Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-30
The removal Of the Wise. Central
Machine Shops from Stevens
Point.

|
are being taken down, the work OF
erection having been suspended several
! days ago, and that the walls are being
taken down as fast as the weather will
permit. It is reported that the reason
assigned by the company for its action
is, that the citizens Of Menasha have
made a larger bid :-yiz.-they pay the
company $50, 900, purchase and re,
move the brick, and erect the buildings
at Menasha, the company furnishing
transportation. It is rumorcl that the
! BUSINESS once o, nc Road, safes, and
all appurtenances have been removed
from the Point to Menasha, leaving
our sister city with only freight re-
ceiying and. delivering depot.
At first We were inclined to disbelieye
the reports, but as they come authvn-
ticated We must accept them as true.
We have no desire to criticise the
action of the company in the matter,
neither to rejoice over the ruined
hopes Of our ncighbor rather would
we JOY in their prosperity and mourn
over their defeat. The fact that a
building Of the magnitude of the one
in question should be taken down when
nearly completed, is telling common
tary on the unstab leness, aud lack of
integrity Of railroad corporations.
Like the Arabs, they fold their tents
and silently seal array When you
think you have them bound by sacred
promises, and with legal cordago, like
the Irishnan's fea-they are not there
when you woull put your finger upon
them.
We think the officers Of the Wise.
Central have dealt unfairly with the
city of Stevens Point. They have
been led to believe that the head quar-
ters Of the Company were to be cstab-
lished in the city limits, and upon this
hypothesis her people have aided the
company pccuniarily to large extent,
to say nothing Of the strenuous cxer-
tons Of their united effort. in voting
county aid to an enterprise which now
applies the corporation scalpins knife
with all the nonchalance of a thorough
bred savage
There is still another lesson our
Point friends can learn and one which
it were well for them to ponder. It
were better never to ridicuia ones
neighbors, or boast Of a superiority not
possessed. ''Ail that 1itters is not
gold, "-though it be clear sky to-day,
the morrow may show an overcast firm
amcnt, where cyclone may have been
breeding for days, nurscl by the genial
sunshine
We are sorry for our Point friends,
though We can't help them,
E9 The following sound remarks in
regard to standing By your home press
we take from the address delivered
before the Editorial Convention at
Stevens Point, a short time ago, and
we advise our home readers to perlse
them carefully. These remarks are
just what we wanted to say on this sub
ject, 50 We adopt them.
"Your local paper may not be as
large as the New York Times or Trib-
me, but you must remember that YOU
do not live in place Of the wealth
and population Of New York. Your
home paper may not be so ably edited
as is the metropolitan press, but de
spise not the day Of little things. We
never heard Of a community out grow
ing the capacity Of its editor, though
the reverse is unfortunately sometimes
the case, when thc editor allows his
ambition to keep ahead of his purse. =
If you withhold your advertisement
from your home paper because it is
small and weak, look at your own
shelves and see if their contents com
pare with those Of A. I. Stewart or
Potter Palmer. If you want fine lob
work, do not send it abroad to help
those who do not assis, in paying your
local taxes, bat give it to your home
printer r:, ;.,>, IL ife has not the enter
prise or pluck to procure what type
you want, then, and only then have
you an excuse for sending your work
abroad. Your home printer will keep
up with the demand, if he has the
encouragement due him, and when YOU
take away your patronage you rob him
Of the means of benefiting yourself and
your town and county,