The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-03-10

Vested Rights

thusly:
a namber Of men Of money, Of bonds,
more than they knew what to DO with, by
chsnce discovered that they could AID
largely 70 their stores. by building railroad
across the young State of Wisconsin. ILey
we're far seeing Ien-weTe those men OF
money, and they thought that they could
see in the future long line of railroad
connecting Lake Superior with the Pacific
Ocean, aud then they saw that most likely,
the passengers and freight reaching Bay
fed on Lake Superior, would want to con
tlnue East, and so these men of J0n3s pro-
posed TO pick up that freight and those
passengers, ard convey it, and them. to-
wards the rising sun, and to do this they
must have a railroad charter. And so they
asked the guardians of the veal of Wiscon
sin, to allow them to build said road
Now Manitowoc, a little hamlet, 90
miles north of the great centre of COM
merce,' happened to be so located by the
Great Architect OF the universe" as to he
on the dlrett East and West line of the pro-
posed read, and might, if said road should
be built. some day, aspire to be the great
centre Of commerce" herself, and might
also in her pride and folly, aspiye to become
the Capitol Of the State, or 20 become the
State, aud rule with her power alone.
Great would then be ''Diauna Of the
N4nitowoc's, $, and The Mi.waukecan- wsu i
wax wrath, aul be humb=d. aud lose their
rested rights, to corrupt, aud buy, and run
tie who!s S,a;e, - jAeig OWN glory ana
profit
AMI again, many year has come aud
/ gone, and at each new moon the "uigmas'
Of Manitowoc would send up faint wall
for greatness, to be acquired by and through
+ railroad communication with the outside
world And at each prayer for relief"
George Reed would respond, Wait bat
iuue while longer, and your prayer shall
b. answered. Give nie the entire control
Ct all the vested rights of Jones and
Lcnp7, AMI oth.Is, il the railroad now
partly made, aud give ne a hundred thou
sand dollars, and behold your railroad in
two years. And here Is my honor and my
Ie,.' = ~. '~islfe. prriorn.aooa
promises
Laup> aad Tnucs tran-flrrcI to Recl the
entire road, and Josz not one ccnt il re
turn.
The village 20 Cd HIM 500 600 and
commeucgd to wait The two years have
passed, long time ago, and we are wait;
Ing yet.
And now comes the aforesaid" men Of
money, ana say that they will build the
road as aforesaid
Bat the Legislature Of Wisconsin, fears
log that the vested rights Of Milwaukee
to make hog Of herself, may be inter
lered with, aud that the vested rights y
Of George Reed to humbug the people Of
Nan;towoc may 5e sqrclched forever, have
come 10 the relief of the said pair Of hum
/ hngs and by corruption ten times worse
than was charged to the forty thieves >
/ have forbidden those men OF money the
naked right 10 build he road, which would
make Northern Wisconsin rich, and Mani
towcc It's first city in the State.
Now we insist that the thousands and
tens and hundreds Of thousands of people
in Northern Wisconsin have vested
rights and we charge the Legislature Of
I Wisconsin with having corruptiy defrauded
the people Of those rights by refusing 10
grant the charter asked for, thereby seek
/ ing to tie the best half of the State for an
other decade of years to a dead matl :
! back
We charge this to those members Of the
! Assembly who voted to defeat our charter.
| To those who mantuly advocated our
/ rights and the rights Of every other part of
the State to be benefited, We extend all
praise aaI tanks.
I And right here we are proud 10 say that
the Democratic side Of the Legislature
stood BY us. almost TO man " lille to the
shame of the Republican party, be it
known that they, in as solid body, worked
and voted to defeat Us.
Manitowoc though defeated is not con
quercd. Her geographical position-the
energy of her citizens, and the viii of God
viii Yet carry hex over .IorIat, IN spite Of
all jealousy, legislation, corruption, or
pretended vested rights Of anybody.
And now, that there appears 10 be lul
in the late raj road fg ht, ami TO all appear
anees Reeds vested rights" are ahead
let the people ,catch aud prepare for some
new demonstration or pgoposit on By Reed,
something that viii convince us ali that
whatever he may do wi! be bur : LIiad to
deceive the people anl defeat the building
of dHg railroad.