The Iron Tyrant’s Threat

A man prominently identified for many years with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and at present connected with it semi-officially, said to a resident of this city, who was passing through Tacoma recently: 'If the Northern Pacific management believes that the merchants of Seattle are in sympathy with the movement there in favor of forfeiting the land grant, it would at once discriminate against them.' There is no doubt that this expresses the truth, as the policy of other transcontinental companies, notably the Central Pacific, is to crush out every form of opposition to its predatory designs—whether by communities, cities, counties, or States—by just this kind of persecution. Are the people of this city, of this Territory, or of the Pacific Coast slaves, that this insolent mendicant, through one of its hirelings, should thus dare to threaten them? We tell this arrogant, conscienceless corporation, that the people of this Territory are not in that mood, nor of that kind who will tamely submit to be punished for expressing their convictions.