contract provided that subscribers should become
jointly interested with Smith ‘in proportion to the shares, or parts of
shares, taken in the charter or franchise of the N. P. R. R. with all its
rights, powers, privileges and immunities.’ It further provided that all
parties thereto should unite to get aid from Congress [more secret intrigu-
ing, in which an outsider could not hope to succeed] by further legislation,
and contribute pro-rata, according to the interest held by each for that
purpose [for lobbying, intriguing] and that as soon as Congress granted
further aid [special privileges and exemptions denied to other men] an or-
ganization should be effected to commence construction of the road, and
secure the [people’s] land granted by the [masonic] act. On July 3,
1867, three years after the charter had been granted, the above agreement
was amended by stipulating that the total amount which each of the twelve
shares should be compelled to contribute, should not be over $12,500, in-
cluding the amount already paid ($8,500) making a total of $150,000, as
the limit of the amount which the owners of the charter could be com-
pelled to contribute.

Thus matters remained until 1869, no railroad yet having been com-
menced. In that year—May 20, 1869—an agreement was made by the
holders of the franchise with Jay Cooke & Co. by which the shares were
increased to eighteen, six of which were to be given to Jay Cooke & Co.,
and the capital stock divided as follows: $100,000,000 stock, $80,001,000
to be issued in full paid up stock pro rata among the eighteen shares as
follows : $124,500 per share immediately, and $54,000 per share ‘‘as often
as each twenty-five miles of road is constructed.” The balance of the
capital stock ($19,999,000) to be delivered to Jay Cooke & Co. in paid up
[in fraud] stock as follows: As often as said Jay Cooke & Co. shall sell a
$1,000 bond, $200 of the stock shall be delivered.

One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) of 73-10 bonds were
ordered issued, to be sold by said Jay Cooke & Co., at eighty-eight cents
on the dollar.

Not a foot of railroad had yet been constructed, although five years
had passed since the charter was granted, and application had twice been
made to Congress for extension of the time when it should be completed.

On the first of January, 1870, the foregoing contract was modified.
During the interval Jay Cooke & Co. had investigated the route, pros-

selves or as-
the company
iid up shares,
nd iniquitous
gs in 1867 the
bying [secret
xpenses up to
act was made
twelve shares
hould become
s, or parts of
R. with all its
vided that all
secret intrigu-
her legislation,
reach for that
ngress granted
1er men] an or-
the road, and
t. On July 3,
dove agreement
sh of the twelve
ver $12,500, in-
of $150,000, as
could be com-

ving been com-
s made by the
Ihe shares were
y Cooke & Co.,
ck, $80,001,000
teen shares as
share ‘‘as often
balance of the
Co. in paid up
Co. shall sell a

0 bonds were
| ty-eight cents

pugh five years

had twice been
e completed.
was modified.
e route, pros-

ADVICE TO SETTLERS. 511

pects, etc., of the proposed railroad, and the change was made in compli-
ance with the demands of that company. The eighteen shares were in-
creased to twenty-four, of which Jay Cooke & Co, were to have twelve.
A company was organized for purchasing lands, townsiles, etc., [so grasping
are masons as well as clanish] the stock to be divided in the same propor-
tion ; that is, the original twelve interests to have one-half, and [brother|
Cooke & Co. the other half. The stock was then re-appropriated as fol-
lows : $80,001,000 pro rata among the twenty-four shares ‘full paid up
stock,” [with their chins] $93,400 per share to be delivered immediately,
and $40,500 on each of said twenty-four shares as often as twenty-five
miles of road are completed ; the balance of the capital stock, $19,999,000
to be given to Jay Cooke & Co, as provided in the previous agreement.

Under this agreement Cooke & Co. sold $30,000,000 of the bonds of
the N. P. R. company, out of the proceeds of which the cost of con-
structing all the railroad built prior to the failure of Cooke & Co., in 1873,
were paid. Not another mile of road was built until money was again
raised by sale of bonds. The only equivalent given for every share of
stock divided up prior to that time was the cost of procuring the franchise
[secret intriguing] and the services rendered by Cooke & Co. in selling
bonds.

When the N. P. R. Co. was reorganized, after being bought in by the
bondholders, the holders of this ‘‘/ull paid up stock” were given ‘‘com-
mon”’ stock of ‘'.e newly organized company, and to the bondholders and
others having secured claims were assigned ‘‘ preferred” stock. Thus the
common stock of the N. P. R. Co. represents a total benefit to that cor-
poration, a total contribution to the cost of the great overland railroad, of
less than $150,000. The result is that the people along the line are to be
taxed indefinitely to pay dividends, upon what ? Under the contract as given
above there were issued, or the holders of shares in the original franchise
were entitled to receive about $23,000,000 in full paid up stock of the N.
P. R. Co., and upon this $23,000,000, or its equivalent; it is expected
to pay dividends [besides the immense empire of land] wrung from the
public by extortionate freight and passenger charges.”

