The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-15
A Part Of Jay Cookies War on Wisconsin
Mob Law on Lake st. CrOix
yaukee News, July 9th.

Part OF Jay Cookies War on Wisconsin,
Mob Law on Lake St. Croix.
From the Milwaukee News, July 9th.
In our telegraphic dispatches yesterday,
was statement that a Saltwater mob had
,ttacl<ed the works on the bridge across the
Lake st Croix, at Hudson, pulling up the
piles, and threatening other violence.
Hudson is situated on the east side Of
Lake St. Croix, and is the Wisconsin ter
minus Of the West Wisconsin, railroad. 1t
Is eighteen miles from St Paul, and a com
p1nv has been formed to build a railroad
from the lake side opposite Hudson to ST.
Paul. the two companies uniting to build
the bridge across the lake. Saltwater is a
place of about 5000 inhabitants, on the
Minnesota side of the lake, and eight miles
north of Hudson. Jay Cooke Il Co. AMI
the interests associated with them, own a
railroad from ST. Paul running north TO
Duluth on Lake Superior, with a branch,
which starts nine miles from St Paul, run
ming o Saltwater The Jay Cooke inter
est wants to force the West Wisconsin
company to buiid their road to point on
the lake opposite S Ilwater, and to bridge
the lake there, and run into ST. Paul over
their Saltwater branch Of the Superior
railroad 70 effect this object, they have
procured an injunction in State Court Of
Minnesota, prohibiting the constru ,tion Of
the bridge at Hudson. This sui will be
rcmov. to the United States Court for
trial In the meantime, Saltwater ku-kiux
mob has taken Ihe law into its own hands,
and attempted to slroy the bridge works
SO far Is they have progressed.
Really, Wisconsin is getting about
enough of Jay Cooke, and his jobs. To
#, Los i, lo.
wild cat town of DuIulh, a canal WAS dug
:. Louis ri>.s-r, e.n,t destroying me narDor
~ Superior City. An injunction was pro
cured stopping the work ; by his peculiar
arts, he prevented it from beng served,
and procured che Suit to be dismissed. H.
bought cut the franchises OF the S.. Cr"ix
and superior road, to prevent its being
built, and then pleaded against making pay
ment for his purch Sc because il was with
in the statute Of frauds. y mob has now,
in his interest, attacked a great public en-
terpriSe owed BY the people OF this State,
and which they are engaged in completing,
but they are prevented because they do not
propose 10 run eight or ten miles out OF the
way. for the sake OF reaching st. Paul over
a title line Of branch railroad owned by
him.
JAY Cook has become too great.a nan
for the good Of the country; md in laying
his I>hmaetlsh hands on tn" interests of
the State of Wisconsin, to crush and des-
troy them, he has awakened inquiry that
would have certainly come later aud from
some ctHer cause, but which he will have
to meet, whether prepared or not. lie Is
already too deeply involved in our national
finances to be a safe man for the people.
He has got the moneyed interests OF the
country too much ut his mercy, and when
the crash comes, it will be a terrible one
worse than the country has ever before
met, through the collapse of the United
States Bank, or any other cause. Circum-
stances, and the necessities Of his multiar
ious interests have arrayed him agansI this
State, and we have got to defend ourselves,
If we can lind the means to do it.
The foregoing article from the Mliwau-
kee Netos, we hail as a cheering sign that
thoughtful men in Wisconsin are beginning
to wake up to the gravity of the situation
on the Minnesota border. Philadelphia
capital and enterprise, will be welcomed
t. the Northwest, but it must CONSENT to
come and to operate here, under the same
moral cOnulIlOHS, JlldJ w Ill anu NHOuitl Dt
insisted on, in respect to any capitalist
from any other quarter
This new power from Pennsylvania
which has invaded this region within the
last three years. has too long indnlgcd the
notion that because it brought money Into
the country, it therefore brought a conse-
qupnce, before which all other interests
must succumb; that because it proposes
with capital, to develope for its own spec
ulative ends, the resources of the country,
therefore it must not, like other human
agencies, work subject to finite limits, and
to moral aud civil laws.
If the Pennsylvania Central K. X or the
Lake Superior IL Mississippi K. X. itrom
/ S Paul to Duluth) or If Jay Cooke, or If
the people f DuuJh or Stlllwater whose
| heads seemrd d to have been turned 10y the
! patronage OF these powers, or # all these,
whne following a lawful pursuit IN this
nnorJuYest happen TO come across any H.