The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-31

lis, the 'much injured people Of Northern
/ Wisconsin J from The rascally invaders OF
their enclosure, which have.been orrylng
| and cheating it's inmates for the last fit
q TEN years. The method to be employed is
! to XIII the wiling and unsuspecting crea-
t lures all off What beneyolence III the
Il Wolves at once to. translate the whole fock
:. to heaven, and so save it from the bad,
) Iswindling beasts, that have been proNllns
j around so many years! This is the way
: Henry the Eighth dealt with his wives, only
j more so. and has been tried on in 9TH
er instances But who will now deny
4 10 the four footed creation those moral. seti-
timents, and affections, Of which bipeds
have always before claimed the sole posses
sion? To be sure, we have suspected that
instinct, somehow akin to intellect, had
! been given to the lower orders, as also a
!. s,tain craft and cunning, but that beneyo-
| nee, tender consideration and care should
: be found there, sufuses the eyes with graf
itude for the ''.ways that are dark" in the
animal world.
What lamentations proceeding from ode
i hills are made over "the peope Of the re-
/" gion that have been deluled with prom
"ises unfuIfled, and lies that have brought
"no fruit except barrenness and desolation,
"Dead Sea apples and ashes,-the people
'that sit shivering in the outer cold and
darkness,-in the shadow Of gigantic
fraud, &c, &c.
OF truth the olJ prophetic rage Of lone
creatures in caves, bare except rs to their
loins, and cut with edged stones, fcigns to
be simulated in these strains.
But nyou will lay your ear to the bare rock,
and by the still water, you may catch the
key note to such rhapsodies, in the last
line Of the precious petition, set as jewel
in the leading columns of the Minnesotian,
which is made to read, sSo as to- give a
"preference in the sale ofpine timber lands
'to residents actually engaged in the lum-
"ber business" We believe that the tri-
pod Of the Minnesotian oracle, not long
since, rested for a while over the seat of
the lumber business aforesaid, down on the
st Croix, and there got a puff of the di-
vine 81 s i1ioh 1mpened these Cassan-
drian giving> out, about the sscountry oil
great capabilities as wilderness and a
'desolation."
Does it occur that the people who take
annually, 100000 900 feet Of pine from
this wilderness would rather it should
remain SO, seven or eight years longer. un-
til the whole district, railroad lands and
all, is ravished OF timber? Do we not
know that the petition over which SO
much powwow is made, originated two
years ago, in the State of Minnesota, and
in the interest Of the lumber oligarchs prin-
cipaly settled in and about Saltwater, and
that its putatiye signatures, if any at all,
were those of then. floating employees, in
the pine woods along the land grants, and
notssof the people of Northern Wisconsin
who own and cultivate the soil Of their
homes?
There aoas petition addressed twelve
month. since to congress, signed by every
body up and down these roads, earnestly
praying the extension Of their land grants,
in which the whole State of Wisconsin
united in effect, by memorial of the leeis-
lature-but no comment or note of this. is
made by the confederated worthless of the
a,,I Minpoco+;,,,. Il
would be fair and Ingenious trick that
is vain," when artlfce and misstatement
are the leading suits in their game.
Nor would it do to tell what is the truth,
that the passage OF the Lake Sup & Miss.
land grant IN 1864 was principally due to
the labors at Washington OF Superior City
people, who animated by a public spirit,
broad enough to comprehend the whole re
zion and di>carding State lines aud SEE
g.ional selishness, advocated and carried
mainly that grant, upon the credit of which
the road to Duluth has been built. With
out their assistance it could not have been
enacted.
Gratitude is not expected or asked in
return, but the willful suppression of facts
is simply observed as an instance of fraud
and wrong which some men are willing to
impose upon their own souls.
We perfectly understand all about the
cant of "fraud," speculation" ''swind-
ling combination of spectators and bank
ers'' and so forth; all abont the pretended
zeal for the welfare of Wisconsin people,
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