The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-01-13
PARK POINT.

The Duluth Bee of the Sth has the
following:
'The good people of Park Point are
nursing the idea that the people of
Duluth have not treated them very
well in the matter of building tenn
porary bridge across the canal for their
accommodation during the winter sea-
son, and as consequence they are
mad about it and want to cut off ali
connection with the state of Minneso-
ia on account of it. In fact a scheme
Is on foot ut the present time to peti-
ton the legislature of this state to give
them permission to cecede, as it were,
and another petition is proposed to be
presented to the Legislature Of Wiscon-
sin to take them in What they pro-
pose to do is to cut themselves off from
Duluth and cast in their lot with SUI
perior. The good people of Superior
have been holding out heavy induce
ments to them, such as the promise Of
a railroad and several other things.
One promise is that the Omaha road
will build branch line down along
the point and erect its shops there,
making it their headquarters. OF
course the scheme is very good one,
part of it at least-and we should
be ever SO pleased to see anything oc-
cur which would be of material benefit
to the residents Of Park Point, but we
fail to see what benefit they would de-
rive by connecting themselves with
Wisconsin, even if they could induce
the legislature to let them go. What
would prove to be Of much more last
ing benefit to them would be to CON
centrate their influence with the peo-
pie of Duluth and try to persuade the
government to close up the present
canal and open one half mile or SO
farther out, and consequently make
the point manufacturing centre
All. indeeil Two or three weeks
ago when the TIMES first made note
Of what was going on at Park Point,
the Duluth papers arose as one man"
and shouted back, You lie, william,
you lie" and told us that the good
people" of Park Point loved Duluth
with love almost divine, and had no
thought of leaving them. Well, it
seems that the Bee has at last got It's
weak, sleepy eyes opened to the fact
that the good people" of the Point
are mad about something, and are ac-
!ullIy taking steps to be SET off from
Minnesota and attached to Wisconsin
and Superior, after having been kick
ed out into the lake, as it were, and
left there to drown, by tie Duluth
people. We have nothing to say at
this time about the promises or induce
ments held out to our neighbors on the
Point by our people or the railroad
company as stated above, further than
to say that if any such promises were
made they will be fulfilled; but any
one can see at glance that it would
be to the advantage Of the people who
live there to become attached perma-
nently to Superior, as this is their nat
ural and almost on Y outlet of com
munication and traffic. But the idea
of closing up the present canal and of
cutting another one further out on the
point Is silly and preposterous. That
is little scheme which the Duluth
people are trying hard TO boom, to
injure Superior, but we can tell them
now it will never materializc, and the
good people" of Park Point are not
to be caught with any such chaff as
that, Besides all this the good peo-
pie" Of Park Place are not anxious to
be re-attached to Duluth just to help
that city pay her three quarters of a
million of dollars Indebtedness, when
they could not possibly receive any
benefits in return. The people of the
Point are sensible in their desires to
become attached to Wisconsin and
live town like Superior, and we trust
they may prevail in their laudable
undertaking.