The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
LETTER FROM TWO RIVERS.
Two RIVERS, Wis. Nov. 81, 1869

Two RIVERS, Wis. Nov. 81, 1869.
EDITOR TRIBUNE " our valuable pa
per reaches me in its weekly round, and
has done the same for nearly two and g
half years. [ take great pleasure IN
reading it and often find special matter,
and interesting items making it a fit sub
ject for visit to one of my friends, In
some other State. East, South, or West,
or, to some one in our own State.
| have been much pleased of late to
see you so fully aroused in regard to the
necessity of Rail Road. l do not ap-
prehend chat it will materially injure you,
or others of your promising town, if you
should at this juncture, get little Rail
road on the Brain. If you have among
you men protesting to have the interests
of Manitowoc at heart, and who at the
same time show by their acts that they
have not, by acting in direct opposition
to her prosperity and growth, there
should be among you other men who are
not afraid to talk plainly to them, and if
need be, set public opinion so strongly
against them as to cause them either to
leave the place, or to turn from the error
of their ways
Money and influence are grand things
when properly directed. But when stand
ing directly in the way they look SO for
midable that it does appear as though
person might beat his brains out in trying
to move them. A martyr to cause is
sometimes the very best means of max
ing it success The old proverb reads:
There is time in the tide of
human affairs. which taken at its flow
leads on to fortune" This old proverb
has far reaching influence and belief
But we are inclined to think that indom
liable perservance-sometimes called
pluck-is the material which human af
fairs need most, and which is pretty sure
to win.
| see no valid reason why Manitowoc
by taking proper stand may not become
a first class city. 1t is about the right
distance from Milwaukee has fine
Bay, and a splendid harbor, while the
country lying back of it can be made to
produce so largely by being properly cul-
tivated as to need your outlet which is
not only the nearest, but the very best.
In your last issue Nov 25,) you adj
vocate the completion of the Lake Shore
Road as being the best thing that can be
done for the prosperity of your Village.
As you are agitating this subject and ex-
pect soon to vote on it, it may not be out
of place to haye different views presented
and ged. For my part | cannot agree
with you We have just the very exam
pie we need for argument and illustration
near home.
The time was when the people Of Mil
waukee supposed as you do that they
were not strong enough to build up their
own interests among themselves. A
Railroad was proposed to Green Bay
from Chicago, and they helped build it so
that they might tap it With short road
and thus get into communication with
the outside world 1t did not take them
long to see their mistake Instead of
building themselves up, they had actual
ly helped build up Chicago to their own
injury. They then-when almost too
late-tried to remedy this evil by getting
direct communications with the country
back and with the far West.
They were so successful as to commence
new and steady growth which soon
made them Of such Importance that
Chicago could no longer leave them ''out
in the cold" and the direct consequence
was, Shore Railroad. Thus it may be
with you if you would now. Just at this
time, demand and get Railroad to the
far West. We are aware that there are
some fine large cities west of you to COM
pete with, but you need have no fear of
them. If they can grow and thrive as
they do back in the State, there is no
reason why you should not grow as ter
minus and thrive as a mistress on the
border of grand old Lake Michigan.
Not to be tedious must close. Wish
ing you and your Town success in getting
the right Railroad and speedy commu
nication with the outside world, and q
large growth,
| am, yours truly, Z.