The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-09-15
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! In WHICH IL might De reasonably expected
farmers would be interested, were very
poorly represented. With the herds ex.
hibited by Manitowoc men taken out the
exhibition of Manitowoc county stock
was a farce. There we're to be sure isolat-
| ed specimens that were excellent but
| they were few in number and so fell far
short OF representing the progress that
! the county has made during the last ten
! years IN stock raising. When many pro
| minent farmers declare most emphatical-
| ly that it does not pay to go to the
trouble of exhibiting stock each year,
and when merchants must be fairly beg
| ged to help Gil up exposition hall the
| time for calling halt to view the situa-
ton is at hand. But on the other hand
farmers should not be captious in their
criticism on the fair when they make no
| attempt to increase its attractireness.
| Insinuations that the city derives the
only benefit from it are decidedly out of
/ place when everybody knows that fair
OdsS diS LAt NulItSI loI puSlAeSS III VIC
| year.
Would it not be wise to discontinue the
| fair next year. and in the future hold it
biennially2 That together with a few
| changes in its management should insure
success. Are We not also too ready to
measure the success by the gate receipts
and the margin of profits and ignore en-
tirely whether it has met public approval
through its educative qualities? ExperI-
ence seems to indicate the necessity for
a more rigid adherence to the rules of the
association governing entries. No ex-
hibits should be allowed to compete for
premiums unless they are bona fide pro-
ducts OF the county. This is Manito-
VOC county fair not an institu lion to ex
hibI5 foreign products. It would be wise
also to furnish superintendents and
judges written instructions in relation to
awarding premiums. AS it is each super
intendent and every set of judges adopt
presidents Of their own which in many
cases are extremely divergent. Unifor-
nifty in this respect must be secured.
When solitary canary bird carries off
first premium as 1.-The largest and best
collection of singing birds it is verging
mighty close on the ridiculous.
The fair should be real fair, not an
imitation of one, 1t should show the
products Of the county whether of this
year or last and thus testify TO the push,
energy and enterprise of our people. Let it
come blennially and more enthusiasm can
be worked up for it. Cease putting up
posters that it takes microscope to read
and send ont special solicitors for exhibits
who can at the Same time explain how
the fair can be made powerful educative
factor in the county, and make 1t such
Then and then only will interest in it
grow, and its mission be fulfilled.
''PoLITICs is poor business when suo-
cessfully followed" Young men, ambiti-
GUS for office, eschew it until you have
a competency that makes you independ-
ent. You can then make principle your
line of action; you can then do popular
government great and needed service
by asserting your manhood in the primar-
les now managed by wire-pullers and
professional delegates" Vote inteili-
gently on measures now and give your
support to men of standing when meas
ures are not paramount to men; but don't
go into politics until you have succeed
ed in business; you can not afford to do So
HE races on Saturday ended in some
thing akin to row. According to con-
tract the time to be made was 2:35, and
as none OF the horses reached thai tie
directors determined to with hold the
stakes, hence the kick. 1t seems rather
severe to insist on the drivers knowing
tust what speed their horses are making
especially with the track in poor condi-
ton, but they insisted on going on the
track Saturday and the directors may be
justified IN their determination to have
| the conditions of the contract lived up to-.
| The final decision. however rests with the
American Trotting Association to whom
the purses in dispute will be sent to-
| gether with the facts of the case.
IL reporting the council proceedings of
last week The Pilot made a rather ludi-
crous mistake In saying that the heath
! pffiaar reaC,nmap1a1 tho buiI1,no If n
bath house. Everybody knows that the
fellows that iced such an institution
most possess one already, and even
though the necessity for another one
were apparent this is not the season OF
| the. year TO build one. What the health
officer did propose was the construction
OF pest house For years this city got
along without suitableplace to accommo
date city patients afflicted with contagi
Gus or infectious diseases, though in sew
eral instances the city officials were sore
ly perplexed as to what to do with pa
TENTS they suddenly found on theil
hands. And now that there is perhap:
alittle more than possibility of the chol
era visiting this place pest house is i'm
peratively demanded. 1t needs no alarm
list to realize that Manitowoc, by virtue O
the fact that daily immigrants who have
passed through Canada are transferred
across the lake to Manitovoc, is thereby
more exposed to an attack of the dreac
disease than the surrounding cities
Should case of cholera be imported W,
need a suitable place where 1t can be at
tended to. We might as well prepare il
time for any emergency SO as To feel Sc
cure against attack of the pestilence
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