The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-30

celYe lHe puOliC DIS 70 lho HieIiIo VI VIC
case.
The attempt by the Duluth papers, with
! Mitchell's Tribune leading the van, to
create the impression that Wisconsin ever
called for, or consented to the so-called
compromise involved in building a dyke
across our bay in any part OF 1T, Is false
hood, wholly falsehood, and nothing but
/ talsehood.
The whole aim, object and intent, of this
truly nefarious proceeding, is to make out
that Wisconsin has shut up poor Duluth
from ST. Louis bay by dyke, and there
/ fore poor, prosecuted, helpless, triendless,
poverty stricken Duluth must be allowed to
cut another canal this time through Rice's
Point, (O thus completely and finally d.
vertino the St. Louis river from Wisconsin
I,avs and Ports. To further this project,
Mitchell of the Tribune has limited, and
>quin,ed, lied, planned, and fdgeted tor
over two years, commencing when on this
side of the BAY. But we rather opne that
the game is up Not even the big sand
hole lately made in Rice's Point under pre-
tence of filling the cribs of the dyke VIII
ever be completed now as another canal,
(as was intended, and as Mitchell IS all the
time urging in private) for it would only
still further complicate the "Duluth har-
bor'' snar, and as Wisconsin proposes to
cut the Gordian knot instanter by the sharp
sword of adequate legal proceedings, we
apprehend that the less additional loss OF
time, labor and money, Duluth has to smart
for, the better off she will be.
With our ten thousand dollar appropria-
ton, (every cent of which will be expended
in such a way as will te5O with our concur
rent jurisdiction over the rivers and bays
at the head of the Lake, with our able
lawyers, able governor, and abundant cause
of action, it is apparent to every head out
side of the Duluth mists, that the begin
nino of the endo has already come. And
when the Duluth spectators begin to
squirm under the red hot application of the
laws of the land, as squlrm they must be-
fore many moons have passed, we beg they
will remember the old saying Thrice is he
armed that hath his quarrel just" For
we'll would it have been for them had they
from the first acted the honest part, and
not have attempted to build a city on lies,
on disregard of law, on contempt for a SOW
ereign state, trusting in bribery, boldness,
and bluff to carry them through
It is too late in the history of the world
for any such game to be a permanent sue
cess, and the very greatness OF the enter
prise which the Duluth spectators pre-
tended to propose to themselves, the enor-
nous city they advertised as about TO De
built ri ght in the centre OF things, ought |"
have warned them to look well to the
foundations. and sink deep cornerstoncs Oh
truth Justice, Iberality, and integrity, IN
stead of committing the great mistake OF
supposing that the name and tame OF
! lucky banker, was sufficient to do all things
for Duluth in spite of the talsehoods, tricks
meanness and corruption, of such minds OF
duck shot calibre as those of number OF
+ little fellows in Duluth whom we could
name, and who actually supposed that
/ Wisconsin would never arouse to maintain
her vested rights and interests, at the head
of Lake Superior, do what injury her ene-
mics might.
| But to see specimen brick of the favor
ite Duluth games, after reading the follow
mo extract from the article referred to
about the dyke, remember that this refuta-
ton was published in the early summer of
last year before dyke was commenced i'll
anv shape, and here after nearly three
fourths of year has passed we are forced
TO bring it up again to meet the steady
stream of fagrant talsehoods on the sub
iect. pouring ont in every issue OF the Du-
lutb sheets and their sympathlzers. Give
the extract a careful perusal:
II i something to be remembered by all concerned
,t,, rho buildinG of a dyke the navigable
tiers of this bay is measure that was originated by
Dlaah
tive secretri OF the general government who have
suddenly and strangely handed Us over OF late, to
the tender mercies of the North Shore spectators.
We simply ask for justice ia the matter We wish it
understood that the building OF dlke Is not WIS
conSn measure: that il originated In Duluth that 1t
means the cuttinu of another canal through Rice's
Point and the complete and total diversion OF the ST.
Louis, a navigabe stream, from Wisconsin terri
tory, with the consequent and permanent rum OF our
entries and haroors. We are raising no stfsatonai
alarm but merely stating facts in saving this The
Superior Trj5,se of Feb %, 1870 published by r. c.
Mitchell, the present editor of the Duluth Tribune