The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-05-12
OUR RAILROADS.
Referring to the Milwaukee & Nc

ca rOnte ana VIII reach plymouth some time
next week. The Central road Is bound to
be success. It requires no lying or bio W
ing to prove to capitalists that it will be the
paying road from Milwaukee to the Fox
River.-The Wisconsin says: Our North
ern railroad interests have good look
President Q. II. Waldo, of the Northern
Company, by notice elsewhere, calls for
proposals for grading ard bridging the first
division of the road The line leaves the
st. Paul road near Sshwartzburg. and fol-
lows the route Of the old Superior road 20
Cedarburgh and Grafton. distance of
twenty miles. the work to be ready for the
iron by the first of July.
The Times has been pitching into
ManitoWoc for some time and the above
is another effort in that line. It says
the Central road is bound to be a success.
It requires 30 lying or blowing to prove
to capitalists that it will be paying
road from Milwaukee to the Fox river
Now We take the liberty to inform the
Times that the Central road is bound to
be q success only az q complete failure
and that no lying or blowing will prove
to capitalists that it ever will or can be
made a paying road, that it does not
equal the shadow to a substance ike the
Lake Shore road from Milwaukee to our
city, on which actual work was com
menced within so days after the charter
was signed by the Governor and on which
200 men are now daily employed between
Milwaukee and Sheboygan while not
blow has been struck on the Central-all
the work performed consisting in sending
out few surveyors, to blind the people
if possible, and publishing newspaper
pufs like the above, and propositions for
contracting the grading and bridging.
Their advertisement calls for proposals
to be opened on the 18th Of May. Can
they open bids, let the contracts, and the
contractor get TO work in less than II
days, or before the first week in June ?
The advertisement says the whole work
must be completed by the first day Of
July Is this humbug2
But let US look into their operations:
Their own directors say publicly that
their funds are represented by their sub
scriptions Amounting to S5,G00 Of
which $4,000 was subscribed by the man
who owns the old Farm Mortgages and
$4,000 by the Milwaukee Elevator Mo
nopolist, and 800 each by the directors
and contributors from the St. Paul Rail
way people. The proposals are to be
opened on the 10th, and the company re
serves the right to reject any not deemed
to their interest. On what do they open
proposals? on the hope that something
will turn up" Milwaukee county is to be
asked to order vote for $500, 900 on the
10th, Cedarburg and Grafton on the 18th
and 18th, and proposals to be opened on
the 10th. These same people, the direc-
tors Of the Northern Railroad who are
vilifying and abusing the Lake Shore
Road are at the same time feeling their
failure to defeat the enterprise. Can
not the TIRES see the humbug? or is it
go blind, that it ,cW not see?
Talk about lying and blowing! did not
the managers Of that Central read COM
mence thus before they ever had a char
ter? did they not lie when they agreed
with our Representative in Madison that
they would not oppose the passage Of the
Lake Shore charter, if there was no OBJ
lection made to their charter on our part
Have they not lied ever since, trying to
defeat the voting in favor of the Lake
Shore road In every town, county and city
on the whole line? are they not lying
STILL aye even swearing to their lies, to
obtain injunctions to hinder our progress 4?
And besides lying have our opponents
done any thing else but blowing? blow
ing in newspapers, blowing in written
communications and personal interviews,
blowing in court rooms and bar rooms, in
private houses and public assemblies?
And what is their success? They did
obtain charter through the innocence
of our representative and a saciaging
charter at that, which may possibly do
them some good some time, but they will
have to s,riag fearfully from the central
route, before they can ever hope for any
success, before they can ever find any
capitalists, that may be convinced, that
Their road viii ever be paying road
Aside from that charter. these means
employed by our opponents have only
proved benefit to our Lake Shore en-
terprise; every vote taken on aiding our
roads has resulted in success. In less
than two years we shall so to Chicago
all the way by rail on the only feasible
practical connection, between the Fox
and Alilwaukee-the milwaukee, Manito-
voc & Appleton Railroad.
The Appleton Crescent, from whom
the other papers in that city might take
very wholesome lesson in consistency
and honesty Of opinion at the least in
railroad matters, speaks on the same
subject as follows: ''The long haired
geniuses who fought against improve
ments in the shape of additional railway
facilities and whose limited stock of argu-
ments were SANDERS and falsehoods, now
that they find themselves most signaly
repudiated By the people of Appleton, do
not entertain very exalted opinions of the
doctrine that the majority shall rule OF
course not
Milwaukee papers please publish.
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