The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-04-28
"A Word with Eanitowoc.

a Word with Ianitowoc.
Under this heading the Winnebago
County Press, Of the sd inst, reads TO the
people, AMI particularly 10 the newspapers,
Of Manitoxoc lung ecture-tho principle
force Of which Is that We are all crazy over
this way, anil not only crazy, but short
sighted because We cant see that il is a
"iact"-frst, that Reed and his famous
Land Grant bubble are just the thing that
We want 10 freeze to aud second, that the
n w r. r. Co don't own the whole
L.ssd Graa. humbuc, and has so owned
and eon.rol.eGit sor long time.
Now we are perfectly wiling that the
people os Dotys Gsland should believe a
Ito and be ID but az for US, We will be
id If wo take q cents worth OF stock 10
anything in which George Reed stands at
the head And on this line the crazy.
lawlcss people Of Manitowoc propose to
fight the thing out And like jeff Davis,
We want to be let alone in our madness,
Of which determination the whole cnlight>
ened world, and Chiltcn, and Meuasha will
please take notice.
The Press says that free speech has
been abridged in Mantowos This charge
We admit is true as to the Ncnasha delega-
ton who visited Us short time ago. But
the Pfcss will rccollect that Manitowoc is
strong republican city, and has not forgot>
ten old times, when ''copperhead" was
not allowed TO express his views. And
when number Of disl2yal men come upon
Us with no other intent than to beat us out
Of what we considered our rights, then the
old radical spirit burned up anew, strong
and hot-so hot that those gentlemen bc>
came nceDliessly alarmed aud made tracks
hastily for home, and it vas best that they
should do 90, for they came upon disrep-
s,able errand and in the wrong time.
We are now and have been for long
time satisfied that Menasha was not anxi-
Gus tor road to Manitowoc-tbat they did
not intend to aid the building of any such
roai-that they intended to invest all their
mean, in the building of a road west to
Waupaca, or further; and this they have
right to do and the people of Manitowoc
will not interfere with them in such a laud-
able work, And this intention we see
crops out in the following extract from the
came article in the Press:
The logical result we conclude would be
that If the two sections Of road are built by
separate companies, that a compromise will be
effected whereby they will become one road
aud the interests at Neenah and Mena.ha and
Appleton will DO accommodated aliks. We
will here say to our friends at Manitowoc, lend
your best endeavors to completing your road
TO the Lever Fox and the people of Neenah
and Mcnasha will lend their best endeavors to
complete the road from the Lower Fox to
Waupaca. and if each move with intelligence
and energy We may confidently expect to see
the cars running from Waupaca to Manitowoc
before the next close of navigation.
Aud at this end of the In. We conf
IDENTITY expect to see the cars running from
Mnnitowoc straight through App!eton to
New London before the next close of
navigation"
The Press struck the right path in the
following from the same article
With the furnishing Of material aid by APP
plcton, New LONDON and intermediate points
in the absence of Ncenah and Menasha, it is
also very possible that the Doty Island inter-
est may be left out in the cold, or on o side
track and the road completed from Stevens
Point rid New London, cross the river at APP
pleton, and go to Manitowoc.
We should very much regret to see
Doty's Island left out in the cold or
ION a side track" but if this should be
her fate, she can charge it solely to her own
blindness and selishness-blind because
she has so tenaclously Rugged the Land
Grsnt phantom, and selfish because she
refused to join Manitowoc in paying for
and securing road east.
Nsighbors, the world moves rapidly now
a days, aud while you are surveying your
Land Grant (paper) road, and making con-
tracts with responsible parties" aud got
ting everything all right, Mani:owoc and
Appleton in their insanity and law
lsssnoss," will bul!d a road.
a1he kanucks get on scare more
easily, and stay on it longer, than any peo-