* *
*

‘* A long railroad is mapped out, and the [‘ charitable ’] men who hold
the franchise issue first mortgage bonds for the entire amount of the cost,
including market price of land grants at Washin; on; [could outsiders
get land grants without employing a masonic lobby to secretly and cor-
ruptly intrigue with their mystic brethren ? Say, could they?] Profits of
construction company [a ring within the ring] and loss upon bonds sold
at 2 discount, [because of the fraudulent business] holding in hand for pri-
vate use some preposterous amount of stock, no matter what, representing, of
course, nothing but the cost of the printing and the knavery of holders.
The road is declared able to pay immediate dividends on the whole
[swindle]. The stock is boomed. In some instances a dividend or two

ke tite Sanecnittcnaese3
ne

t
ie
d
a3
13
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512 RaILroaD GRANTS, ETC,

have even been paid out of proceeds of bouds sold. Speculation sets in,
and [focls] hasten to buy the stock at any price. Even experienced busi-
ness men, who would ridicule a purchase of a given stock at par, will con-
sider the same stock increased to ten times the amount of its face value as
cheap at twenty. Of this the [‘ charitable ’] sharpers are well aware, and
they are careful to water to the taste of purchasers, Indeed, as the whole
thing is fictitious [like conduct in others done on a small scale is called
counterfeiting, and a crime for which they are languishing in prison], and
merely a matter of paper and ink, it is quite immaterial to them whether
they print “100 shares’ on a certificate of stock and sell it at ten, or print
‘ten shares’ and sell them at par.

* *
*

‘Our new countries, where the virgin whcat lands lie, that we depend
on for food, and expected to control the market of the world by, are
gridironed with railroads built, and dishonestly built, with money ob-
tained by selling bonds. Not a cent was put into the stock. From the
Canadian Pacific southward to the Gulf of Mexico, the east and west lines,
with a single exception, are roads built for the sole purpose of plunder-
ing the people. Their stock represents nothing. But by the most out-
rageous laws ever submitted to by an intelligent people, the [‘ very
worthy grand masters’] of those roads will be allowed (have been al-
lowed in some cases) to wring out of the people sufficient money to
pay a dividend on stock that has no more actual value than circus
posters. ‘Tax collectors [for the gangs] sit in every freight office through-
out our land, who gather the tribute paid to the [worthy grand ‘char-
itable’ (?)] dignitaries of transportation, who were created by the [secret
intrigue of spuricus, ‘mysterious’ masonry].

‘¢There are hundreds of millions of dollars of railroad stock, mort-
gages on the industry of the people, on which dividends are being paid
that represent nothing but the effrontery [rather the secret intrigue and
prostitution of the governments and courts] of [masonic] railroad directors.

One of the fundamental laws of our system of government is that the
people shall not be taxed without their consent. This law is ngidly ad-
hered to in all matters of State, county, town and school district taxation.
A bond that has the taint of irregularity about it is worthless, The people
have never hesitated to repudiate an illegal obligation, but they have
tamely submitted to the [masonic] outrage of allowing the [midnight
brethren] to issue hundreds of millions of dollars of railroad stock that
represents nothing but the cost of printing, and they have paid dividends
on this [masonic] stock. Annually millions of dollars are collected from
the [half-housed, half-fed, and three-quarter-mortgaged] people to pay
these charges [of the government within our Government] that are a vio-
lation of the natural rights of mankind. If the people murmur and
threaten unfavorable [but honest] legislation, their [mis] representatives
[linked masons] are purchased with the money they have paid to the

ct

ulation sets in,
perienced busi-
ut par, will con-
its face value as
well aware, and
ed, as the whole
1 scale is called
in prison], and
o them whether
at ten, or print

, that we depend
.e world by, are
with money ob-
tock. From the
ist and west lines,
ypose of plunder-
by the most out-
eople, the [‘ very
d (have been al-
ficient money to
alue than circus
rht office through-
‘thy grand ‘char-
ed by the [secret

road stock, mort-
s are being paid
cret intrigue and
railroad directors.
nment is that the
law is ngidly ad-
1] district taxation.
less. The people
h, but they have
bg the [midnight
ilroad stock that
ye paid dividends
re collected from
] people to pay
ht] that are a vl0-
ple murmur and
5] representatives
have paid to the

ApvICcE TO SEYILERS. 513

[gangs, which can safely be done when they are so strongly obligated and
sworn to ‘ever conceal and never reveal’ each others secrets]. So the
people have not been able to obtain relief, [as they vote for masons for
office]. State representatives, Congressmen, Senators, Judges, all are
controlled, purchased with money that has been drawn from the [blinded]
people under the cover of unjust [and flawed] laws.”

