The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-10-17
SUPERIOR. MIS-. SATURDAY. Oct. II. 1891.

The SUPERIOR TINES thinks that
the action of the Chamber OF Com
lnerce in questioning the constitution
ality of the law under which the Ear
hor district has been erected, is due to
prejudice. The comment is uncalled
for, and breatheS spirit that should
have been long since lost sight OF.
There is nothing of the factjonal spirit
in the inquiry made by the chamber.
The project involves an immense OK
!, enditure, and the interests of prop
erty holders demand that there shall
lie no bubbles i'll the way OF perfect
understanding as to the validity OF the
proceedings. 1t is not a question OF
East or West End-those divisions
have ceased to exist with men who
have the interests of the city at heart,
and any attempt to stir up the old dead
sectional spirit should be Reproduced
as it deserves.
Ii Is hardly necessary to say that we
clip the above from the Evening Iele-
gram, the organ of the Land and River
Improvement Company, and paper
which is decidedly opposed to seeing
anything grow up east of Hill avenue.
People who are at all acquainted here
know that we have always labored
against this unworthy sectional feel
ing. We fought, to the best of our
ability, the idea of having two ct .es
here on this side Of the st. Louis river;
we have also always fought the cutting
of a second canal opposite Common 5
Point. West Superior scheme, insti-
gated for the express purpose of ber-
efitting that end of the city and OF
killing this end of the city; the open
ing of the channel across from West
Superior to Duluth was done for the
express purpose of injurins the East
End, and was done in conjunction
with Duluth parties to induce vessel
men to 60 to West Superior via Du-
lnth instead of the natural entry and
mp past this portion of :he city, and
this was another scheme we did not
grow jubilant over. And now when
we seek to improve our harbor through
the harbor commission, formed ac-
cording to the statutes IN such case
made and provided, the West End
people become frightened, and their
Chamber of Commerce is called to-
gether, and when inquiry is made as
TO the validity of the law, the public
is Informed through their daily papers
that it is a law which was ''sneaked
through the last legislature,' ard so
finding the law on the statute books,
this Chamber of Commerce at once ap-
points committee to investigate 1t
and see if flaws in it cannot be found
through which the work may be
stopped.
This is plain statement of the facts
put into as few words as possible, but
by no means all that might be said,
and we fail to see wherein the TIMES
is to be held responsible for the feeling
of sectionalism. Those people do not
want to see stroke of work done at
the east end of Superior bay. The
Land and River Improvement Com
pany is forcing everything south along
Tower avenue and not farther east
than Hammond avenue, and they
know that if the tide once turns to-
ward the Nemadji river and the east
end of Superior bay and to Allouez
bay. they are forever undone, hence
their desire to prevent any line of inn
provement in this direction.
The Telegram sets up the cry of
cost, but this is only the thief crying
stop thief" That very economical
paper finds no fault with the eXpend
iture of thousands Oh thousands of
dollars for opening up and paving
Tower avenue and West Superior
streets running out into the country
south of the West End. Besides all
rs suggested by the commission, falls
upon the property abutting thereon or
benefited thereby, 50 it does not hurt
our West End brethren any from a
financial standpoint. The sectional
cry is wholly a West End production,
put III force at every opportunity, and
this fact is so well known that they
cannot shift the responsibility on to
any one else, The TINES only seeks to
defend its own local interests in this
matter, and the city at large on gen
eral principles from those men and
corporations who care only for their
own personal gains.