The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-07-30

PSI Although the Brook yn scand Il
continues {. be the all absorbing topic Of
conversation among al. Ieaiiug men and
women, PEN still considers it his bounden
duty to belittie his own city, in his CORES
pondence to the ESQ Rivers Ctron,ets even,
al the six Of offending ,ehensepes u may con-
ceya.
his last article ia Tuesdays CAuHcis
though Iauet mose digHifed than bis farner
effort, Is quite IS egoiislical, "A. he reitera,es
his ulrimaruni, that unless the ways and
means % progress that have Crc~n our oity's
7 ,0hC population are not immediately at.an-
done1 and his yiess az suggested strictly
cenfOriueit to, 50 thAt the entire public pulse
may be infinitely regulated thereby, all IS
lost, CT in has expressive language g Mani
,owoc is deai;H and Ills ne claims is draw
ing il very mid froin which We are to in
fer that our city is no1 aHly doomed 70 death,
but daH-ised beyond the possibility Of a res
direction even nto the life to come, which
would appall US were il not fcr the fact, that
one dead people have in the past and will
most likely in the future boast that they
alone struck the theme or motive power
by which all other elements are controlled
to a nicely. When some great mind by c. n
centration shall have conceived aud moulded
the isrer By which all matter may be moved
\, lsio, with our hearty congratulations.
Not knowing who Penn the correspor-
dent in question L. consequently we are not
prepared to judge whether il IS possible that
be may have had the capital to expeI inent
in building up young cities by manufac' Iring
investments or not. But if itshluld turn out
a. we suspect from his article, that = Penn"
has always been hard up for faads, it will
in u measure excuse him For failirg to see
that the fault he found with Manito~ocs
moneyei men is now and has been due to
the stringen IL moncyed circles and the
great unsettled condition Of national afFiirs
Throughout, the whole Uniiel States ,supeTu
dueed By tie growing plohigaey Of our ma
tional counCi,J.
1t is true our city might have had a blast
furnace if Cur citizens had subscribed sur
ficient capital TO have built it AMI at the same
time guaranteed the payment OF large salaries
to men competent tG run 1t. We have several
such ma. unanimous offers from outsiders, who
may have been equally aaarions rcih
:" Pan" to 6'ata up city, still this would
not help US in these times as blast far
naces are generally closed all oversthe coun-
try and have been thus far this year.
That the Wisconsin Central R r. did not
lease the Lake Shore & Western instead CT
the Milwaukee and Northern is not eur fault.
That the Wisconsin Central O1icials thought
1t more advantageous to them, to lease the
latter r. r. was beyond our control or that
of any other newspaper Of THIS city will not
be doubted we presume.
In conclusion if "Petni has ATTEMPTED TO
star, manufacturing stock company to
manage other peoples capital and failed to
trust Of capitalists in his ability or lack Of
confidence il his iD.e.rity, Or ii he Is asking
the press TO prepare the way Tor future
eff r. Of his, oil right .-=r - t.e
Our city is one Of the few in the state that
are steadily going ahead notwithstanding
the hard times. Yet We predict that " Penn"
or anyother man will fail in getting up new
manufacturing ventures until the times
change materially.
We had always supposed that location
had much to do with the builling Of such
cities as New York, Boston, New Orleans,
Chicago and ST. Louis Yet it seems to
have been +" PENS" mission on earth to
awaken the citizens of this city Yourselves
incluied) to the possibility that a Sash
Door aud BIinl Factory in Two Rivers,
in conjunction v til. the Flour and Lumber
manufactures Of the Mil Bros, of Center
vile. may in time depopn'ate this city. In
fact it seems possible that the establish
ment of the factory la.e Y removed from
th. city, through the praise worthy efforts
Of the Manitowoc EjetunJ and our City
Fathers, to Manitowoc Rapids Gas we are in
formed by that staid family newspaper the
Tribune Of Tuesday last may repeople
that ancient burg and by mere force of
numbers remove the county seat to the CID
site from which it was taken years
ago.