The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-02-17
THE ST. PAUL PRESS on DULUTH MEAS
URE4S AND MEN

UIES AND MEN.
Parties in the Duluth interest recently
attempted to divide Wisconsin sentiment
on the renewal of the St. Croix grant, by
advocating a new grant for a railway up
the Chippewa Valley to Ashland. The
scheme failed TO prevent memorial from
united Wisconsin to Congress, in favor Of
the renewal. The many Minnesota friends
of the renewal thought it well to memorial
ize Congress through their own Legislature
also, as the real interests of Minnesota gain
by the measure as much if not more, than
Wisconsin. But the Duluth interest with
characteristic smallneSs, used every art to
defeat this effort, and actually carried
through memorial on the other side of the
question, in spite of the requests Of the
Chippewa Valley interest and of telegram
from Ezra Cornell himself, the chief man of
the Wisconsin party with whom they pro
fessed to side.
For this pretty combination of useless
knavery, and qualification, the St Paul
Press dresses them down in an article of
some length We make an extract:
These men are no more in favor of railroad from
Lake Superior to the Chippewa Valley than from Bay
field 10 Hudson for they represent interests adverse to
both. What they want to do is to defeat any grant,
and they know very well that the way to defeat it, and
the sure way to defeat it, is by dividing the friends OF
the measure upon appeal local interests in favor
Of new and wholly chimerica and impossible project
of A new grant This they failed to do in Washington
and they failed to do it in Wisconsin. As last resort
they have tried it on in Minnesota, which, however
doesn't happen to have much say about the matter,
anyway. Considering that the evidence before
the friends of the Chippewa Valley interest yesterday
that the only way they could hope to that inter
est was to vote for Barton's memorial, it seems
derul that right in the teeth Of the earnest request OF
the recognized representatives of the Chippewa Valley
project they should have allowed themselves to be
come mere putty in the hands Of the enemies of the
interest they wished serve, and to be bamboozled
into voting against their own interests.
But to complete the symmetry Of this
uncalled-for interference with Wisconsin,
the individual who so fifty "represents''
the anin,us, calibre and record Of the Du-
luth managers, openly insuIted Mr.. Bur
bank who read the telegram from Mr.. Cor
nell, by pronouncing it forgery. The St.
Paul Press lashes this individuals ''cons-
.cious possibility of basenesS" as follows:
During the debate on the St. Croix and Superior
Railroad rant in the House on Thursday, Mr.. Ed
Nash a Representative from Duluth intmated that a
dispatch read by Mr.. Burbank the subject at issue
was forged in other words he charged that gentleman
by implication with having forged the dispatch. The
Chairman 1q tenn seems have taken notice Of this
gross personal insult which surely unparIiamcnt
ary as it was indecent. No except the insulted
gentleman himself seems have deemed it worth his
while to call the offender to order to remind th(
Chairman that fragrant breach of decorum ough
not to pass unroticcd Are to Judge from this that
among the members of the present House of Repre-
sentatives the average tone of sentiment or OF self
respect is so low that they really deem the forgery
a dispatch natural and convenient parliamentary ex
pcdent which may be imputed to gentleman of res
pcetable character without impertnence? That one
on two individuals should Judge others by themselves
and consider it ofleuse TO impute their own con
scous possibilities of baseness to others, Is not sur
prising-but that the whole House should show sucf
marked Indifference to gross personal insult to one
tho is certainly the least respectable honest
their number; that they should have failed to meet
on the spot with an instant and general rcbuke, /
certainly not calculated convey high idea of the
prevailing of personal seltrespect or parliament
ary dignity in that body.