The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-02-03
TIL E. PILOT.
M A N 1T OW OC:
FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1850
A New Tap in the State Treas.

" nf'O tHo AeSisialuio WAS hlcHuibo
thousands Of dollars in discussing the
ques,ion-Shall the Printers be compelled
to work for the public without pay Gov.
RASDALL put . new tap into the People S
Treasury box, and placed some of his own
men to tend it, with the privilege Of draw
ing ad Hbitum. We understand that the
| Governor ha. organized bands of his re
tainers TO 60 into the different. Counties Of
The North to prevent the settlers from
stealing the timber from the State Lands
and for that purpose are expected to pass
the season in the woods, and to draw from
the pockets Of the people, each two dol
lars and fifty cents per day and expenses
We venture that these harpies will within
the next six months receive more money
than the value Of all the timber that woulc
be taken by the settlers without being
watched, within the next SIX years.
The editor ofths Tribune, the protege o
Gov. RANDALL, who, like his master, sole
himself to the Republicans for pay, has
been appointed one of these Timber
Stealing Detectives under a salary of 81,
500 per year and expenses, and his 6elG
OF operations is the County of Shawano
The General with his body guard of three
or four young fedglings of /" the party
| left town last week with a team loaded
with cooking stove, provisions, and al
the appliances necessary for a gensee
| bivousc for the season, in the forests O
Shawano.
1t is said, and We believe with truth
that neither the General nor any of bis
gang, has any experience of forest life, o,
knowledge of woods craft, having never
surveyed and run line in the woods, O,
mastered the meaning Of the term 5iaz.
ed line % Won't tie "Shawano Bows
find this gang sufficiently green for all
practicable purposes, and have most go
rious good time? We know some ofthose
boys who have lived for years and are sat
| home in the pine groves in the valley OF
the mighty Wolf, and we feel certain that
the visit Of the doughty General and his
guard among them will afford them inf
mite amusement-indeed, will occasion
among item that kind and degree of mer-
iment that "the dogs will laugh to see
the sport"
We do not know that this gang 60 arm
ed with reyolvers and bowie knives but we
do know that the Captain went armed
with long tin Aorn; but the use he in
tends to put it to we have not ascertained
Whether he intends, while travelling
through the woods, to blow it to frigh,en
away the Shawano boys, or to keep up
his own courage, or to call his body guard
around him in case of imminent personal
danger, we cannot say.
We know there will be sport and at the
expense of the people; and that if we
could only be present to witness it, we
should never after grumble that we were
taxed for it. But neither we nor the peo-
pie can be there, and therefore we have a
good right to complain of being compelled
to pay the price of thi. most costly and
e1'ravagant entertainment. We may ex-
oect soon to hear through the columns OF
the Tribune, {as the State pays its printer
of scenes of imminent peril witnessed
If fearful dangers passed and of terrible
1ardshps encountered, by these poor
'Jabes IN The uoods"