* *
*

[Here follows an example of the efforls and expression of the people of
the Northwest as to the foregoing subject. |

** Resolved, By the people of Whitman county, that the course the N.
P. company is pursuing is one that is detrimental to every interest of the
country, and inflicting hardships unknown in the history of our country,
and justly causing the people all over the Territory to organize for the
better protection of their rights against this grasping [masonic] monopoly
which has laid claim to a large tract of country without showing where
they had lost any land, or without respecting the claims of settlers made
prior to their selections, or without any title whatever derived from Gov-
ernment, [the grant having lapsed] offering these lands for sale at a price
beyond the reach of those who are justly entitled to them, and offering
simply contracts, which, in themselves, are but a system of robbery, bind-
ing the purchaser to make annual improvements, and after paying a certain
amount down, the balance to be paid at stipulated times, and if any por-
tion remains unpaid at the specified time they reserve to themselves the
right to enter and take possession without any legal action whatever, thus
barring the settler from that right which every citizen is entitled to. They
also reserve the right to enter and take possession of a strip, 400 feet in
width, whenever they may want it for railroad purposes, binding the pur-
chaser and his heirs forever to build and maintain a good and substantial
fence on each side of said strip, also reserving the right of springs wher-
ever they may be found, if necessary, for railroad purposes ; also all min-
eral and coal that may be found thereon, thus leaving the purchaser at all
times in their power. Their discrimination and extortionate freights are
such that they are crippling every industry and robbing the people of th:
interior, who are laboriously struggling to build homes for themselves an.
families, of all their hard earnings, leayiae them but little better than
slaves, toiling from early morn till late ai eve, that these grasping [linked
masons] may live in palaces and roll in wealth and grandeur, while the
people live in poverty and groan under the burden. Be it further

‘* Resolved, That we deeply deplore the fact that we are under the
despotic power of a [‘ charitable’ gang] and our only hope of protection
is from the halls of legislation, and that we do earnestly entreat Congress
toregulate the inter-State traffic so as to protect the people from such
gigantic robbery, and also to take such action in regard to the land grant
as will give to them their justly earned titles, and the balance to be held
and sold only at Government price, and we earnestly beseech Congress to
33

514 RaILroap GR! 74, ETC.

make such appropriations and in such a manner [that is, so the gang dor’t
steal it about all, as is usually done] as will speedily open the Columbia
river, which is the great highway of transportation, that the land gyants
which the [masonic| railroad company are now seeking to hold be declared
forfeited, and the titles to innocent purchasers be confirmed, the rest sold
at Government price and the money expended in speedily completing the
opening of the Columbia river, which alone is in the interest of the
people.”
* * *

“Snake River Mass Meerina.”—Of the people of Snake river, Tu-
kannon and Pataha sections. 1884.

** Whereas, In 1864, by act of Congress, lands were granted to the N,
P. R. R. Co., to aid in the construction of a railroad from Lake Superior
to Puget Sound, and

Whereas, The original grant was large and valuable enough to con-
struct the entire road without other help within the time specified in the
granting act, and ten years have elapsed since that time expired, and

Whereas, The [masonic] company deferred building the road until the
country through which it passed was sufficiently developed to make said
road a source of profit without the aid of the land, and said land being
settled and improved without the aic and advantage of the railroad which
should have been constructed for +’ —_urpose of developing the country,
and

Whereas, Parties interested in the N. P. R. R. Co. have influenced
[their brethren] the boards of trade of Walla Walla and Portland to ex-
press sentiments contrary to those really existing, for the purpose of influ-
encing legislation, therefore

Resolved, first, That we demand that all land not actually earned by
the construction of the road within the time specified in the granting act,
be forfeited and restored to the public domain.

Resolved, second, That the N. P. R. R. Co. is not justly entitled to an
acre of land in this Territory.

Resolved, third, That the land in this Territory claimed by the N. P.
R. R. Co. justly belongs to the settlers who had improved and developed
this country, and as citizens of the United States should obtain title at
government’s requirements,

Resolved, fourth, That all United States Senators and Representatives
in and Delegates to Congress be and are hereby respeotfully requested to
procure the forfeiture of the lands unearned.”

[But the people had no more influence, by petition, for right and jus-
tice at Washington, than they had with blackleg-masonic-Governors at
Olympia, Washington Territory. |

he gang dort
the Columbia
ie land gyants
ld be declared
1, the rest sold
sompleting the
nterest of the

nake river, Tu-

anted to the N.
Lake Superior

enough to con-
specified in the
pired, and

he road until the
to make said
said land being
e railroad which
ing the country,

have influenced
Portland to ex-
purpose of influ-

ually earned by
he granting act,

ly entitled to an
ed by the N. P.
and developed

1 obtain title at

Representatives
Ily requested to

or right and jus-
ie-Governors at