The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-03-21
TERMS

IN tie toH Of 1870 cjsited .Superio,. and
caS told that the pe2ple Of D,eluh ,cere cutting
:" The canal II struck me at once as a qreat
9 outrage and hare ''euer changed the opinion
" then entertainedn
. It is understood that 1r. jag Cooke and
" representatives. from Duluth called upon the
=" Secretary Of Var and proposed to J,tild a
dyke. "-Ex-Gov. Washburn's Confessions
To His Excellency C. c. Washburn.
From your letter to Mr. Reed, .fer that
you are satisfied that twenty consecutive
miles have been completed; and now it is
said that twenty other consecutive miles have
also been completed.
There can be no possible objection to gour
certifying tie tacts For t.alth can harm no
one" Very truly yours,
MATT H. CARPENTER
The capitalist, widow, orphan and
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
can on slight investigation, demon
strate that every dollar of Jay
Cookies deficit is due from his SINK
investments in munitions for unmit-
igated war waged against the peo-
pie, commerce, and sovereignty Of
the State Of Wisconsin.
Warrior princes Of the Middle
Ages sought authority for aggros-
sions at the Court Of Rome; Cookies
Popcs were nearer home; his gold
interest" advertisements secured
indulgence and Iaudation from relig-
ious papers, and babes and suck
lings were taught TO adore him in
their Sunday lessons.
Corporations have no souls; but
commit the management Of them to
hypocritical Christian Banker, and
widows, orphans and States alike
learn, to their sorrow, what may be
perpetrated by a soulless corpora
ton. Napoleon relied upon his ar
Jillery to secure the favor Of provi-
dence; Cookeupon procidence alone.
When Governor FairohId obtain
ed an Injunction to stop cutting the
canal, providence delayed the spe-
cial mode Of dispatch until the sec
Whpa Governor Wasbburn start
ed the lawsuit business against the
canal, providentiaIiy he had big
grlst mill ri one end Of Cookies
road, and the canal at the other end
was very good thing; AMI the law
suit was set aside; and provideutial-
ly the ice ,hawed out Of the dixie
and let Houston's maryel Of indus
Try" 20 10 pieces so that water
enough could flow to keep the canal
in running order; and it was no
great job to oct hole through the
1eDce.
jay Cookies >agacity taught him
that any one % Wis .onsin'~ ports
on Lake Superior, il permitted to
obtain interior railway facilities.
would at once carry off Dr. Fosters
Zenith, and Duluth must 90 ZIP
through the hole. He had cut of
Superior by land and water; Of the
latter he could not deprive Bayfield,
but Ashland was terror to him
merchants and business men begun
to leave Duluth as well as Superior
and 90 to a real naturally secure
harbor. A>hland's railroad radius,
from his own Mississippi Centre, is
scarcely longer, and over Wuch
better lands than his and was
openly advocated at St. Paul. IIud-
son and Prescott; he had qujeted
the st. Croix land grant for the
present, but the CentruI was rapid
ly progressing, and in a few short
sGenths Milwaukee and Chicago
would be in rail connection :th
Ashland This WAS one OF Cooke't
greatest sIeep-breakers; he had just
driven WaIbrid@e, Brother q Sar-
gent from the money market and
stopped Superior's pretensious, but
Phillips, Colby & Co. were not us
ing Cookies sort of "eight pei
cents" His spies and iuformer>
were set upon the Central aud Ash
land To forestall the latter as an
iron maker, a second Marquette on
this lake, u blast furnace was start
ed at Duluth to recall or dctain the
flying populace from Ashland; that
Ashland iron gave Cooke ugly
dreams. About the last five thou
sand dollars he could grab from an
orphan or coax from a widow, he
piou>ly devoted to n blast furnace
at Duluth; since his retirement from
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